[Mingw-users] Re: Debug symbols compatible with Microsoft debugger.

[Ranjit M. <rm...@ho...>]

Juan Linietsky wrote:
> Since GDB for mingw seems to be a work in progress and has odd
> behaviors, I wish to know if there is a way to configure gcc

Re. "odd behaviors": can you please elaborate on that? If it
is something not already discussed on this list, it might be
worth looking into (unless it's an open bug in FSF GDB itself).

For example, the following have been discussed before
on this list:

1. Not being able to set breakpoints in constructors/destructors.
    (I'm thinking of applying the temporary patch as given in:
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/gdb/linespec.c.diff?cvsroot=src&r1=1.14&r2=1.15)

2. Not being able to redirect the standard input/ouput of the
    program being debugged. (The current code for this in Cygwin
    is more like a kludge based on an external shell.)

3. Slightly weird behaviour of the GDB command line in MSYS rxvt
    compared to "normal" DOS command prompt. This I believe is a
    problem in the MinGW version of readline itself.

Anything else?

Sincerely Yours,
Ranjit.

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