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authorChristopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>2002-07-13 21:15:10 +0000
committerChristopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>2002-07-13 21:15:10 +0000
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-rw-r--r--winsup/cygwin/how-to-debug-cygwin.txt4
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diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/how-to-debug-cygwin.txt b/winsup/cygwin/how-to-debug-cygwin.txt
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--- a/winsup/cygwin/how-to-debug-cygwin.txt
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/how-to-debug-cygwin.txt
@@ -87,7 +87,9 @@ set CYGWIN_DEBUG=cat.exe=gdb.exe
This will force gdb.exe to start when the program name contains the string
"cat.exe". The '=gdb.exe' isn't really needed, since it is the default.
It is just there to show how you can specify a program to run when the
- program starts.
+ program starts. You can optionally set a breakpoint on "break_here"
+ once the debugger pops up and then you can single step through the
+ initialization process.
Note that it bears repeating that both of the above options are *only*
available when configuring cygwin with --enable-debugging.