From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2007-10-01T13:32:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Will 1.8.6 remain compiled with VC6?

Hi,

At Mon, 1 Oct 2007 12:42:04 +0900,
Charlie Savage wrote in [ruby-core:12320]:
> Really?  You're the first person I've heard of having success with this 
> on Windows.
> 
> Just to be clear:
> 
> 1.  You can take an extension, say ruby-prof.

Though I haven't debugged ruby-prof, I've used many other
bundled extensions, stringio, iconv, socket, and so on.

> 2.  Compile with debug information
> 3.  Tell gdb the host executable is ruby.exe (stock version)
> 4.  Tell gdb to set a breakpoint in ruby-prof (the dll)

gdb asks the breakpoint isn't found and if it will be loaded
later.

> 5.  Run some ruby program that triggers the breakpoint
> 5.  And it works?

Yes.  No problem at all.

-- 
Nobu Nakada