gdb 7 port for Cygwin?

Reini Urban rurban@x-ray.at
Wed Oct 6 08:16:00 GMT 2010


2010/10/6 Jim Reisert:
> Has gdb 7.x been ported to Cygwin yet?  I can't use it to debug gcc
> 4.5 programs (I usually get "line not found" when trying to set a
> breakpoint):
>
>  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/changes.html
>
> "GCC now generates unwind info also for epilogues. DWARF debuginfo
> generated by GCC now uses more features of DWARF3 than it used to do
> and also some DWARF4 features. GDB older than 7.0 is not able to
> handle either of these, so to debug GCC 4.5 generated binaries or
> libraries GDB 7.0 or later is needed."

I've reported this previously at
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-09/msg00876.html
mingw gdb 7 worked fine for me in the meantime.
-- 
Reini Urban

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