Re: gdb crashes

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

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
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Corinna

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