Re:

[Michael Meissner <meissner@cygnus.com>]

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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