assert creates unusable core dump on current stable Cygwin release

[Jon Turney]

On 09/10/2019 16:31, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2019-10-09 01:14, Biswapriyo Nath wrote:
>> * mintty version: mintty 3.0.6 (x86_64-pc-cygwin)
>> * cygwin version: 3.1.0-0.6
>> * code:
>>
>> #include <assert.h>
>>
>> int main() {
>>    int x = 1;
>>    assert(x == 0);
>> }
>>
>> * Expected result: The terminal should show this message which appers
>> in latest stable cygwin version.
>> assertion "x == 0" failed: file "test.c", line 6, function: main
>>
>> * Actual result: terminal only shows "Aborted (core dumped)".
> 
> I also get the core dump, which is un-gdb-able below, as is it's core dump, on
> *current stable* Cygwin 64 releases *AND* see the message!

As far as I'm aware, the core-dump tool 'dumper' has never been fixed 
for x86_64, so I wouldn't expect this to work. See [1].

[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-03/msg00464.html

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