questions / suggestions about gdb

[Charles James Leonardo Quarra Cappiello]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:


> > can i activate the 'generate-core-file' a few steps before the program
> > breaks?
>
>Whenever you want to; you just issue the command, and then you can come
>back to look at the core file later.
>

my question is; how the debugger would automatically know that three steps 
further the program will break and generate a core file; i guess to generate 
core files on every (say, 100 steps) could help a lot too.


-Charles Quarra


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