From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15281 invoked by alias); 29 Sep 2007 22:01:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 15269 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Sep 2007 22:01:26 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:01:24 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A65E9832A; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:01:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E904D98109; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:01:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IbkNG-0003b1-9p; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:01:22 -0400 Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:00:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Gordon Prieur Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Strange stack trace on Windows Message-ID: <20070929220122.GA13806@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Gordon Prieur , gdb@sourceware.org References: <46FEC75E.9010207@Sun.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46FEC75E.9010207@Sun.COM> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-09) X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2007-09/txt/msg00273.txt.bz2 On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 02:45:02PM -0700, Gordon Prieur wrote: > Hi, > > When I interrupt the debugee on Windows I almost never get a stack trace > with he debuggee information in it. I get similar traces with both MinGW and > Cygwin gdb commands: This is a known (hard) problem. GDB does not know how to get symbol information for Windows system DLLs. It approximates it by using the export tables, but they do not contain enough information for a sensible backtrace. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery