[h-e-w] Emacs 23.0.0.1 on XP runs from cygwin bash, crashes otherwise

[ronys]

Hi,

I decided that it's about time to upgrade from 21.3 to the latest &
greatest. 21.3 runs without problem on my XP SP2 machine. 23.0 runs
fine when I invoke runemacs or emacs from cygwin's bash promt, but
crashes (dialog box offering me to debug under gdb) when invoked from
the cmd prompt or via a shortcut.

Here's what gdb has to say (sorry, no emacs sources installed):
Attaching to process 524
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
[Switching to thread 524.0x15a0]
(gdb) where
#0  0x7c901231 in ntdll!DbgUiConnectToDbg ()
  from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ntdll.dll
#1  0x7c9507a8 in ntdll!KiIntSystemCall ()
  from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ntdll.dll
#2  0x00000005 in ?? ()
#3  0x00000004 in ?? ()
#4  0x00000001 in ?? ()
#5  0x2052ffd0 in ?? ()
(gdb) c
Continuing.

Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
[Switching to thread 524.0xb30]
0x7c901231 in ntdll!DbgUiConnectToDbg ()
  from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ntdll.dll
(gdb) q

Any ideas? (please Cc me to replies, as I don't subscribe to this list)

  Thanks,

      Rony