Re: Unbreaking gdb's catch throw

Stefan Farfeleder <stefanf_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> gdb's command 'catch throw' is broken on FreeBSD head. While it does set
> a breakpoint on __cxa_throw, the function seems to be never entered when
> an exception is thrown. Does someone know how to fix this? It used to
> work a couple of months ago.

My impression is that gdb from base is pretty useless in general
when compiling with a modern compiler like clang or a more recent
version of gcc.

gdb751 from the ports seems to suck a lot less.

Obviously I'm not saying that it wouldn't be nice if gdb
from base worked better, though.

Fabian