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From: rjk@sawmill.uucp (Richard Kuhns)
Newsgroups: gnu.gdb.bug
Subject: GDB 3.4 problem on Sequent Symmetry
Message-ID: <RJK.89Nov17100936@sawmill.uucp>
Date: 17 Nov 89 15:09:36 GMT
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Configuration: Sequent Symmetry, Dynix 3.0.12, gdb 3.4 compiled by
	gcc1.36 with -O and -traditional.

Problem: gdb dies trying to read a symbol table.  Script follows.

Script started on Fri Nov 17 09:53:42 1989
$ /src/Gnu/gdb/gdb ./sc core
GDB 3.4, Copyright (C) 1989 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for GDB; type "info warranty" for details.
GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
 under certain conditions; type "info copying" to see the conditions.
Reading symbol data from /users/buhrt/src/sc6.6/sc...done.
u.u_tsize= 0x1f, u.u_dsize= 0x33, u.u_ssize= 0x32, stack_off= 0x15000
Type "help" for a list of commands.
(gdb) bt
#0  0x1846f in abort ()
#1  0xd5a2 in growtbl (...) (...)
(gdb) frame 1
Reading in symbols for cmds.c...Invalid symbol data: N_LBRAC/N_RBRAC symbol mismatch, symtab pos 932.
gdb: free: Called with bad argument

$ 

script done on Fri Nov 17 09:54:02 1989

Rich Kuhns
newton.physics.purdue.edu!sawmill!rjk