Hi, I've just found this email thread in a mailing list:
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2007-01/msg00029.html http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2007-01/msg00058.html Basically, the slow stepping into C++ is worked around via setting LD_BIND_NOW=1 in the environment. Or you can install libc6-dbg and then I think you have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/debug or whatever. This is a debian-specific problem because Debian strips the ld.so, at least I think thats the root of the problem. Plus of course GDB isn't handling the situation correctly. I've been fighting these problems for ages, the slowness would often cause gdb to pause for minutes at a time. I can't even ctrl-c or ctrl-z gdb, i have to kill it from another terminal. I'm pretty angry that this problem has been known about for a long time, and a solution has been known since at least Jan 07 (Daniel Jacobowitz replied to the mailing list email) but I haven't been able to find any mention of this problem, or its solution, in either the bugs DB here, or in the man page. It would've saved me a *lot* of pain and frustration if you had put a big fat note in the gdb man page. Or in /usr/share/doc/gdb/Readme.Debian. I hope you take steps to ensure other frustrated debian GDB users know about this workaround. I'm not sure if the 'unstable' version has been fixed, but since testing hasn't got any notes I assume 'stable' is still a lame duck. thanks Frustrated and Angry Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
