Re: Profiling Emacs on M$

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 09:25:14 +0530
> From: dhruva <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> On 5/21/08, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > GDB indeed cannot be set up as a JIT debugger, but there's the DrMinGW
> >  program that can.
> 
> I agree about the JIT part. The DrMinGW creates a file which I am not
> sure if GDB can read as a core file.

DrMinGW does not generate a core file, it generates a text report
(which you can save to a file) that includes a full annotated
traceback of the crash.

> I tried using the cygwin dumper to create dumps of running processes
> build with GCC and use it through GDB with no success

I don't think the Cygwin dumper will work with anything but Cygwin
programs.