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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: GDB Woes Continued...
Date: 1998/02/03
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Ronald Cole says

<<Sounds like a fundamental problem in your beta testing program.>>

Not really ... we certainly could take the attitude of not publicly
releasing the NT version of GDB until we were really sure it worked
on *all* Win95 systems (there is a simple method of ensuring that
we meet this requirement :-) :-) 

In fact the current version seems quite reliable on NT, and also seems
to work on many (most?) Win95 systems (note for example Martin Carlisle's
reported success at Air Force academy with a variety of machines and
users). It is at this stage hard to know if the reported problems are
oddities in particular versions of Win95, or installation/configuration
problems (we always have the experience that many problems come from not
reading all the documentation and installation instructions -- no way of
knowing that this is the case here, but also no way of knowing that it is
NOT the case).

Our strategy for this release was to release it as soon as we heard from
some significant users (including Martin) that the fundamental Win95
problem had been solved. 

Anway, you should consider that the status of the public release of
GDB for GNAT/NT is that it works OK on NT, and may well work on Win95,
but there are no guarantees (actually there are never any guarantees
in using the public versions of GNAT technology in any case!)

We haven't been able to duplicate these problems so far, and
we have run GDB on a variety of Win95 machines. One observation is
that we are running the latest version of Win95 on pretty much all
machines, not the broken version you can buy in stores, so perhaps
that is one variable.

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies