Re: 5.1.1

Re: 5.1.1

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain]

Andreas Jaegar writes:

> That would be fine.  GCC has now switched using Dwarf2 as normal
> debugging format and gdb 5.1 cannot read it.  I haven't tried the CVS
> version yet whether this is fixed.  But having a gdb that can debug
> programs that GCC generates would justify a 5.1.1.

Happily, this has been fixed on the CVS 5.1 branch as well as the CVS
mainline.  My experience is that the released version of gdb 5.1 can
handle dwarf2 executables produced by gcc 3.0.2, but not gcc CVS HEAD.
So we are not in a horrible "latest released tools don't work together"
state until gcc releases again.

Some unadorned tables for the CVS 5.1 branch are here:

  http://www.shout.net/~mec/sunday/2001-12-06/index.html

Michael C

5.1.1

[Andrew Cagney]

I suspect that there are enough things now to justify a 5.1.1.  Can I 
suggest spinning it out sometime mid summer (January for the 
geographicaly impaired :-)

Andrew

Re: 5.1.1

[Andreas Jaeger]

Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:

> I suspect that there are enough things now to justify a 5.1.1.  Can I
> suggest spinning it out sometime mid summer (January for the
> geographicaly impaired :-)

That would be fine.  GCC has now switched using Dwarf2 as normal
debugging format and gdb 5.1 cannot read it.  I haven't tried the CVS
version yet whether this is fixed.  But having a gdb that can debug
programs that GCC generates would justify a 5.1.1.

For reference, the problem I have is:

GNU gdb 5.1
Copyright 2001 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 "i386-suse-linux"...Dwarf Error: Cannot handle DW_FORM_strp in DWARF reader.

(gdb) r
Starting program: /builds/gcc/gcc-3.1-devel/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/./time_put_members_wchar_t.exe 
Error while reading shared library symbols:
Dwarf Error: Cannot handle DW_FORM_strp in DWARF reader.
(no debugging symbols found)...Error while reading shared library symbols:
Dwarf Error: Cannot handle DW_FORM_strp in DWARF reader.
Error while reading shared library symbols:
Dwarf Error: Cannot handle DW_FORM_strp in DWARF reader.
Error while reading shared library symbols:
Dwarf Error: Cannot handle DW_FORM_strp in DWARF reader.
Error while reading shared library symbols:
Dwarf Error: Cannot handle DW_FORM_strp in DWARF reader.

Andreas 
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Re: 5.1.1

[Joel Brobecker]

> Dwarf Error: Cannot handle DW_FORM_strp in DWARF reader.

This has been recently added to GDB. I verified it has been added to the
5.1 branch as well.

-- 
Joel

Re: 5.1.1

[Andreas Jaeger]

Joel Brobecker <brobecker@ACT-Europe.FR> writes:

>> Dwarf Error: Cannot handle DW_FORM_strp in DWARF reader.
>
> This has been recently added to GDB. I verified it has been added to the
> 5.1 branch as well.

Thanks, I'll make an update and try again,
Andreas
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 Andreas Jaeger
  SuSE Labs aj@suse.de
   private aj@arthur.inka.de
    http://www.suse.de/~aj

Re: 5.1.1

[Andrew Cagney]

> Joel Brobecker <brobecker@ACT-Europe.FR> writes:
> 
> 
>>> Dwarf Error: Cannot handle DW_FORM_strp in DWARF reader.
> 
>>
>> This has been recently added to GDB. I verified it has been added to the
>> 5.1 branch as well.
> 
> 
> Thanks, I'll make an update and try again,
> Andreas


As an aside, the 5.1 snapshot process is still running.  You can either 
update or grab a snap.

Andrew

Re: 5.1.1

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 09:53:57AM +0000, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> I suspect that there are enough things now to justify a 5.1.1.  Can I 
> suggest spinning it out sometime mid summer (January for the 
> geographicaly impaired :-)

From the 5.1 branch, I assume?

If so, I'd like to get the last two C++ patches approved, test the
complete set on the branch, and apply them if they cause no
regressions.

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