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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: brobecker@adacore.com, pmuldoon@redhat.com, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: py-breakpoint.c fails to compile with MinGW GCC
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:46:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <83livie5x7.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 28 Jul	2011 19:17:08 +0300")
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Eli> I will probably upgrade when 4.7 is released, because I understand it
Eli> will be more debug-friendly.

Is there something specific in 4.7 you are waiting for?  4.6 is probably
good enough -- it has the biggest improvement (VTA -- first in 4.5) plus
a few more -- but I don't know of anything so major that would advise
skipping 4.6.

In practice I build gdb with -O0 when I want to debug.  Occasionally I
just rebuild a single .o this way.  VTA is good, but when debugging I
care about 100% visibility into the source and nearly zero about
performance.

Tom