Alan Coopersmith wrote: > J?rgen Keil wrote: > >> Why has gdb become that unstable? Have there been any >> changes to the X11 compilation environment recently that >> could explain these crashes? I just checked an snv_77 and >> snv_81 box, and on both of them the above tests don't crash >> gdb, so it might be a change introduced somewhere between >> snv_82 and snv_85... >> > > When we upgraded libX11 from our previous X11R6 version > to the current X11R7 one in nv_85 I accidentally left the > -g flag in the Makefile on putback, so the debugging information > is included now that wasn't before. > > I can't explain why gdb crashes on the -g output from Studio 11 cc > though. > > There are several extensions to DWARF employed by Sun Studio compilers, mainly by C++ one, but not limited to one (). So apparently gdb is not capable of dealing with those extensions. If at all possible, switch to dbx; in my opinion, it tends to be more stable (in a broad sense) than gdb on Solaris; 'gdb on' and this link may help you: http://blogs.sun.com/dbx/entry/gdb_vs_dbx_commands_mapping
Ref: http://mediacast.sun.com/users/Chris_Quenelle/media/Sun_Dwarf2_Extensions.txt http://wikis.sun.com/display/SunStudio/Dwarf+Differences+between+Sun+Studio+and+GCC+compilers
