How to catch GDB crash

Michael Snyder msnyder@specifix.com
Mon Jun 23 18:32:00 GMT 2008


On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 21:23 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
> > Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> > Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:12:04 -0700
> > 
> > You're running on a Windows host, right?  Doesn't Windows have
> > some mechanism for automatically catching a program that is
> > crashing, and holding it for the debugger?
> 
> That's true, but you need special code in the debugger to be able to
> work like that (it's called JIT debugging, btw).  And GDB doesn't
> (yet) have such code.

My failing memory.  Didn't I publish a patch for glibc about
a year ago that would allow that?  I'm going to hate myself
if I never posted it...





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