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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add gdb support for Cygwin x86_64 core dumps (v2)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 19:15:40 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zh6sdj6b.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ef259bf-f3cd-d22f-883b-25ba550adbd9@dronecode.org.uk> (message from Jon Turney on Tue, 18 Aug 2020 16:32:45 +0100)

> 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.


      reply	other threads:[~2020-08-18 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-12 19:18 Jon Turney
2020-08-12 19:18 ` [PATCH 1/4] Add sniffer for Cygwin x86_64 core dumps Jon Turney
2020-08-20 22:20   ` Simon Marchi
2020-08-21 15:25     ` Jon Turney
2020-08-21 16:22       ` Simon Marchi
2020-08-21 16:28         ` Jon Turney
2020-08-22 19:41           ` Simon Marchi
2020-08-22 19:52             ` Jon Turney
2020-08-24 15:47               ` Simon Marchi
2020-08-24 17:02                 ` Jon Turney
2020-08-12 19:18 ` [PATCH 2/4] Add amd64_windows_gregset_reg_offset Jon Turney
2020-08-20 22:08   ` Simon Marchi
2020-09-18 16:31     ` Jon Turney
2020-08-12 19:18 ` [PATCH 3/4] Promote windows_core_xfer_shared_libraries and windows_core_pid_to_str Jon Turney
2020-08-12 19:18 ` [PATCH 4/4] Add handling for 64-bit module addresses in Cygwin core dumps Jon Turney
2020-08-24 18:34   ` Simon Marchi
2020-09-15 21:44     ` Jon Turney
2020-09-16  2:20       ` Simon Marchi
2020-09-16  9:15         ` Christian Biesinger
2020-08-12 19:30 ` [PATCH 0/4] Add gdb support for Cygwin x86_64 core dumps (v2) Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-13 14:43   ` Jon Turney
2020-08-13 16:48     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-18 15:32       ` Jon Turney
2020-08-18 16:15         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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