Re: Bug Database?

[Frank Schmitt]

Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:

>  >     As a point of reference GDB has 1218 open bugs in its database and 
> still
>  >     gets released roughly on a six monthly cycle.
>  > 
>  > I suspect it means there is insufficient priority to fixing GDB bugs.
>
> It depends how you measure things.  They have more people using a recent
> version of GDB and more people fixing bugs.  There's a clear message: if you
> want it fixed for the next version then you may have to fix it yourself.

Which results in the fact that gdb is since years completely unusable
for C++ programs relying on templated functions (so basically all C++
programs which aren't just pimped C). 

So most C++ developers I know have switched to the "free as in free beer
but not free as in free software" debugger from Sun Studio which in
contrast to gdb works really well.

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