Is GDB 4.16 the recommended version for egcs 1.0.2 ?

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < Pine.LNX.3.95.980408174828.6568A-600000@voyager.home-of-linux.com write:
  > I've got some strange problems with gdb. I'm using
  > binutils-2.8.1.0.23 (compiled with egcs), egcs 1.0.2 (recompiled
  > with itself), glibc 2.0.7 (compiled with gcc 2.8.1) and gdb 4.16
  > (compiled with egcs) on a Linux box.
  > 
  > I'm writing a library called libgtop and an example program
  > 'first' that uses that libray. This example program is
  > statically linked with that library (libgtop.so and 
  > libgtop_common.so are both part of that library, glibtop_open
  > and glibtop_read are defined in glibtop.so):
Right now gdb-4.16 is the recommended version.  It may be beneficial
to use the "-gstabs++" option when building programs to ensure that
you get stabs and not dwarf1 or dwarf2.

As soon as gdb-4.17 is released (in beta test right now) it will
become the debugger of choice, largly due to its vastly improved
dwarf2 support.

I see that you're trying to debug through a fork().  I do not
believe gdb handles this well, if at all.

jeff