Return value of program being debugged

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 09:33:02AM -0500, Grzegorz Cieslewski wrote:
> (gdb) r
> Starting program: /tmp/test
> 
> Program exited with code 0377.
> (gdb) q
> 
> Could someone tell me how is "-1" mapped to "0377"?

(gdb) p/x 0377
$1 = 0xff

Take a look at the manual page for waitpid, and the definitions of the
various waitstatus macros, to see how Unix systems represent exit
codes.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery