Subject: Re: gdb/PTRACE broken on sparc64?
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/13/2006 00:27:28
Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 03:24:51PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
>   
>> Try building gdb6 and see if it works better.  gdb5 on ppc did the
>> same while gdb6 mostly works.
>>     
>
> You need to use -gstabs instead of -g with gdb5 - gcc4.1 defaults to dwarf2
> debug info, wich gdb5 can not realy grok.
>
> This is sad, and means we need to finish gdb6 transition in time for 4.0.
>
>
> Martin
>   

Okay for ports that have switched to gcc4.1 for 4.0.  I thought we
weren't switching any ports to gcc4 until _after_ the 4.0 branch, though.

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