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: <184670-220021151173552887@M2W093.mail2web.com> X-Priority: 3 Reply-To: lhall AT rfk DOT com X-Originating-IP: 209.113.174.244 From: "lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com" To: dbryan AT bcpl DOT net, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: gdb hangs on a 486 Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 12:35:52 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Nov 2002 17:35:53.0413 (UTC) FILETIME=[208C2750:01C281CD] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id gA1Ha2v15402 Ah, finally a good soul with an honest-to-goodness data point! Who knew there were actually 486s still around. ;-) Seems like this lends credence to Chris' arguments (did he need some? :-) ) Chuck, if you're seeing some problem and want to try to get it resolved, you need to push into a different area to track it down, assuming it's something you want to pursue. Dead thread now? I hope so. I'm out. :-) Larry Original Message: ----------------- From: J. David Bryan dbryan AT bcpl DOT net Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 10:47:10 -0500 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: gdb hangs on a 486 On 30 Oct 2002 at 23:13, CBFalconer wrote: > I have been trying out gdb in Cygwin, and found it to hang and/or crash > under W98, running on a 486. I tried gdb (the version you cited) with the windowed interface on a 486 running NT 4.0, and it appeared to work fine on a simple "hello, world" test program. Do you have steps to reproduce your problem? Regarding the "i686" configuration, I believe Randall Schulz cited the appropriate part of the gcc manual, i.e., unless specifically directed to do so, the compiler will output i386 instructions. I don't have a 486 datasheet handy, but I'm reasonably certain that the 486 had an illegal instruction trap (the 386 did), so if a Pentium-only instruction was encountered, you'd encounter an exception. Are you getting illegal instruction exceptions? As a data point, I've run Cygwin on a 486 system for some years and never had a problem related to the CPU configuration. -- Dave -- 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.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/