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Re: Problems with gdb IRIX and signals
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at gnat dot com>
- To: avasile at csc dot com dot au
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 00:10:05 -0700
- Subject: Re: Problems with gdb IRIX and signals
- References: <OF180F2210.54C5FB7A-ONCA256F1E.001E4B8C@int.csc.com.au>
> I'm trying to debug a program under IRIX 6.5 and when I attach to an
> already running program once I type cont
> there is to way to interrupt the program under test. The code hits the
> breakpoints I set but there is no way to interrupt the program.
>
> Versions are gdb 5.3 and gcc 2.8.1 - not quite state of the art but I've
> tried to compile later version with this ancient toolset but have had no
> joy and have given up.
Try the following trick: send a SIGINT to the process you're debugging.
If the process has a terminal, you can simply press "Control-C" in that
terminal, but otherwise a well placed "kill -INT pid" command should
also work as well.
--
Joel