Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <19991022043728.24064.rocketmail@web124.yahoomail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 21:37:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Subject: RE: B20.1: Thread support seems to be broken in 'gdb' To: Jon Leichter Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Jon Leichter 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". ===== Earnie Boyd Newbies, please visit (If you respond to the list, then please don't cc me) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com