Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:01:03 -0800 From: Sanjay Waghray <sw@c621015-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com> To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gdb 4.17 Message-ID: <19990325170103.A13423@c621015-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com> In-Reply-To: <199903252230.RAA19463@pcnet1.pcnet.com>; from Daniel Eischen on Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 05:30:12PM -0500 References: <199903252230.RAA19463@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 05:30:12PM -0500, Daniel Eischen 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. > > There's a port for 4.17 sitting in the PR system, if you want to try > it. It's also at: > > ftp://ftp.pcnet.com/users/eischen/FreeBSD/gdb-4.17-port.tar.gz > > It includes patches for all the FreeBSD changes to 4.16 that I could > find. In fact, gdb-4.18 is round the corner; I'd suggest waiting until 4.18 is released. Related issue: what are the plans to go to egcs-1.1.x? There are numerous fixes related to C++ among other things. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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