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Re: gdb & signals




>From: Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au>
>Subject: gdb & signals
>To: gnu-win32@cygnus.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.

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