On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Jon Turney <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk> wrote: > > The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution: > > * gdb-7.10.1-1 > > The GNU debugger allows you to debug programs written in C, C++, an other > languages, by executing them in a controlled fashion and printing their > data. > > This is an update to the latest upstream version. See the > /usr/share/doc/gdb/NEWS file for a list of user-visible changes. > > In addition, it contains the following patches carried forward from the > previous Cygwin package: > > * Teach the demangler to deal with '@'-decorated __stdcall functions > * Various fixes for Cygwin signal handling > * (experimental) Teach gdb how to unwind frames for the Cygwin signal > delivery wrapper functions _sigbe and sigdelayed > > and the following new patches: > > * Warn rather than stopping with an error if realpath() for a DLL fails > (Tim Chick) > Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-08/msg00401.html > * Fix a memory leak which would occur in the case when the result of > realpath() is greater than or equal to SO_NAME_MAX_PATH_SIZE (Corinna > Vinschen) > > known issues: > > There seems to be a regression since 7.8, apparently due to gdb core > changes, where gdb experiences an internal error when attempting to > single-step in one thread as another thread receives a SIGCHLD.
Does this version contain the fix that was discussed here a few months ago for gdb arbitrarily starting extra threads, preventing stepping, continuing, etc.? (See the discussion containing https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-06/msg00321.html for context.) -- William M. (Mike) Miller | Edison Design Group william.m.mil...@gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
