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Re: 4.17.85 Feedback


  In message <m10Iioj-000394C@ocean.lucon.org>you write:
  > > 
  > > The pre-release snapshot has been up for a week, and statistics show
  > > many downloads, but there's been very little feedback so far.  For
  > > those of you who are new to the FSF GDB release process, we try to run
  > > it fairly quickly, ideally being done by the middle of March or so.
  > > (It's a branch off the main development trunk and thus time-consuming
  > > to manage alongside the trunk.)  So if you've run into problems that
  > > need fixing, please speak up now!
  > > 
  > 
  > Since I need some features like x87 FPU, hardware watchpoint and
  > thread support under Linux, I cannot use gdb 4.17.85 as is for
  > Linux. I will make a patch after gdb 4.18 is released.
Hardware watchpoints have been in gdb for years.  What precisely do you
think is wrong with them?  I use them on linux regularly.

Jeff