From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24616 invoked by alias); 21 Feb 2003 04:23:06 -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 24606 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2003 04:23:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zenia.red-bean.com) (66.244.67.22) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 21 Feb 2003 04:23:03 -0000 Received: from zenia.red-bean.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by zenia.red-bean.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h1L4Gh8A031237; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:16:43 -0500 Received: (from jimb@localhost) by zenia.red-bean.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id h1L4Geqq031233; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:16:40 -0500 To: mrcompiler@mrcompiler.com Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Multi-Arch symbol read warning message References: <20030220222419.21758.qmail@admin1.cvtt.net> From: Jim Blandy Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 04:23:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20030220222419.21758.qmail@admin1.cvtt.net> 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: 2003-02/txt/msg00457.txt.bz2 mrcompiler@mrcompiler.com writes: > When I load a PowerPC symbol-file I get the warning "unknown symbol > descriptor `;`" which doesn't appear if I build a "pure" > powerpc-vxworks target. This message means that the compiler has emitted debugging information GDB doesn't know how to read. (Or the compiler could be broken, or GDB could be misreading correct debug info.) If you set a breakpoint on the appropriate 'complaint' call in dbxread.c:read_dbx_symtab and 'print namestring' when you get there, what does it say?