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From: madd@adt.UUCP (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: RE: dbx problems on 4D
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Date: 25 Apr 89 15:05:42 GMT
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>> It would interest me a great deal to find out why dbx sometimes 
>> confuses a breakpoint with termination of the program.  For instance:
>>[...]
>If the program is a graphics program, you need to call foreground () before
>any other executable statement.  Graphics programs run in the background by 
>default, so when you execute the code within dbx, the message "terminated
>normally" appears as soon as you press return.

The program is running in the foreground and the breakpoints
*sometimes* are interpreted as termination by the debugger.  It's
inconsistent and difficult to reproduce, but it happens.

jim