Terminal not working while debugging C programs

Asked Dec 11 '20 at 10:12

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I have a problem where whenever I debug a C program my terminal does not accept input, or scanf in this case. Everything else seems to be working, the debugger prints out everything and stops at breakpoint. When I start the program without debugging I can write to the terminal. Please help

Thank you

edited Dec 11 '20 at 10:45

asked Dec 11 '20 at 10:12

ErayZaxy

Did you add `-g` to the compiler flags? It adds debugging symbols. – Krishna Kanth Yenumula Dec 11 '20 at 10:14
Can you explain how I do that? Sorry I am not good at this. – ErayZaxy Dec 11 '20 at 10:25
Is it in the tasks.json? – ErayZaxy Dec 11 '20 at 10:25
Please provide a [mre]. There are many pitfalls with using scanf and one of them might only be visible while debugging. – Yunnosch Dec 11 '20 at 10:25
`#include int main() { int c; scanf("%i", &c); printf("%i", c); } ` – ErayZaxy Dec 11 '20 at 10:29
I only have this – ErayZaxy Dec 11 '20 at 10:29
You need to provide us more details. – Krishna Kanth Yenumula Dec 11 '20 at 10:29
`gcc -g -Wall -o (outputname) (source-file.c)` – Krishna Kanth Yenumula Dec 11 '20 at 10:31
I added some pictures – ErayZaxy Dec 11 '20 at 10:34
gcc -g -Wall -o (outputname) (source-file.c). Do I put this in a terminal? – ErayZaxy Dec 11 '20 at 10:41
You need any more information? – ErayZaxy Dec 11 '20 at 10:45
You might need to add the flag "-g" to your tasks.json : https://stackoverflow.com/a/57173879/11774715 – kaios Dec 11 '20 at 10:47
It is already there, check the first picture – ErayZaxy Dec 11 '20 at 10:50
Does this answer your question? [How to read input when debugging in C++ in Visual Studio Code?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57494832/how-to-read-input-when-debugging-in-c-in-visual-studio-code) – kaios Dec 11 '20 at 10:53
Nope, this only shows how to use a external cmd prompt which I don't want. – ErayZaxy Dec 11 '20 at 11:02
@ErayZaxy `gcc -g -Wall -o (outputname) (source-file.c)` put it in terminal, and run with `gdb ./outputname` – Krishna Kanth Yenumula Dec 11 '20 at 14:21
outputname : The term 'outputname' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. – ErayZaxy Dec 12 '20 at 11:19

Terminal not working while debugging C programs

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