"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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net> 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/
