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GDB 7.0 released

Posted Oct 8, 2009 13:34 UTC (Thu) by arekm (subscriber, #4846)
Parent article: GDB 7.0 released

Are 107 Fedora gdb patches merged in or will distros still need to apply tons of patches to make it more useful?

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GDB 7.0 released

Posted Oct 8, 2009 13:49 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

Were those patches used to give GDB the features which it now has in 7.0?

GDB 7.0 released

Posted Oct 8, 2009 13:52 UTC (Thu) by arekm (subscriber, #4846) [Link]

No idea, fedora at least needs these - http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewvc/devel/gdb/

GDB 7.0 released

Posted Oct 8, 2009 13:59 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

These were all patches that Red Hat contributed to GDB upstream. Should go away as Fedora inherits 0.7

GDB 7.0 released

Posted Oct 8, 2009 14:50 UTC (Thu) by mjw (subscriber, #16740) [Link]

From the Project Archer Roadmap
http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ProjectArcher

"# Fedora patches. Fedora has a big backlog of gdb patches. We will rebase these to a more recent gdb, integrate them into archer, and send them upstream as appropriate."