From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31139 invoked by alias); 22 Sep 2003 20:04:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 31131 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2003 20:04:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.131) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 Sep 2003 20:04:58 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF6EF2B89; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:04:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F6F55D8.9060506@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:04:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Carlton Cc: Michael Elizabeth Chastain , ezannoni@redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: 6.0 NEWS; tls tests on gdb-6? References: <200309112358.h8BNwjjZ010615@duracef.shout.net> <3F611DAE.5020708@redhat.com> <3F6881B0.4090805@redhat.com> <3F6CB4A3.1020500@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00275.txt.bz2 > Yeah, you're right: that is vague. The long-standing bug is that it > had been the case that, if you did something to trigger a dynamic > library being loaded after you started debugging a Java program with > GDB, then GDB would seg fault or do something else to make your life > miserable. Bug 1322 is the latest problem in this area, as Michael > mentioned, but I'm really referring to earlier bugs, ones that were > present in released versions of GDB. I fixed one or two bugs related > to this; I know my patch from 2003-05-02 was one of them, and there > might have been another one as well. I don't have direct evidence as > to how old the problem is, but it's not clear to me that this ever > worked: it seems like it would have been present in the earliest > versions of those files in the public CVS tree. I was going to completly drop it, however ... Just spoke to "The Java Team" (rhat joke) try: * Java A number of long standing bugs that caused GDB to die while starting a Java application have been fixed. GDB's Java support is now considered "useable". Andrew