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gdb received signal SIGSEGV before even entering main!


The program I ran gdb on a very standard hello world program, it crashes even 
before main is entered. 
Anybody have an idea how to solve this problem?
Any help is appreciated.

The following is a running script:

/home/john> gdb -nw a
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"...
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x4010b6: file hello.c, line 3.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/john/a.exe

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x77e75a3d in _libkernel32_a_iname ()
(gdb) q
The program is running.  Exit anyway? (y or n) y

/home/john> a
Hello

/home/john> gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/specs
Configured with: /netrel/src/gcc-3.2-1/configure --enable-
languages=c,c++,f77,ja
va --enable-libgcj --enable-threads=posix --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --
with
out-included-gettext --enable-interpreter --disable-sjlj-exceptions --disable-
ve
rsion-specific-runtime-libs --enable-shared --build=i686-pc-linux --host=i686-
pc
-cygwin --target=i686-pc-cygwin --enable-haifa --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr
--sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib --includedir=/nonexistent/include --
libexecd
ir=/usr/sbin
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2 20020818 (prerelease)

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