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From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
   "Andris Pavenis" <pavenis AT latnet DOT lv>
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Subject: Re: Test archives of gcc-3.1 20020124
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:48:49 +1100
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Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

Andris & Eli,

I will give it a try when work settles down. Hopefully next week.

Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>; <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 3:48 AM
Subject: Re: Test archives of gcc-3.1 20020124


> 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.
>
>
>