From 613219252e51cdf3ecfd995f03e2d4fc7f480791 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christopher Faylor Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 21:15:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add initial information --- winsup/cygwin/how-to-debug-cygwin.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/how-to-debug-cygwin.txt b/winsup/cygwin/how-to-debug-cygwin.txt index 2549565bf..cf10bafe7 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.