Re: [ECOS] Problems with running applications

[Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>]

Peter Blair wrote:
> 
> I did load the application via GDB/Insight, just as you described in
> your prior message.

Not in the command-line GDB trace you gave.

> As described in my previous message all transfers using GDB/Insight
> occur without problem-- the problem arrises when the application is
> executed, and no console box appears, and the program becomes stuck in
> the cyg_libc_invoke_atexit_handlers() function (even when no return(),
> or exit() function calls are made when using the cyg_user_start()
> function and not the main() function).

When your main_program function exits, the scheduler will start, and start
a main().

> Is there a way to get the console up, or is it expected behaviour on the
> Cygwin compiled copy of GDB/Insight? 

View->Console in Insight.

> And how can I get the program to
> not hang in this function call?

It's probably because a breakpoint has been set at "exit". At a guess.

Jifl
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