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

Jon Turney
2020-08-13T14:43:43Z

On 12/08/2020 20:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
>> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 20:18:12 +0100
>> Cc: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
>>
>> As far as I know, the only way to generate these "core dumps" is to use
>> Cygwin's 'dumper' tool.
>>
>> Changes since v1:
>> - Keep _initialize function last in windows-tdpe.c
>> - Fix indentation in amd64_windows_gregset_reg_offset
>> - Use symbolic constants for note types in core_process_module_section()
[...]
>
> 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?

> 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)

What else do you think needs documenting?