From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21264 invoked by alias); 30 Jun 2007 16:03:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 21254 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jun 2007 16:03:24 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from b.mail.sonic.net (HELO b.mail.sonic.net) (64.142.19.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:03:23 +0000 Received: from snyder (209-204-172-156.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net [209.204.172.156]) by b.mail.sonic.net (8.13.8.Beta0-Sonic/8.13.7) with SMTP id l5UG3Ixr030388; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:03:18 -0700 Message-ID: <001301c7bb30$342039e0$677ba8c0@sonic.net> Reply-To: "Michael Snyder" From: "Michael Snyder" To: "Daniel Jacobowitz" , "Eli Zaretskii" Cc: References: <003c01c7ba81$2abc9ce0$677ba8c0@sonic.net> <20070629191522.GA2715@caradoc.them.org> <000501c7ba87$0e543760$677ba8c0@sonic.net> <20070629200000.GA6453@caradoc.them.org> <20070630154904.GA5952@caradoc.them.org> Subject: Re: libSegFault and just in time debugging Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:03:00 -0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-06/txt/msg00358.txt.bz2 > > > FYI, cygwin already does this, too; it can invoke dumper (to generate core > > > dumps) or GDB. > > > > By Cygwin does this using a Windows-specific technique, doesn't it? > > Sure. But LD_PRELOAD is a Unix-specific technique. I don't think > there's any way around it - when you want to deal with program crashes > and exceptions, you do something at least a bit platform specific. Either way, right now we don't have a JIT debugging technique for Unix. The question is, is it worth having one?