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On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 09:12:15PM +0200, Ton van Overbeek wrote: >Below a copy of my message to the insight mailing-list. >(cc: to cygwin-apps did not work due to typing error in address) >------------------------------------------------------------------- >While playing around with the gdb help menus recently I also got >frequent gdb crashes. >One scenario is the following: >- Start with gdb/insight on internal help. >- Bring up the global preferences and select 'Use Internet Browser ...' > and close dialog with OK. >- Now select Help->Help Topics => Crash with an invalid page fault in > Kernel32.dll > >An other, simpler scenario which crashes most of the time is the following: >- Bring up the global preferences dialog and close it again > by selecting cancel. >- Select an other non-gdb window on the desktop => crash. > >Searching through the insight mail archives I found a message >from Ian Roxborough from 25 Feb 2002 describing exactly this >problem. See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/insight/2002-q1/msg00168.html. >The crashes have to do with using comboboxes in modal dialogs. >The proposed patch in Ian's message never made it into CVS. >With this patch to libgui/librarycombobox.tcl applied I could not >get gdb to crash any more. >The patch consists in deleting one line (wm transient ...) in >combobox.tcl. If the deletion of this line is not needed under >unix/Xwindows maybe the line could be garded with an > if {$tcl_platform(platform) != "windows"} then { wm transient ... >After all Xwindows windowmanagers and the windowmanager in m$ windows >are completely different animals. > >So I would like to ask 'the insight powers that be' to apply this >patch. It increases the stability of cygwin-gdb considerably. > >Regards, > >Ton van Overbeek -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
