Re: gcc-gdb compatibilty

[sumanth <sumanth dot gundapneni at redpinesignals dot com>]

Thanks Daniel for the useful piece of information.
Initially I thought of error from compiler side...Now I consider 
upgrading my gdb .

Thanks,
Sumanth

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:35:07AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>   
> > Yes, while there are of course occasional bugs and mismatches, in
> > general all versions of gcc and gdb are compatible.  That said, gdb 5.3
> > is old; it was released over five years ago.  It will ignore some of the
> > newer types of debugging information emitted by gcc.  The current gdb
> > release is 6.8, and is considerably enhanced over 5.3.  You should
> > consider upgrading if possible.
> >     
>
> Newer GDB almost always works with older GCC.  Older GDB often does not work
> with newer GCC; I suspect 5.3 will crash and/or be useless with most
> GCC 4.x binaries.  For instance, in that time we added location list
> support.
>
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