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Subject:	RE: gdb hangs on a 486
Date:	Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:06:22 -0500
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From:	"Scott Prive" <Scott DOT Prive AT storigen DOT com>
To:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>,
	<cbfalconer AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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> At this point, I think most (all?) Cygwin packages are 
> configured like this.
> Whether or not that's true, it's not unwarranted.  There's 
> good reason to 
> make use of the newer architectures' capabilities.

At the risk of asking for Yet Another Feature ... and I'm thinking out loud more than anything else... it would be friendly for the setup utility to do a CPU check vs. the packages you selected.

I know.. "patches gratefully accepted" 
(You wouldn't want a patch in C from me. trust me :-)


> 
> 
> 
> >The whole system was downloaded through setup within the past 20
> >days.  Gdb came up in a windowed rather than command line
> >version.  After the hang the mouse was dead and the system needed
> >rebooting.  I normally can run for weeks without reboots.
> 
> 
> gdb -nw
> 
> 
> 
> >Under DJGPP I am running gdb 5.1.1, with no apparent
> >difficulties.  There the configuration says "i386-pc-msdosdjgpp"
> 
> 
> 
> Sounds like you may want to get the source, reconfigure, and 
> build your
> own version targeting i386 or i486.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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