stack trace and breaking before crash

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:45:08AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
> I don't think you're doing anything wrong.  It looks like the JIT
> debugger code in Cygwin and/or dumper might need some bugfixes.  The
> reason that continuing works is that it simply retriggers the fault
> again at the same location where it faulted the first time.  Apparently
> at the point where gdb and/or dumper attaches to the process, the
> location of the fault is already lost and execution is somewhere inside
> the ntdll bowels in the exception handling code.

Try info threads?  IIRC the debug connection is the "current" thread,
and the app is otherwise in a suspended thread.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery