upgraded gdb won't trace code

[Stephen Smith]

My bad,  I couldn't use the run icon.  I first had to open a console window and use the run command and then the icons
worked.

Sorry for the earlier post.

sps

Stephen Smith wrote:

> I wanted to upgrade to the newest gdb (remember that the one currently built for cygwin is the 5.0 release and doesn't
> follow the mount table correctly).  Anyway,
> it is the same version that I built as a cross debugger (snapshot 20010306).
>
> I compile the gdb (i686-pc-cygwin) and compile a target executable t.exe to test the new debugger.   I then run "gdb
> t.exe" and the code comes up in the window
> But I can't run or step through the program from within gdb.  Any clue as to why not?
>
> sps
>
> ------------------------------- code for executible ------------------------------------
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int a = 5;
>
> main ()
> {
>    while( --a > 0)
>         printf( "%d\n", a );
> }
>
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