Re: Dumping core on windows?

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

Brian Dessent wrote:
> Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> 
>>After hours or days, my application crashes.  It's not overly convenient for me
>>to attach gdb to the process(es), but it can be done if that is the only way.
> 
> 
> Since your app is not a Cygwin program you can't just set 'error_start'
> in $CYGWIN.  But you can do the equivalent to set dumper as the windows
> JIT debugger.  Set "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug\Debugger" to a REG_SZ of the filename and args
> of dumper.  Use "%ld" to represent the PID.  e.g.
> "c:\cygwin\bin\dumper.exe myapp %ld" will create myapp.core when the
> program faults.  Set "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug\Auto" to a REG_SZ of "1" to have this happen
> without the popup "This application has performed an illegal operation,
> ... [Debug]  [Close]".  However, if you do this then there will be no
> indication of the fault -- other than the existance of the core file and
> your app no longer running (and possibly an entry in the event log) --
> so you might want to leave auto at 0 if you want to see when the fault
> occurs.

That sounds like exactly what I want!  I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks,
Ben

> 
> Brian
> 


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