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Re: emacs-X11 crashes under gdb in recent snapshots


On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 11:34:30AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 01:49:21AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 12:44:26AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 04:30:34PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>>Starting with the 20130102 snapshot, I get a SEGV if I run emacs-X11 
>>>>under gdb.
>>>
>>>Thanks for the explicit instructions.
>>>
>>>I can reproduce this.  Investigating.
>>
>>I see what the problem is but it's too late to fix it now.
>>
>>So, instead, I will go to bed and obsess and dream about it instead.
>>
>>I will fix it tomorrow, though.
>
>Or not.  RL intervened.  Still checking.  It's trickier to fix than
>I thought.

This should be fixed now.  You'll need the new just-released gdb and
the upcoming snapshot for this to work correctly.

Changes in gdb and cygwin1.dll should now allow gdb to recognize
Cygwin-specific signals.  That's something that I've wanted to do for
more than ten years.  I startled my wife with my whoop! when gdb
reported a "SIGTERM" at the correct line in my source code.

This behavior is still experimental and likely to need some more
tweaking but, boy, this was a long time coming.

cgf

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