[$] How to fix an ancient GDB problem
The GDB debugger has a longhistory; it was first created in 1986. It may thus beunsurprising that some GDB development happens over relatively long timeframes but, even when taking that into account, the existence of an openbug first reported in2007 may be a little surprising. At the 2022 GNU Tools Cauldron,GDB maintainer Pedro Alves talked about why this problem has been difficultto solve, and what the eventual solution looks like.