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Re: debugging ncurses code with gdb
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Thomas Dickey |
Subject: |
Re: debugging ncurses code with gdb |
Date: |
Wed, 4 Feb 2004 19:18:55 -0500 (EST) |
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> On Wed 04 Feb 04, 9:56 AM, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> said:
> > Even simpler - just use "attach" (process) from the other terminal,
> > and leave the tty alone.
>
> unless you want to debug from the start of the program -- you'd probably
> need a getchar() at the beginning of the program in order to get it at
> the very top of the executable... :)
oh - I usually don't want to do that, but to reach inside something that
almost works, to see what's wrong with it. Most of the times I run gdb
just to get a walkback.
> > > Are there any other issues to be aware of when debugging ncurses
> > > programs using a symbolic debugger like GDB?
> >
> > none that come to mind.
>
> thanks for the attach tip. i hadn't thought of that!
someone told me about that quite a while ago, and since it seems to work
on other systems (SunOS 4.1 at that point), I can recommend it...
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