Re: gdb crashes

[Gene Smith <gds at chartertn dot net>]

On 03/13/2015 05:49 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 12 15:44, Gene Smith wrote:
> > I just updated cygwin and installed gdb. When I run it with no parameters it
> > crashes and prints:
> >
> > :
> > /home/corinna/src/gdb/gdb-7.8/gdb-7.8.1.i686/src/gdb-7.8/gdb/common/common-utils.c:149
> > internal-error: xsprintf: Assertion `ret<  size' failed.
> > :
> >
> > This is after downgrading to 7.8.1 but the latest 7.8.2 also failed with the
> > same message.
> >
> > Here's the stackdump (32-bit cygwin):
> > Stack trace:
> > Frame     Function  Args
> > 0148C638  61030F12 (00000148, 0000EA60, 000000A4, 0148C698)
> > 0148C758  610E514A (002B002B, 0148CD78, 800765F0, 61184D69
>
> Just tested on 32 bit Cygwin 1.7.35, updated to the latest packages.
>
> Works for me:
>
> $ uname -rsm
> CYGWIN_NT-6.3-WOW 1.7.35(0.287/5/3) i686
> $ gdb
> GNU gdb (GDB) 7.8
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> (gdb)

My uname is similar:
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW 1.7.35(0.287/5/3) i686

I don't see anything odd about gdb or anything else in cygcheck -srv 
(attached and some items obfuscated with "xxx").
I did get a warning about setup being old and it did upgrade a lot of 
packages when I was installing gdb yesterday. I saw some errors go by 
near the end of the upgrade but then downloaded the latest setup and 
re-installed gdb and saw no more errors/warning with new setup but gdb 
still crashed. Tried installing cgdb too but it also crashes since it 
apparently uses gdb. Don't see problems with other cygwin packages I use 
all the time like git and gcc.

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