"break main; run" test

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu,  8 Jan 2004 22:16:21 -0500 (EST)
> From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (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.

Seconded.  Perhaps we should replace that language with something less
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".

It should IMHO preferably be some non-trivially large program, as some
subtle problems don't get expiosed unless GDB needs to deal with
complex debug info structures.  It certainly cannot be a program with
no debug info, since then it's not guaranteed that GDB will know where
to find the symbol `main'.