andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu (Andrew Thomas) (09/19/89)
I'm running GDB 3.2 on a uVaxII under Ultrix 2.0. I am unable to use
gdb to debug files output by cc. This bug does not occur on a Sun 3
running SUNOS 3.x
Script started on Mon Sep 18 13:30:00 1989
% cat ttt.c
main()
{
printf ("hello world\n");
}
% cc -g ttt.c
% gdb a.out
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Reading symbol data from /tmp/a.out...gdb: Bad symbol type 0x1e encountered in gdb scan
% exit
%
script done on Mon Sep 18 13:30:32 1989
I assume this is the fault of Ultrix's cc compiler. Is there a fix?
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Andrew Thomas
andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu Systems Design Eng. University of Waterloo
"If a million people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing." - Opus