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From: mcgrath%tully.Berkeley.EDU@GINGER.BERKELEY.EDU (Roland McGrath)
Newsgroups: gnu.gdb.bug
Subject: GDB 2.8 dies on humongous executables (?)
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Date: 15 Oct 88 01:52:23 GMT
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I am using GDB self-proclaimed version 2.8, got from wheaties:/gp/gnu/gdb
on Oct 12.

With a very big executable file (only one that I know of), GDB gets a SEGV
while reading the symbol tables.

The file is a `temacs', quite large (abnormally so, lots of pure lisp):
-rwxr-xr-x  1 mcgrath   spur      1632491 Oct  4 17:10 temacs
text	data	bss	dec	hex
417792	532480	32858	983130	f005a

If you want to try to fix this bug, send me mail at roland@wheaties and I'll
either give you the executable (it's a 68020 Sun-3 executable, so most GNU
people can use it) or tell you how to get onto the machines where all the
files are.

Roland