gdb itself core dumps

[Ariel Burbaickij]

OK, thank you for your reply. Will do and will let you know.
Reproducibility, should details of it be needed, is not an issue as the
program I tried to debug is open-source and easily available.

Kind Regards
Ariel Burbaickij

On Sunday, June 26, 2022, Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:

> On 24/06/2022 15:13, Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
>
>> Hello mailing list,
>>
>> I was in the middle of deep debugging session when following happened:
>>
>> 103           allocate(size_type __n, const void* = static_cast<const
>> void*>(0))
>> (gdb) s
>> __wrap__Znwm (sz=85) at
>> /usr/src/debug/cygwin-3.3.5-1/winsup/cygwin/libstdcxx_wrapper.cc:55
>> 55        return (*user_data->cxx_malloc->oper_new) (sz);
>> (gdb) s
>> /cygdrive/d/a/scallywag/gdb/gdb-11.2-1.x86_64/src/gdb-11.2/
>> gdb/infrun.c:2550:
>> internal-error: void resume_1(gdb_signal): Assertion
>> `pc_in_thread_step_range (pc, tp)' failed.
>> A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
>> further debugging may prove unreliable.
>> ...
>> application level programm (open source under GNU) from which I stepped
>> into allocator crashes also somewhere near, so right now I am not sure
>> what
>> exactly gdb stumbles upon. GDB Core file is available. How do we proceed
>> from here ?
>>
>
> In the first place, please try the gdb 12.1 test package (available
> through cygwin setup).
>
> If that doesn't improve matters, some details about how to (simply)
> reproduce the problem would be nice.
>
>