diff -Naur gdb-6.3/gdb/symfile.c gdb-6.3-modified/gdb/symfile.c
--- gdb-6.3/gdb/symfile.c	2004-09-30 23:23:09.000000000 -1100
+++ gdb-6.3-modified/gdb/symfile.c	2005-05-14 21:01:18.959321653 -1100
@@ -1405,7 +1405,7 @@
 	  struct cleanup *old_chain;
 	  CORE_ADDR lma = bfd_section_lma (abfd, asec) + args->load_offset;
 	  bfd_size_type block_size;
-	  int err;
+	  int err = 0;
 	  const char *sect_name = bfd_get_section_name (abfd, asec);
 	  bfd_size_type sent;