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Re: gdb hangs on a 486
- From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:20:45 -0500
- Subject: Re: gdb hangs on a 486
- Organization: Ched Research
- References: <4.3.1.2.20021031083212.017487d8@pop.rcn.com>
- Reply-to: cbfalconer at worldnet dot att dot net
"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.
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