/* This program is intended to be started outside of gdb, and then attached to by gdb. Thus, it simply spins in a loop. The loop is exited when & if the variable 'should_exit' is non-zero. (It is initialized to zero in this program, so the loop will never exit unless/until gdb sets the variable to non-zero.) */ #include int should_exit = 0; int main () { int local_i = 0; while (! should_exit) { local_i++; } return 0; }