[prog] gdb debug file input, Linux, C

[Jimen Ching]

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Sue Stones wrote:
>I think that the problem is that there is a pointer that indicates where you
>are up to in the file. Reading from the file move the pointer, meaning that
>you don'tknow where you were up to in writing to the file.  So you ned to
>look to see if you can set up two of the relevent pointers to the file.  It
>should be possible.  Sorry I can't be more specific.

The fseek/ftell ANSI C library functions should be able to tell you where
you are in a file, and move to specific locations.  But I'm not sure if
you can call these functions from within gdb.

--jc
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