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Date:      Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:11:04 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU, mike@smith.net.au
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gdb 4.17
Message-ID:  <199903260111.UAA09172@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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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.

Well, the port I mentioned in a previous Email does add all the
FreeBSD 4.16 changes to 4.17.  This is probably a good starting
point for someone.

Are we submitting our changes back to Cygnus (or whomever is maintain
GDB) so that subsequent releases sorta build out-of-the-box?

Dan Eischen
eischen@vigrid.com


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