"break main; run" test

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain]

> When people refer to the test of starting gdb on a program, setting a
> breakpoint on "main", and running to that point, is there a particular
> standard test program in mind? "Hello world"? The GDB binary itself?

You are right; it is ambiguous.

To me, it usually means "the gdb binary itself", since the gdb binary is
a large program and it's guaranteed to exist.  Sometimes it means
"hello world", and sometimes it means "any random program".

Michael C