Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3DC1E173.45E2A635@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:05:40 -0500 From: CBFalconer Reply-To: cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net Organization: Ched Research X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gdb hangs on a 486 References: <3DC0ADF3.AE21B991@yahoo.com> <4.3.1.2.20021031083212.017487d8@pop.rcn.com> <20021031193110.GH18735@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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. > > The "i686-pc-cygwin" is just a convention. It doesn't mean anything. > GNU tools built for an i686 target *may* produce binaries that are > reordered for better efficiency on that target but, in this case, I > doubt that is even the case. > > Unless someone can point to an actual 686 instruction that is causing > problems, this discussion should die. The standard "it crashes" or > "it dies" bug reporting technique does not provide any details and > speculating as to the cause with no supporting details is not a > useful endeavor. Unfortunately that is all the data there is. I don't expect a magic wand. The problem is probably in the gui stuff gdb is calling anyhow. W98 is not noted for system protection. However ignoring it is NOT the right answer. Maybe a few mirrors should be set aside for systems with other configurations. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer@yahoo.com) (cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. 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/