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unwindonsignal variable question
- From: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon at redhat dot com>
- To: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:57:24 +0100
- Subject: unwindonsignal variable question
Setting this to "on" fixes the most problematic aspects of gnats pr
2495. (This is where an exception is raised in a C++ function executed
by inferior function call, and no in-frame exception handler results in
a sigabrt being delivered to the inferior).
As this is a very useful flag, and it only seems to apply in inferior
function calls, I am curious why it appears to default as "off",
requiring the user to perform:
set unwindonsignal on
(I'm not advocating changing it, just curious if there is a particular
reason for it to be this way). And also, if there would be known
side-effects to having it to default as on.
Regards
Phil