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Re: Breaking into a program before the main function


On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 06:55:04PM -0700, Tron Thomas wrote:
>I am writing a Win32 application using the Cygwin development tools.  I 
>have a problem in that the program dies immediately when I try to run 
>it.  I've tried debugging the program using GDB.  I set a breakpoint at 
>the beginning of the main function (WinMain).  The program exits with a 
>return code of 0x1 before it even hits the breakpoint.  I have no idea 
>where to set a breakpoint so I can figure out what is going on.
>
>Is there any way I can cause GDB to break into the program immediately 
>when it start or right before it exits?

How about setting a breakpoint on _exit or exit?

cgf

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