Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <20020727232636.54019.qmail@web21010.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 16:26:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicholas Wourms Subject: Re: Mysterious gdb behavior. To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: <3D42EC9B.2934.510208B4@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Paul Derbyshire wrote: > 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, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ *SIGH* Looks like someone didn't read the FAQ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com -- 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/