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From: "Jerry van Dijk" <jvandyk@ibm.net>
Subject: Re: GDB Woes Continued...
Date: 1998/01/31
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Date: 1998-01-31T00:00:00+00:00
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> 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 ?

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