Re: Debugging the debugger

[Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana dot radhakrishnan at codito dot com>]

Hi Mansoor

> > I want to get to the root of the problem. The problem is that when I
>
> run
>
> > my application through gdb, the program flow does not appear to be
> > 'normal'. The same statement (line) keeps on repeating multiple times
> > until it finally gets executed. 
>
> Best bet is that you have compiled your code with GCC
> optimizations ON(-O1, -O2 or -O3). In which case this
> apparently weird behaviour is completely normal.

The usual reason is as mentioned by Atul in his mail.
In addition it might be better if you posted a complete testcase 
for someone else to be able to reproduce the problem at their end.

cheers
Ramana

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