On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 04:16:48PM +0100, Stephan Thesing wrote:

> I have a strange problem with gdb under i386: It doesn't honor any breakpoints set while debugging.

Works for me:

$ gdb ./test
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This GDB was configured as "i386--netbsdelf"...
(gdb) break main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x8048689: file ./test.c, line 8.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /local/home/ad/test

Breakpoint 1, main () at ./test.c:8
8               func();

$ cat test.c
func()
{
        volatile int a;
        a = 0;
}
main()
{
        func();
}

What machine are you running on?

Thanks,
Andrew