From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29717 invoked by alias); 11 Sep 2004 01:46:26 -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 29709 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2004 01:46:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blount.mail.mindspring.net) (207.69.200.226) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 11 Sep 2004 01:46:25 -0000 Received: from user-119a90a.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.36.10] helo=berman.michael-chastain.com) by blount.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1C5wy6-0005pO-00; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:46:22 -0400 Received: from mindspring.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by berman.michael-chastain.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 458FC4B102; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:46:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 01:46:00 -0000 From: Michael Chastain To: gdb@sources.redhat.com, esp5@pge.com Subject: Re: debugger 6.2.1 misfeatures Message-ID: <4142590A.nailCR31XGTUA@mindspring.com> References: <20040910235746.GA11043@mdssdev05> In-Reply-To: <20040910235746.GA11043@mdssdev05> User-Agent: nail 10.8 6/28/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg00085.txt.bz2 Sounds like a bug to me. Generally for a bug, we need: the gdb version the host operating system version the target operating system version (if it's not the same as the host) a typescript of the whole gdb session showing the bug (use the 'script' command) some info about the inferior program: what language it's written in the exact compiler name and compiler version that it was built with Then if somebody picks up the bug, they're likely to come back with more questions. The point at this stage is not to identify the bug, but just to throw enough information over the fence so that the gdb engineer can *reproduce* the bug. If it worked with a previous version of gdb, that's good to know. It's really great if you can supply a small test program (source + binary) that demonstrates the bug. And some bug reports are successful and get fixed, and some aren't and don't. Michael Chastain