dbx problems on 4D

jim frost madd at adt.UUCP
Wed Apr 26 01:05:42 AEST 1989


>> It would interest me a great deal to find out why dbx sometimes 
>> confuses a breakpoint with termination of the program.  For instance:
>>[...]
>If the program is a graphics program, you need to call foreground () before
>any other executable statement.  Graphics programs run in the background by 
>default, so when you execute the code within dbx, the message "terminated
>normally" appears as soon as you press return.

The program is running in the foreground and the breakpoints
*sometimes* are interpreted as termination by the debugger.  It's
inconsistent and difficult to reproduce, but it happens.

jim



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