using gbd to debug a program reading from stdin

[equinox]

Okay, I am really new to this gdb issue.. my program usually takes an
argument from stdin.. the program name is
test.. so this is how I normally execute it without using gdb:

test < file.c

now I want to be able to run that test program under gdb as I see this
segmentation fault which I can't trace... can anyone show me how to do
that? I am quite new to this gdb issues.. What I am confused mainly is
that how do I instruct gdb to read from a stdin, in other words in my
example above.. how do I set it so that it takes file.c from stdin??

 

[Nate Eldredge]

Okay, I am really new to this gdb issue.. my program usually takes an
argument from stdin.. the program name is
test.. so this is how I normally execute it without using gdb:

test < file.c

now I want to be able to run that test program under gdb as I see this
segmentation fault which I can't trace... can anyone show me how to do
that? I am quite new to this gdb issues.. What I am confused mainly is
that how do I instruct gdb to read from a stdin, in other words in my
example above.. how do I set it so that it takes file.c from stdin??

This isn't really a question for comp.lang.c, but better for some
newsgroup about gdb. However, the answer is simple. Start gdb with
"gdb ./test", and give it the command "run <file.c".