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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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> 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.