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Asked: 2026-05-31T08:20:41+00:00

I am debugging a program using gdb. First I load my executable, then I

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I am debugging a program using gdb. First I load my executable, then I continue to run the program. I sometimes want to interrupt execution of my program, so I do Ctrl + C.

My problem is that this closes both my program and gdb. How can I exit my program without exiting gdb?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Looks like under Windows, you have to use Ctrl-Break not Ctrl-C. See this page.

    Excerpt:

    MS-Windows programs that call SetConsoleMode to switch off the special
    meaning of the `Ctrl-C’ keystroke cannot be interrupted by typing C-c.
    For this reason, gdb on MS-Windows supports C- as an
    alternative interrupt key sequence, which can be used to interrupt the
    debuggee even if it ignores C-c.

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