gdb 7.8 consistently fails to run executable - error is

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Sep 29 14:13, Dominik Straßer wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've dug into the gdb sources.
> The problem is in the cygwin-only part and is not about the PATH
> variable but about one single DLL file name.
> 
> This path length is *fixed* to 512 characters (SO_NAME_MAX_PATH_SIZE)
> for the *realpath* of the DLL.

Thanks for looking into this.  While this occurs in Cygwin-specific
code, the problem is a result of the restriction of so_list::so_name
being always SO_NAME_MAX_PATH_SIZE in length.

I'm not sure how to fix this problem yet.  I'll look into it when I
had a chance to catch up with my insane mail backlog.


Corinna

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