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Re: caveat wrt c++ debugging


On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 johnston@vectaport.com wrote:
> - adds a caveat about the current state of debugging C++ code
> generated by gcc-3.0 with the latest version of gdb.

Thanks!  I updated your patch a bit and installed the version below!

(As a minor note, please try to keep line lengths below 76 characters.
And when refering to "current" or "now" we should always specify an
actual date.)

Thanks,
Gerald

Index: caveats.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-3.0/caveats.html,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -3 -p -r1.3 caveats.html
--- caveats.html	2001/06/13 07:02:13	1.3
+++ caveats.html	2001/07/01 15:32:34
@@ -35,9 +35,14 @@
   libstdc++ are not included in libstdc++ v3, i.e.  filebuf::attach,
   ostream::form, and istream::gets. Here are workaround hints for:
   <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/21_strings/howto.html";>ostream::form</a>,
-  <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/ext/howto.html";>filebuf::at
-tach</a>.</li>
+  <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/ext/howto.html";>filebuf::attach</a>.</li>

+  <li>The new C++ ABI is not yet fully supported by current (as of
+  2001-07-01) releases and development versions of GDB, or any earlier
+  versions.  There is a problem setting breakpoints by line number, and
+  other related issues that have been fixed in GCC 3.0 but not yet handled
+  in GDB:
+  <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2001-06/msg00421.html";>http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2001-06/msg00421.html</a></li>
 </ul>

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