2002-08-24 Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>
+ * PROBLEMS: Clarify problems with FreeBSD's compiler and suggest
+ workaround.
+
* valprint.c (print_longest) [CC_HAS_LONG_LONG &&
PRINTF_HAS_LONG_LONG]: Cast val_long to (long long) or (unsigned
long long) to prevent compiler warning on 64-bit systems.
There is a bug (bin/41671) in FreeBSD's gcc that causes it to emit bad
debug information when using the stabs format (which is the default).
-In earlier versions of GDB the effects were rather limited, but
-starting with GDB 5.3 the influence is much more prominent.
+As a result GDB tends to place breakpoints on functions before the
+function prologue, and information about function parameters and local
+variables is lost. In earlier versions of GDB the effects were rather
+limited, but starting with GDB 5.3 the influence is much more
+prominent. As a workaround, compile your code with -gdwarf-2.
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