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From: vonhend@ibm.net
Subject: Re: GDB Woes Continued...
Date: 1998/02/03
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Date: 1998-02-03T00:00:00+00:00
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In <01bd2e9b$76253380$562c5c8b@aptiva>, "Jerry van Dijk" <jvandyk@ibm.net> writes:
>> 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
>
Don't know about WinDoze 95, but once I got used to it, I
found that gdb for 3.10p works pretty well under OS/2.  A
real operating system seems to make quite the difference.

M. Von Hendy
LMTO