Controlling gdb outside the terminal

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 08:12:55AM +0700, Brother Josef wrote:
> I have a small amount of UNIX knowledge but have been using the gdb on the 
> command line and decided it would be possible to make a GUI to debug Pascal 
> under Mac OS X. With my limited knowledge I found that calls to popen and 
> reading the stream would work to with most commands but gdb complains "gdb) 
> Exception condition detected on fd 0 error detected on stdin". gpd runs a 
> seperate process so I think I need to be sending commands to that pid  but I 
> just can't figure it out. Could anyone point me to some informations? thanks 
> for your time.

You need to read up on pseudo-terminals and job control for Unix
systems.  However, I don't think you will need to if you use GDB
in MI mode; that is highly recommended for front ends.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery