Debugging the cygwin DLL

[Curtis Galloway]

DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > Anyone have any hints for debugging the Cygwin dll?  The messages I
> > found in the archive on the subject were pretty dated.
> 
> You should be able to just use gdb to debug it, even as a dll.  Have
> you tried?  Hmmm, maybe it's one of those things that didn't make it
> into the last beta, or maybe it doesn't work as well as I think it
> does.  If you did try, what happened?

Ah, indeed, if I

   gdb cygwin1.dll

and then

   gdb> exec-file myprogram.exe

I can debug functions within the cygwin DLL.  Very nice.

Unfortunately, gdb's use of signals seems to interfere with debugging the
cygwin signal handling code.  I think I'm stuck with using strace after all.

Thanks,
--Curtis

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