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Date:      Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:42:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>
To:        Richard Cownie <tich@ma.ikos.com>
Cc:        current <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: gdb-4.17 in FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908312238510.435-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <99082215494200.07180@par28.ma.ikos.com>

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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



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