Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!SUN.COM!sundc!tfd!kent From: sundc!tfd!kent@SUN.COM (Kent Hauser) Newsgroups: gnu.gdb.bug Subject: Manual suggestion Message-ID: <8812162047.AA00701@tfd.uucp> Date: 16 Dec 88 20:47:38 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 12 In section 6.2.6 ("Cannot Insert Breakpoints" Error) the following item should be added to the list of suggestions for a workaround: 3. Recompile the program so that the text is non-sharable (a.out format OMAGIC). The above is done under SunOS 3.5 as "cc -g -Qoption ld -N ...". I would also note that this is the only viable way to debug a program which forks. Kent Hauser UUCP: sun!sundc!tfd!kent Twenty-First Designs INET: kent%tfd.uucp@sundc.sun.com