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From: "Jerry van Dijk" <jvandyk@ibm.net>
Subject: Re: GDB Woes Continued...
Date: 1998/01/31
Date: 1998-01-31T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01bd2e9b$76253380$562c5c8b@aptiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6b07b3$inj$1@Masala.CC.UH.EDU


> I'm running the latest version of GDB for WinNT on Win95
> (I was told it should work with the latest GNAT WinNT distribution),
> and I just want to check on a few things:

> 1) Does GDB decide to spontaneously abort half the time you
>    load an executable?

It does with me on Win95.
 
> 2) Does GDB bring your entire system down to its knees when you
>    try to quit?

Note entirely, you can break it of using the tasklist. But this is indeed
another problem.

> 3) Is the online help broken?  When you click on anything, does
>    it whine about not finding stdout or some Unix-ish nonsense?

Never tried it.

> 4) Does GDB expect you to debug in C, even though you just
>    wrote your code in Ada?

No.

It seems that with certain configurations (although I cannot tell which
ones)
gdb for 3.10p1 will not work under Win95.

Can anyone outside ACT report success with gdb under Win95 ?

-- 
-- Jerry van Dijk | Leiden, Holland
-- Team Ada       | email: jdijk@acm.org





  reply	other threads:[~1998-01-31  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-01-31  0:00 GDB Woes Continued wanker
1998-01-31  0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk [this message]
1998-02-02  0:00   ` Martin C. Carlisle
1998-02-02  0:00   ` Roger Racine
1998-02-02  0:00     ` wanker
1998-02-02  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-03  0:00         ` Ronald Cole
1998-02-03  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-04  0:00             ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-02-05  0:00               ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-09  0:00               ` Martin C. Carlisle
1998-02-04  0:00             ` Andrew Lynch
1998-02-04  0:00             ` Roger Racine
1998-02-04  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-04  0:00                 ` Roger Racine
1998-02-04  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-02  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-02  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-04  0:00         ` John English
1998-02-04  0:00           ` nA edisA Nick Roberts
1998-02-03  0:00   ` GDB Woes Continued vonhend
1998-02-02  0:00 ` Stephen Leake
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-02-02  0:00 Robert Dewar
1998-02-04  0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-02-04  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-02  0:00 tmoran
1998-02-02  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-02  0:00 ` wanker
1998-02-02  0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-02-05  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-03  0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-02-04  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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