From b50c11b241f2a7e136a3ed6fcfb139c7f2b0e1f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wolf <wolf@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
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
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 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.
 	   </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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