----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Barton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Big Red" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 2:18 PM Subject: Re: Stackdumps
> Stack dumps in cygwin are nearly useless unless you have some incredible > knowledge of machine code..What you have is the contents of all of the > registers and stuff at the time it crashed, then a backtrace of the > functions that were called in order to get to that point. But it's in > terms of memory addresses and so not very readable. > Your best bet is to run it in gdb.. that will give you basically the > same information, but uses debugging information inserted into the code > to make that data human-readable. > For some reason gdb can't read dumps in windows. > Probably an OS issue :) > --Palrich. > Thanks for replying. GDB is what I normally use, but it gave my a cryptic answer instead of it's usual hinting. http://www.geocities.com/akira_mitsurugi/capture.jpg Is a screen capture of what I mean.
