gdb75 dumps core on startup

[Luca Pizzamiglio]

Hi,
Hans : have you tried the patch included here ports/171109?
Andriy: thanks for the report, I create a patch for that as soon as I can!

Regards,
Luca

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Hans Ottevanger <hans at beastielabs.net> wrote:
> On 08/27/12 16:03, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>
>> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault
>> ...
>> #0  0x00000000004777e2 in i386_use_watchpoints ()
>> #1  0x0000000000476bbd in _initialize_amd64fbsd_nat ()
>> #2  0x000000000060deea in initialize_all_files ()
>> #3  0x00000000005e710f in gdb_init ()
>> #4  0x0000000000549086 in relocate_gdb_directory ()
>> #5  0x0000000000547aa4 in catch_errors ()
>> #6  0x0000000000548bb4 in gdb_main ()
>> #7  0x0000000000457ea9 in main ()
>>
>> This is on amd64 head.
>>
>
> I can confirm that this happens on my not so recent 10-CURRENT (r239353),
> also amd64.
>
> I see a similar issue on 8.3-STABLE (r239646) on amd64:
>
> $ gdb75 ./a.out
> [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so:
> Undefined symbol "ps_pglobal_lookup"]
> Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped)
>
> while on i386 gcc75 works OK, but I see:
>
> $ gdb75 ./a.out
> [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so:
> Undefined symbol "ps_pglobal_lookup"]
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> Reading symbols from /home/hans/a.out...done.
> (gdb)
>
> I do not know if the message about the undefined symbol is related to the
> issue at hand. The previous version (gcc741) did not show this message and
> functioned perfectly, also on amd64.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Hans