Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/10/31/14:29:39
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:38:35AM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>At 11:13 PM 10/30/2002, CBFalconer wrote:
>>I have been trying out gdb in Cygwin, and found it to hang and/or
>>crash under W98, running on a 486. The output of gdb --version
>>is:
>>
>> > $ gdb --version
>> > GNU gdb 5.0 (20010428-3)
>> > Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> > GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
>> > welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
>> > Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
>> > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
>> > This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin".
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>This appears unwarranted. I would have assumed gdb would test and
>>adapt itself to the processor on which it is running.
>
>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.
The "i686-pc-cygwin" is just a convention. It doesn't mean anything.
GNU tools built for an i686 target *may* produce binaries that are
reordered for better efficiency on that target but, in this case, I
doubt that is even the case.
Unless someone can point to an actual 686 instruction that is causing
problems, this discussion should die. The standard "it crashes" or "it
dies" bug reporting technique does not provide any details and
speculating as to the cause with no supporting details is not a useful
endeavor.
cgf
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