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

Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-18T16:15:55Z

> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 16:32:45 +0100
>
> I'll make a patch to add "GDB now supports core file debugging for
> x86_64 Cygwin programs." to NEWS.

Thanks, that'll be good, I think.

> > 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.)?
> There are some special steps needed at the moment (more due to
> implementation shortcomings than real difficulties), which are described
> in Cygwin documentation.
>
> I can't find any mention of 'ulimit -c' or how core files might be
> produced on any platform in the current gdb documentation, so I'm not
> sure why Cygwin needs to be a special case here.

Then I guess NEWS should be enough.

Thanks.