I don't know if this is a real bug, but I think that I have found a way to crash gdb. i102:~> cat test.C void main(){ }; i102:~> g++ -g test.C i102:~> gdb test GNU gdb 4.17.m68k.objc.threads.hwwp.fpu.gnat Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-pc-linux-gnu"...(no debugging symbols found)... (gdb) r < nonexisting_file nonexisting_file: No such file or directory. Program exited with code 01. You can't do that without a process to debug (gdb) file test No stack. No stack. (gdb) file test Segmentation fault Exit 139 i102:~> g++ --version egcs-2.91.66 i102:~> Have a nice day and keep up the good work (: -- Niels L Ellegaard http://dirac.ruc.dk/~gnalle/