[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] automatic gdb attaching

[Sascha Sommer]

On Friday 22 October 2004 10:10, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > the attached patch will try to attach gdb on receiving an "excpetional"
> > signal. You can also trigger this by sending a SIGTRAP (might be useful
> > for debugging hangs).
> > The main purpose of this is helping in debugging rare bugs. So you can
> > just go about playing your files, and if that bug occurs you can right
> > start developing ;-).
> > Of course, the code should not be enabled by default as it currently is,
> > and the gdb path should probably be detected by configure as well...
> > Please commment...
>
> Revised version:
> default: compiled in for everyone with a .developer file, activated only
> when -crash-debug on command-line or crash-debug=yes in the config
> file.
>
> Is this okay for everyone?
>

Should have brought this up earlier, but could please add a check to configure
that disables it for mingw?

Sascha