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From: "Hughes, Bill" <Bill DOT Hughes AT cox DOT co DOT uk>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:46:07 -0000
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 21 11:18, Hughes, Bill wrote:
>> I don't think I'm putting this very well, but it may make the FAQ
>> easier if the standard advice is to load the snaphot and use that
>> for debugging, it removes a separate layer of potential problems in
>> building the dll. I suspect the people who would want a stripped
>> snapshot to be more capable of producing it than those would may
>> need to build one with debug info. 
> 
> IMHO you're looking from the wrong direction.  People capable
> of debugging
> the Cygwin DLL are usually also capable of building it.  I'm wondering
> how somebody should be able to debug an application at all,
> if this person
> stumbles over using the compiler tools.
Which is why I asked, I suspect I was hoping there was a way to help newbies
(like me in this respect) to generate useful reports in cases of suspected
bugs for the more knowledgeable to read.
Of course if there were such a way I would expect someone else to have
thought of it, and so it's probably impracticable.

Thanks for the reply,
Bill
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