Re: How to catch GDB crash

Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-23T18:23:26Z

> From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:12:04 -0700
>
> You're running on a Windows host, right? Doesn't Windows have
> some mechanism for automatically catching a program that is
> crashing, and holding it for the debugger?

That's true, but you need special code in the debugger to be able to
work like that (it's called JIT debugging, btw). And GDB doesn't
(yet) have such code.