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Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:18:08 -0800
Subject: Re: gdb crashes my machine
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From: "Timothy J. Wood" <tjw AT omnigroup DOT com>
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   I went and got WinXP today, installed the latest Cygwin and this 
problem is gone.  I presume that Win2K doesn't have this problem either, 
but I'm happier now that I can debug in XP.

-tim


On Sunday, January 13, 2002, at 12:44  PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 12:41:27PM -0800, Timothy J. Wood wrote:
>>
>> On Sunday, January 13, 2002, at 11:29  AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> It's a known problem in WinME.  If gdb crashes for some reason while 
>>> it
>>> is debugging a program, then eventually Windows 9x, Windows ME, and, I
>>> believe, Windows NT 4.0, will all hang.
>>
>>  So, Win2K should not have this problem?
>
> I don't know for sure.  I don't know if it does.  I don't remember 
> seeing
> it.  Possibly it did but it may have been fixed in a Service Pack.
>
> cgf


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