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Subject: Re: 1.7.5: cygwin programs throw STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION exceptions
From: Yuval Emek <yuval.emek@gmail.com>
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Is it possible that this problem is somehow related to another problem
I'm experiencing, reported in
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-04/msg00797.html ?

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 09:19, Yuval Emek  wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 20:48, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:48:18AM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>>On 4/19/2010 7:44 AM, Yuval Emek wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 09:32, Christopher Faylor
>>>> <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please...> =A0wrote:
>>> =A0 =A0^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>><http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. =A0Feeding spammers just ma=
kes
>>>them hungry.
>>>
>>><snip>
>>>
>>>>> p.envptr is supposed to be filled in by the call to _cygwin_crt0_comm=
on
>>>>> in cygwin_attach_dll. =A0It is supposed to be set to the address of t=
he
>>>>> "environ" variable in the DLL. =A0It is not supposed to be NULL. =A0T=
hat
>>>>> assignment should actually not even be necessary but the fact that
>>>>> envptr may be NULL is a problem. =A0Of course, it could just be some
>>>>> non-NULL garbage too. =A0Running in gdb and getting a stack trace wou=
ld be
>>>>> instructive.
>>>>
>>>> Can you be more specific? (I have been using cygwin for a while, but I
>>>> never debugged it beforehand.)
>>>> I can install gdb using setup.exe . What should I do then in order to
>>>> obtain a stack trace?
>>>
>>>Grab a snapshot from <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>. =A0You want the DLL
>>>and debugging info at least.
>>
>> And, assuming that you can actually run gdb, just "gdb bash" and then "r=
".
>
> I installed gdb and then downloaded the (latest) snapshots of
> cygwin1.dll and cygwin1.dbg and extracted then to /bin/ (replacing the
> previous cygwin1.dll) .
> Running gdb bash seems to fail since there are no debugging symbols.
> In particular, when typing r in the gdb prompt, I get the following
> output:
>
> Starting program: /usr/bin/bash
> [New thread 3800.0x15b4]
> (no debugging symbols found)
> (no debugging symbols found)
> (no debugging symbols found)
> [New thread 3800.0x13f4]
>
> [1]+ =A0Stopped =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 gdb bash
>
> (Makes sense, I guess, as bash was not compiled with debugging info.)
> Can I download debugging info for bash from somewhere? (As far as I
> understand, I don't even have the source code for bash.)
> Is there something else I can do?
>
>>
>> cgf
>>
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