This is new to me, debugging on a FC4 distro.
Our large program is not multithreaded or anything like that, but it
does depend heavily on a fairly elaborate alarm system invoked with
setitimer.
In the past (eg., RH9 and older) there has been no problem. But on
the FC4 machine, despite "handle all noprint", once I am at a breakpoint
every alarm suddenly throws me into the alarm handler, and stepping
becomes practically impossible. Suppressing the alarms would require
major software changes and disable many functions. I have not been able
to find any reference to this problem or how to get around it, though
perhaps I simply didn't know where to look or misunderstood what I
found. In which case, your patience is appreciated.
I suspect I am in big trouble, and I would be grateful for any and all
help.
Thanks
Jim
