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Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)


On Jan 21 11:18, Hughes, Bill wrote:
> I don't think I'm putting this very well, but it may make the FAQ easier if
> the standard advice is to load the snaphot and use that for debugging, it
> removes a separate layer of potential problems in building the dll. I
> suspect the people who would want a stripped snapshot to be more capable of
> producing it than those would may need to build one with debug info.

IMHO you're looking from the wrong direction.  People capable of debugging
the Cygwin DLL are usually also capable of building it.  I'm wondering
how somebody should be able to debug an application at all, if this person
stumbles over using the compiler tools.


Corinna

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