gdb refuses to 'break'

[Markus Brandner <brandner@emt.tugraz.at>]

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Hi!

Either I missed the point when reading the gdb documentation or
I'm just experiencing some strange behaviour in gdb.
Im running a Slackware 8.1 system on kernel 2.4.18 with
libc-2.2.5

When I compile the following code:

test.c:
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	printf("Breakpoint test\n");
	return 0;
}

using "gcc -g test.c -o test" (my gcc is 2.95.3)
and try to set a break-point with gdb 5.2:

(gdb) break main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x80483f6: file test.c, line 5.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/home_PCs105/brandner/tmp/test 
Breakpoint test

Program exited normally.
You can't do that without a process to debug.
(gdb) 

gdb seems to run straight through ignoring the break.
I tried break: line number - same result
I even get the same results using gdb 5.3.

However, compiling the same source using the same gcc
on a libc-2.2.3 machine (kernel 2.2.21) and trying to
do the same thing using gdb 5.0 works perfectly
(but not with any more recent gdb version)

What am I missing?

Thanks for your help,

Markus
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Markus Brandner               Institute of Electrical Measurement
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