GDB 7 will bring major improvements

According to GDB and Debian Developer Daniel Jacobowitz, GDB 7 will bring major improvements:

http://weblog.false.org/weblog/2009/tech/inlined-function-support-for-gdb.html

Improvements mentioned are:

• Support for understanding inlined functions -- that is, you will actually be able to step in, through and out of them, and get backtraces that include inlined functions!
• Support for pretty-printing STL containers etc!
• Python scripting.

So it appears that this release will be a great one. It's slated for this fall.

Oh, and on another sidenote -- I must promote cgdb again, it simplifies debugging with gdb a lot. It will also benefit from these improvements. It could be that it could need a feature or two to make these new features easier to use (python scripting, perhaps?). Sadly, upstream of cgdb appears to be quite dead; no release since 2007.