Debugging the cygwin DLL

Christopher Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Sun Feb 28 23:02:00 GMT 1999


On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 06:35:52PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, gdb's use of signals seems to interfere with
>> debugging the cygwin signal handling code.  I think I'm stuck with
>> using strace after all.
>
>Signals are just barely supported in gdb as is.  Chris and I also use
>strace to debug them.

Cygwin signals should be handled better in one of the recent gdb snapshots
if any adventurous soul would like to try to compile a new cygwin gdb.

The new snapshot should also allow some thread support as well as the
ability to attach to a running process using the *Win32* pid (not the
cygwin pid).

cgf

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