From: lederman AT dstc DOT qut DOT edu DOT au
Subject: Re: Am I being debugged?
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 10:26:30 +1000 (EST)

> >   Anyone have any ideas on how a program might discover whether it was
> >    invoked normally or via "go32 -d gdb ..."
> 
> Try looking at the original PSP of the invoked program.  Its
> address is one of the fields of the _go32_info_block variable
> declared on <go32.h>.  I didn't try this, but the command line
> tail in there just might still hold the original command line
> used to invoke your program.

  Thanks to everyone that replied. Yes, -d gdb is indeed still there...


> I don't think this will work in V2 since the debuggers are separate
> standalone programs, and the debugged program gets its own PSP image
> which does not include the debugger command args.  But in V2, the
> debugger gets the exceptions before the program exception handler
> executes, which may change the need for this?

  Maybe we could have a "debug_mode" flag in the info_block in V2? :-)

Jeff.
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