gdb 4.17 is not dead :) Send bug reports and patches to cgynus!

Benjamin Redelings I (bredelin@ucsd.edu)
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:34:37 -0800 (PST)

Here is a message from someone in cygnus. I've been worrying
about gdb development for a while, as it doesn't seem to have many people
constantly reading over the sources and trying to improve it like gcc and
egcs... (Evidently, Cygnus actually USES the thing for productive work ;)
Anyway, now would be a GOOD time to send in bug reports and
patches!

-benRI

Fwd: (I got this off the egcs mailing list)

Hi, we're preparing to make a GDB 4.17 release. We'll be branching off
for the release within a week, and we're shooting to get the release out
the door within three weeks. Both EGCS 1.0.1 and GCC 2.8 are emitting
debug info that GDB 4.16 doens't handle too well, so we need to get a
new release out quickly.

If you have patches for GDB (e.g. for Fortran support, for some
OS, whatever) that are in use and well-tested, and you have a GDB
assignment/disclaimer on file at the FSF (ask me if you're not
sure), send it in to gdb-patches@cygnus.com. It would be helpful
if you could update the patch to the current GDB snapshot, look in
ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/private/gdb/

If you're interested in helping with the GDB 4.17 release, there is
a gdb-testers@cygnus.com mailing list, it is a majordomo list so you'd
send a note to majordomo@cygnus.com with a message body like
"subscribe gdb-testers your-email-address-here".

Now back to your regularly scheduled compiler fun,

Jason Molenda
Cygnus Solutions
jsm@cygnus.com (used to be crash@cygnus.com)

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