[gvd-devel] Problems using gvd

Arnaud Charlet charlet@ACT-Europe.FR
Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:14:01 +0100


> 2. Small
> 
> This is the small game found in the Lovelace tutorial. The debugger
> works fine, except that in order to stop the program one have to type
> quit in the gdb window. This command is then passed to the gdb and gdb
> quits leaving the gvd running and starting using 100% CPU. If I try this
> with gdb it quits the small program and reports that it quited normally.

The more general issue is programs that do IO.
In this case what is needed is a way to separate the debuggee term from
the debugger window. This is on the list, but not implemented yet.

> Now this also happens when I just use gdb, so it is probably I that is
> doing something wrong, but my question is: phanax needs an argument or
> it will exit, but I cannot find out where one add arguments to a program
> that is being debugged.

Menu Program->Run/Start or the 'F2' key.

Arno