CVS MinGW (Crossed-)Native Compiler is Toast

[Mohan Embar]

Hi Ranjit,

>>>I usually have terrible luck with gdb on Windows.
>
>Why? Aeons ago, I used GDB 5.2.1 for MinGW32 to
>step through the GCC front-end and it was not
>very difficult and quite helpful, AFAIR.

By the time the segfault (can I say GPF to you - even though
we're talking Win32?) occurs, the stack is hosed.

I'll hopefully figure out the finer points of gdb eventually, but
I'm overwhelmed / lazy / crabby and at the bottom of a new
learning curve. Plus I feel a cold coming on.

This gcc stuff is a mixed bag. Even more alarming, I find myself
talking in ways that make people want to send men in white
uniforms to come take me away in a straitjacket. Some examples:

Them: Which came first: the chicken or the egg?
Me: The egg. It was cross-compiled.

Me: When the built compiler comes alive and starts building its
       libraries, it's like a baby taking its first steps.
Them: Please don't say that to a real mother.

...not to mention the way that people are starting to reflexively
tense up and roll their eyes when I start taking about one of
my patches....

-- Mohan
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