[patch] fix spurious SIGSEGV faults under Cygwin
Brian Dessent
brian@dessent.net
Thu Feb 2 17:42:00 GMT 2006
Dave Korn wrote:
> I'm having a conceptual difficulty here: Under what circumstances would you expect there *not* to be a debugger attached to the
> inferior to which the debugger is attached? That's a bit zen, isn't it?
The code in question here runs many times in the normal course of any
Cygwin program -- debugger or no. The idea behind guarding the call to
OutputDebugString() with "if (being_debugged())" was that the call to
IsDebuggerPresent() was cheaper than the call to OutputDebugString(),
and that a well-behaived, non-debug build of a binary should not
needlessly send tons and tons of nonsense to OutputDebugString unless
it's actually being debugged and there is something there to interpret
the nonsense.
Brian
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