Greg Chicares wrote: > Using cygwin's gdb on a MinGW app, I can set this breakpoint > b '__mingw_CRTStartup' > on the function that invokes main(), and then examine variables > before main() is invoked. For a Cygwin app, I guess you'd break > on 'mainCRTStartup'. Does that breakpoint happen early enough to > meet your needs?
You can also do "info target" to display the entry point and then set a breakpoint on it as e.g. "b *0x401000" if you want to start at the very first instruction of the binary. There is no such "can't debug before main" restriction. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
