Re: GDB is broken on systems with readline built without -fexceptions

Pedro Alves
2016-04-21T16:32:46Z

On 04/21/2016 03:31 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Forgot to qualify "broken". The symptom is:
>
> (gdb) whatever-command-that-causes-an-error
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'gdb_exception_RETURN_MASK_ERROR'
> Aborted
> $
>

A proper fix is turning out to be more complicated than I'd hope,
so in the mean time, to get things working again, I flipped gdb's
TRY/CATCH mechanism back to setjmp/longjmp instead of C++ try/catch,
again.

You should no longer need the --enable-build-with-cxx=no workaround.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves