From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 25 17: 3:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from c621015-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com (c621015-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.1.73.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D06615084 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:03:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sw@c621015-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com) Received: (from sw@localhost) by c621015-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA13453; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:01:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sw) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:01:03 -0800 From: Sanjay Waghray To: Daniel Eischen Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gdb 4.17 Message-ID: <19990325170103.A13423@c621015-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com> References: <199903252230.RAA19463@pcnet1.pcnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199903252230.RAA19463@pcnet1.pcnet.com>; from Daniel Eischen on Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 05:30:12PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 05:30:12PM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > 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. In fact, gdb-4.18 is round the corner; I'd suggest waiting until 4.18 is released. Related issue: what are the plans to go to egcs-1.1.x? There are numerous fixes related to C++ among other things. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message