Re: [cdt-dev] debugger question

[Vladimir Prus <vladimir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 14 August 2008 18:03:11 Elena Laskavaia wrote:
> CDT supports many versions of gdb including older ones. I don't think 
> people will be happy if we suddenly drop this support,
> but thanks for info, I did not know this command exist, maybe we can 
> dynamically figure out gdb version.

I think keying on gdb version is what should be done. Alternatively,
you can just use this command and if it fails, fallback to current
behaviour. 

It might be a good goal to support gdb 6.6, but I don't think that
explicitly not making advantage of newer features will help
users, either.

- Volodya