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Re: Preparing for the GDB 5.0 / GDB 2000 / GDB2k release
- To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Subject: Re: Preparing for the GDB 5.0 / GDB 2000 / GDB2k release
- From: Quality Quorum <qqi at world dot std dot com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 12:48:00 -0500 (EST)
- cc: Jim Kingdon <kingdon at redhat dot com>, gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, H . J . Lu wrote:
>
> gdb 4.17.0.14 has one patch from Sam to deal with shared libraries.
> People who want to debug shared libraries may not want to use gdb
> in CVS. As you have mentioned above, it is not that unusual nowdays.
> We have patches and they seem to work. We can make gdb 5.0 to work
> with shared libraries. If we continue ignoring the working patches
> without providing an alternative, we are sending the wrong signals
> to those contributors.
BTW, does it seem reasonable to split gdb into enbedded and native
editions ? It is all working more or less OK now, however, there is
a lot of stuff of which is applicable to either of the two and in
my view it is damaging new developments.
>
>
> H.J.
>
Thanks,
Aleksey