6.0 versus HEAD issues list

[mec dot gnu at mindspring dot com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)]

Here are all the issues that I know about from gdb 6.0 to gdb HEAD.
If you know about something, and it's not on this list, please speak up
with a URL or a PR number.

Michael C

. C++ fixes (David C)

  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2003-11/msg00242.html
    fully-qualified names for types nested in other types or namespaces

. ADA fixes (Joel B)

  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2003-11/msg00468.html
    add support for DW_TAG_subrange_type DIEs

. Objective-C fixes (Adam F)

  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2003-12/msg00132.html
    64-bit int-pointer cleanups
    waiting for copyright assignment

  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2003-11/msg00264.html
    printing non-debuggable symbols

  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2003-10/msg00581.html
    disallow objc search when resetting breakpoint
    "there was talk of solving this another way so this may
     have to wait anyway" -- adam f

. test suite regressions (Michael C)

  Just two regressions.  Both have PR's.

    . http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/bugs/826
      variables in C++ namespaces have to be enclosed in quotes

      gdb 6.0 works without quotes (with stabs+).

    . http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/bugs/1505
      [regression] gdb prints a bad backtrace for a thread

      This popped up on this spin.  Mark K is working on it.

. PR's

  Just raw lists, no judgements.

  . priority=high, 5 matches found

    1505  [regression] gdb prints a bad backtrace for a thread
    1470  ELF_LINK_POINTER_EQUALITY_NEEDED breaks shlib-call.exp
    1417  crash when printing variables
    1398  Path handling bug which makes GDB unable to stop at breakpoints
     378  ``GNU/Linux'' ``Linux kernel''

  . severity=critical, 46 matches found

    1501  [regression] src-release broken, uses obsolete sun4 configuration
    1486  gdb for Win32 does not handle Microsoft C++ exceptions properly.
    1460  Snapshot fails to compile with --enable-tui 
    1458  compile failed on hpux11
    1441  defining mem region size doesn't work with nocache attribute
    1417  crash when printing variables
    1412  GDB 6.0 problem on Tru64 5.1* 
    1410  ELF32 1384 mipsread.c:402: gdb-internal-error: sect_index_data not initialized 
    1375  problem debugging 64-bit sparc processes 
    1373  segmentation fault on setting breakpoint 
    1368  GDB 5.3.91, Redhat Linux 7.1, gcc 2.95.3, g++ 2.95.3, C++ and Qt 
    1364  H8/300 - CCR not updated in GDB 6.0 
    1363  Get 'Cannot insert breakpoint -2' everytime when trying to start C++ program 
    1362  Cannot set breakpoints in gdb in shared display driver library on QNX OS
    1256  [ia64] Can't call functions in inferior 
    1251  GDB crash 
    1245  cp-support.c:332: internal-error: cp_entire_prefix_len 
    1232  solaris/g++ 
    1226  GDB does not complete build for crossing debugging PPC on Solaris 
    1219  cannot access subprocess memory 
    1189  Gdb internal in callstack displaying 
    1171  GDB 5.3 misreads the symbol table for very big executables 
    1154  gdb-5.3 + glibc-2.3.2 fail for my multithreaded program 
    1144  Same as 1042, but with example 
    1139  gdb-5.2.92 crash - full debug available 
    1123  insight+dejagnu-weekly-20030304: does not build on sparc-sun-solaris2.8
    1100  gdb 5.3 fails to build on m68k-sun-sunos4.1.1_U1 
    1084  set print object on does not work correctly in some cases 
    1060  g++ -static and STL strings 
     955  build failure with GDB-5.3: sparc-nat.c structure redefinition errors with sparc64-linux, glibc-2.2.x 
     922  Breakpoints give crash, bad behavior w/ C++, gcc 3.2 on Solaris 
     903  GDB Solaris 2.8 SPARC 
     867  v5.2.1 fail to compile on AIX 5.1 
     851  gdb-internal-error: store_typed_address 
     820  GDB broken under gcc 3.2 - can't print any local variables or class members
     767  alpha Unix Tru64 
     706  SIGBUS or SIGSEGV trying to set breakpoint in C++ program 
     678  gdb dies reading symbols on Compaq Tru64 5.1 
     676  Alpha OSF1, gcc, internal GDB error in mdebugread 
     627  Internal error when attaching to process 
     610  gdb crashes when listing source of g++-3.1-compiled binary 
     582  can't find linker symbol for virtual table when trying view class data 
     250  gdb 5.0 chokes on "file" cmd for a ppc.elf created by gcc v2.95.2 
      11  gdb does not handle pic code correctly
       7  cout << 1 doesn't work for c++