Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/09/27/13:49:46
Dave Korn wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Bobby McNulty
>>Sent: 27 September 2004 18:05
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>>Bobby McNulty wrote:
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>>>set CYGWIN_error_start=d:\cygwin\bin\dumper.exe
>>>that is what it is supposed to be.
>>>That is why he is getting the errors.
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> Bobby, your advice is no good.
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>>>set CYGWIN_error_start=d:\cygwin\bin\dumper.exe
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> #1: That's the wrong environment variable. You want to set CYGWIN to
> contain, among any other options, the text
> "error_start=D:\cygwin\bin\dumper.exe". You told him to set
> CYGWIN_error_start, which is a different variable altogether and not used by
> cygwin.
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>>>that is what it is supposed to be.
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> #2: Only when you have a program that is failing with SEGV or some other
> kind of fatal exception. If the program is executing and running to
> completion, the error_start setting will never be used.
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>>>That is why he is getting the errors.
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> #3: He was getting the errors before dumper.exe even came into it, so
> setting it wrong couldn't have possible caused the errors. Go back and read
> his original post again. The reason he is getting errors is because his
> program is exiting with a non-zero return value. It was not caused by
> dumper.exe and it will not be diagnosable with dumper.exe.
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
Originally, he set the variable to set Cygwin=error_start=...
You are right, it should be
set error_start=d:\cygwin\bin\dumper.
As to the problem in the code,
He needs to examine his code closely through a text editor.
SEGV is a segment fault which is caused by placing a char where an int
should be or vice versa. I know. My trek trivia program had this problem
for years before I finally fixed it.
The disk I had had the same error because I did not replace the broken
code with the fixed code.
Bobby
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