Xref: utzoo comp.sys.atari.st:34628 comp.sys.atari.st.tech:1315 Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech Path: utzoo!utdoe!david From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) Subject: Re: Using GDB Message-ID: <1991Feb5.124207.11850@doe.utoronto.ca> Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project - U of Toronto References: <1991Feb1.170826.791@rodan.acs.syr.edu> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 1991 12:42:07 GMT In article gjh@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Graham Higgins) writes: > >CFLAGS were: > >-gg -O -DGEM -D__NO_INLINE__ -mshort -fcombine-regs -fstrength-reduce >-fomit-frame-pointer > >are any of the above flags inimical to GDB? > I have had some success with gdb under the uni-sb gcc compiler and linker, but I have used gcc -c -g test.c gcc_ld -o test.tos test.o sym_ld -r -o test.sym $GNULIB/crt0.o test.o -lgnu (or something like that). I took a look at the gdb source, and it actually seems to support -g and not -gg (ie. dbx, not the native gdb format). >BTW, when GCC compiling under gulam, "make" seems to 2-bomb out after some >arbitrary period of happy mass compilation, ditto Ksh but less frequently. >Under Ksh, problem seems to go away after the third/fourth round of mass >compilation (with -g, without -g, with -gg, without -gg, ad nauseam) but return >after a warm boot. Anyone shed any light on this --- I have a suspicion that >it's a malloc() problem, but it's outside my field. > Aha! I suspect the 40-folder limit. You should be able to find a fix for it on your local BBS. If you already have foldrxxx.prg (or whatever it's called) installed, raise the number. David -- //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// / David Megginson david@doe.utoronto.ca / / Centre for Medieval Studies meggin@vm.epas.utoronto.ca / ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////