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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. -- Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions (Massachusetts office) 4th floor, 955 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA meissner@cygnus.com, 617-354-5416 (office), 617-354-7161 (fax)