Port 1436 is the port that the gdbserver is listening on. If it accepts a connection, and it does accept it, then the new socket and port (44974) for the session communication is returned to the debugger from the connection request. gdbserver also reports it to stdout. However, the slickedit debugger doesn't get a socket, hangs waiting for connect() to return, and exits by timeout. "Regular" gdb from the command line connects and works fine, unlike