[PATCH] Mention some problems with using GDB on FreeBSD

Eli Zaretskii eliz@is.elta.co.il
Sat Aug 24 14:05:00 GMT 2002


> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 16:28:21 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>
> 
> +As a result GDB tends to place breakpoints on functions before the
> +function prologue, and information about function parameters and local
> +variables is lost.  In earlier versions of GDB the effects were rather
> +limited, but starting with GDB 5.3 the influence is much more
> +prominent.  As a workaround, compile your code with -gdwarf-2.

Perfect; thanks!



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