Re: gdb 7.8 consistently fails to run executable - error is

["Dominik Straßer" <dominik.strasser@onespin-solutions.com>]

Am 08.10.2014 um 14:12 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> On Sep 29 14:13, Dominik Straßer wrote:
>> Hi all,
Hi Corinna,
>> 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.
I only see a chance by makin this a dynamic storage.
as indicated in solist.h
#define SO_NAME_MAX_PATH_SIZE 512	/* FIXME: Should be dynamic */


Regards

Dominik
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