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Re: cygwin-xfree Digest 16 Oct 2004 01:22:57 -0000 Issue 1568
- From: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind dot harboe at zylin dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 10:21:26 +0200
- Subject: Re: cygwin-xfree Digest 16 Oct 2004 01:22:57 -0000 Issue 1568
- References: <1097889777.22742.ezmlm@cygwin.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> > > > What can I do to help debug this problem?
> > >
> > > The only way to debug this is to run XWin in gdb and wait until the
> > > error occurs.
> >
> > I've previously built XWin w/debug info and debugged it in GDB.
> >
> > But this time I ran into a new problem:
> >
> > When I run XWin in GDB, it constantly gets access violations. This is
> > during startup, and before I've got some sort of understanding of this,
> > I don't want to attempt anything more ambitious.
> >
> > cygwin1!__getreent
> > KERNEL32!IsBadWritePtr
>
> This is normal -- this is the way Cygwin (newlib?) tests pointers. Just
> continue from that point. I think there are two or three of those in the
> normal initialization sequence.
After doing this 50 times, it got boring and I gave up.
Last time I debugged XFree86, I didn't have this problem(or maybe once
or twice).
How many times should I have to endure this requester under normal
circumstances?
Perhaps something is actually wrong?
> If this bothers you too much, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>...
Ouch.
To even debug XFree86 I have to fix a long outstanding complicated
CygWin issue. :-)
--
Øyvind Harboe
http://www.zylin.com