On 16 Nov 2015 14:58, Kevin Buettner wrote: > This occurs because the powerpc simulator closes, on behalf of the > testcase, the file descriptors associated with stdin, stdout, and > stderr. GDB still needs these descriptors to communicate with the > user or, in this case, with the testing framework. special casing this logic in the sim looks wrong to me. why is the testcase itself trying to close stdin/stdout/stderr ? -mike