Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add gdb support for Cygwin x86_64 core dumps (v2)

Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-13T16:48:12Z

> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 15:43:41 +0100
>
> > Thanks, but isn't this NEWS-worthy?
>
> This doesn't add a new feature to gdb, just (belatedly) makes it work on
> x86_64 Cygwin as it does on x86 cygwin.
>
> What would you suggest adding to NEWS?

Something like "GDB now supports core file debugging for Cygwin
programs."

> > And what about some documentation
> > for the manual?
>
> No changes should be needed to the existing documentation of debugging
> using core files (since there shouldn't be any difference in behaviour
> when using Cygwin core dumps)

Is there perhaps something special that needs to be done to produce
Cygwin core files? Or do you use the same commands as on Posix hosts
("ulimit -c" etc.)?