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authorDavid Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk>2000-07-25 21:35:08 +0000
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New entry (Programming Questions): 'Why doesn't gdb handle signals?'
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@@ -1251,6 +1251,14 @@ for signal/process handling-related info, to name two. The strace
mechanism is well documented in the Cygwin library sources in the file
<CODE>winsup/include/sys/strace.h</CODE>.
+@subsection Why doesn't gdb handle signals?
+
+Unfortunately, there is only minimal signal handling support in gdb
+currently. Signal handling only works with Windows-type signals.
+SIGINT may work, SIGFPE may work, SIGSEGV definitely does. You cannot
+'stop', 'print' or 'nopass' signals like SIGUSR1 or SIGHUP to the
+process being debugged.
+
@subsection The linker complains that it can't find something.
@strong{(Please note: This section has not yet been updated for the latest