Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:32:21 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: salvador <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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Subject: Re: GDB, DOS 6.22, CWSDPMI and Interrupts
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On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, salvador wrote:

>   I have a big problem using gdb (4.16 or RHIDE with gdb 4.17 or 4.18 inside)
> under DOS 6.22 (and CWSDPMI as DPMI host).
>   The program I'm trying to debug runs ok if I run it outside the debugger. But
> if I run the program inside the debugger it just freeze.
>   After some hard research I found the reason: interrupts are disabled!

I have successfully run under GDB 4.18 programs that use setitimer, so 
interrupts are not disabled in general under a debugger.  Also, SIGINT 
uses the keyboard interrupt, so if your program gets SIGINT when run 
under a debugger, interrupts are not disabled.

What version of the library (libc.a and libdbg.a) was used to compile
RHIDE and/or GDB?  Are the GDB sources you used up-to-date (i.e., from 
gdb418s.zip on SimTel)?