Fatal Error in GDB

[David Everett]

Hardware: IBM Aptiva (Pentium 100, 48MB RAM)
OS: Windows 98SE build 4.10.2222 A
GDB version 4.18 (configured i386-mingw32)
GDB compiler unknown (distributed with Bloodshed Dev-C++ v4)
Actions:
open GDB (double click on file icon in directory)
type "h files<return>"
at first continue prompt type "q<return>"

GDB immediately fails with an invalid page fault as follows:
GDB caused an invalid page fault in
module GDB.EXE at 0167:004b0341.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0167 EIP=004b0341 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=00000000 SS=016f ESP=0264fb00 EBP=0264fb14
ECX=00000002 DS=016f ESI=004b0e0b FS=20e7
EDX=00000000 ES=016f EDI=0264fb6b GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 43 04 53 8b 40 40 ff d0 6a 00 53 e8 2a 22 ff
Stack dump:
00620530 0062051c 00000000 00000001 0052ee54 0264fb1c
004b03ff 0264fbb4 004b0edb 00000002 00000050 0052feea
00000003 542d2d2d 20657079 7465723c