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		TheYumasi on Oct 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debugging C with Cosmopolitan Libc The TUI is from gdb.[1] Nothing from GDB is compiled in your binary. My guess (might be wrong!) is that the ShowCrashReports() call added in your program's main function sets up some signal handlers, so that in case of segfaults it starts GDB in a separate process and attaches it to your crashing process. [1]: https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/TUI.html

cassepipe on Oct 24, 2022 | [–]

Which you have to admit is quite simple but brilliant.

a-dub on Oct 24, 2022 | [–]

when did they add this?!?

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