gdb hangs after calling `run` on mac os catalina

Question

system:

mac osx catalina (10.15.5)
gfortran 9.3.0 (from homebrew)
gdb 9.2 (from homebrew)

went through and followed these instructions: https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/PermissionsDarwin

trying to debug on this program just to learn:

! test.f90
program main
  integer :: val
  val = 1
  print *, val
  val = 2
  print *, val
end program main

compile with:

gfortran test.f90 -Og -g -o test

then at the terminal

~/Coding/gdb
> ./test
           1
           2
~/Coding/gdb $
> gdb test
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Reading symbols from test...
Reading symbols from /Users/a3r7lzz/Coding/gdb/test.dSYM/Contents/Resources/DWARF/test...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /Users/a3r7lzz/Coding/gdb/test 
[New Thread 0x1803 of process 3054]

at this point nothing happens... it just hangs and can't kill it with Ctrl-C, I have to go to the activity monitor to kill gdb. Wondering if I have missed something in my setup, or if anyone has any other ideas why this might be

Answer 1

so before using gdb you have to create a ".gdbinit" file in your home directory. Now every time gdb starts it will execute the commands in this file. ".gdbinit" is a file you can drop in your home directory that gdb will parse when gdb launches, either from the command line or from within Xcode.

echo "set startup-with-shell off" >> ~/.gdbinit

run this command and gdb won't hang when you use run command aur r.