From: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 96 00:09:00 UTC 0000
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Subject: Re: Unexplained memory problem

Reply to message 3711211    from ELIZ AT IS DOT ELTA. on 04/28/96  6:06AM


>> P.S.  Is there any way to redirect the output of a program to stderr without
>> having gdb's stderr redirected also?  Typing 'gdb redir -ea <file>
<program>'
>
>AFAIK, gdb and the debuggee share the file descriptors (this is still
>single-process DOS, remember?).  You will have to tweak gdb to use console
>I/O instead of file I/O to achieve that kind of redirection (which, btw,
>is something that must be done anyway IMHO, to make gdb more stable when
>debugging programs that redirect their standard streams).

Yeah, I know.  I can hope, can't I?  :)  How precisely would I go about
'tweaking'
gdb?  I'm not real familiar with its internal commands, and I'd like to avoid
having to recompile it unless necessary (disk space is a major problem for me).

BTW, any hints on the watchpoint problem?

John