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GDB 7.0 released

GDB 7.0 released

Posted Oct 8, 2009 20:23 UTC (Thu) by oak (subscriber, #2786)
In reply to: GDB 7.0 released by quotemstr
Parent article: GDB 7.0 released

> There's no difference between debugging C and C++ programs, except that
C++ ones have funny symbol names. Assuming you can get past the name
mangling (and the thiscall calling convention*), what's the difference?

For example exception handling. Exception handler can crash when stack
has been unwound. A bit tricker to show callers then...

Project Archer's devel branch page lists some other issues they deal with.


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