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Re: Mysterious gdb behavior.
- From: "Paul Derbyshire" <derbyshire at globalserve dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 18:55:23 -0400
- Subject: Re: Mysterious gdb behavior.
- References: <3D41C7D2.30094.4C8A5635@localhost>
- Reply-to: derbyshire at globalserve dot net
On 27 Jul 2002 at 6:50, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
>
> > Now why is it suddenly complaining that perfectly good executables
> > are bad? Or if the executables really are bad, why the hell do they
> > *work* (at least, run and crash rather than fail to run at all) when
> > launched from bash? Bash and gdb presumably spawn processes in the
> > same way, however unix does that, and with the cygwin compatibility
> > layer between that and however Windows spawns processes.
> >
> Did you try this with several executable files ?
> The error could come from a single hosed file.
$ gdb -nw hw
GNU gdb 5.0 (20010428-3)
Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Pu
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "sho
This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/Paul Derbyshire/antheria/hw.exe
Error creating process /home/Paul Derbyshire/antheria/hw.exe, (error
193)
(gdb) quit
$ ./hw
Hello, world!
Hosed executable, my arse. My test executable ran fine from the
prompt three microseconds after choking gdb.
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