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Date:      Thu, 15 Apr 2004 19:54:58 +0400 (MSD)
From:      paf@design.ru
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        alx@design.ru
Subject:   ports/65583: gdb in this release is extremely old
Message-ID:  <200404151554.i3FFswxn077422@rol4.design.ru>
Resent-Message-ID: <200404151600.i3FG0nen074631@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         65583
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       gdb in this release is extremely old
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          maintainer-update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 15 09:00:49 PDT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     User &
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p1 i386
>Organization:
Selfemployed
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD rol4.design.ru 4.9-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p1 #0: Sun Dec 28 18:41:32 MSK 2003 alx@rol4.design.ru:/usr/src/obj/usr/src/sys/ISP1100 i386

$ gdb -v
GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD)
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
...

>Description:
this version of debugger is a way too old, there were several annoying bugs fixed since that version.
>How-To-Repeat:
try debugging C++ program, and issue
GDB> call this->method() 
directive, you'd see an error message instead of expected result, and gdb author in a reply to that message writes,

| From: Daniel Berlin (dberlin@redhat.com)
| Subject: Re: problem with gdb 4.18 
...
| Please try gdb-5.0, I fixed this bug a *long* time ago 

>Fix:
please update gdb included with this freebsd with a newer one, at least with gdb 5.0 version


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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