Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 00:26:26 -0800 From: Daniel Berlin <root@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu> To: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gdb 4.17 Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.05.9903260024380.4899-100000@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990325140650.63224@helen.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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If you want to move to 4.17, you might as well wait 2-3 weeks for 4.18 to come out (unless there is some major glaring bug in 4.17.86 that hasn't been caught in the past few weeks). Among other things, they finally merged all the code changes from HP's Wildabeast (sp?) port, which added a few nice things. --Dan On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Josh MacDonald wrote: > Will the system-supported debugger be upgraded to gdb 4.17? There > are a number of deficiencies in 4.16 and the release has been available > for 11 months. I notice problems with gdb 4.16 everytime I use it on > FreeBSD, which is daily. Two years of bugfixes went into 4.17, it really > is essential for FreeBSD to remain a viable development platform, > especially for debugging C++. It also is difficult to debug egcs > code with 4.16--that's another reason it should be supported. > > -josh > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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