Re: fopen always returns a NULL pointer inside debugger

[Andrew Gaylard]

Venkatesh Krishnan wrote:
> Hi,
> While using DDD for debugging, I am unable to open files. using fopen. 
> the file pointer is always NULL. Just running the executable from cygwin 
> works fine..it is only in the debugger that the file pointer is NULL.
> Could someone help me with this issue?
> regards
> venky

This sounds like a gdb issue.

What happens when you run the executable under gdb directly?