From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 31 22:45:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail-gw6.pacbell.net (mail-gw6.pacbell.net [206.13.28.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8228C1516D for ; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:45:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jazepeda@pacbell.net) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (ppp-207-214-149-13.snrf01.pacbell.net [207.214.149.13]) by mail-gw6.pacbell.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA23826; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:42:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A48C991552; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:42:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:42:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Zepeda To: Richard Cownie Cc: current Subject: Re: gdb-4.17 in FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT In-Reply-To: <99082215494200.07180@par28.ma.ikos.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Richard Cownie wrote: > On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > > Are you saying 4.17 is better than 4.18 for debugging C++? Or are you > > saying you didn't know FreeBSD comes with gdb: > > gdb-4.18 is badly broken on all platforms (at least for C++). You can't > call methods from the gdb command line, and also it frequently freezes > to the point where you have to kill the window. gdb-4.17 is much better > for C++. Really? I don't use gdb much so, I wouldn't know, but I've seen reports that KOffice is undebugable with 4.17 (gdb segfaults), but is with 4.18. Hmm. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message