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Any ideas on how I should go about debugging a core dump, when the dump
doesn't occur under the debugger? Is it more likely to be a cygwin bug,
or an app bug? I am experimenting with CVS emacs, and the build process
fails when it gets to this command line (I've tried with both 1.5.19 and
the latest snapshot):
$ EMACSLOADPATH=/home/eblake/emacs/lisp ../src/bootstrap-emacs.exe -batch
- --no-site-file --multibyte -f batch-byte-compile-if-not-done
~/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el
Compiling /home/eblake/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el
Fatal error (6)*** starting debugger for pid 1996, tid 3732
*** continuing pid 1996 from debugger call (1)
Aborted (core dumped)
But retrying under the debugger succeeds!
$ EMACSLOADPATH=/home/eblake/emacs/lisp gdb --args
../src/bootstrap-emacs.exe -batch --no-site-file --multibyte -f
batch-byte-compile-if-not-done ~/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el
...
(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/eblake/emacs/src/bootstrap-emacs.exe -batch
- --no-site-file --multibyte -f batch-byte-compile-if-not-done
/home/eblake/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el
Wrote /home/eblake/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.elc
Program exited normally.
(gdb) q
Examining the dump shows that the problem lies somewhere in Windows calls:
$ gdb --core bootstrap-emacs.exe.core
...
#0 0x7c90eb94 in ntdll!LdrAccessResource ()
(gdb) info threads
3 process 108 0x7c95077b in ntdll!KiIntSystemCall ()
2 process 2824 0x7c90eb94 in ntdll!LdrAccessResource ()
* 1 process 3760 0x7c90eb94 in ntdll!LdrAccessResource ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x7c90eb94 in ntdll!LdrAccessResource ()
#1 0x7c90e9c0 in ntdll!ZwWaitForSingleObject ()
#2 0x7c8025db in WaitForSingleObjectEx ()
from /home/eblake/emacs/lisp/kernel32.dll
#3 0x00000714 in ?? ()
(gdb) thread 2
[Switching to thread 2 (process 2824)]#0 0x7c90eb94 in
ntdll!LdrAccessResource
()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x7c90eb94 in ntdll!LdrAccessResource ()
#1 0x00000000 in ?? () from
(gdb) thread 3
[Switching to thread 3 (process 108)]#0 0x7c95077b in
ntdll!KiIntSystemCall ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x7c95077b in ntdll!KiIntSystemCall ()
This problem may have come up before, in
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00950.html, although it
mentioned a differently named executable temacs instead of
bootstrap-emacs, and that thread never seemed to reached a resolution
other than how to get the coredump.
- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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