On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:35:07AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Yes, while there are of course occasional bugs and mismatches, in > general all versions of gcc and gdb are compatible. That said, gdb 5.3 > is old; it was released over five years ago. It will ignore some of the > newer types of debugging information emitted by gcc. The current gdb > release is 6.8, and is considerably enhanced over 5.3. You should > consider upgrading if possible.
Newer GDB almost always works with older GCC. Older GDB often does not work with newer GCC; I suspect 5.3 will crash and/or be useless with most GCC 4.x binaries. For instance, in that time we added location list support. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
