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Re: [cdt-dev] CDT's officially supported (aka tested) versions of GDB

Hi,


I think I remember that we had come to the conclusion that supporting GDB versions up-to ~5 years prior was a reasonable compromise. I could not find an exact mention of this, but found the attached email from Marc K. Maybe it was discussed verbally on the Multicore Debug call? In any case, officially supporting GDB 7.5+ seems reasonable.


Regards,


Marc


On 2019-05-26 3:51 p.m., Marc-Andre Laperle wrote:
Hi,

I think it makes sense to trim the number of supported versions more regularly. GDB 7.5 sounds more than adequate but beyond that, I don’t know that kind of policy would make sense (3-4 years support?). I would be also good to prune the service class hierarchies for the versions that are not supported anymore, but maybe that would be too painful API-wise.


Marc-André

(Sorry for the weird reply format, I wasn’t subscribed to the mailing list with this email back then)
Hi folks,

I believe at some point in the past a decision was made on what is the
oldest version of GDB we officially support. However I can't find the
documentation/email about this. The closest I came is Marc K's update
to the tests[1].

GDB 7.5 is about 6 years old and I would like to propose that GDB 7.5
is the oldest version we officially support (aka actually test)
starting in Photon.

The reality is that we have only been running automated tests on only
GDB >= 7.5 for a while now. So I would like to get agreement and make
official what is happening in practice, or if people need support for
older GDBs to let us know so we can start testing them again.

I am working on cleaning up the debug test jobs on Jenkins[2] to get
them all back to Green dots.

Any thoughts?
Jonah

[1] https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/68906/
[2] https://ci.eclipse.org/cdt/view/Debug/

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Kichwa Coders Ltd.
www.kichwacoders.com



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Hi,

As discussed in the (Multicore) Debug call yesterday and posted to the N&N:

https://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/User/NewIn86#Support_for_older_GDB_versions

As of CDT 8.6, we will actively support GDB versions 7.1 and higher only.

Older GDB versions are not always working well with newer compilers; it has become difficult and time-consuming to support those versions in newer CDT releases. Version 7.1 already dates back to March, 2010. We will not remove the support for older GDBs from the code, but we will make no effort to test or support these older versions.

Marc

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