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From: Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin shell eats Windows exceptions?
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 10:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b2fc486d-274f-ce32-6209-aab0f641d9ad@lysator.liu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2e88aba8-6214-4bef-b248-cc7809afea4a@lysator.liu.se>



On 2016-10-14 00:52, Peter Rosin wrote:
> On 2016-10-13 16:35, Bill Smith wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to run my Windows C++ application which has a call to DebugBreak() to bring up the popup asking if you want to debug this application or terminate it.  If I run the program within Cygwin, the program just exits. 
>>
>> If I run the application from a Windows command prompt, I get the Windows popup that I'm expecting.  It seems that the Cygwin shell is eating exceptions (sigsegv or similar signals?).  Is there a way for me to disable this behavior?  
> 
> I believe you want the reverse of this program:
> 
> https://github.com/msysgit/msys/blob/master/winsup/utils/error-mode.c
> 
> error-mode can make the popups go away (getting cygwin behavior
> on msys), but it should be possible to modify it to make the
> popup appear instead. I think...

feeep, should have read my old code before I posted. The program
should fit the bill. My memory is apparently bad but short.

Sorry for the noise.

Cheers,
Peter

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      reply	other threads:[~2016-10-13 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-13 15:24 Bill Smith
2016-10-13 16:57 ` Brian Inglis
2016-10-13 18:19   ` Bill Smith
2016-10-13 19:00     ` cyg Simple
2016-10-13 20:29       ` Bill Smith
2016-10-13 22:52         ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2016-10-14 12:34           ` Herbert Stocker
2016-10-13 22:55     ` Brian Inglis
2016-10-14 17:46       ` Bill Smith
2016-10-18 18:22         ` Wilfried
2016-10-18 19:46           ` cyg Simple
2016-10-13 22:55 ` Peter Rosin
2016-10-14 10:52   ` Peter Rosin [this message]

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