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Improve FAQ answer on debugging Cygwin 

Improve FAQ answer on debugging Cygwin to mention the cygwin-debuginfo package
and the gdb command 'set cygwin-exceptions on'.

2015-08-03  Jon Turney  <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>

	* faq-programming.xml: Improve debugging-cygwin answer.

Signed-off-by: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
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2015-08-03 Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
* faq-programming.xml: Improve debugging-cygwin answer.
2015-07-21 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* new-features.xml (ov-new2.2): Document sigsetjmp, siglongjmp.

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<question><para>I may have found a bug in Cygwin, how can I debug it (the symbols in gdb look funny)?</para></question>
<answer>
<para>Debugging symbols are stripped from distibuted Cygwin binaries, so any
symbols that you see in gdb are basically meaningless. It is also a good
<para>Debugging symbols are stripped from distibuted Cygwin binaries, so to
debug with <command>gdb</command> you will need to install the
<package>cygwin-debuginfo</package> package to obtain the debug symbols for
<filename>cygwin1.dll</filename>
</para>
<para>
If your bug causes an exception inside <filename>cygwin1.dll</filename> you will
need to use the <command>gdb</command> command <userinput>set cygwin-exceptions
on</userinput> to tell <command>gdb</command> to stop on exceptions inside the
Cygwin DLL (by default they are ignored, as they may be generated during normal
operation e.g. when checking a pointer is valid)
</para>
<para>
It is also a good
idea to use the latest code in case the bug has been fixed, so we
recommend trying the latest snapshot from
<ulink url="https://cygwin.com/snapshots/"/> or building the DLL from GIT.
<ulink url="https://cygwin.com/snapshots/"/> or building the DLL from git.
</para>
<para>To build a debugging version of the Cygwin DLL, you will need to follow
the instructions at <ulink url="https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin"/>.
the instructions at <ulink url="https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin"/>.
</para>
<para>
You can also contact the mailing list for pointers (a simple test case that
demonstrates the bug is always welcome).
</para>