Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Paul Derbyshire" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 18:55:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Mysterious gdb behavior. Reply-to: derbyshire@globalserve.net Message-ID: <3D42EC9B.2934.510208B4@localhost> In-reply-to: <20020727045007.47096.qmail@web10105.mail.yahoo.com> References: <3D41C7D2.30094.4C8A5635@localhost> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body On 27 Jul 2002 at 6:50, Sylvain Petreolle wrote: > > > Now why is it suddenly complaining that perfectly good executables > > are bad? Or if the executables really are bad, why the hell do they > > *work* (at least, run and crash rather than fail to run at all) when > > launched from bash? Bash and gdb presumably spawn processes in the > > same way, however unix does that, and with the cygwin compatibility > > layer between that and however Windows spawns processes. > > > Did you try this with several executable files ? > The error could come from a single hosed file. $ gdb -nw hw GNU gdb 5.0 (20010428-3) Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Pu welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "sho This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"... (gdb) run Starting program: /home/Paul Derbyshire/antheria/hw.exe Error creating process /home/Paul Derbyshire/antheria/hw.exe, (error 193) (gdb) quit $ ./hw Hello, world! Hosed executable, my arse. My test executable ran fine from the prompt three microseconds after choking gdb. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/