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Re: Calling __stdcall functions in the inferior

From: John Gilmore <gnu at toad dot com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
Cc: eliz at gnu dot org, gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:20:22 -0700
Subject: Re: Calling __stdcall functions in the inferior
References: <83a9vs89r9.fsf@gnu.org> <201210120953.q9C9rqfu020865@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl>

> > Is there a way to call __stdcall functions in the inferior from GDB,
> > while debugging a C program?  The case in point is GetLastError, but
> > any other function from the Windows API has this problem.

If you just need this capability to debug a particular problem, add a
dummy debugging function to the source code of your buggy program,
which has the normal calling sequence, and which just calls
GetLastError and returns its result.  Then call *that* function from
GDB.

	John

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