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Add comment on gdb.
authorWolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@math.tamu.edu>
Tue, 6 Jun 2000 12:22:50 +0000 (12:22 +0000)
committerWolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@math.tamu.edu>
Tue, 6 Jun 2000 12:22:50 +0000 (12:22 +0000)
git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@2993 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d

deal.II/doc/readme.html

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            (i.e. non-GNU) will fail to work.
           </p>
 
+      <li> <p>
+           For debugging programs, we have found that the
+          <a href="http://www.gnu.org" target="_top">GNU
+          debugger gdb</a> is a valuable tool. However, it is noted
+           that gdb 4.18 is quite broken with respect to debugging C++
+           programs. A better choice is to use the older version 4.17
+           which works well. If you want to debug multithreaded
+           programs, you may want to use gdb 5.0 or later, since gdb
+           4.17 did not support multiple threads too well.
+          </p>
+
       <li> <p>
            In case you want to generate the documentation from the
            header files, you only need Perl installed. The scripts

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