Re: gdb 5.2 removes the conditional breakpoints

H . J . Lu
2002-04-18T17:34:47Z

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 01:23:24PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:30:59AM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 02:08:41PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Michael Veksler wrote:
> > >
> > > > Your argument that "5,2 has been around for ~4
> > > > years" does not hold water, how many people have been using 5.2 ?
> > >
> > > You misunderstood: Andrew said that between 4.17 and 5.2, all versions of
> > > GDB had this bug. Those versions in between are in use for 4 years, not
> > > version 5.2 (which wasn't released yet).
> > >
> >
> > Between 4.17 and 5.2, 4.18 and 5.0 are basically broken for Linux. I
> > only started using 5.1 a few months ago. For me, this regression is
> > relatively new to my gdb.
>
> That's just untrue. I used both 4.18 and 5.0 extensively on GNU/Linux
> systems, and they worked quite well.
>

Are you using linuxthreads and hardware watchpoints? Here is one thread
on this:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2001-09/msg00138.html

H.J.