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Re: cygwin-xfree Digest 14 Oct 2004 21:00:08 -0000 Issue 1567
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:38:24 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: cygwin-xfree Digest 14 Oct 2004 21:00:08 -0000 Issue 1567
- References: <1097787608.5746.ezmlm@cygwin.com> <1097825189.7466.6.camel@famine>
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Øyvind Harboe wrote:
> > > What can I do to help debug this problem?
> >
> > The only way to debug this is to run XWin in gdb and wait until the
> > error occurs.
>
> I've previously built XWin w/debug info and debugged it in GDB.
>
> But this time I ran into a new problem:
>
> When I run XWin in GDB, it constantly gets access violations. This is
> during startup, and before I've got some sort of understanding of this,
> I don't want to attempt anything more ambitious.
>
> cygwin1!__getreent
> KERNEL32!IsBadWritePtr
This is normal -- this is the way Cygwin (newlib?) tests pointers. Just
continue from that point. I think there are two or three of those in the
normal initialization sequence.
If this bothers you too much, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>...
Igor
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