[MinGW-notify] [ mingw-Support Requests-3412954 ] GDB crashes loading on dll fault

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Support Requests item #3412954, was opened at 2011-09-22 17:25
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Category: gdb
Group: Feature Request
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Lukasz Sokol (el_es)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: GDB crashes loading on dll fault

Initial Comment:
Versions : encountered on 6.8 and 7.3 (not checked any others)
I am using GDB as a debugger in Lazarus/FPC IDE (latest stable from this page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/)
On my 7 years old Dell Lattitude D600 (please don't laugh), 32bit I had an ALPS touchpad driver installed, that caused to load the APoint.dll when the program started debugging session. 
The GDB then reported Error: 31=library-loaded,id="c:\\Program Files\\Apoint\\Apoint.dll" [snip rest of line] and crashed, the controlling application (Lazarus IDE) reporting Broken Pipe (error 190) (in its own debug log).

I fixed this by uninstalling the ALPS driver - ( disclaimer : I inherited this laptop and can't trace now who tried to run the ALPS driver on Synaptic hardware...) - now GDB also hits an error 31, but on different driver (Dell Keyboard driver) but it does /not/ crash GDB any more....

You may by now understand why I don't wish to reproduce this crash again :)
I can however send you whatever logs I have saved from this (or offer a pointer to the thread I started on the gmane.comp.ide.lazarus.general newsgroup : <j5f5ep$cqd$1...@do...> 
(http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3cj5f5ep%24cqd%241%40dough.gmane.org%3e) 
which more or less contains everything...
I'm not sure how seriously you'll treat this report since I'm not sure what was really at fault here.
Hope this makes sense to somebody :)

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