https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=572582
Product/Component: CDT / cdt-debug-dsf-gdb
Bug ID: 572582
Summary: Increase minimum version for supported version of GDB
in CDT 10.3 and beyond
Classification: Tools
Product: CDT
Version: Next
Hardware: PC
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: cdt-debug-dsf-gdb
Assignee:
cdt-debug-dsf-gdb-inbox@xxxxxxxxxxx
Reporter:
jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
QA Contact:
jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CC:
cdtdoug@xxxxxxxxx,
jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Target Milestone: ---
At the moment CDT officially supports GDB 7.5 and newer.
I propose raising the oldest version of GDB to support to GDB 7.12.
GDB 7.12 was released in 2016-07[1], i.e. about 5 years old.
I cannot get GDB 7.10 and earlier to run reliably anymore on modern Ubuntu
machine (20.04). I get errors like this:
BFD: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.25.51 internal error, aborting at elf64-x86-64.c line
5770 in elf_x86_64_get_plt_sym_val
I am not proposing as part of this to remove any code to support older
versions, that is a separate discussion/decision tree.
In practice I think this makes little difference, but means that we only test
on newer GDBs.
[1]
https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/schedule/
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