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Re: [PATCH] Mention some problems with using GDB on FreeBSD

From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
To: kettenis at chello dot nl
Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 22:19:24 +0300
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mention some problems with using GDB on FreeBSD
References: <200208240035.g7O0ZU65032156@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> <8011-Sat24Aug2002123631+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <200208241428.g7OESLLe066004@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org>
Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>

> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 16:28:21 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>
> 
> +As a result GDB tends to place breakpoints on functions before the
> +function prologue, and information about function parameters and local
> +variables is lost.  In earlier versions of GDB the effects were rather
> +limited, but starting with GDB 5.3 the influence is much more
> +prominent.  As a workaround, compile your code with -gdwarf-2.

Perfect; thanks!

References:
- [PATCH] Mention some problems with using GDB on FreeBSD
  - From: Mark Kettenis
- Re: [PATCH] Mention some problems with using GDB on FreeBSD
  - From: Eli Zaretskii
- Re: [PATCH] Mention some problems with using GDB on FreeBSD
  - From: Mark Kettenis

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