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From: pavenis AT lanet DOT lv
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 18:48:26 +0200
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Subject: Re: Test archives of gcc-3.1 20020124
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Rebuilt RHIDE-1.4.9.1 with GDB-5.1.1 and replaced files on
	http://www.lanet.lv/~pavenis/rhide.html

It seems to accept DWARF-2 debug info from gcc-3.1 20020124.
No much testing done as usually.

Andris

On 27 Jan 2002 at 10:47, 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.


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