RE: insight+dejagnu-20010225 internal error 206

RE: insight+dejagnu-20010225 internal error 206

[robin.mitra]

Michael,

actually I was thinking in a similar direction. As it turns out, the file to
load has sections "text", "data" and "bss" but NOT
".text" ...
(with a leading period).
I changed my linker script to rename the sections to have leading periods,
and now it seems to work...
The point was, this used to work in the insight-5.0 release.
Maybe it's a feature and not a bug, I don't know.

Thx anyway
Robin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain [ mailto:chastain@cygnus.com ]
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 7:20 PM
> To: insight@sourceware.cygnus.com; Mitra, Robin
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: insight+dejagnu-20010225 internal error 206
> 
> 
> Robin Mitra writes:
> > $ powerpc-eabi-gdb -nw rominit.elf
> > GNU gdb 20010225
> > Copyright 2001 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 "--host=i686-pc-cygwin
> > 
> --target=powerpc-eabi".../src/gdb/insight+dejagnu-20010225/gdb/partial
> > -stab.h:206: gdb-internal-error: sect_index_text not initialized
> 
> This looks like rominit.elf has no text section and gdb is blowing it.
> 
> Can you do this and report on it:
> 
>   readelf -a rominit.elf
> 
> Also can you send the whole rominit.elf to me by private e-mail,
> and I can look into it this weekend.
> 
> Michael Elizabeth Chastain
> <chastain@redhat.com>
> "love without fear"
> 

RE: insight+dejagnu-20010225 internal error 206

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain]

Hi Robin,

> actually I was thinking in a similar direction. As it turns out, the file to
> load has sections "text", "data" and "bss" but NOT
> ".text" ...
> (with a leading period).
> I changed my linker script to rename the sections to have leading periods,
> and now it seems to work...

Thanks.  I'll shelve this report, but I will keep it in mind when I work
when section offset code.

Michael

RE: insight+dejagnu-20010225 internal error 206

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain]

Robin Mitra writes:
> $ powerpc-eabi-gdb -nw rominit.elf
> GNU gdb 20010225
> Copyright 2001 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 "--host=i686-pc-cygwin
> --target=powerpc-eabi".../src/gdb/insight+dejagnu-20010225/gdb/partial
> -stab.h:206: gdb-internal-error: sect_index_text not initialized

This looks like rominit.elf has no text section and gdb is blowing it.

Can you do this and report on it:

  readelf -a rominit.elf

Also can you send the whole rominit.elf to me by private e-mail,
and I can look into it this weekend.

Michael Elizabeth Chastain
<chastain@redhat.com>
"love without fear"

RE: insight+dejagnu-20010225 internal error 206

[robin.mitra]

I looked a bit further and now it says:

<screencapture>

$ powerpc-eabi-gdb -nw rominit.elf
GNU gdb 20010225
Copyright 2001 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 "--host=i686-pc-cygwin
--target=powerpc-eabi".../src/gdb/insight+dejagnu-20010225/gdb/partial
-stab.h:206: gdb-internal-error: sect_index_text not initialized

An internal GDB error was detected.  This may make further
debugging unreliable.  Continue this debugging session? (y or n)

<\screencapture>

OK, this seems to gdb related, so I'll post it there also.

After looking into gdb/partial-stab.h it seems as if a debug symbol is being
evaluated before getting the text section.
Has this happend before, could it be some obscure CR/LF issue again?

Any ideas?

Robin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mitra, Robin 
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 12:52 PM
> To: insight@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: insight+dejagnu-20010225 internal error 206
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> I recently tried the insight+dejagnu-20010225 snapshot for 
> powerpc-eabi and
> for arm-elf.
> The build was OK.
> When I try to invoke powerp-eabi-gdb I get an internal error.
> If I ignore it and continue I get a message box saying:
> 
>  Error loading "bla.elf"
>  206: gdb-internal-error: sect_index_text not initialized
> 
> This didn't happen with the 5.0 release.
> This also doesn't happen with the new snapshot built for arm-elf.
> 
> The rest of the toolchain is:
> binutils 2.10.1
> gcc 2.95.2 (release)
> newlib 1.9.0.
> 
> Does anyone know what this is all about?
> 
> Robin
> 

insight+dejagnu-20010225 internal error 206

[robin.mitra]

Hi all,
I recently tried the insight+dejagnu-20010225 snapshot for powerpc-eabi and
for arm-elf.
The build was OK.
When I try to invoke powerp-eabi-gdb I get an internal error.
If I ignore it and continue I get a message box saying:

 Error loading "bla.elf"
 206: gdb-internal-error: sect_index_text not initialized

This didn't happen with the 5.0 release.
This also doesn't happen with the new snapshot built for arm-elf.

The rest of the toolchain is:
binutils 2.10.1
gcc 2.95.2 (release)
newlib 1.9.0.

Does anyone know what this is all about?

Robin