From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22404 invoked by alias); 17 Sep 2003 17:54:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 22397 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2003 17:54:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zenia.home) (12.223.225.216) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Sep 2003 17:54:28 -0000 Received: by zenia.home (Postfix, from userid 5433) id 5BF1D20758; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:51:55 -0500 (EST) To: "Neal E. Coombes" Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: dbxread.c:1771: internal-error: sect_index_data not initialized References: <3F687799.5050201@trdlnk.com> From: Jim Blandy Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:54:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3F687799.5050201@trdlnk.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00215.txt.bz2 This has already been reported and fixed, but the fix was too late to be included in 6.0. Bug 1241 in the GDB bug database has a patch (get the second patch, not the first): http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl "Neal E. Coombes" writes: > A colleague of mine has found this bug (which I will also make a bug > report for). I'm really writing to this list because I'd like to help > however I can to make gdb 6 suitable for us. > > Currently in our development environtment all versions of gdb 5.0 and > greater have show stopping bugs for us, and gdb 4 doesn't support gcc > 3 (and we don't want to switch back to gcc 2). > > We've frozen our compiler at gcc 3.2.3 as it seems stable and able to > do everything we need. We'd like to freeze our debugger, but haven't > been able to yet. Please help me help gdb by giving me guidance on > what more I can do. > > Before I file the bug report, look below and let me know what other > information may be relevant. I'll try in the mean time to write a > small program that still demonstrates the bug. > > Thanks for all help, > > Neal E. Coombes > > Bug follows: > > gdb 5.3.92 compiled with gcc 3.2.3 configured as i386-pc-solaris2.8 > This bug only seems to occur with programs using gtkmm and gtkmm-2.0 > > GNU gdb 5.3.92 > Copyright 2003 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 "i386-pc-solaris2.8"... > > (gdb) > (gdb) b main > Breakpoint 1 at 0x81c8315: file main.C, line 133. > (gdb) r > Starting program: /home/lex/HEAD/apps/strategyViewer/strategyViewer > dbxread.c:1771: internal-error: sect_index_data not initialized > A problem internal to GDB has been detected, > further debugging may prove unreliable. > Quit this debugging session? (y or n)