Subject: bug#24508: 25.1; M-x gdb crashes when used on windows + cygwin

From: Ken Brown <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:59:17 -0400

On 9/22/2016 5:35 AM, Martijn Saelens wrote:
> M-x gdb crashes when trying to set a breakpoint on main. Emacs runs on
>
> windows and uses the gdb from cygwin.

I don't know if this is relevant, but there is currently a problem with 
gdb on 32-bit Cygwin.  A workaround can be found here:

   https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-09/msg00160.html

Ken