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Re: Cygwin 1.3.3, dumper.exe, question


Nits.  You'll catch them I'm sure but...

At 09:42 PM 9/6/2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>I'm going to be including dumper.exe with the next version of cygwin.
>I've been meaning to do this for a long time and I keep forgetting.
>
>I'm going to mention this in the release notes:
>
>- dumper.exe now comes with cygwin releases by default.  With dumper.exe
>   you can actually have linux produce linux-style core dumps.  To use,

                          ^^^^^^^
                          cygwin


>       set CYGWIN=error_start=c:/cygwin/bin/dumper.cmd
>
>   Then if you cygwin application enters into a state where a core dump

            ^^^^
            your

>   would be produced under linux (e.g., SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, etc.) dumper.exe
>   will be called to produce it.  You can then use gdb to inspect the

                                                                      ^^^^
                                                                    result


>Does this seem correct?  I will include a dumper.cmd file which just
>has this in it:


<snip>


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