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Date: | Mon, 28 Jan 2002 08:35:37 +0200 (WET) |
From: | Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv> |
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To: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
Cc: | Andrew Cottrell <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, |
Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT latnet DOT lv> | |
Subject: | Re: Test archives of gcc-3.1 20020124 |
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On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Andrew Cottrell wrote: > > > Do you know of a combination of GCC 3.x and GDB 5.x that will allow C++ to > > be fully debugged with as per GCC 2.9.53 & GDB 5.0? Another way of putting > > this is which version of GDB 5.x can be used to fully debug C++ code > > produced by GCC 3.x without problems? > > No existing version of GDB can fully debug the C++ code produced by > GCC 3.x series. The latest release 5.1.1, available from > ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/gdb/releases/ since two days ago, > should be better than GDB 5.0, but there are still problems which > won't be resolved until GDB 5.2 is released some time in March. > (The details about the problems can be found in the archives of the > mailing lists gdb and gdb-patches.) > > GCC developers seem to be unwilling to slow down the development rate > and/or help GDB developers to catch up with all their new features and > changes. So GDB lags behind. > > If you need to debug serious C++ programs, the best advice I can give > is to get GDB 5.1.1 from the Redhat FTP site and build it. Caveat > emptor: I didn't yet have time to do that myself, so it's possible > that the distribution has some problems that are unknown to me. > My binary of GDB-5.1.1 is at http://www.ltn.lv/~pavenis/gcctest.html It is practically untested though. At least it built for DJGPP "out of box" Andris
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