Re: breakpoints/1228: Cannot set breakpoints for (some)functions member of a class

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

The following reply was made to PR breakpoints/1228; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: liciud@yahoo.com
Cc: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: breakpoints/1228: Cannot set breakpoints for (some)functions member of a class
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 21:53:16 -0400

 On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:33:53AM -0000, liciud@yahoo.com wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         1228
 > >Category:       breakpoints
 > >Synopsis:       Cannot set breakpoints for (some)functions member of a class
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    unassigned
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          change-request
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Thu May 29 00:38:00 UTC 2003
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     liciud@yahoo.com
 > >Release:        gdb 4.8.11
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > redhat 6.2
 > >Description:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I dont' know if this is the right place to ask for help; if it's not, just let me know where I should ..
 > 
 > I have a WEIRD behaviour of gdb: I cannot set breakpoints for some function members (while I can do for other functions member of the same class).
 > 'nm' command shows me that the functions causing the problem are defined in the object file.
 > 
 > Unfortunately, the source is really big; I won't put any attachment; I would like to know if there's someone who had the same problem before and, of course, how to solve it.
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > 
 > Dragos.
 
 Red Hat 6.2 is extremely old, and I don't even know what GDB 4.8.11 is. 
 Please try a recent version of GDB, either 5.3 or a CVS snapshot.  See
 http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/ .
 
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 Daniel Jacobowitz
 MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer