Questions on Microsoft C Exceptions, Gcc, and Gdb

[Thomas Dineen <tdineen at ix dot netcom dot com>]

Gentle People:

      I am working on a rather large application based on GTK / Cairo 
using Mingw GCC for the MS Windows platform.
Debugging has gone well for some time finding and fixing a significant 
number of bugs including crash bugs.

     However given a fairly complex multi - thread architecture I am 
having trouble with GDB finding the specific
code location of code crash bugs. In many cases Mingw GDB dose not seem 
usable. (due to the multi - threaded
architecture?). or my lack of GDB skill?

     Now the question? Given the Mingw GCC / GDB environment running on 
Windows: Is there a simple way to
find the crash point in the code? MS claims an exception! Is there a way 
to attach an exception handler to print
out more information about the crash point? Please note that I am aware 
of C Exceptions throw and catch which
require implementation in the code.

     MS dose provide a Exception Offset when the crash occurs. Is there 
any way to use gdb or other tool to find
the crash point in the code. Disassembler? Do the exception addresses 
match the offsets found in a tool such as a
disassembler?

Thanks for help or ideas.
Thomas Dineen