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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.