Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/10/15/12:10:59
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 08:54:27AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>Jonathan M. Hill schrieb am 2001-10-14, 23:38:
>
>Hi Jonathan,
>
>>When I bring up GDB, the Insight window appears along with the
>>source code, but when I click the "run" button, Insight indicates
>>that it received an unknown signal and then locks up.
>[...]
>>gdb: unknown target exception 0x000006d1 at 0x77e8f142
>
>Robert was a little impatient in his reply, so I want to say some more
>words. It is an old bug in gdb which was discovered this month in
>cygwin's gdb. Work is in progress to fix it.
Actually, Robert was showing people how they can find answers to
problems themselves rather than asking for other people to help them.
It's the "teach a person to fish" analogy. You seem to be intent on
being "kind" by answering each repetitive question with information,
helping people to grow dependent on the "Ask the mailing list whenever I
have a question" way of doing things. This is commendable but it is,
IMO, a misplaced effort.
Your technique works great as long as you are always here to answer
questions. It breaks down when you are not available. On the other
hand, the mailing list archives are always going to be available so if
people get into the habit of checking them first they would be able to
answer their questions more quickly, and probably more definitively.
cgf
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