Re: GDB errors

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 07:01:19PM +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 10:04:49PM +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 03:50:21PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 01:56:31PM +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
>> > >Anyone tried to use GDB to debug XWin lately ?
>> > >
>> > >I'm constantly getting this....
>> > >
>> > >Starting program: /X11R6/4.x/win-loader/xc/programs/Xserver/XWin.exe
>> > >"/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/KERNEL32.dll": error reading line numbers
>> > >"/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/ADVAPI32.dll": error reading line numbers
>> > >"/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/RPCRT4.dll": error reading line numbers
>> > >"/cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/WINMM.dll": error reading line numbers
>> > >"/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/VERSION.dll": error reading line numbers
>> > >"/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/SHELL32.dll": error reading line numbers
>> > >"/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/LZ32.dll": error reading line numbers
>> > >warning: Lowest section in /cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/sbENG32.dll is .rsrc at 10001000
>> > >/cygnus/netrel/src/gdb-20010428-3/gdb/coffread.c:472: gdb-internal-error: sect_index_text not initialized
>> > >Quit
>> > >Internal GDB error: recursive internal error.
>> > >Internal GDB error: recursive internal error.
>> > 
>> > Do you get the same problems with an older version of gdb?  I'm
>> > just wondering if my recent gdb release (which you appear to be running)
>> > caused some problems.
>> 
>> I've tried the 0428-1 release too, with pretty much the same results.
>> 
>> Do I need to go furthur back ?
>> 
>I've just tried to go furthur back, but alas, the 0428-1 and -3 releases
>are the only ones available. Chris - Is there anything I can test for
>you to track these gdb problems down ?

If you are running the 0428-1 release you shouldn't be seeing the "error
reading line numbers" messages, at least.

Otherwise, building gdb from the CVS head is a possibility.  There have
been problems with insight that have prevented me from releasing a new
version based on CVS but maybe 'gdb -nw' might work better.

I will eventually release a gdb from CVS when everything seems stable,
of course...

cgf