[fpc-devel] -dTEST_WIN32_SEH

[Sven Barth]

On 13.04.2014 19:27, Martin Frb wrote:
> On 13/04/2014 16:54, Sergei Gorelkin wrote:
>> Since the new exception handling is compilant with "official way to do
>> it", I'd expect the debugger to be notified about exception by Windows
>> directly. But I have no idea about how gdb is compatible with that.
>> Maybe it must be configured in certain way.
>>
>> Anyway, the exception information including its original address is
>> still available when control is passed to __FPC_except_handler. This
>> handler is called twice, first time it initiates unwinding and the
>> second time restores the stack and jumps to code of "except" block.
>
> Ok, thanks for the info.
>
> Will see what I can find.

On Windows a debugger will use the debugging API which (most 
importantly) involves WaitForDebugEvent() (see 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms681423%28v=vs.85%29.aspx 
) of which the returned DEBUG_EVENT structure (see 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms679308%28v=vs.85%29.aspx 
) contains among others information of the exception. The debugger is 
informed of such an exception twice: once before the exception handler 
is called and once afterwards if no handler decided to handle the 
exception (called first change and second/last change exception 
handling). GDB should handle this already as it is able to present 
SIGSEGVs etc. which rely on the information provided by Windows...

Regards,
Sven