Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 10:39:56 +0200 From: Divacky Roman <xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading the gdb? ETA? Message-ID: <20060517083956.GA65735@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> In-Reply-To: <446A8F94.6090501@samsco.org> References: <200605162028.52627.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <446A8F94.6090501@samsco.org>
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On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 08:51:00PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > >Hello! > > > >The system gdb is still at 6.1.1 and the ports are even further behind. > > > >Are there any plans for an upgrade? In particular, the current gdb's > >output of SSE2 registers leaves much to be desired -- a problem fixed in > >6.3. > > > >gdb-6.4 was released in December... Thanks! > > > > -mi > > Someone needs to step forward and do the work. It's a tremendous amount > of work, btw. I'm very, very unhappy with the loss of functionality > that we suffered at the hands of GDB6. The whole FSF development model > of GDB seems like a complete trainwreck, and I certainly don't blame the > people who last tried to hammer GDB into FreeBSD. even worse is that we lost capability to attach to running process: (gdb) attach 24745 Attaching to process 24745 /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/libgdb/../../../../contrib/gdb/gdb/solib-svr4.c:1443: internal-error: legacy_fetch_link_map_offsets called without legacy link_map support enabled. A problem internal to GDB has been detected, further debugging may prove unreliable. Quit this debugging session? (y or n)
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