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Problem with gcc2.1, gdb4.5, dbx

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From: John Ellis
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1992 10:38
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Dear all,

I have a wee problem with debugging code produced by gcc 2.1.

Firstly, people at my site  would like to be able to use dbx as the
debugger, but it groks at gcc's output. I tried turning the gdb
extensions off by defining DEFAULT_GDB_EXTENSIONS to 0 in one of the
config files, but this made no difference. (the compiler does not
recognise the -gdbx option, for some reason).

If anyone knows how to get it to play ball with dbx, I very much like
to know.

Secondly, I have a few problems with gdb (version 4.5). It seems to
lose the stack trace, so that it always thinks you're in the outermost
frame. Thus the up, down and finish commands can't be used. I think
the problem may lie with gcc as using gcc-1.40 this problem doesn't
occur.

This is all happening on a sun 4/330, sunos 4.1.1, with the sun
assembler and linker.

Thanks for your attention,

John Ellis
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Subject: Problem with gcc2.1, gdb4.5, dbx
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