Debugging the debugger

[Ramana Radhakrishnan]

Hi Mansoor

>>I want to get to the root of the problem. The problem is that when I
> 
> run
> 
>>my application through gdb, the program flow does not appear to be
>>'normal'. The same statement (line) keeps on repeating multiple times
>>until it finally gets executed. 
> 
> Best bet is that you have compiled your code with GCC
> optimizations ON(-O1, -O2 or -O3). In which case this
> apparently weird behaviour is completely normal.

The usual reason is as mentioned by Atul in his mail.
In addition it might be better if you posted a complete testcase 
for someone else to be able to reproduce the problem at their end.

cheers
Ramana

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