gdb 6.8.0.20080328 crashes in _sigfe

["Mike Ady" <mike dot ady2 at gmail dot com>]

I'm trying to debug a multithreaded program.  gdb crashes shortly
after the program starts.  The last statement that executes in the
program that I'm debugging calls gettimeofday.  After just a few more
steps, gdb crashes while the program is in _sigfe (I think):

$ gdb xcas
GNU gdb 6.8.0.20080328-cvs (cygwin-special)
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
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and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...
Defining v as print command for giac types
(gdb) break Graph.cc:1119
Breakpoint 1 at 0x4e9d23: file Graph.cc, line 1119. (2 locations)
(gdb) run
Starting program: /cygdrive/c/xcasbuild/giac-0.8.1/src/xcas.exe
[New thread 2764.0xf2c]
[New thread 2764.0xabc]
[New thread 2764.0x38c]
Breakpoint 1, xcas::Graph2d3d::Graph2d3d (this=0x1010ada8, x=0, y=25, w=545,
    h=325, l=0x649331 "label", xmin=-5, xmax=5, ymin=-5, ymax=5, zmin=-5,
    zmax=5, ortho=1, hp_=0x0) at Graph.cc:1119
1119        gettimeofday(&animation_last,&tz);
(gdb) set step-mode on
(gdb) step
0x005e5220 in gettimeofday ()
(gdb) step
Single stepping until exit from function gettimeofday,
which has no line number information.
0x61094364 in _sigfe_gettimeofday () from /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll
(gdb) next
Single stepping until exit from function _sigfe_gettimeofday,
which has no line number information.
0x61093559 in _sigfe () from /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll
(gdb) next
Single stepping until exit from function _sigfe,
which has no line number information.
0x610bd7e0 in gettimeofday () from /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll
(gdb) next
Single stepping until exit from function gettimeofday,
which has no line number information.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

The "gdb.exe.stackdump" file is short and does not appear to be very
illuminating.  I've poked around, and I found some discussion about
previous versions of gdb crashing in _sigfe, (going back 4 or 5
years).  I'm a Cygwin newbie, and I can't say that I followed the
discussion.

I have the latest Cygwin stuff installed.  I'm running on XP SP3.

Is there anything else I can look at?  Should I be sending a bug
report to the gdb team instead of airing this here?

Thanks,

Mike

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