Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: convey Information Systems GmbH To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:20:09 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Hit a problem with GDB and cygwin Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3BCB36E9.12942.11DE6C0@localhost> In-reply-to: <20011015120913.C5679@redhat.com> References: <3BCAA443 DOT 23844 DOT 4B5ED0B4 AT localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12cDE) > Christopher Faylor schrieb am 2001-10-15 12:09: >On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 08:54:27AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >>Jonathan M. Hill schrieb am 2001-10-14, 23:38: >> >>Hi Jonathan, >> >>>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. >>[...] >>>gdb: unknown target exception 0x000006d1 at 0x77e8f142 >> >>Robert was a little impatient in his reply, so I want to say some more >>words. It is an old bug in gdb which was discovered this month in >>cygwin's gdb. Work is in progress to fix it. > >Actually, Robert was showing people how they can find answers to >problems themselves rather than asking for other people to help them. > >It's the "teach a person to fish" analogy. You seem to be intent on >being "kind" by answering each repetitive question with information, >helping people to grow dependent on the "Ask the mailing list whenever I >have a question" way of doing things. This is commendable but it is, >IMO, a misplaced effort. Alright, "teach a person to fish" is a much more gentler way to say it as ST*MLA, RT*M, ST*W. The problem I have with such kind of answers is a very personal one. I don't know every short version to write s.th. down (I know IMO, IMHO and some others, maybe ten or twenty different), so I'm a beginner in that case and I think the most people on Internet are beginners according to this issue. Maybe it is a way to communicate with friends, but I think it is not appropriate on a list which is wide open for everyone especially for newbies. >Your technique works great as long as you are always here to answer >questions. It breaks down when you are not available. On the other >hand, the mailing list archives are always going to be available so if >people get into the habit of checking them first they would be able to >answer their questions more quickly, and probably more definitively. I agree with this completely. And I like more the technique that was 'invented' some times ago which includes posting a link to google, so the people are able to see after one click, that it would be much easier to type in some words at google as it is to write a complete email to the list. Also I think there are some more fulltime volunteers needed who read the list the most time like you and some others, but the etiquette here is a little bit rough sometimes so again the newbies will be deterred fast and maybe never come back to read this list. Just my 2c, Gerrit -- =^..^= -- 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/