[Mingw-users] two patches for gdb for mingw 32 bit target

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Eli Zaretskii eliz****@gnu*****
Sat Aug 11 23:26:00 JST 2018


> From: asmwarrior <asmwa****@gmail*****>
> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 22:19:01 +0800
> 
> You are welcome, my first thought is that those patches can be put in the MinGW's gdb, but it looks like MinGW's gdb are quite old, and no one maintain it for a long time.
> Because it it quite useful if you try to debug a C++ program.

Try this instead:

  https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/gdb-8.1-w32-bin.zip/download

> > Please report this as a bug to the GDB developers, preferably via
> > Bugzilla.  Otherwise, the bug is unlikely to be fixed upstream, no
> > matter whether they accept this particular patch or fix it in some
> > other way.
> 
> OK, in-fact, this patch(the old version of my patch) has much long history, because I have post the patches in year 2014 in the Bugzilla.
> See this Bugzilla report: 15559 – Method call and calling convention - https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15559
> But it looks like no GDB devs are interested in this patch.

I suggest to ping them and ask what are their thoughts regarding these
problems.

> > This is already reported to Bugzilla, but it's a 4-year old bug.  So I
> > suggest to ping the GDB list about it, because 4 years is a long time
> > to leave a bug unresolved.
> 
> I will post my patch in the Bugzilla bug report.
> 17659 – [win32] GDB failed to get dll names when handling LOAD_DLL_DEBUG_EVENT event - https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17659
> 
> Let's see how those bugs will be fixed or in some other way.

I would suggest to post to gdb-patches as well.

Thanks.




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