Re: GDB on SGI Irix 6.5

[Daniel Berlin <dan@cgsoftware.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

> Did someone successfully build the current CVS version on Irix 6.5?  If 
> so, are there any special tricks one need to be aware of to do that?
> 
> I built GDB with "./configure; make" with the native C compiler and a 
> native Make.  While it built okay, the resulting binary aborts at runtime 
> like this:
> 
>   (src)gdb ./emacs
>   GNU gdb 20010402
>   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 "mips-sgi-irix6.5"...
>   Environment variable "DISPLAY" not defined.
>   TERM = vt220
>   Breakpoint 1 at 0x100ff7d0: file emacs.c, line 384.
>   Breakpoint 2 at 0x100d8e18: file xterm.c, line 11714.
>   (gdb) b main
>   Breakpoint 3 at 0x100ffe48: file emacs.c, line 736.
>   (gdb) r -q
>   Starting program: /gnu/emacs-21/emacs-21.0.101/src/./emacs -q
>   regcache.c:282: gdb-internal-error: Assertion `regnum >= 0 && regnum < (NUM_REGS + NUM_PSEUDO_REGS)' failed.
>   An internal GDB error was detected.  This may make further
>   debugging unreliable.  Continue this debugging session? (y or n)
> 
> I've verified that this happens because legacy_read_register_gen is 
> called with regnum = 72, while it doesn't expect any register to have a 
> number greater than 71.
> 
> Any clues?

This type of thing has been happening on IRIX for at least a year.
I remember getting a similar problem when I had an SGI machine for a
few months last year.


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