[haiku-development] Re: GDB doesn't reach the specified breakpoints
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:23:17 +0100
On 2010-12-07 at 01:25:05 [+0100], Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Using the other gcc may or may not work better. There's also a
> > not-yet-finished graphical debugger (Debugger -- it's not in the image by
> > default) which you could try, though Rene seems to have ran into a
> > different problem with it trying to debug StyledEdit.
>
> All the problems I was running into with the graphical debugger are
> now fixed (or at least all the ones I've managed to encounter).
> However, none of them appear to be a deeper underlying issue, and were
> simply errors/omissions in the graphical debugger's DWARF handling. Is
> it perhaps possible that this is simply due to our gdb being from 2004
> and not supporting some of the things the newer gcc is throwing in?
I wouldn't rule that out per se, but our gdb version does already support one
of the later DWARF 3 drafts, so it probably has better support for DWARF 3
than Debugger does. I haven't had a closer look at what changes in DWARF 4,
but Debugger wouldn't support that either yet.
CU, Ingo
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