[Gm2] Debugging woes under Solaris 10/sparc with GDB 6.

[John O Goyo]

Greetings:

Gaius Mulley wrote (in part):
[...]
> Hi John,
>
> thanks for the report - out of interest does the same behaviour still
> occur with the latest release of gdb (6.8
> http://sourceware.org/gdb/download)

Unfortunately not.  Witness

===[gdb 6.8]========================================================
johng [test]385=> /home/build/bin/gdb hello
GNU gdb 6.8
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
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and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "sparc64-sun-solaris2.10"...
DW_FORM_strp pointing outside of .debug_str section [in module 
/home/johng/prj/test/hello]
===[end 6.8]========================================================

I did a bit of searching on the GDB mailing lists. Others have some the 
same problem in other contexts but the GDB maintainers regard the 
problem as that of broken binaries, dbx notwithstanding, and I am 
insufficiently familiar with the Dwarf standards to render an opinion.

john

> regards,
> Gaius