Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 03:00:54PM -0700, jan.kolar wrote: >>Recommendations: >> * Use popen() with added test for null fh. >> gdb is much more stable. >> >> * For each 'run' restart gdb. >> The program seemed to go differently on the second 'run'. > > If gdb is acting differently when restarting a program, that's a *gdb* > issue. We don't fix gdb problems by changing Cygwin. >
I did not mind anyone to fix gdb. Neither I said gdb is acting differently. I just wanted to hint those around here who debug octave how to avoid a trouble. Neither I hoped this to be most helpfull part of the mail. The main message was that the problem is in glps_renderer::draw () (and its interactions) and that there was related discussion of octave-maintainers last year. https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2010-September/020770.html https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2010-September/020770.html jk -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/debugging-SIGSEV-on-pclose-tp32400695p32427987.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple