cygwin GDB crashes on single step
I am trying to get Insight operational on cygwin. After building every
thing I was attempting to debug a simple program. I can start the
debugger and run to a break point. It is when I attempt to single step
that gdb faults.
$ gdb a.exe
GNU gdb 2003-07-14-cvs
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GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you
are
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conditions.
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There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for
details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...
(gdb) list
1 #include <iostream>
2 using namespace std;
3
4 int main(int argc, char* argv[])
5 {
6 std::cout << "hi from C++\n";
7
8 for (int i = 0; i < argc; ++i)
9 {
10 cout << "Arg " << i << " = " << argv[i] << "\n";
(gdb) b 6
Breakpoint 1 at 0x4010c6: file hi.cpp, line 6.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/DAFerguson/src/hi/a.exe
Breakpoint 1, main (argc=1, argv=0xa042878) at hi.cpp:6
6 std::cout << "hi from C++\n";
(gdb) s
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
This produces gdb.exe.stackdump file. The first few lines of which are.
Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=0057F301
eax=00000000 ebx=1027CB50 ecx=1027CB50 edx=1030D810 esi=00000000
edi=00672B50
ebp=0022F618 esp=0022F5C0 program=D:\opt\cygwin\usr\local\bin\gdb.exe
Of course Insight fails also in a similar manner. I am pretty sure that
the problem is in the gdb engine.
I am running freshly downloaded and installed cygwin under Windows XP.
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 fergusonda 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 unknown
unknown Cygwin
I retrieved the files from the CVS
cvs -z9 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/src login
cvs -z9 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/src co
insight+dejagnu
cd src
./configure
make
make install
I saw some advice in mail list archive about building gdb with the
debugging enabled in order to get a backtrace. So I did this:
make clean
make distclean
CFLAGS="-g" ./configure
make
make install
As a test I installed the gdb binary. It works fine
GNU gdb 2003-03-03-cvs (cygwin-special)
However, the whole purpose was to get Insight up and running. So using the
older GDB is not really a solutions.
I am new to GNU/GDB/*nix and apologize if I have missed something obvious.
I spent all day trying different things and googling for an answer and am
at wits end.
Thanks for you time.
Regards...David
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