[Fwd: Gdb breakpoint bug with gcc3 on RedHat7.2]

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:17:18PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >/*:
> >
> >There seems to be a bug in gdb which causes it to not stop at certain
> >breakpoints.  It occurs with C++ sources compiled with gcc3-3.02, but not 
> >when
> >gcc2-2.96 is used.  All gdb versions I tried (ver 5.0rh-15 and 5.1.0.1) had
> >the same problem.
> >
> >I'm suspecting there may be newer versions around which have had this 
> >(rather
> >basic) bug fixed, or perhaps I'm doing something wrong (..naaw).
> >If you can, I could use workaround/upgrade suggestions quick, as I live in 
> >gdb
> >and have found progress come to a grinding halt.
> >
> >The program I first encountered this in was rather large (64K lines), but I
> >isolated the behavior down to the following 16-line program:

Not yet fixed.  The first patch for this has been awaiting review for
several weeks.

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