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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:44:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Calling __stdcall functions in the inferior
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> cc: eliz@gnu.org, gdb@sourceware.org
> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:20:22 -0700
> From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
> 
> If you just need this capability to debug a particular problem, add a
> dummy debugging function to the source code of your buggy program,
> which has the normal calling sequence, and which just calls
> GetLastError and returns its result.  Then call *that* function from
> GDB.

Yes, Emacs on Windows already does that.  I just thought there's a
better way, but I guess not.

Thanks.