From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 1 13:05:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA20897 for current-outgoing; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 13:05:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpo.whistle.com ([207.76.204.16]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA20891 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 13:05:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA07016; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 13:02:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3251786E.59E2B600@whistle.com> Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 13:00:46 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com CC: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gdb port testing... gdb-4.16 to move into /usr/src soon... References: <9610011420.AA04046@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk garyj@frt.dec.com wrote: > > pst@jnx.com writes: > > Folks, > > If you're at all concerned about the fact that I will be upgrading our > > GDB to GDB v4.16 with a completely revised set of FreeBSD changes, then > > I strongly suggest that you test out the gdb "port" NOW. > > > > I'd like people to report bugs *before* we dump this on everyone in -current. > > > > the testing I've done, mainly looking at crash dumps, indicates that the > new gdb works at least as well as the old version. for me, looking at stack traces on the new one (using the dgb stubs) on a running kernel, were not as good on the new one as in the old one.. I'll try to give examples soon. hmmmm now that I want to, the act the same..... I guess this means I'm happy with the new one. (I'm sure they acted differntly before, but.. as long as they work ok now) > > --- > Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com > (home) Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de > (play) gj@freebsd.org