From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17635 invoked by alias); 17 Mar 2009 14:27:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 17566 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Mar 2009 14:27:17 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:27:12 +0000 Received: (qmail 10037 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2009 14:27:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO orlando) (pedro@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 17 Mar 2009 14:27:10 -0000 From: Pedro Alves To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Strange stack trace on Windows Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:27:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: Roland Schwingel , Joel Brobecker References: <49BFAA28.9010400@schwingel.com> In-Reply-To: <49BFAA28.9010400@schwingel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903171427.09549.pedro@codesourcery.com> 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: 2009-03/txt/msg00105.txt.bz2 On Tuesday 17 March 2009 13:48:24, Roland Schwingel wrote: > It is quite painful to use gdb on windows for quite a while now. > Windows, whether one may like it or not, is a major platform > and gdb should also operate well here. I am fighting for a long time > with these problems now. Isn't there a general solution thinkable? Sure there is. :-) Teach GDB about MSFT's debug info, e.g., PDB files, and about the FPO (frame pointer omission) information in them. See e.g., . -- Pedro Alves