Re: gdb + gcc/g++ 3.x

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 04:41:35PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 01:51:14PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 01:45:58PM -0400, rwilcher wrote:
> >> 
> >> When will you be able to use gdb with G++ 3.x?  Anyone know when 
> >> the line number/breakpoint setting will work? is there a patch?
> >
> >The work hasn't been done yet, so there is no expected time.  I've been
> >looking in to some of the problems; I'm sure other people have as well.
> 
> What are the problems?  I use gdb with g++ 3.x output all of the time
> with no problems.
> 
> There are problems with optimised code but you have to sort of expect
> that.
> 
> I know that there are some outstanding problems with libstdc++v3 and
> gdb but they don't, AFAIK, affect setting breakpoints on lines.

gdb often can not display classes compiled with g++; I'm not sure
exactly where the problem is, but I expect someone will chime in with
it.  There's also some namespace problems which require a little DWARF2
work that no one has yet committed, I think.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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