Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/02/22/14:22:27
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 08:48:07AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 06:43:40PM -0800, Kevin Camera wrote:
> >> >Thanks for the tip. In fact, the debugger was in thread 1, and the only
> >> >other thread did not offer any other information. So unfortunately the
> >> >problem was with the compiler or debugger, since all threads had no trace
> >> >information.
> >>
> >> Hmm. As someone who uses the compiler and debugger on an almost daily basis
> >> I have to say that I have never seen this behavior on a program that was
> >> compiled with debugging info (-g).
> >>
> >
> >Well, I can't say that I use GDB that often but everytime that I've used
> >it I see this problem. I've been able to switch to the assembler
> >listing and set breakpoints on each instruction of the object containing
> >main() and be able to get a source code point of problem.
>
> I'm not interested in fixing the GDB problem. It works fine for me when
> I need it.
>
> If someone wants to track this down, more power to them.
>
> I assume it has something to do with the frame pointer not being set.
>
> I'm beginning to wonder if the rumors of Cygwin's death are not
> exaggerated if two notable Cygwin contributors have resorted to sending
> "me too" and "here's a simple test case, hope that helps" messages.
>
Geesh, if you take the time to reread my post you'll see that I was
offering Kevin a possible work around.
> Corinna (and Chuck and Egor) and I can't do everything. If you want a
> fix for the problem, roll up your sleeves and fix it!
>
Nor was I asking you too.
> cgf
>
> (This post will now be followed by the obligatory "I would look into this
> but I don't know how to debug gdb" or "I really don't have the time"
> excuses.)
>
I don't currently have the time to get a round tuit, ;^) especially
since I can work around it.
Earnie.
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