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From: Paul P. <ppl...@go...> - 2009-08-13 17:35:28
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On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Tom Hughes<to...@co...> wrote: >> AFAICT, the above in itself doesn't provide many benefits over the current >> scheme, except that GDB would not have to read symbolic debug info every >> time a new error is encountered (reading debug info can take minutes on >> large executables, so this benefit alone is not insignificant). > > The main benefit as I saw it was not adding extra features but being able to > close all the bugs complaining that the current extremely fragile system > doesn't work. There are 10 open bugs that match "debugger". This one: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84348 in particular doesn't have to do with fragility of the system, but rather asks for a working GDB 'info threads' and 'thread NNN' (switch to thread NNN) commands. That would count as a *major* benefit of the new scheme (which I overlooked). Cheers, -- Paul Pluzhnikov |