Folks,
GDB started acting strange today, segfaulting when trying to open some
binaries, GDB itself included. Other binaries would work OK.
Log:
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~/builds/gdb-head/> gdb-head-64bit/gdb/gdb gdb-head-64bit/gdb/gdb
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This GDB was configured as "powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu"...
startUsing host libthread_db library "/lib64/ppc970/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) start
Breakpoint 1 at 0x10060b3c: file gdb-head/gdb/gdb.c, line 30.
Starting program: gdb-head-64bit/gdb/gdb
BFD: reopening : No such file or directory
Segmentation fault
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I tracked down the root of the problem and this patch appears to be the
problem. Reverting it back fixes the problem.