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                        Known problems in GDB 6.5

                See also: http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/

*** Build problems

build/1411: build fails on hpux 10.20 and hpux 11.00 with CMA threads

GDB does not build on HP/UX 10.20 or HP/UX 11.00 if the CMA

thread package is installed.  The compile error is:

  ../../gdb/hpux-thread.c:222: variable-size type declared outside of any function

This happens only if the CMA thread package is installed.

As a workaround, you can disable support for CMA threads

by editing the file gdb/configure.  Find the line:

  if test -f /usr/include/dce/cma_config.h ; then

And replace it with:

  if false ; then

*** Misc

gdb/1560: Control-C does not always interrupt GDB.

When GDB is busy processing a command which takes a long time to

complete, hitting Control-C does not have the expected effect.

The command execution is not aborted, and the "QUIT" message confirming

the abortion is displayed only after the command has been completed.

*** C++ support

gdb/931: GDB could be more generous when reading types C++ templates on input

When the user types a template, GDB frequently requires the type to be

typed in a certain way (e.g. "const char*" as opposed to "const char *"

or "char const *" or "char const*").

gdb/1512: no canonical way to output names of C++ types

We currently don't have any canonical way to output names of C++ types.

E.g. "const char *" versus "char const *"; more subtleties arise when

dealing with templates.

gdb/1516: [regression] local classes, gcc 2.95.3, dwarf-2

With gcc 2.95.3 and the dwarf-2 debugging format, classes which are

defined locally to a function include the demangled name of the function

as part of their name.  For example, if a function "foobar" contains a

local class definition "Local", gdb will say that the name of the class

type is "foobar__Fi.0:Local".

This applies only to classes where the class type is defined inside a

function, not to variables defined with types that are defined somewhere

outside any function (which most types are).

gdb/1588: names of c++ nested types in casts must be enclosed in quotes

You must type

  (gdb) print ('Foo::Bar') x

or

  (gdb) print ('Foo::Bar' *) y

instead of

  (gdb) print (Foo::Bar) x

or

  (gdb) print (Foo::Bar *) y

respectively.

gdb/1091: Constructor breakpoints ignored

gdb/1193: g++ 3.3 creates multiple constructors: gdb 5.3 can't set breakpoints

When gcc 3.x compiles a C++ constructor or C++ destructor, it generates

2 or 3 different versions of the object code.  These versions have

unique mangled names (they have to, in order for linking to work), but

they have identical source code names, which leads to a great deal of

confusion.  Specifically, if you set a breakpoint in a constructor or a

destructor, gdb will put a breakpoint in one of the versions, but your

program may execute the other version.  This makes it impossible to set

breakpoints reliably in constructors or destructors.

gcc 3.x generates these multiple object code functions in order to

implement virtual base classes.  gcc 2.x generated just one object code

function with a hidden parameter, but gcc 3.x conforms to a multi-vendor

ABI for C++ which requires multiple object code functions.

*** Threads

threads/1650: manythreads.exp

On GNU/Linux systems that use the old LinuxThreads thread library, a

program rapidly creating and deleting threads can confuse GDB leading

to an internal error.

This problem does not occur on newer systems that use the NPTL

library, and did not occur with GDB 6.1.

threads/2137: Native Solaris Thread Debugging broken.

Use GDB 6.4 if thread debugging is needed on Solaris.