gdb works with egcs?

[Stan Shebs]

greened@eecs.umich.edu (David Greene) writes:

> 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?

There might be some Linux where they made that the default, but I'd
be surprised.

> 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.

We're supposed to branch the sources today.  (No, wait, I still have
one more checkin to do! :-) )  There will be snapshots for the adventurous,
and the release should be within a couple weeks, if pre-release testing
goes OK.

							Stan Shebs
							Cygnus Solutions
							shebs@cygnus.com