(In reply to S J from comment #9) > In such a case, it must be some incompatibility in interface between gdb 7.8 > and kdevelop because issuing backtrace command from gdb toolview manually > does produce a valid frame stack output but entries are greyed (cannot be > clicked on). > > Debugging same code with gdb 7.8 manually (outside kdevelop) works fine as > far as I was able to determine. This seems to be some really silly problem, > slight change in format of gdb which throws off the toolviews, I wish I had > more time to learn how kdevelop toolviews interface with gdb and fix it. I suggest to open a separate bug against kdevelop for this. The issue in this bug is unrelated to kdevelop.