Re: Breakpoint on first instruction in program

Iurie <[email protected]> Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:47:25 +0100

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thanks for the answer, and after that how do i see how the stack frame is
created.?

On 20 June 2012 22:33, Adam Beneschan <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> break *&main
>
> > that is the gdb command?
>
> Yes.  "break main" will break at the instruction past the prologue,
> but "break *&main" just uses &main, which is the address of main, as
> the breakpoint address.  I've tested this, but I can't say for certain
> it will work with every version of gdb.
>
>                                -- Adam
>