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Subject: Re: Segmentation fault when exception is thrown or assertion fails  [g++/gcc]
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On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 05:21:50PM +0100, Roman Werpachowski wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Dave Korn<XXXX> wrote:
>> ?Well, what happened was that there's a bug somewhere, and while cygwin was
>> in the process of dumping the stack trace for the abort caused by your
>> assertion firing,
>
>One more question: how can I use this stack trace to debug genuine
>errors? "gdb -c" cannot load it.

The stack dump is for human consumption.  gdb doesn't know anything
about it.

You can look up the addresses in gdb by doing something like:

  (gdb) l *0xf00f00fa

Or you can use addr2line.

If you want a real core dump see:

http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#dumper

cgf

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