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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 08:38:35 -0500
To: cbfalconer AT worldnet DOT att DOT net, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: gdb hangs on a 486
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At 11:13 PM 10/30/2002, CBFalconer wrote:
>I have been trying out gdb in Cygwin, and found it to hang and/or
>crash under W98, running on a 486.  The output of gdb --version
>is:
>
> > $ gdb --version
> > GNU gdb 5.0 (20010428-3)
> > 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".
>                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>This appears unwarranted.  I would have assumed gdb would test and
>adapt itself to the processor on which it is running.


At this point, I think most (all?) Cygwin packages are configured like this.
Whether or not that's true, it's not unwarranted.  There's good reason to 
make use of the newer architectures' capabilities.



>The whole system was downloaded through setup within the past 20
>days.  Gdb came up in a windowed rather than command line
>version.  After the hang the mouse was dead and the system needed
>rebooting.  I normally can run for weeks without reboots.


gdb -nw



>Under DJGPP I am running gdb 5.1.1, with no apparent
>difficulties.  There the configuration says "i386-pc-msdosdjgpp"



Sounds like you may want to get the source, reconfigure, and build your
own version targeting i386 or i486.




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