Where is Gdb's start command?

[Bertram Scharpf]

Hi,

I do not actually want to debug something but rather write
some Gdb examples for a tutorial. I would like the program
to stop at the first instruction of main(). Normally I do
this using the command "start". But on my FreeBSD this
command doesn't seem to exist.

  (gdb) n
  The program is not being run.
  (gdb) start
  Undefined command: "start".  Try "help".
  (gdb) help start
  Undefined command: "start".  Try "help".

Why isn't it defined? What should I say instead?

  $ gdb -version
  GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
  ...
  $ uname -r
  10.3-STABLE

Thanks in advance.

Bertram


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