Re: Final separate debug info patch

[Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Alexander Larsson wrote:

> On 19 Nov 2002, Jim Blandy wrote:
> 
> > Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> writes:
> > > On 19 Nov 2002, Jim Blandy wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > It looks like the stripping process may break some executables.  If $D
> > > > is the top directory of a current GDB source tree, try this:
> > > > 
> > > > $ g++ --version
> > > > g++ (GCC) 3.3 20020820 (experimental)
> > > > Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > > > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> > > > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> > > > 
> > > > $ g++ -g $D/gdb/testsuite/gdb.c++/try_catch.cc -o try_catch
> > > > $ ./try_catch
> > > > $ /home/jimb/elfutils/bin/strip -f try_catch.separate-debug try_catch
> > > > $ ./try_catch
> > > > Segmentation fault
> > > > $ 
> > > 
> > > This doesn't happen for me with gdb from cvs HEAD and gcc (GCC) 3.2 
> > > 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7). Does it happen if you just run strip 
> > > without the -f flag? It might well be a bug in the new strip
> > > command.
> > 
> > Yeah, it seems to be:
> > 
> > zenia:separate-debug$ g++ -g $D/gdb/testsuite/gdb.c++/try_catch.cc -o try_catch
> > zenia:separate-debug$ ./try_catch
> > zenia:separate-debug$ /home/jimb/elfutils/bin/strip try_catch
> > zenia:separate-debug$ ./try_catch
> > Segmentation fault
> > zenia:separate-debug$ 
> > 
> > This is happening with a pretty motley collection of utilities, so I'm
> > not sure I can show how to reproduce it.  If you could try running the
> > GDB test suite on your box with the stuff I've provided, that would be
> > nice.
> >
> > My stripped program seems to be crashing in _dl_map_object_deps...
> > 
> 
> I don't have gdb built at the moment, so I can't run the test suite. Could 
> you just send me the try_catch binary and i'll have a look at it.

Can you send me the binary?

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