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From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>
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To: "Francois Ferrand" <francois.ferrand@enst-bretagne.fr>
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Subject: Re: GDB & asynchronous program execution on Windows/MingW
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Francois Ferrand writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I am trying to debug my Windows program with GDB asynchronously (using
 > MingW32), so that I can interrupt execution at any time... However, it does
 > not seem to work. 
 > Has anybody been able to do this ? Or is it not possible at all on
 > Windows/Mingw ?
 > 
 > I am using GDB 5.1.1 for Windows, as shipped with MingW.
 > 
 > Regards,
 > 
 > -- 
 > Francois Ferrand
 > 


The only really asyncronous target that has been implemented so far is the
a variant of the remote target.

(gdb) help target async 
Use a remote computer via a serial line, using a gdb-specific protocol.
Specify the serial device it is connected to (e.g. /dev/ttya).

elena