From: Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
To: Roland Schwingel <roland.schwingel@onevision.de>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Stack unwinding on Windows with gdb 6.x (was: gdb stack trace problems (Addendum))
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 16:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050517165605.GF12869@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4289AD9E.7060206@onevision.de>
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:38:54AM +0200, Roland Schwingel wrote:
>Hi...
>
>I don't like to reply to my own messages but I don't want to let this
>to be fallen asleep again. In my eyes gdb 6.x is at present only of
>very limited use when debugging on windows mingw compiled executables
>because it cannot dump stack frames reliable.
>
>I know that the stack unwinder of gdb 6.x is of much better nature then
>the one of 5.3, but with 5.3 one could use gdb very good on windows to
>debug mingw code.
>
>So I think gdb 6.x should be able again to work on windows. So what
>can be done to fix this?
I use gdb to debug on Windows on a daily basis and I don't find myself
hampered by gdb's inability to backtrace out of system functions. It's
ability to do that has always been iffy.
So, as the windows maintainer, I have no immediate plans to try to
address this. If it is bothering you, however, then I'll certainly
review any patches that you submit.
cgf
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-17 8:40 Roland Schwingel
2005-05-17 16:58 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2005-05-18 8:08 Roland Schwingel
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