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Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:38:25 -0400
From: "Jonathan M. Hill" <jmhill AT mail DOT hartford DOT edu>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Hit a problem with GDB and Cygwin
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Hello There;

   I am an instructor in the Electrical Engineering Dept. at the
University of Hartford.  I'm new here so the department just bought me
a Windows XP machine from Gateway.  I'm still scratching my head over
this one, "Why XP?"

   Well anyways, I have this machine on hand and just installed
Cygwin, I've done this before on a Windows 95 machine and did not
notice anything odd during the install.

   I did just find a problem with GDB however.  I just built the
traditional "Hello World!" program and find that GDB is having trouble.
The Hello World program runs correctly under bash however.
Here is the code:


$ less hello.c
/*
 * Just the traditional Hello World! program
 */
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
  printf("Hello World!\n");
  return 0;
}


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.

I next tried starting GDB without the Insight graphical user interface

$ gcc -g hello.c -o hello
$ gdb -nw hello
GNU gdb 5.0 (20010428-1)
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"...
(gdb) break 1
Breakpoint 1 at 0x40105a: file hello.c, line 1.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/Administrator/code/hello.exe
gdb: unknown target exception 0x000006d1 at 0x77e8f142

Program received signal ?, Unknown signal.
0x77e8f142 in _libkernel32_a_iname ()
(gdb)

If there is any additional information that I can provide, please
send me a note.
                                               Jonathan Hill
                                               jmhill AT mail DOT hartford DOT edu


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