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Michael Meissner
meissner@cygnus.com
Mon Apr 6 15:14:00 GMT 1998
Stan Shebs wrote:
| Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 13:41:37 +0200 (MET DST)
| From: "Philippe De Muyter" <phdm@macqel.be>
|
| Am I the only one to have (sometimes) the problem of finding a non-executable
| with the same name earlier in my path than the program I want to debug ?
|
| Apparently. :-) But seriously, I don't think this change is a good idea.
| While it would work fine for native Unix debugging, it will lose for
| just about everything else. For both cross-Unix and embedded debugging
| you almost certainly want the programs *not* to be marked as executable,
| so that your current host doesn't try to execute them.
Maybe on YOUR system you don't want them to be marked executable. On
my 2.1.xx linux system, I just tell the system to run the appropriate
simulator for the binary (for example big and little endian
PowerPC's), so I definately want the executable bit set.
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