Re: [RFC] sigsetjmp/siglongjmp on cygwin

[Keith Seitz <keiths at cygnus dot com>]

On 2 Aug 2001, Mark Kettenis wrote:

> Keith Seitz <keiths@cygnus.com> writes:
>
> > To make a long story short, I spent a lot of time trying to track this
> > down. The crux of it is that sigsetjmp/siglongjmp _do_ exist on cygwin,
> > but they are not reliable. I don't know why, but they are not.
>
> Damn!  Any chance of fixing cygwin?

I dunno, but I'm not sure we can just go around telling people to update
cygwin -- or can we?

> > I'm open to better ways of dealing with this.
>
> Can't say I like your patch.

Me either. That's why this is an RFC and not an RFA... :-)

> [...] An alternative would be to #undef
> HAVE_SIGSETJMP in the cygwin xm.h file.  That isolates this bogosity
> nicely in a platform-specific file.

Hmmm.. This might be a better approach. I hate touching configure.in: it
makes everyone recompile all of gdb.

What say others?
Keith