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: <3DC1585D.37B864D@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:20:45 -0500 From: CBFalconer Reply-To: cbfalconer AT worldnet DOT att DOT net Organization: Ched Research X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: gdb hangs on a 486 References: <4 DOT 3 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 20021031083212 DOT 017487d8 AT pop DOT rcn DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: > > 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: > > ... snip ... > > > 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. I can easily believe that. It seems very poor practice to make these assumptions without checking them somewhere and generating a warning. Such things can go in initialization or loading code. ... snip ... > > gdb -nw > Are you saying that the problem is limited to the GUI interface? Is this known, or just a guess? > > Sounds like you may want to get the source, reconfigure, and build > your own version targeting i386 or i486. A non-trivial job, especially if the very tools are suspect. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com) (cbfalconer AT worldnet DOT att DOT net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. USE worldnet address! -- 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/