Re: [arm-gnu] GDB bug

[Mark Mitchell <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Hiszpanski wrote:
> I am running Q1B-2005 on cygwin 1.5.x under Windows XP. I have noticed
> several possible bugs in arm-none-eabi-gdb:
> 
> When pressing backspace to correct an error in entering a command at the
> (arm-gdb) prompt, the characters are not removed from the screen. In the
> background the characters seem to be correctly removed.
> 
> When pressing any of the arrow keys on the command line, strange
> characters are generated (alpha symbol primarily).
> 
> The up arrow previous command recall function seems to not be
> implemented. Alpha symbols are generated.
> 
> When using the inspect command, or print, or output, a newline is not
> generated. The value of the output expression is overwritten by the next
> prompt (arm-gdb).

All of these problems have been corrected in our sourcebase, and will be
corrected in the 2005-Q3 release.  They have also been corrected in the
FSF GDB source tree.

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