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Re: Preparing for the GDB 5.0 / GDB 2000 / GDB2k release
- To: Tom Lane <tgl at sss dot pgh dot pa dot us>
- Subject: Re: Preparing for the GDB 5.0 / GDB 2000 / GDB2k release
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 20:14:55 -0700
- cc: Daniel Berlin <dan at cgsoftware dot com>, gdb-testers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <27617.949979286@sss.pgh.pa.us>you write:
> Daniel Berlin <dan@cgsoftware.com> writes:
> >> Debugging shared libraries works most of time with gdb 4.17.0.14.
> >> If it doesn't work with 5.0, does that count for serious losses of
> >> functionality?
>
> > You mean for your particular architecture.
>
> I don't know what architecture H.J. is using, but I can tell you that
> shared lib debugging is completely nonfunctional on HPPA (HPUX 10.20).
> Can't even get a backtrace when execution is stopped in a shlib...
> kind of puts a crimp in the usefulness of gdb, at least for me.
Testcases please? If it's busted, it's news to me. This stuff was rock
solid when I stopped working on the PA port regularly a few years ago.
jeff