> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Christopher Faylor
<SNIP> > >Idea, to help debug things like the above: > > > > Alt 1) Make an _unstripped_ cygwin1.dll available in a package named > > "cygwin-DEBUG-dll" or some such. Also make it be > "TEST/Exp" forever. > > Alt 2) Have an unstripped cygwin1-DEBUG.dll added to the basic package, > > add a simple "cygswapdll" utility. > > > >Is this a Good or Bad idea? > > The new version of binutils allows you to strip debug information and put > it in a separate file. Then you can provide that file to gdb and use it > for debugging. Right, now that you mention it I remember seeing it. My ideas ran obsolete already in the start ':-> . > However, like everything there are two problems 1) lack of tuit cycles and > 2) it won't stop people from running gdb on their binaries and reporting > that strdup is causing a problem in mmap. There will still be a "download > the debug info" step no matter what. > > cgf Most likely... Some wording regarding "download the debug info" needs to be added to "problems.html" - I guess. /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59?16.37'N, 17?12.60'E --END OF MESSAGE-- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
