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Re: [committed] Add option to trap cygwin exceptions
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 06:43:09 +0300
- Subject: Re: [committed] Add option to trap cygwin exceptions
- References: <20060521230352.GA31504@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 19:03:52 -0400
> From: Christopher Faylor <me+gdb-patches@cgf.cx>
>
> Cygwin's exception model sometimes give false "SIGSEGV" positives which
> annoy users. So, recent changes to win32-nat.c and the Cygwin DLL have
> code to work around this issue. However, this means that debugging the
> Cygwin DLL becomes more complicated since gdb no longer stops on
> exceptions within the Cygwin DLL itself.
>
> The patch below allow the user (i.e., Corinna or me) to override
> this behavior.
Thanks.
However, please add to the manual the documentation of the new
command. I don't want to have undocumented commands, ever.