HP gnu source-level debugger 5992-4701 Automatically running a program at startup, Screen Layouts

When you execute the program up to the first breakpoint by issuing the command

run

a right angle bracket (>) points to the current location. So after you issue those commands, the window looks something like this:

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27	}
28
29	int main(void)
30	{
31	/* Try two test cases. */
*>32	print_average (my_list, first, last);
33	print_average (my_list, first, last - 3);
34	}
35
36
37
38
39
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File: average.c		Procedure: main	Line: 32	pc: 0x3524
..
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1	at 0x3524: file average.c, line 32.
(gdb) run

Starting program: /home/work/wdb/a.out

Breakpoint 1, main () at average.c:32 (gdb)

15.2 Automatically running a program at startup

WDB does not start running the target executable at startup as do `xdb' and HP DDE. This makes it easy to set break points before the target program's main function.

To make WDB automatically start running the target program add these lines to your startup file, .gdbinit:

break main run

15.3 Screen Layouts

The TUI supports four panes within the terminal window, in various combinations:

•Command

•Source

•Disassembly

•Register

244 The HP-UX Terminal User Interface