From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 17 13:20:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from par28.ma.ikos.com (par28.ma.ikos.com [137.103.105.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED36014DC1 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 13:20:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tich@par28.ma.ikos.com) Received: from [[UNIX: localhost]] ([[UNIX: localhost]]) by par28.ma.ikos.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA00911; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:19:36 -0400 From: Richard Cownie To: Alex Zepeda Subject: Re: gdb Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:11:09 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.0] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, tich@par28.ma.ikos.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99081716193600.00845@par28.ma.ikos.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-KMail-Mark: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote: > 4.17 is really no better, it tended to crash on some C++ programs. If > 4.18 doesn't work, try sending email to the authors of gdb, or look for a > pre-release version. > > - alex From personal experience here, I disagree. We use gdb-4.17 all the time on Solaris and it works well enough. gdb-4.17 on Linux is also ok. gdb-4.18 is much worse (at least for our particular style of usage). Your mileage may vary. I just checked out the latest sources of gdb from CVS. It doesn't build under 4.0-19990604-CURRENT, has problems compiling gdb/solib.c Richard Cownie (tich@ma.ikos.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message