gdb crashes while trying to debug a core.....

[Willem Jan Withagen]

From: "Marcel Moolenaar" <marcel at xcllnt.net>
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:57:36PM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> >
> > I'll leave the dumped gdb.core for the time being, in case Marcel wants to
have
> > a look at it.
>
> Yes, please. For me to reproduce this, I need rex.core (or any core
> file that triggers the bug), as well as gdb.core, the gdb binary
> itself and a timestamp of the source from which gdb(1) was built.
> As a bonus, it helps to know CFLAGS if non-standard.
>
> If you could make that available to me for download, then I'll put
> it under http://people.freebsd.org/~marcel.

Look in http://withagen.dyndns.org/FreeBSD/cores

CFLAGS = -g -pipe

-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2905992 Jul  2 12:08 /usr/bin/gdb
Usually supped shortly before buildworld/installworld

Note that this is all on -current/AMD64:

FreeBSD opteron.digiware.nl 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #70: Fri Jul 16 07:5
6:03 CEST 2004     root at opteron.digiware.nl:/usr/obj/home2/src/sys/OPTERON.amd64
  amd64

--WjW