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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:04:26 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, binutils AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Subject: Re: Bug in dumper
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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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