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From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>, "Andris Pavenis" <pavenis AT latnet DOT lv>
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Subject: Re: Test archives of gcc-3.1 20020124
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 20:24:33 +1100
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Eli,

Thanks for this. I will check GDB in a few more months. I don't have any
hard core C++ debugging to do at the moment, but I do have one C++ app that
I have had problems debugging and had to revert to the good old cout
(printf) technique.

Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
Cc: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>; "Andris Pavenis" <pavenis AT latnet DOT lv>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: Test archives of gcc-3.1 20020124


>
> 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.
>