I had a similar thing trying to debug jikes.exe using gdb on cygwin. Jikes would run normally on its own, but a SEGV occurred before "main" when running it inside gdb. My workaround was to make jikes.exe pause at the start of "main" by adding a call to "getline();" as the first line of the program, then in another window get the process ID of my jikes.exe process using
$ ps -ef | grep jikes Ed.Randa 4036 692 2 10:26:35 /cygdrive/c/jikes-1.22/src/jikes then start gdb in another window, telling it to attach to the already-running process id, ie $ gdb ... (gdb) attach 4036 Attaching to process 204 Reading symbols from /cygdrive/c/wss/java/jikes/jikes-1.22/src/jikes.exe...done. [Switching to thread 204.0xa14] (gdb) cont Continuing. Finally, go back to my jikes.exe window, hit <return> and the program under test will run on under control of the debugger. Regards Ed -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
