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Re: intel ddd cygwin
- From: Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>
- To: Joshua Kolden <joshua at crackcreative dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 15:23:17 -0500
- Subject: Re: intel ddd cygwin
- References: <012601c4321e$586358d0$0200a8c0@id5>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Just some WAGs:
On Tue, 4 May 2004, Joshua Kolden wrote:
> When attempting to start debugging on a simple helloWorld program ddd
> seems to hang waiting for a responds from idb (the intel's debugger)
>
> > ddd --debugger "idb -gdb" helloWorld.exe
>
> I get:
>
> "Reading Symbols from helloWorld.exe...done."
>
> ...then nothing. If I try any other action in ddd, such as "run" I get:
>
> "Run: waiting until GDB gets ready"
IIRC, ddd uses ttys to talk to the inferior debugger. Try CYGWIN=tty, but
since idd is not a Cygwin application, it may not help any.
> Which never does get ready. However, when I run idb by hand it responds
> like gdb. Anyone have any experience with this?
Are you sure that idb's gdb emulation is exact?
Just a couple guesses...
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