Re: Patch for silent crash with Cygwin1.dll v 1.5.19-4

[Gary Zablackis <gzabl at yahoo dot com>]

--- Christopher Faylor
<cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com> wrote:

> The "efault.faulted()" two lines above your change
> is supposed to catch
> NULL dereferences.  I suspect that you were probably
> misled by the fact
> that gdb might show a SEGV in this function but that
> is to be expected
> (see lots of discussion in the cygwin mailing list
> about this) and there
> are patches pending for gdb which will work around
> this behavior.
> 
> So, sorry, but I doubt that this is actually your
> problem.
> 
> cgf
> 

Christopher,

Actually, as far as I can see, the "efault.faulted()"
does NOT catch the NULL dereference, unless it is
confused about where to return. If it did, the code I
added should not stop my program from crashing. I will
go back and look into this further, though, to see if
I have missed something.

Thanks for your time.

Gary

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