Re: Stak dump with tar.[bz2/gz] files (Cygwin)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:45:23 +0200
> From: Angelo Graziosi <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> > Also, I think the two new threads above are spawned to handle the
> > signal.  Maybe you can set a breakpoint in open_stackdumpfile, and
> > then, when that breakpoint is hit, see where the main thread caught
> > the signal.
> 
> Where is open_stackdumpfile? I think it belongs to Cygwin sources...

So?  You can put a breakpoint on a function even if its sources are
not available.

The idea was to stop Emacs when it is about to dump core, and then see
what happens in the application thread.

> >> GNU gdb 6.8.0.20080328-cvs (cygwin-special)
> > 
> > If the above doesn't help, perhaps try using a stable release of GDB
> > instead of a CVS snapshot, to avoid being hit by some regression
> > introduced into the development code.
> 
> That is the official version which comes with Cygwin, not my choose...

Sigh.