From 35e8eaab9cb51138c460fa4396fd8023ce893a65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wolfgang Bangerth Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 12:22:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add comment on gdb. git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@2993 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- deal.II/doc/readme.html | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) 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.

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  • + 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. +

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  • In case you want to generate the documentation from the header files, you only need Perl installed. The scripts -- 2.39.5