* gdb-5.3 with bdm patches segfaults whem reading symbols
@ 2003-10-07 20:05 Josef Wolf
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From: Josef Wolf @ 2003-10-07 20:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bdm-devel, gdb
Hello!
[ I crosspost this to the gdb list since it seems to me that the problem
might be gdb related. If you wonder what those bdm branches are, please
check the URLs below. ]
I have problems to get the m68k branch of the bdm stuff to work. Immediately
after startup, gdb-5.3 segfaults even before I have a chance to enter a
command. The m683xx branch runs very fine with exaclty the same configure
settings. The segfault happens with both, coff and elf. The segfault happens
in read_one_sym() at gdb/coffread.c:1139. The offending call is
bfd_coff_swap_sym_in(symfile_bfd,...)
This is a macro which expands to
coff_backend_info(symfile_bfd)->_bfd_coff_swap_sym_in(symfile_bfd,...)
Which finally expands to
((bfd_coff_backend_data *)(symfile_bfd)->xvec->backend_data)
->_bfd_coff_swap_sym_in(symfile_bfd,...)
Unfortunately, _bfd_coff_swap_sym_in is a pointer to nirvana, so the
subroutine call segfaults. I have grepped gdb/bfd sources for
bfd_coff_swap_sym_in but I could not find the place where this pointer
gets a sane value. How is this supposed to work? Who is responsible to
fill coff_backend_info with sane data?
BTW: If it makes any difference, here are my configure options:
$SRCDIR/configure --prefix=/usr/local/crossgcc --enable-languages=c
--build=i486-linux --host=i486-linux --enable-commonbfdlib --nfp --gas -v
--target=m68k-bdm-coff --enable-targets=m68k-elf,m68k-ieee
--with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as --with-newlib --with-stabs
m68k branch:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/bdm/bdm/gdb/patches/gdb-5.3-m68k.patch
m683xx branch:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/bdm/bdm/m683xx/gdb-5.3-bdm-683xx-patch
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