Xref: utzoo gnu.gdb.bug:402 gnu.g++.bug:1086 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!garfield!stretch!jeff1 From: jeff1@garfield.mun.edu (Jeff Sparkes) Newsgroups: gnu.gdb.bug,gnu.g++.bug Subject: Re: 3.4 problems on sparc Message-ID: Date: 11 Nov 89 13:35:52 GMT References: Sender: news@stretch.MUN.EDU Followup-To: gnu.gdb.bug Distribution: gnu Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Lines: 30 In-reply-to: jeff1@garfield.mun.edu's message of 8 Nov 89 16:41:11 GMT ->>>> On 8 Nov 89 16:41:11 GMT, jeff1@garfield.mun.edu (Jeff Sparkes) said: -> Both of these problems occur with sun4os4, no changes to gdb or Makefile. -> Compiled with gcc -g. -> The first occurs with g++ compiled file. I'm including a uuencoded -> copy of it at the end. -> The second occurred when I tried to use gdb to find the second problem. -> Script started on Wed Nov 8 21:07:21 1989 -> -docboy- gdb viewer.o -> Reading symbol data from /users/cs/staff/jeff1/src/iv/imag/viewer.o...done. -> (gdb) l Viewer::Viewer -> Reading in symbols for viewer.cc...Invalid symbol data: invalid character \075 at symbol pos 125. -> (gdb) quit -> -docboy- gdb gdb -> Reading symbol data from /usr/local/bin/gdb...done. -> (gdb) l read_number -> Reading in symbols for dbxread.c... and main.c... and blockframe.c...done. -> Bus error (core dumped) The second problem goes away when gdb is compiled with sun's cc. With that, I managed to track the problem down to the stab entry for the constructor of the Graphic class in InterViews... -- Jeff Sparkes jeff1@garfield.mun.edu || uunet!garfield!jeff1 Humans couldn't have invented golf without alien intervention--Kids in the Hall