gcc - gdb compatibility issue

sumanth sumanth.gundapneni@redpinesignals.com
Mon Apr 27 06:42:00 GMT 2009


Joel ... Is there a way that i can avoid location lists generated by my 
compiler
and i am using DWARF 2

Thanks to joel and paul
sumanth
Joel Brobecker wrote:
>>> I am using gcc-4.3.3 and gdb 5.3 version.
>>>       
>> That's a rather new GCC and rather old GDB.
>>     
>
> One of the major problems of debugging GCC 4.3 code with such an old
> GDB is that GDB 5.3 doesn't handle location lists (assuming that
> the debugging info is DWARF). That may be your problem.
>
> Paul provided a lot of very good advice.  If that doesn't work, you
> might want to try the current CVS HEAD or our latest release, which
> is 6.8. I'm seeing a lot of hard work being done by several contributors
> towards 7.0 as well which hopefully we'll release before June this year.
>
>   




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