Re: bug#39118: Segfault while building on 64-bit Cygwin

[szgyg]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 10:01:58AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> but before that you’d run
> “ulimit -c unlimited” in that shell to make sure there’s a core dumped
> when it crashes.

This won't work on cygwin. If you want a core dump, you should use the
dumper tool, as described here
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/dumper.html
Or you can set error_start to gdb to get an interactive gdb session on error.

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