Re: [Mingw-users] Re: Suggestion for DrMinGW (bug?)

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Posted on DATE by AUTHOR Benjamin Riefenstahl
> Hi Aaron,
>
> "Aaron W. LaFramboise" writes:
>> That wouldn't really help out MinGW, though.  Maybe a library could
>> be written to do this, or even DrMinGW could perhaps create cores.
>> In the near-term, though, it seems like getting GDB to work as a JIT
>> debugger might be easiest.
>
> I haven't tried it (and no time to do so at the moment), but last I
> looked, JIT debuggers are configured in the registry.  It's just some
> entry with the necessary command-line, with a placeholder for the PID
> (check MSDN or just search for it).  As gdb can attach to running
> processes (see the -pid option) it should be possible to just
> configure it there.
>

FWIW, the DrMinGW code is in the MinGW CVS.  One could look at its source
to find out how to register gdb in JIT mode.  Or even look to see if it
has a bug which was the OP's original question.

I was hoping Jose Fonseca would answer this post.  He is the author of
DrMinGW.

Earnie