Problem with gdb 5.3 on AIX

Problem with gdb 5.3 on AIX

[David Frager]

I am attempting to run gdb 5.3 on an AIX 4.3.3 environment, and I am
receiving the errors below.
The binary was complied with -g option and is threaded.  I am able to
successfully run gdb against a non-threaded binary.
Any suggestions for resolving this problem?

Thanks

> # /usr/gnu/bin/gdb ./foo
> GNU gdb 5.3
> Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and
> you are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain 
> conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for 
> details.
> This GDB was configured as "powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0"...
> (gdb) l
> ../../gdb-5.3/gdb/gdbtypes.c:515: gdb-internal-error: make_cv_type: 
> Assertion `TYPE_OBJFILE (*typeptr) == TYPE_OBJFILE (type) || TYPE_STUB 
> (*typeptr)' failed.
>
> An internal GDB error was detected.  This may make further debugging 
> unreliable.  Quit this debugging session? (y or n) n
>
> Create a core file containing the current state of GDB? (y or n) n
> (gdb)

Re: Problem with gdb 5.3 on AIX

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain]

Hi David,

This looks like a serious bug in gdb.

Can you file a PR here:

  http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/bugs

We need to know the compiler vendor and compiler version.  It would help
a lot if you could attach your binary program to the PR as well.

Thanks,

Michael C
GDB QA Guy

Re: Problem with gdb 5.3 on AIX

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain]

Doh!  I forgot to mention: try it with gdb 6.0 first.
We're much more interested in gdb 6.0 than gdb 5.3.

Michael C

Re: Problem with gdb 5.3 on AIX

[David Frager]

The problem still occurs in 6.0.
I am not able to provide these exact binaries, but I will attempt to build a generic version of them that has the same issue with gdb.

Is it possible that I did not specific a proper configureation option when building gdb??  I only specified powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0

My compile environment is gcc 3.3, running on AIX 4.3.3

 /usr/gnu/bin/gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.3
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


Thanks

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:30:38 -0600
mec.gnu@mindspring.com wrote:

> Doh!  I forgot to mention: try it with gdb 6.0 first.
> We're much more interested in gdb 6.0 than gdb 5.3.
> 
> Michael C