Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/03/01/13:10:31
Just to set the record straight: none of the text I wrote is still in the
mail below - yet my name is?
Anyways, dumper works fine for me (on an NT/4 box with all the latest),
which is what I told the original poster. I also told him to take a closer
look at the exit code of dumper.
I just don't like being mis-quoted :|
rlc
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:10:25AM +0300, Egor Duda wrote:
> >Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> >>>Does dumper.exe work?
> >
> >Well, i should have answered this, but unfortunately, i have no access
> >to windows machine right now to debug, or even verify this.
> >
> >>>Upon execution I see the following in the cygwin console:
> >>> $ ./div.exe
> >>> 7 [main] div 2296 handle_exceptions: Error while dumping state
> >>> (probably corrupted stack)
> >>> Arithmetic exception (core dumped)
> >>>
> >>>In the cmd.exe console window that dumper.bat starts I see the following:
> >>> C:\cygwin\home\jlambert>dumper.exe -d C:/cygwin/home/jlambert/div.exe
> >>> 1884
> >>> dumping process #1884 to div.exe.core
> >>> setting bfd architecture: No error
> >
> >Well, this is a strange line. This last line of dumper's output
> >indicates than call to bfd_set_arch_mach(abfd, bfd_arch_i386, 0) havs
> >returned non-zero status, which should indicate an error (if i
> >understand things correctly), yet bfd_perror called immediately
> >afterwards has printed "No error" message.
> >
> >This means that either i'm wrong about my assumptions about
> >bfd_set_arch_mach() and its return, or there's a bug in binutils. It
> >should be quite easy to debug, though, for those who have a cygwin
> >toolchain installed. Just build dumper with debug info (this will
> >require building bfd alongside), start any innocent process, say, bash,
> >get its pid and then run 'dumper -d c:/cygwin/bin/bash.exe <bash_pid>'
> >under gdb. This should reveal what status is returned by
> >bfd_set_arch_mach, and why.
>
> Unless someone beats me to this, I'll take a look at this tonight EST.
>
> cgf
>
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