The Sun gdb bug, still there after a year

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2 total messages Started by David Fox Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:16

#530

Author: David Fox
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:16

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A long time ago I reported a bug in gdb on the sun where a
next command becomes a continue command if any of the routines
inside the procedure being stepped over returns a structure.
I know I am not paying for gdb, but I feel I have invested
a lot of my time and trust in the project by using it, promoting
it, and by using the gnu compilers and reporting bugs, and I feel
I have a right to expect a fix to a bug that makes the whole
gnu project almost useless on a very important platform.

Now there is a structure return in the malloc function of
libg++.  This really blows.

-david

Re: The Sun gdb bug, still there after a year

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Author: STEVE TYNOR
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:52

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In article <FOX.92Nov20101653@graphics.nyu.edu> cmcl2!cs.nyu.edu!fox@uunet.uu.net (David Fox) writes:

| I know I am not paying for gdb, but I feel I have invested
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| a lot of my time and trust in the project by using it, promoting
| it, and by using the gnu compilers and reporting bugs, and I feel
| I have a right to expect a fix to a bug that makes the whole
| gnu project almost useless on a very important platform.

You don't have a right to expect anything.  Ask all you want, but if you
don't get what you want: fix it yourself. Another solution would be to
pay for support (e.g., from Cygnus). Then you _would_ have right to
expect support.

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    Steve Tynor
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    tynor@prism.gatech.edu

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