Re: Problems with gdb on Solaris 8

["Frédéric RISS" <frederic.riss@st.com>]

On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 21:47, msnyder@redhat.com wrote:
> > I'm having some problems with gdb 5.2.1 on Solaris when I compile my
> > applications with gcc 3.2. The symptoms are not the same as David's
> > ones, but I think this may be related. Here's a more precise situation :
> > 
> > gcc 3.2 with -g option => I can debug with gdb 5.0 without problem, but
> >                           gdb5.2 is unusable (breakpoints put at the
> >                           wrong place for the most)
> > 
> > gcc 3.2 with -gdwarf-2 => I can debug with gdb 5.2 !
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I depend on libs which are compiled with -g, so I'm stuck
> > debugging with gdb 5.0... Is this a known issue ? Is there any solution
> 
> It's not familiar to me, but sounds like a STABS problem.
> I'm not really up on my recent version history.

Is nobody else aware of this _very_ annoying issue ? It seems it's
really a GDB problem as gdb 5.0 copes well with the generated binaries,
our should this be reported to GCC ?

Regards,
-- 
Frédéric RISS <frederic.riss@st.com>
STMicroelectronics - DAIS