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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:30:55 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: dtable changes causing _very_ slow startup and process-startup headache. [was Re: auto-import ld]
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In-Reply-To: <011101c0efa4$b1388440$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>; from robert.collins@itdomain.com.au on Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 08:53:38AM +1000

On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 08:53:38AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
>To: <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
>Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 8:52 AM
>Subject: Re: dtable changes causing _very_ slow startup and
>process-startup headache. [was Re: auto-import ld]
>
>
>>On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 08:35:22AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
>>>How do you get gdb to stop in cygwin1.dll before main() is reached?
>>>The delay occurs during dll initialisation AFAICT, and I haven't
>>>managed to find out how to stop that early on.
>>
>>Set a breakpoint in the appropriate routine.
>
>
>I tried that :[.
>
>$ gdb -nw df.exe (gdb) dll cygwin1.dll (gdb) break dtable::extend
>Cannot access memory at address 0x61006618

I don't know why gdb works this way but you should be able
to set a breakpoint on the line number inside of dtable::extend.
You can't set a breakpoint on the function itself before the
program runs.

cgf