Re: [MiNT] gdb

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:36:32 , Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr> wrote:
> Peter Slegg wrote:
> > (gdb) n
> > Single stepping until exit from function main,
> > which has no line number information.
> >
> > Then it just runs right through. It doesn't seem to matter where
> > the breaks are set.
>
> There is also a bug in the debug information generated by GCC 4.x in the
> various a.out formats (like MiNT one). I have reported it many times.
> It causes the breakpoints to be missed, or even gdb crashes.
> I have no solution, except using gcc 2.x for debugging.
>

That is what I thought, I know there was some discussion of issues
but I didn't know if there were any workarounds.

Peter