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. Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- 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/
