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25.1; M-x gdb crashes when used on windows + cygwin

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From: Martijn Saelens <martijn.saelens <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.1; M-x gdb crashes when used on windows + cygwin
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:35:05 +0200

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M-x gdb crashes when trying to set a breakpoint on main. Emacs runs on

windows and uses the gdb from cygwin. I can reproduce this on multiple

machines using the following steps in emacs -Q:



1. Open a *.cpp file in emacs. I've used the following file "test.cpp":



        #include <iostream>



        int main()

        {

          std::cout << "Hello world!" << std::endl;

          return 0;

        }



2. Compile the file using M-x compile: g++ -g test.cpp -o test.exe

3. start gdb using M-x gdb: gdb -i=mi test.exe

4. inside gdb type "break main". The gdb prompt dissapears and the

debugger becomes unusable. The full output of *gud-test.exe*:



         Current directory is c:/Users/martijns/

         GNU gdb (GDB) (Cygwin 7.10.1-1) 7.10.1

         Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

         License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

         This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.

         There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show
copying"

         and "show warranty" for details.

         This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin".

         Type "show configuration" for configuration details.

         For bug reporting instructions, please see:

         <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.

         Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at:

         <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>.

         For help, type "help".

         Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"...

         Reading symbols from test.exe...done.

         (gdb) break main

         Breakpoint 1 at 0x4011de: file test.cpp, line 6.

         (gdb) list test.cpp:1

         1

         2     #include <iostream>

         3

         4     int main()

         5     {

         6       std::cout << "Hello world!" << std::endl;

         7       return 0;

         8     }



If I use the commandline for gdb, then gdb works as expected.



Versions of the used software:



         $ gdb --version



         GNU gdb (GDB) (Cygwin 7.10.1-1) 7.10.1

         Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

         License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

         This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.

         There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show
copying"

         and "show warranty" for details.

         This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin".

         Type "show configuration" for configuration details.

         For bug reporting instructions, please see:

         <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.

         Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at:

         <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>.

         For help, type "help".

         Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word".



         $ emacs --version



         GNU Emacs 25.1.1

         Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

         GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

         You may redistribute copies of GNU Emacs

         under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

         For more information about these matters, see the file named
COPYING.



========================================================================



In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (i686-w64-mingw32)

 of 2016-09-17 built on LAPHROAIG

Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 6.3.9600

Configured using:

 'configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --without-dbus

 --without-compress-install CFLAGS=-static'



Configured features:

XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB

TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS



Important settings:

  value of $LANG: ENU

  locale-coding-system: cp1252



Major mode: Debugger



Minor modes in effect:

  shell-dirtrack-mode: t

  diff-auto-refine-mode: t

  tooltip-mode: t

  global-eldoc-mode: t

  electric-indent-mode: t

  mouse-wheel-mode: t

  tool-bar-mode: t

  menu-bar-mode: t

  file-name-shadow-mode: t

  global-font-lock-mode: t

  font-lock-mode: t

  blink-cursor-mode: t

  auto-composition-mode: t

  auto-encryption-mode: t

  auto-compression-mode: t

  line-number-mode: t

  transient-mark-mode: t



Recent messages:

Making completion list... [2 times]

Compilation finished

Making completion list...

delete-backward-char: Text is read-only

Compilation finished

mwheel-scroll: Beginning of buffer [3 times]

C-c e is undefined

<C-tab> is undefined [2 times]

Target doesn’t support non-stop mode.  Turning it off.

Note: file is write protected



Load-path shadows:

None found.



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Message #8 received at 24508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Martijn Saelens <martijn.saelens <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 24508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24508: 25.1; M-x gdb crashes when used on windows + cygwin
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 19:12:07 +0300

> From: Martijn Saelens <martijn.saelens <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:35:05 +0200
> 
> M-x gdb crashes when trying to set a breakpoint on main. Emacs runs on
> windows and uses the gdb from cygwin. I can reproduce this on multiple
> machines using the following steps in emacs -Q:

I cannot reproduce this, but I used a native Windows build of GDB.  If
your GCC is a 32-bit compiler, you could try installing the same GDB
I'm using from here:

  https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/?source=navbar

Message #11 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24508: 25.1; M-x gdb crashes when used on windows + cygwin
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:59:17 -0400

On 9/22/2016 5:35 AM, Martijn Saelens wrote:
> M-x gdb crashes when trying to set a breakpoint on main. Emacs runs on
>
> windows and uses the gdb from cygwin.

