From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 25 14:31:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 496A114A14 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:31:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id RAA19463; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:30:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:30:12 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen Message-Id: <199903252230.RAA19463@pcnet1.pcnet.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: gdb 4.17 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. There's a port for 4.17 sitting in the PR system, if you want to try it. It's also at: ftp://ftp.pcnet.com/users/eischen/FreeBSD/gdb-4.17-port.tar.gz It includes patches for all the FreeBSD changes to 4.16 that I could find. Dan Eischen eischen@vigrid.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message