2 Known problems in GDB 6.2
4 See also: http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/
9 build/1458: compile failed on hpux11
11 GDB has build problems on HP/UX 11 with some versions of the HP
12 Ansi C compiler. (GCC works fine).
14 The problem happens when compiling intl/bindtextdom.c.
17 cc: "gettextP.h", line 50: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "SWAP".
18 cc: panic 2017: Cannot recover from earlier errors, terminating.
21 This is a problem with the 'inline' keyword in gettextP.h.
22 The workaround is to disable 'inline' before building gdb:
24 export ac_cv_c_inline=no
26 This problem happens only with some versions of the HP Ansi C compiler.
27 Versions A.11.01.25171.GP and B.11.11.28706.GP have both been observed
28 to work; version B.11.11.04 gets the build error and needs the
31 This problem might also happen with other C compilers.
35 gdb/1560: Control-C does not always interrupt GDB.
37 When GDB is busy processing a command which takes a long time to
38 complete, hitting Control-C does not have the expected effect.
39 The command execution is not aborted, and the "QUIT" message confirming
40 the abortion is displayed only after the command has been completed.
44 Due to problems with both BFD (sections not being correctly
45 recognized) and GDB (backtraces failing), GDB 6.2 does not work on
50 gdb/931: GDB could be more generous when reading types C++ templates on input
52 When the user types a template, GDB frequently requires the type to be
53 typed in a certain way (e.g. "const char*" as opposed to "const char *"
54 or "char const *" or "char const*").
56 gdb/1512: no canonical way to output names of C++ types
58 We currently don't have any canonical way to output names of C++ types.
59 E.g. "const char *" versus "char const *"; more subtleties arise when
60 dealing with templates.
62 gdb/1516: [regression] local classes, gcc 2.95.3, dwarf-2
64 With gcc 2.95.3 and the dwarf-2 debugging format, classes which are
65 defined locally to a function include the demangled name of the function
66 as part of their name. For example, if a function "foobar" contains a
67 local class definition "Local", gdb will say that the name of the class
68 type is "foobar__Fi.0:Local".
70 This applies only to classes where the class type is defined inside a
71 function, not to variables defined with types that are defined somewhere
72 outside any function (which most types are).
74 gdb/1588: names of c++ nested types in casts must be enclosed in quotes
77 (gdb) print ('Foo::Bar') x
79 (gdb) print ('Foo::Bar' *) y
81 (gdb) print (Foo::Bar) x
83 (gdb) print (Foo::Bar *) y
86 gdb/1091: Constructor breakpoints ignored
87 gdb/1193: g++ 3.3 creates multiple constructors: gdb 5.3 can't set breakpoints
89 When gcc 3.x compiles a C++ constructor or C++ destructor, it generates
90 2 or 3 different versions of the object code. These versions have
91 unique mangled names (they have to, in order for linking to work), but
92 they have identical source code names, which leads to a great deal of
93 confusion. Specifically, if you set a breakpoint in a constructor or a
94 destructor, gdb will put a breakpoint in one of the versions, but your
95 program may execute the other version. This makes it impossible to set
96 breakpoints reliably in constructors or destructors.
98 gcc 3.x generates these multiple object code functions in order to
99 implement virtual base classes. gcc 2.x generated just one object code
100 function with a hidden parameter, but gcc 3.x conforms to a multi-vendor
101 ABI for C++ which requires multiple object code functions.
105 On many systems an attempt to single-step a system-call instruction
106 results in two or more instructions being executed (the system-call,
107 and one or more instructions following).
109 When attempting to single-step through a signal trampoline, this
110 problem may result the program unintentionally running to completion,
111 or re-execute the faulting instruction, or even corrupting the program
114 Ref: PR breakpoints/1702.
118 GDB's core code base has been updated to use a new backtrace
119 mechanism. This mechanism makes it possible to support new features
120 such DWARF 2 Call Frame Information (which in turn makes possible
121 backtraces through optimized code).
123 Since this code is new, it is known to still have a few problems:
125 gdb/1505: [regression] gdb prints a bad backtrace for a thread
127 When backtracing a thread, gdb does not stop when it reaches the
128 outermost frame, instead continuing until it hits garbage. This is
129 sensitive to the operating system and thread library.
133 threads/1650: manythreads.exp
135 On GNU/Linux systems that use the old LinuxThreads thread library, a
136 program rapidly creating and deleting threads can confuse GDB leading
137 to an internal error.
139 This problem does not occur on newer systems that use the NPTL
140 library, and did not occur with GDB 6.1.