B20.1: Thread support seems to be broken in 'gdb'

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Jon Leichter <jon@symas.com> wrote:
> I know that Cygwin is not thread safe. I was under the assumption that this
> specifically applies to the Cygwin DLL, which I am not using in the sample
> that I've provided. My sample is a pure Mingw32 compiled program and does not
> use the Cygwin DLL. The resulting binary IS supported because the threads are
> managed by Win32 DLLs.
> 
> The issue is whether or not (Cygwin's provided) 'gdb' is supposed to handle
> threads. As I pointed out, Mingw32's distribution of 'gdb' has no problem
> debugging threads. It seems reasonable to expect the same from Cygwin's
> distribution.
> 

But how can a non-thread safe package debug a package using threads?  The
cygwin gdb uses cygwin, the mingw32 gdb does not.  And Chris Faylor would say
"patches are gratefully accepted".


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Earnie Boyd < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com >

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