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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gdb-7.10.1-1 (TEST)


On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Jon Turney
<jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
>
> The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution:
>
> * gdb-7.10.1-1
>
> The GNU debugger allows you to debug programs written in C, C++, an other
> languages, by executing them in a controlled fashion and printing their
> data.
>
> This is an update to the latest upstream version.  See the
> /usr/share/doc/gdb/NEWS file for a list of user-visible changes.
>
> In addition, it contains the following patches carried forward from the
> previous Cygwin package:
>
> * Teach the demangler to deal with '@'-decorated __stdcall functions
> * Various fixes for Cygwin signal handling
> * (experimental) Teach gdb how to unwind frames for the Cygwin signal
> delivery wrapper functions _sigbe and sigdelayed
>
> and the following new patches:
>
> * Warn rather than stopping with an error if realpath() for a DLL fails
> (Tim Chick)
>   Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-08/msg00401.html
> * Fix a memory leak which would occur in the case when the result of
> realpath() is greater than or equal to SO_NAME_MAX_PATH_SIZE (Corinna
> Vinschen)
>
> known issues:
>
> There seems to be a regression since 7.8, apparently due to gdb core
> changes, where gdb experiences an internal error when attempting to
> single-step in one thread as another thread receives a SIGCHLD.

Does this version contain the fix that was discussed here a few months
ago for gdb arbitrarily starting extra threads, preventing stepping,
continuing, etc.?  (See the discussion containing
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-06/msg00321.html for context.)

-- 
William M. (Mike) Miller | Edison Design Group
william.m.miller@gmail.com

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