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From: tro@adiron.uucp (Tom Olin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: How do you use an Xterm with a debugger
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Date: 19 Mar 91 14:16:54 GMT
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In-reply-to: barmar@think.com's message of 17 Mar 91 07:21:57 GMT



In article <1991Mar17.072157.19385@Think.COM> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
writes:

   Gdb has an "attach" command that allows it to be used to debug a process
   that is already running....  The only problem with this approach is that ...
   if the buggy area of the program is run early you may not be able to attach
   quickly enough.

The way around this is to put a sleep(30) or so at the beginning of main().
That gives you plenty of time to attach.
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