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Re: gdb + cygwin
- To: Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: gdb + cygwin
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 10:01:18 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
--- Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu> wrote:
> I'm trying to port GAA (GPL Argument Analyzer) to cygwin. After a bit of
> hacking, I was able to get the program itself to compile, and run.
> However, when testing with the sample code provided in the package, I'm
> running into a weird problem:
>
> Background:
> GAA takes an argument description file, and generates a .c and a .h
> file to be included in your project. It's basically an easier to use
> version of getopt, getoptlong.
>
> "gaa sample.gaa" ---> gaaout.c, gaa.h
> Then, you compile the sample code:
> gcc -g -c gaaout.c
> gcc -g -c smain.c
>
> I get to that step okay. Linking works, too:
> gcc -o sample gaaout.o smain.o
>
> I get a coredump when I run the sample program:
>
> /usr/local/src/tmp > sample
> [main] F:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\usr\local\src\tmp\sample.exe 27397 (0)
> handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
> [main] sample 27397 (0) handle_exceptions: Dumping stack trace to
> sample.exe.core
>
> Now, this isn't all that surprising. What is surprising is that when I
> run "sample.exe" within gdb, it executes fine and exits normally. What
> does that mean, and how do I debug the thing if I can't reproduce the
> error within the debugger?
Hi Chuck,
I've seen this when I have a pointer reference that isn't being referenced
correctly. Perhaps a prototype is incorrect or not specified. Perhaps you
have a pointer becoming an integer or an integer becoming a pointer, either way
you're in trouble.
Use the -Wall switch on the compilation and don't ignore the warnings. If it
has to do with a pointer, it's an ERROR not a WARNING.
===
"Earnie Boyd" <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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