Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:00:18 GMT From: Victor Sudakov <sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gnu/124970: gdb(1): gdb crashes after setting hardware watchpoint Message-ID: <200810130700.m9D70Iif077233@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR gnu/124970; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Victor Sudakov <sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru> To: "Dorr H. Clark" <dclark@engr.scu.edu> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gnu/124970: gdb(1): gdb crashes after setting hardware watchpoint Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:54:07 +0700 Dorr H. Clark wrote: > > We believe that the problem reported in PR 124970 has been fixed in gdb 6.2.1. > > The latest port for gdb6 is 6.6.1 in 7.0-Release. However, 7.0 was distributed > with the 6.1.1 release of gdb. We recommend that the gdb port in the 7.x > release series be upgraded to address this issue. Note that FreeBSD 6.3 > also has the same version of gdb with the same problem. > > What follows is a detailed discussion of the issue and a patch. > > In addition to patching gdb itself, switching locally to gdb 6.6.1 is > another workaround for users concerned about this bug. Thank you for your effort, I will use gdb from the ports collection. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru
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