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From: Italy

Registered: 2009-01-13

Posts: 876

Slow debug with eclipse and gcc 4.5

Hello, I don't know if this is the more appropriate section for this topic...
Since the upgrade to gcc 4.5 debugging C++ programs under Eclipse has become painfully slow. Often it requires a vey long time to step to the next instruction (by pressing F6) or even to run to the next breakpoint (F8). It seems that the communication with the debugger has become very slow, and sometimes I get a timeout message saying: "Target request failed: Target is not responding (timed out).". The problem doesn't show up with gcc 3.4.
I am a bit of a noob with debugging so I don't know even what to look at to solve the problem...
I am using eclipse 3.5.2-1, eclipse-cdt 6.0.2-1, gcc 4.5.0-6 and gdb 7.1-2.