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Date:      Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:27:58 -0700
From:      Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
To:        Frank Shute <frank@woodcruft.co.uk>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Debugger issues
Message-ID:  <C08BD834-1158-4279-AC26-406DB6B7BC7A@mail.sermon-archive.info>
In-Reply-To: <20170726223445.GB1077@lime.woodcruft.co.uk>
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> On 26 July 2017, at 15:34, Frank Shute <frank@woodcruft.co.uk> wrote:
>=20
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 03:10:16AM -0700, Doug Hardie wrote:
>>=20
>> Followup: lldb seems to be working now.  I suspect something didn't
>> compile properly and I missed an error message.  gdb still fails with
>> those messages.  I guess I'll have to switch to lldb now.
>>=20
>>=20
>> -- Doug
>=20
>=20
> Hi Doug,
>=20
>=20
> Check out the release notes for 11.1
>=20
> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/relnotes.html#userland-programs
>=20
> At the end:
>=20
> "The gdb(1) and kgdb(1) utilities have been marked as deprecated, and
> planned for removal from the base system in the future. A newer =
version is
> available in the devel/gdb port. [r320874]"

I saw that, but depreciated implies to me that it still works, but no =
one is going to update it in the future.  Why was it retained in base if =
it doesn't work?  Seems like it should have already been removed.

-- Doug





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