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[Tim Mooney]

In article <address@hidden>,
News Subsystem <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Anyone know of compatibility issues between gdb and Compaq Tru64 UNIX
> V5.1?

I haven't actually tried gdb on version 5.1.  It "works" on 4.x, but
support for the OS is, at best, incomplete.  In particular, it has a lot
of problems with stack traces.  Too bad, too.  I really like gdb, and use
it on the other platforms I have to do debugging on.

If you can handle a dbx-style interface, Compaq's ladebug works quite well.
ddd will sit on top of it, but although ddd's support for ladebug has improved
markedly, ddd still doesn't support it as well as it supports gdb.

I've indicated to the Compaq Debugger team that giving ladebug a gdb-compatible
interface would be a win, and they're in general a very receptive group, but
that's not exactly an easy task to implement so I'm not sure if it will
ever happen.

Tim
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