From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: gdb & signals 24 Sep 1997 07:06:03 -0700 Message-ID: <19970924132902.19367.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT oz DOT au, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >From: Fergus Henderson >Subject: gdb & signals >To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 04:41:01 +1000 (EST) > >Hi, > >My program, which I think works OK with b17.1, >gets a seg fault or equivalent ("In cygwin_except_handler") >with b18. On win95, it hangs the OS. On NT it is not quite >so bad, I can kill the process. But I'm having trouble debugging >it, because after the first SIGSEGV -- which is expected (my >program is trapping the signal) -- gdb refuses to continue, >complaining that it can't send the signal to the child process. >So I can't reproduce the problem inside gdb. >Also the gdb `attach' command doesn't seen to work either, so >I can't attach to the process after it has hung. > >Any hints or suggestions for how to go about debugging this sort >of problem? > >-- So, which version of cygwin.dll are you using? Let me guess, the one from coolview? Check out the September mail listings at http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32. - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".