From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19641 invoked by alias); 29 Jun 2007 20:20:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 19620 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Jun 2007 20:20:30 -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; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:20:28 +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 l5TKKOhA031310; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:20:24 -0700 Message-ID: <001a01c7ba8a$f5e49540$677ba8c0@sonic.net> Reply-To: "Michael Snyder" From: "Michael Snyder" To: "Jim Ingham" , "Daniel Jacobowitz" Cc: References: <003c01c7ba81$2abc9ce0$677ba8c0@sonic.net> <20070629191522.GA2715@caradoc.them.org> <000501c7ba87$0e543760$677ba8c0@sonic.net> <20070629200000.GA6453@caradoc.them.org> Subject: Re: libSegFault and just in time debugging Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:20:00 -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/msg00351.txt.bz2 [Daniel Jacobowitz] > FYI, cygwin already does this, too; it can invoke dumper (to > generate core dumps) or GDB. That's right -- I'd forgotten about that. [Jim Ingham:] > We did this with Mac OS X for a while (the way Mach Exceptions work > it's a little easier to implement, you don't need a special library or > anything like that). It's pretty neat. We were doing it > automatically with all processes on the system, which is even handier, > but you do have to be careful - if you are attaching with gdb rather > than dumping core. Of course the old Mac model ("macsbug"?) is the classic instance of just in time debugging. And then (surprise), Windows had it too! I'm just wondering if linux/unix users might not like to have the same thing. Michael