From: Ron Miller <rmiller AT synopsys DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Help with GDB ... gdb always exits and stdout goes missing
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 17:21:14 -0800
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Hi,

I have a couple of real simple things in gdb that don't seem to be
working (or maybe they are limitations of the DOS version?)

1) If I set a breakpoint and then continue, the debugger exits when I
continue. For example, here is the output of running a "hello world"
program ...

    (gdb) run
    Starting program: a.out
    Hello world

    Program exited normally.
    (gdb) break main
    Breakpoint 1 at 0x158b: file test.c, line 2.
    (gdb) run
    Starting program: a.out

    Breakpoint 1, main () at test.c:2
    (gdb) cont

    Debugger finished


Note that when I stepped into the program and then continued, the
debugger exited when the program being debugged finished.


2) Also ... when stepping through a program, stdout doesn't seem to be
displayed. If you notice in the above output, "hello world" was
displayed when I ran the program with no breakpoints, but was nowhere to
be seen when I stopped in main and then continued.

Thanks!

Ron Miller
rmiller AT synopsys DOT com

p.s. The version of GDB that I am using is:

    GDB 4.16 (go32), Copyright 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc...