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Date:      Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:54:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kip Macy <kip@lyris.com>
To:        Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>
Cc:        Richard Cownie <tich@ma.ikos.com>, current <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: gdb-4.17 in FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.05.9908312351580.19902-100000@luna>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908312238510.435-100000@localhost>

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on 3.2-R gdb-4.18 will core dump without fail when I try to read a core
file generated by the C++ program I am developing - gdb-4.17 does not have
this problem.

					-Kip

On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote:

> 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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