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Re: Stackdump trace - problem and patch


On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 01:55:03PM -0500, Jon A. Lambert wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 03:54:23AM -0500, Jon A. Lambert wrote:
>>>my application.  I tried various means of examining and setting the
>>>registers in the stack to get to a frame that was within my app.  I
>>>have read the various messages on the list describing how to get to
>>>those frames.  It's rather tricky, and it availed me not.  Probably
>>>a personal problem. ;-)
>>
>>Probably.  And, for that reason we're not going to be adding another
>>cygwin option.  There is little reason to provide workarounds like
>>this when the real fix would be either to fix the user or the
>>application.
>
>Ah the user was looking to fix the application.  The difficulty I was 
>running into is identical to the scenario Robert Baruch posted here:
>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg01047.html

By application, I meant dumper.exe or gdb.exe in this scenario.

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