Re: internal-error: could not find partial DIE in cache

Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-02-01T20:59:52Z

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:45:58PM -0600, Manoj Iyer wrote:
>
> It will be a big help if I can get some inputs as to how I should go
> further on this problem.
>
> I have an executable compiled with IBM xlC++ compiler, when I run this
> program through GDB (RHEL 4, gdb 6.3) it throws and internal error :
>
> dwarf2read.c:5452: internal-error: could not find partial DIE in cache
>
> looking at the code, find_partial_die_in_comp_unit() is printing this
> message. libiberty/hashtab.c: htab_find_with_hash() function is returning
> an EMPTY_ENTRY.
>
> I dont know the internal of GDB enough. What should I be looking for? Is
> this because the hash table was created wrong or xlC produced some bad
> debug information. How do I find out?

Debug it :-) The hash table is created by scanning all DIEs. Is the
index being looked up a valid DIE? If so, why was it skipped?

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Daniel Jacobowitz