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From: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: gdb 4.17
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Will the system-supported debugger be upgraded to gdb 4.17?  There
are a number of deficiencies in 4.16 and the release has been available
for 11 months.  I notice problems with gdb 4.16 everytime I use it on
FreeBSD, which is daily.  Two years of bugfixes went into 4.17, it really
is essential for FreeBSD to remain a viable development platform, 
especially for debugging C++.  It also is difficult to debug egcs
code with 4.16--that's another reason it should be supported.

-josh


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