How do you use GDB to debug GDB

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 05:10:13PM -0700, Stephen Smith wrote:
>Well, it didn't work when I tried it.  Don't know why, but I tried
>using gdb and then manually loaded everything.

It really does work.  I'd be lost without that functionality.

I assume that you were using the Cygwin PID rather than the Windows PID.

cgf

>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 01:31:07PM -0700, Stephen Smith wrote:
>> >I have a gdb debugger configured to for a remote target (host i686-pc-cygwin target=powerpc-motorola-elf).  normally I
>> >run gdb as:
>> >
>> >     powerpc-motorola-elf-gdb --command=C:/rti/bin/rtidbug.ini C:/examples/dll/main.exe
>> >
>> >Now I want to run the gdb against the above process.  Since I am running this in a Windows NT command shell I can't use
>> >    gdb   /usr/local/bin/powerpc-motorola-elf-gdb  some_process_id
>>
>> Yes, you can.  some_process_id == the windows pid of the process.  This is
>> displayed when you type 'ps'.

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