Re: warning: (Internal error: pc 0xd00 in read in psymtab, but not in symtab.)

[Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>]

Ron McCall wrote:

> By the way, I did try a newer snapshot but still got the same result, as
> you suspected.  I ran the cross gdb under a native gdb to try to see
> what was happening.  With a breakpoint on find_pc_sect_symtab() in
> symtab.c and a single command input of "disas 0xd00 0xd04" there are
> several calls to this function.  I can re-run the test to get specific
> input values if that would help.  If I remember correctly, the call that
> resulted in the warning message being printed had inputs of pc=0 and
> section=0.

pc=0? Hmm, does your application start at address zero?
I distinctly remember I had to patch my local gdb version because it did not
like sections starting at address zero.

Below is the patch I use. But I'm not sure it's the problem in your case:
the patch fixes the "pc = 0" problem both for partial symbol table
(psymtab), and complete symbol table (symtab). Without this patch I get
error even earlier.

- Volodya

Index: gdb/dwarf2read.c
===================================================================
--- gdb/dwarf2read.c    (revision 1679)
+++ gdb/dwarf2read.c    (revision 1680)
@@ -3164,8 +3203,13 @@
      labels are not in the output, so the relocs get a value of 0.
      If this is a discarded function, mark the pc bounds as invalid,
      so that GDB will ignore it.  */
+  /* VP: commented out of the same reason as in read_partial_die.
+     Damn the code duplication.
+     */
+  #if 0
   if (low == 0 && (bfd_get_file_flags (obfd) & HAS_RELOC) == 0)
     return 0;
+  #endif
 
   *lowpc = low;
   *highpc = high;
@@ -5423,10 +5467,15 @@
      labels are not in the output, so the relocs get a value of 0.
      If this is a discarded function, mark the pc bounds as invalid,
      so that GDB will ignore it.  */
+  /* VP: 2005/04/20: On NM, text segment starts at address 0, so disable 
+     the check for zero. */
   if (has_low_pc_attr && has_high_pc_attr
       && part_die->lowpc < part_die->highpc
+#if 0
       && (part_die->lowpc != 0
-         || (bfd_get_file_flags (abfd) & HAS_RELOC)))
+         || (bfd_get_file_flags (abfd) & HAS_RELOC))
+#endif
+      )
     part_die->has_pc_info = 1;
   return info_ptr;
 }