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Re: Our next GDB release (GDB version 6.8)
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Pierre Muller <muller at ics dot u-strasbg dot fr>
- Cc: pedro_alves at portugalmail dot pt, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:24:35 -0800
- Subject: Re: Our next GDB release (GDB version 6.8)
- References: <20080126005319.GD21874@adacore.com> <000501c8619c$5261e940$f725bbc0$@u-strasbg.fr> <20080130180336.GD11271@adacore.com> <000901c863de$9fe9fa60$dfbdef20$@u-strasbg.fr>
> the main problem here is that when you use the 'start' command or
> set a breakpoint in 'main' function and 'run', the behavior is not
> consistent between ELF and other exe formats.
Got it: http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2006-11/msg00140.html.
Thanks.
> I really would like this one to go into GDB 6.8
In my opinion, this is not a critical issue. IIUC, this is not a regression,
and the only issue is that, for the "main", the breakpoint will be placed
at a location such that the debugger will stop at the open curly brace.
So the user will need an extra "next".
I did notice that the fix gets rid of a lot of FAILs though.
If it was just me, I would categorize this as non release-critical.
But the rest of the group might disagree, so I'll defer to them.
--
Joel