From: Wolfgang Bangerth
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 12:22:50 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add comment on gdb.
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Add comment on gdb.
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diff --git a/deal.II/doc/readme.html b/deal.II/doc/readme.html
index 02209660f6..05c9a21722 100644
--- a/deal.II/doc/readme.html
+++ b/deal.II/doc/readme.html
@@ -87,6 +87,17 @@
(i.e. non-GNU) will fail to work.
+
+ For debugging programs, we have found that the
+ GNU
+ debugger gdb 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.
+
+
In case you want to generate the documentation from the
header files, you only need Perl installed. The scripts