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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org,
Subject: Re: debug/6291: Debugging broken on 3.1. GDB says : "Dwarf Error: Cannot handle DW_FORM_strp in DWARF reader."
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 17:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020414001601.4850.qmail@sources.redhat.com> (raw)
The following reply was made to PR debug/6291; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Sylvain.Pion@sophia.inria.fr
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: debug/6291: Debugging broken on 3.1. GDB says : "Dwarf Error: Cannot handle DW_FORM_strp in DWARF reader."
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 20:13:40 -0400
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 11:52:23PM -0000, Sylvain.Pion@sophia.inria.fr wrote:
>
> >Number: 6291
> >Category: debug
> >Synopsis: Debugging broken on 3.1. GDB says : "Dwarf Error: Cannot handle DW_FORM_strp in DWARF reader."
> >Confidential: no
> >Severity: critical
> >Priority: medium
> >Responsible: unassigned
> >State: open
> >Class: sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id: net
> >Arrival-Date: Sat Apr 13 16:56:00 PDT 2002
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator: Sylvain Pion
> >Release: 3.1 20020411 (prerelease) and 3.2 20020411 (experimental)
> >Organization:
> >Environment:
> RedHat Linux 6.1 (manually upgraded).
> GDB 5.1
> >Description:
> Debugging information seems totally broken.
> When I compile a trivial C or C++ program, GDB tells me :
>
> Dwarf Error: Cannot handle DW_FORM_strp in DWARF reader.
>
> I can't even put a breakpoint on "main".
>
> This shows up with current GCC 3.1 and 3.2 (gcc and g++).
> 2.95.3 and 3.0.4 both work fine.
> This seems critical for the 3.1 release !
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Compile with "-g", with gcc or g++ the following program:
> int main() { return 0; }
>
> Then run "gdb a.out", and then type "b main" in gdb.
> >Fix:
> I don't know of any fix.
Easy, use GDB 5.1.1. Released for (among others) this exact reason. I
do wish we had not switched to a DWARF-2 default at the same time as
this...
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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2002-04-13 17:16 Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
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2002-04-13 17:29 dberlin
2002-04-13 17:26 Andrew Pinski
2002-04-13 16:56 Sylvain.Pion
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