I don't know if this is relevant, but there is currently a problem with 
gdb on 32-bit Cygwin.  A workaround can be found here:

  https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-09/msg00160.html

Ken

Message #14 received at 24508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
To: Martijn Saelens <martijn.saelens <at> gmail.com>, 24508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Fwd: Re: bug#24508: 25.1; M-x gdb crashes when used on windows +
 cygwin
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 16:32:33 -0400

Sorry, I forgot to reply-all.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: bug#24508: 25.1; M-x gdb crashes when used on windows + cygwin
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:59:17 -0400
From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org

On 9/22/2016 5:35 AM, Martijn Saelens wrote:
> M-x gdb crashes when trying to set a breakpoint on main. Emacs runs on
>
> windows and uses the gdb from cygwin.

I don't know if this is relevant, but there is currently a problem with 
gdb on 32-bit Cygwin.  A workaround can be found here:

   https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-09/msg00160.html

Ken


-- 
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Message #17 received at 24508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Martijn Saelens <martijn.saelens <at> gmail.com>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Cc: 24508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: bug#24508: 25.1; M-x gdb crashes when used on windows + cygwin
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 15:14:53 +0200

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Hi,

As I have no issues on Linux, I indeed suspect it to be an issue with
Cygwin.

My apologies for the inconvenience,

Martijn

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:32 PM, Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu> wrote:

> Sorry, I forgot to reply-all.
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Re: bug#24508: 25.1; M-x gdb crashes when used on windows + cygwin
> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:59:17 -0400
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
> To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
>
> On 9/22/2016 5:35 AM, Martijn Saelens wrote:
>
>> M-x gdb crashes when trying to set a breakpoint on main. Emacs runs on
>>
>> windows and uses the gdb from cygwin.
>>
>
> I don't know if this is relevant, but there is currently a problem with
> gdb on 32-bit Cygwin.  A workaround can be found here:
>
>    https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-09/msg00160.html
>
> Ken
>
>
> --
> !<symlink>ÿþ/
>

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Message #20 received at 24508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Martijn Saelens <martijn.saelens <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 24508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#24508: 25.1; M-x gdb crashes when used on windows + cygwin
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:18:12 +0100

Martijn Saelens <martijn.saelens <at> gmail.com> writes:

> As I have no issues on Linux, I indeed suspect it to be an issue with Cygwin.
>
> My apologies for the inconvenience,

Does that mean that this is not a bug in Emacs?  If so, can the bug be
closed?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

Message #25 received at 24508-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Martijn Saelens <martijn.saelens <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 24508-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#24508: 25.1; M-x gdb crashes when used on windows + cygwin
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 14:36:19 +0100

Martijn Saelens <martijn.saelens <at> protonmail.com> writes:

> Yes indeed, the bug may be closed.

Thanks, I'm therefore closing the bug now.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

Message #28 received at 24508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Martijn Saelens <martijn.saelens <at> protonmail.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: "24508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <24508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
 Martijn Saelens <martijn.saelens <at> gmail.com>, Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#24508: 25.1; M-x gdb crashes when used on windows + cygwin
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 13:11:30 +0000

Yes indeed, the bug may be closed.

Kind regards,

Martijn




‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Monday 4 November 2019 10:18, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> wrote:

> Martijn Saelens martijn.saelens <at> gmail.com writes:
>
> > As I have no issues on Linux, I indeed suspect it to be an issue with Cygwin.
> > My apologies for the inconvenience,
>
> Does that mean that this is not a bug in Emacs? If so, can the bug be
> closed?
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan Kangas

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