From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 12 22:02:08 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA24224 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 22:02:08 -0800 Received: from peedub.gj.org (ns039.munich.netsurf.de [194.64.166.39]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA24182 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 22:01:54 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.gj.org (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA19155; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 06:57:23 GMT Message-Id: <199511130657.GAA19155@peedub.gj.org> X-Authentication-Warning: peedub.gj.org: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Chuck Robey cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gdbtk From: Gary Jennejohn Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 06:57:23 +0000 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chuck Robey writes: > Thought you guys might like to know; I was tipped off that the newest > gdb compiled fine under current, I just checked with a program I wrote, > and it sure does recognize our executeable format. What I'm trying to > pass on is something that we haven't been able to use before, because of > the inability to run gdb out-of-the-box. That something is gdbtk, a nice > tk interface to gdb. it does compile under -current and it is possible to debug a programm using it but it doesn't seem to completely grok our core files. It has problems unrolling the stack. The GUI is a little primitive and not very good compared to e.g. tgdb, but it's early days yet. Still needs some work for FBSD. Gary J