gdb works with egcs?

[David Greene]

On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:

> gdb-4.16 doesn't understand dwarf2, which egcs now uses on some
> systems.  gdb-4.17 will understand dwarf2.

dwarf2 is the default under Linux, correct?  Any word on when
gdb-4.17 will be ready?  I'm just now about to start the
debugging phase of a project, and am wondering if I ought to
go ahead and rebuild egcs to use some other format, or just wait
for gdb-4.17.

                                   -Dave