From: Pedro Alves <pedro_alves@portugalmail.pt>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [Cygwin] Fix for: detaching crashes the inferior.
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 23:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4619748C.5080007@portugalmail.pt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4618D3F7.3040700@portugalmail.pt>
Pedro Alves wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Detaching on Cygwin often crashes the inferior, either
> when gdb attaches to the inferior, or when gdb launches
> the inferior as a child.
>
> Initially I thought that somehow the FLAGS_TRACE_BIT
> would be set in the context, and after detaching there would
> be no debugger to catch the exception, but it turns out that
> it isn't the case - I couldn't find a case where FLAGS_TRACE_BIT
> was set. But, surprisingly doing a SetThreadContext with
> CONTEXT_CONTROL makes the crashes go away - even if you don't
> change the contents of the context. I'm not 100% sure why, but,
> it fixes it. If MSFT sends me the Windows sources, I'll look
> deeper :)
I'm seeing something I missed. There may be a more correct fix.
Ignore this patch for now.
Cheers,
Pedro Alves
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-08 23:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-08 11:37 Pedro Alves
2007-04-08 23:03 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2007-04-09 2:08 ` Pedro Alves
2007-04-09 7:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-10 10:33 ` Pedro Alves
2007-04-10 12:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-04-10 18:35 ` Michael Snyder
2007-04-10 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-10 5:15 ` Christopher Faylor
2007-04-10 9:31 ` Corinna Vinschen
2007-04-10 10:48 ` Pedro Alves
2007-04-10 10:45 ` Pedro Alves
2007-04-19 12:20 ` Christopher Faylor
2007-04-19 22:06 ` Pedro Alves
2007-04-10 21:40 ` Pedro Alves
2007-04-13 13:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
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