Re: GDB and Java

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 09:43:48AM -0700, David Carlton wrote:
> On 18 Jul 2003 10:28:54 -0600, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> said:
> 
> > Ok, I've tried cvs head today.  I'm debugging a large java application
> > that consists of about 90 shared libraries (not including libgcj).
> 
> > I can consistently make gdb crash like this:
> 
> > ../../src/gdb/dwarf2-frame.c:1032: internal-error: sect_index_text not initialized
> > A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
> > further debugging may prove unreliable.
> 
> This is probably the same unfortunate interaction between anonymous
> objfiles and the new DWARF 2 frame stuff that Daniel noted in
> conjunction with another patch of mine.  I think
> <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2003-07/msg00264.html> is
> supposed to cure it, so give that a try.  Is that patch, or a variant,
> supposed to go into 6.0?  This argues that it had better go in.

I'm not sure if it's for the same issue or not, but that patch
definitely fixes Cygwin.  Mark, everyone seems happy with that patch;
would you check it in on both branches?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer