GNU bug report logs - #50453
27.2; Portable dumper broken on MSW

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 50453 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50453: 27.2; Portable dumper broken on MSW
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 14:57:14 +0300

> From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
> Cc: 50453 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 19:34:49 +0800
> 
> Nevermind, I was able to get the debugger to work, though not very
> reliably.
> 
> It appears to fail at line 5428 of pdumper.c, where dump_mmap_contiguous
> returns false.  Unfortunately, the GDB session is extremely unreliable;
> I was only able to get this information after Windows crashed a dozen or
> so times.

That's what I guessed might be the problem.

Can you put a breakpoint in dump_map_file_w32 and verify that it is
called?  If it is indeed called, can you step through it and see if it
fails, and if so, how?

Thanks.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.