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Re: Mysterious gdb behavior.


--- Paul Derbyshire <derbyshire@globalserve.net> wrote:
> 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,
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
*SIGH*  Looks like someone didn't read the FAQ...

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