From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 17 08:40:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 583D316A416 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 08:40:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz) Received: from eva.fit.vutbr.cz (eva.fit.vutbr.cz [147.229.10.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 827A943D49 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 08:40:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz) Received: from eva.fit.vutbr.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eva.fit.vutbr.cz (envelope-from xdivac02@eva.fit.vutbr.cz) (8.13.6/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k4H8dwHj065911 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 10:39:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from xdivac02@localhost) by eva.fit.vutbr.cz (8.13.6/8.13.3/Submit) id k4H8dvEm065910 for current@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 10:39:57 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 10:39:56 +0200 From: Divacky Roman To: current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060517083956.GA65735@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> References: <200605162028.52627.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> <446A8F94.6090501@samsco.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <446A8F94.6090501@samsco.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.54 on 147.229.10.14 Cc: Subject: Re: upgrading the gdb? ETA? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 08:40:09 -0000 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)