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To: "Stuart Brooks" <stuartb@cat.co.za>
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Subject: Re: gdb 5.3nb1 crashing when accessing elements in static libs
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From: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
Organization: Wasabi Systems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 17:09:00 -0000
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"Stuart Brooks" <stuartb@cat.co.za> writes:

> I am experiencing problems when interrogating a core file - as soon as I
> try to access a global variable in a statically linked library or view
> the internals of a class/struct declared in a static lib gdb either says
> <unknown type>, gives garbage or segmentation faults. Details of my
> system are:
> 
> OS: Netbsd 2.0
> gdb: 5.3nb1
> compiler: g++ 3.3

I'm assuming this is i386? You're going to be in some pain with C++ on
this combination; netbsd/i386 2.0 sets gcc to use the stabs debugging
format by default instead of dwarf-2, because of a bug in 3.3's dwarf
generation (netbsd PR #25094; equivalent to GCC bug #16788) [I'm not
at all sure that this is the right tradeoff for that bug].

        - Nathan