Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3DAE8C4A.3070202@st.com> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:09:14 +0200 From: Pavel Holejsovsky User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tmellman@web.de Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Another problem using GDB References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cygwin normally does not produce core dumps, but only simple textual stack backtraces (try to look at gtl.exe.stackdump using your text editor). However, you can have full core dumps using dumper utility; see http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#DUMPER for details. Pavel tmellman@web.de wrote: > I'm having another problem with GDB. Normally, one would debug a core file > as follows (correct?): > > gdb -nw gtl.exe gtl.exe.stackdump > > Unfortunately, I get the following in response: > > >>GNU gdb 5.0 (20010428-3) >>Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >>GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are >>welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. >>Type "show copying" to see the conditions. >>There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. >>This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"... >>"/home/w/src/gtl/gtl.exe.stackdump" is not a core dump: File format not recognized >>(gdb) > > > Is this an operator error? > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/