From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30891 invoked by alias); 17 May 2005 16:58:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 28470 invoked from network); 17 May 2005 16:55:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cgf.cx) (66.30.17.189) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 17 May 2005 16:55:56 -0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id BAFDC13C197; Tue, 17 May 2005 12:56:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 16:58:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: Roland Schwingel , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Stack unwinding on Windows with gdb 6.x (was: gdb stack trace problems (Addendum)) Message-ID: <20050517165605.GF12869@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: Roland Schwingel , gdb@sourceware.org References: <4289AD9E.7060206@onevision.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4289AD9E.7060206@onevision.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-05/txt/msg00168.txt.bz2 On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:38:54AM +0200, Roland Schwingel wrote: >Hi... > >I don't like to reply to my own messages but I don't want to let this >to be fallen asleep again. In my eyes gdb 6.x is at present only of >very limited use when debugging on windows mingw compiled executables >because it cannot dump stack frames reliable. > >I know that the stack unwinder of gdb 6.x is of much better nature then >the one of 5.3, but with 5.3 one could use gdb very good on windows to >debug mingw code. > >So I think gdb 6.x should be able again to work on windows. So what >can be done to fix this? I use gdb to debug on Windows on a daily basis and I don't find myself hampered by gdb's inability to backtrace out of system functions. It's ability to do that has always been iffy. So, as the windows maintainer, I have no immediate plans to try to address this. If it is bothering you, however, then I'll certainly review any patches that you submit. cgf