Now my gcc (and g77) makes executables as nicely as ever, wholly thanks to Pavel Tsekov's "just a quick guess". There was a stray cygwin1.dll in C:\WINDOWS directory. I cannot guess how it went there(maybe during re- and re-re- installing whole cygwin...). I don't know how come it is so, but as soon as I deleted the stray cygwin1.dll, gcc and g77 turned into the old tamed dog. I feel much a luser for being at wits end when this simple remedy was only thing I needed.
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