Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/10/31/21:03:35
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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:
> >>
... snip ...
> >> > 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.
Unfortunately that is all the data there is. I don't expect a
magic wand. The problem is probably in the gui stuff gdb is
calling anyhow. W98 is not noted for system protection. However
ignoring it is NOT the right answer.
Maybe a few mirrors should be set aside for systems with other
configurations.
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