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Re: debugging a program that uses SIGTRAP
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 08:34:31PM -0600, Michael FIG wrote:
> > I don't see any good way to solve this. You've got two sets of
> > breakpoints and they're both going to stop GDB - it doesn't know which
> > ones you want and which you don't.
>
> Okay. I thought somehow GDB would pass SIGTRAP iff it knows it has
> not set a breakpoint on the current instruction pointer by scanning
> its list of breakpoints.
You've asked it to pass all SIGTRAPs and it's doing what you said -
I think you're stuck. However, it might be possible to make it do
this. The logic is in infrun.c. Be careful; that's one of the
touchiest pieces of GDB.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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