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Date:      Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:10:50 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gdb 4.17 
Message-ID:  <199903260010.QAA01160@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:06:50 PST." <19990325140650.63224@helen.CS.Berkeley.EDU> 

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> 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.

When someone willing to do the vendor branch/merge comes along, I'd say.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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