Re: GDB 8.0 release / imminent branching? (2017-04-10)

Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-11T15:41:41Z

> From: Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>, antoine.tremblay@ericsson.com, mishra.nitish.88@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 16:21:27 +0200
>
> On Mon, Apr 10 2017, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>
> > * build/21187 Static linking of libstdc++ and libgcc with GDB leads to broken exception handling on AIX platform
> >
> > For this one, I think the feedback so far is a question about
> > the fact that this is only a work around. Parallel to that,
> > did I see a thread where people are discussing a real fix
> > for the exception handling issue?
> >
> > So, perhaps we might not need the GDB patch after all?
> > Is there a version of GCC capable of compiling GDB 8.x
> > on AiX?
>
> Maybe not be relevant for answering your question, but the issue doesn't
> seem to be restricted to AIX. It occurs on Windows with mingw as well,
> see gdb/21078 ("gdb compiled with mingw32 crashes on Windows7 when
> entering any invalid command").

I cannot reproduce gdb/21078 in GDB 7.12 built with MinGW using static
linking of libstdc++ and libgcc. I tried on Windows XP. Maybe the OP
has some other issue with his build, like some inconsistency in how
exceptions are handled?