commands on tbreak breakpoints, should they work?

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Mon Mar 29 16:27:00 GMT 2004


On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 09:27:35AM -0800, Doug Evans wrote:
> gdb = 5.2.1
> 
> I'm unable to add commands to tbreak breakpoints because gdb first
> deletes the breakpoint and then it looks for any breakpoints
> with commands to run.
> 
> The docs say
> "You can give any breakpoint (or watchpoint or catchpoint) a series of
> commands to execute when your program stops due to that breakpoint."
> 
> Is this a gdb bug or doc bug?

I'd say gdb bug.  Could you try something newer?

> 
> ---
> bash$ gcc -g hello.c
> bash$ gdb-5.2.1 ./a.out
> (gdb) tbreak main
> (gdb) commands
> echo foo\n
> end
> (gdb) run
> 

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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