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Re: AW: UNIX-socket problems under cygwin 1.3.2 -addon


Ralf Habacker wrote:
> 
> >
> > Sure, some additional information in this case would be the lines of
> > code in question.  There is no need to speculate on the behavior of
> > strace when you have the ability to read the source code.
> 
> Reading the code and understanding it is not the same. My main task is to
> port kde and I don't have very deep knowledge about the socket stuff in
> cygwin. I have looked in cygwin and strace, but it's heavy. :-)
> 

Heavy only when you don't want to handle the task.  Yes it may take time
to understand but wanting to take that time is different from the
understanding.

> One question: How are you debbuging dll's ?

Chris already answered that question, use gdb.

> Second Question: How do you debug an error in cygwin1.dll which will only be
> existant, when !strace && !debbuging ?
> 

You assume the error to be Cygwin's in this case?!?  I would first look
for uninitialized pointers to memory in your own code.  This is the
usual cause for this type of condition.

-- 
Earnie.

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