Re: Strange stack trace on Windows

Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-09-29T22:01:28Z

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.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery