On 26 July 2012 14:24, Shentino wrote: > What is the minimum gdb version required to completely assimilate the > debug information produced by gcc version 4.6.1? http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/changes.html says: "GCC now generates unwind info also for epilogues. DWARF debuginfo generated by GCC now uses more features of DWARF3 than before, and also some DWARF4 features. GDB older than 7.0 is not able to handle either of these, so to debug GCC 4.5 generated binaries or libraries GDB 7.0 or later is needed." And AFAIK the same is true for 4.6