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| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/cygwin/how-to-debug-cygwin.txt | 4 |
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diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/how-to-debug-cygwin.txt b/winsup/cygwin/how-to-debug-cygwin.txt index 2549565..cf10baf 100644 --- 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. |