[fpc-devel] win32 debugging broken in fixes_2_2?

Jonas Maebe jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be
Tue Jul 10 18:13:12 CEST 2007


On 10 Jul 2007, at 17:42, Martin Schreiber wrote:

> On Tuesday 10 July 2007 17.04, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>> It seems that either your specific gdb is broken, or that gdb for
>> win32 is broken in this regard. By default, gdb's setting for SIGILL
>> should be:
>>
>> (gdb) info handle SIGILL
>> Signal        Stop      Print   Pass to program Description
>> SIGILL        Yes       Yes     Yes             Illegal instruction
>>
> Same with the FPC supplied gdb:

It's quite possible this simply doesn't work properly with gdb for  
Windows. It doesn't either with gdb for Mac OS X, due to gdb  
interfering in the translation of mach signals to unix signals. There  
may be a similar problem with gdb for Windows.


Jonas



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