Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:50:59 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gdb-6 in 5.3-BETA3 Message-ID: <20040907215059.GA2826@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040906081001.GJ26744@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20040906063136.GA32825@ipt.ru> <20040906063152.GC72089@funkthat.com> <20040906064643.GB32825@ipt.ru> <20040906081001.GJ26744@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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--tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 05:40:01PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 6 September 2004 at 10:46:43 +0400, Boris B. Samorodov wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 11:31:52PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > > >> Boris B. Samorodov wrote this message on Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 10:31 +0= 400: > >>> New gdb V.6 in base system doesn't have option '-k', while the ports's > >>> version has. Is it planned to be fixed till 5.3-RELEASE? > >> > >> but there is kgdb.... > > > > OK. kgdb works fine. > > > > But it is not clear from "man gdb", that if option "gdb -k" is not > > working, one should use "kgdb". >=20 > Indeed. I thought that kgdb was deprecated, and that we should be > using gdb -k. It would be nice to come to an agreement on that. That was true, but kgdb is now an entierly new beast written by marcel that does the various Freebsd specific stuff without required integration with gdb. IIRC, the big benefit is that we can change our debugging interface without having to deal with all the gdb paperwork issues for anyone who touches the debugger. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBPi1DXY6L6fI4GtQRArBeAJ9NssCzba+KxV83wtc6mxVz3Q5aNwCgjXWS wEetdGFQfG73fnI4/mTWQAc= =RgjJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT--
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