RE: [cdt-dev] MinGW gdb

[Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dominique Toupin
> Sent: February-04-10 12:30 PM
> To: CDT General developers list.
> Subject: RE: [cdt-dev] MinGW gdb
> 
>  
> I can understand you had bad experience with MinGW GDB in the 
> past, especially with old version, today we have a nice 
> collaboration with the GDB community, people from both CDT 
> and GDB community are following both mailing list, doing patches, etc.
> I know from Marc K. that the GDB community has been very 
> cooperative in order to get a nice GDB integration in CDT, 
> they even did patches only for us (Marc please provide 
> example).

Yes, I think it is worth mentioning how good a response there
has been from the GDB community.  They genuinely want Eclipse
to work well with GDB.

One quick example is about changes that were made to GDB specifically
to allow DSF-GDB to use the new Reverse Debugging feature.  Just before the
GDB 7.0 release date, there was no way for DSF-GDB to modify memory or 
registers when going in reverse.  Once I explained the situation, I got a 
lot of  support from the GDB maintainers, and a patch was committed to fix this.
So now, GDB 7.0 allows DSF-GDB to modify memory and registers while
debugging in reverse.
You can see the thread of emails at: 
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-09/msg00719.html

Marc