Re: psymtab/symtab error

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 08:00:52PM -0500, Paul Koning wrote:
> >>>>> "David" == David Carlton <carlton@math.stanford.edu> writes:
> 
>  David> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:50:36 -0500, Paul Koning
>  David> <pkoning@equallogic.com> said:
>  >> I've been wading all over the guts of gdb for most of today,
>  >> trying to track down the cause of this message:
> 
>  >> (gdb) info addr CFreeList<CVolume>::m_base Internal: global symbol
>  >> `_ZN9CFreeListI7CVolumeE6m_baseE' found in iSCSIInit.cpp psymtab
>  >> but not in symtab.  _ZN9CFreeListI7CVolumeE6m_baseE may be an
>  >> inlined function, or may be a template function (if a template,
>  >> try specifying an instantiation:
>  >> _ZN9CFreeListI7CVolumeE6m_baseE<type>).  (gdb) info addr
>  >> CFreeList<CVolume>::m_base Symbol
>  >> "_ZN9CFreeListI7CVolumeE6m_baseE" is static storage at address
>  >> 0x4000dcf4.  (gdb)
> 
>  >> I get this simply by invoking gdb and loading the symbol table of
>  >> the image in question (a large RTOS application).
> 
>  >> I dove deep into the guts of symbol table processing without
>  >> getting particularly enlightened.  As a guess, perhaps the problem
>  >> is that this symbol is entered into the symtab in its friendly
>  >> form?
> 
>  David> I was reading through old saved emails and noticed this; what
>  David> debug format are you using?  
> 
> I don't know.  I ran into this with gcc 3.0.1, NetBSD i386 host,
> NetBSD MIPS target.
> 
> Is there a tool that will tell me?

Try looking at the output of objdump -h.  If there are .stab/.stabstr,
then you're in STABS mode; if there are .debug_info sections, you're in
DWARF-2 most likely.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer