[omniORB] GDB 4.18-5 released

[Craig Rodrigues]

Hi,

For those of you interested in gdb under Linux,
I've been exchanging e-mails with Jim Kingdon at Redhat
about gdb.  It turns out that the gdb distributed with
Redhat 6.0 and 6.1 has a bug in the C++ demangler.

This was one of the main reasons for gdb crashing when
debugging omniORB C++ programs.  For example, if you
ran gdb and typed:

maint dem __thunk_68__0RL__list__Q29CosNaming18_nil_NamingContextUlRPQ29CosNaming11BindingListRPQ29CosNaming15BindingIterator

gdb under Redhat 6.0/6.1 would crash.

The attached e-mail from Jim details a newer RPM release of gdb
which fixes this and other problems.  This is the "official"
gdb which will come with Redhat Linux.
-- 
Craig Rodrigues        
http://www.gis.net/~craigr    
rodrigc@mediaone.net          

----- Forwarded message from Jim Kingdon <kingdon@redhat.com> -----
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 18:14:42 -0400
From: Jim Kingdon <kingdon@redhat.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.cygnus.com, linux-gcc@vger.rutgers.edu
CC: rodrigc@mediaone.net
Subject: GDB 4.18-5 is released (RPM package of 19991004 snapshot)

This release, for Linux, includes:

* threads
* floating point fixes
* a fix regarding backtraces through signal handlers
* many C++ fixes (compared with GDB 4.18)

probably some other stuff I'm forgetting.  For those who have been
following GDB development, this is nothing new, it is the 19991004
snapshot, very lightly patched.  But it my hope that putting it into
an RPM package will lead to more people testing it.

Get x86 and source RPM packages at http://people.redhat.com/kingdon/

Report bugs at http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla/ (you can put in
"rawhide" for the release as this package will be in the next weekly
rawhide release) and/or http://sourceware.cygnus.com/gdb/ (take your
pick).

----- End forwarded message -----