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Re: symtab/2131: DW_FORM_strp pointing outside of .debug_str section
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: nobody at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: gdb-prs at sources dot redhat dot com,
- Date: 2 Jun 2006 18:08:01 -0000
- Subject: Re: symtab/2131: DW_FORM_strp pointing outside of .debug_str section
- Reply-to: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
The following reply was made to PR symtab/2131; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: tan@absolute-eda.com
Cc: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: symtab/2131: DW_FORM_strp pointing outside of .debug_str section
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 14:00:20 -0400
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 01:31:03AM -0000, tan@absolute-eda.com wrote:
> the GDb was built using
> ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> as prescribed by the intallation info. The gdb was configured as "i386-pc-solaris2.10". However, when we run GDN against an executable, we got the error in the Synopsis, and the symtab is not read. line 6004 of gdb/dwarf2read.c,
> dwarf2_per_objfile->str_size is 0.
>
> dbx, which comes with the Sun packaged software, works fine on that executable.
>
> however, GDB works fine on our small test prgrams.
You would need to attach a binary which reproduces this problem for us
to help, sorry.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery