[Lazarus] GDB problem ?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2015, Martin Frb wrote:

> On 28/04/2015 10:23, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> All of a sudden (no idea why), gdb stopped working on a particular program 
>> I was working on. I found the following error in the debug output:
>> 
>> (gdb) =thread-exited,id="1",group-id="i1"
>> =thread-group-exited,id="i1"
>> ^error,msg="During startup program exited with code 1."
>> (gdb)
>
> Dont know, never seen, but try the following:
>
> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/GDB_Debugger_Tips#gdb.exe_has_stopped_working
> go to the debugger options and set the field "DisableLoadSymbolsForLibraries" 
> to "True"
>
> And/Or change the the "InternalStartBreak" Try MainAddr, or Entry.

None of that was it.

The problem was in setting the command-line options.
one of the special characters ? @  % & = caused an error. 
Quoting the command-line option containing them, helped.

Very strange indeed.

Michael.