Invoking and Loading a Target Program During Debugger Startup

If you want the debugger to load the target program at startup, then enter the target program invocation as the last argument to the dde command. For example, if the target program name is test, enter

$ dde test

If the target program requires arguments, precede the target program and its arguments with a double hyphen (). Using the double hyphen prevents options (particularly X Window System options) from being interpreted as options to the dde command.

For example, if the target program is called test, and test takes the X option -synchronous, enter

$ dde  test -synchronous

Any options to the dde command are entered before the double hyphen.The following example shows the use of the X options -bg and -fg to set the colors for the debugger's windows:

$ dde -bg black -fg white   test -synchronous