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

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

Posted on DATE by AUTHOR Aaron W. LaFramboise
> Steve Lee wrote:
>
>>>is there some way to use GDB as a just-in-time debugger?  A
>>>DrGDB? :-)
>>
>> I guess Windoz doesn't create suitable coredumps - perhaps a tool
>> exists to convert?
>
> Now thats another annoyance.  For whatever reason, noone ever
> implemented proper core dumps for Cygwin.
>

Core dumps for Cygwin would produce cygwin core dumps, i.e. only those
executables dependent on the cygwin dll would produce the core dump.

> That wouldn't really help out MinGW, though.  Maybe a library could be
> written to do this, or even DrMinGW could perhaps create cores.

Check out the source and find out.  It is in the MinGW CVS under the utils
module.

> In the
> near-term, though, it seems like getting GDB to work as a JIT debugger
> might be easiest.
>

I've had sufficient luck with DrMingw, but that doesn't preclude making
GDB work as we would like either.

Earnie