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D.gnu - gdb and D

reply Torben Gleich <tgl tx0.net> writes:
Hi,

I am using gdc for a while now. I was never able to use gdb in combination
with D, which makes it hard to debug segfaults.

When I invoke gdb on a d executable I get:

../../gdb-6.3/gdb/dwarf2read.c:5446: internal-error: could not find
partial DIE in cache

Although I can continue the debugging session there are a lot warnings
about missing debug symbols and I can't get any information from
backtraces since they seem to contain only garbage, at least I can't
explain why there are several calls to 0x00000000 :)

I tried gdb on dmd, gdc 0.10 and 0.11pre1 (with gcc-3.4.3) executables.
gdb version is 6.3, I used the debian version and after this didn't work
I recompiled a clean gdb-6.3 using the fresh compiled gcc-3.4.3 which
didn't work too.

Has someone had the same error and was able to resolve it? Any hints are
appreciated.

Regards
- Torben
Apr 23 2005
next sibling parent reply Torben Gleich <tgl tx0.net> writes:
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:18:35 +0200, Thomas Kuehne wrote:


 gdb-6.0-2mdk (the official Mandrake build) has works most of the times.


I tried gdb 6.0 and it works out of the box.


 Did you "make test" when you recompiled gdb 6.3? 


There is no "test" target :(

Just to make sure that I am not stupid, I compiled 6.3 the same way I
compiled 6.0 just now. Fortunately it still doesn't work :)

Thanks
- Torben
Apr 23 2005
parent Thomas Kuehne <thomas-dloop kuehne.thisisspam.cn> writes:
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Torben Gleich schrieb am Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:39:37 +0200:

 On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:18:35 +0200, Thomas Kuehne wrote:


 gdb-6.0-2mdk (the official Mandrake build) has works most of the times.


 I tried gdb 6.0 and it works out of the box.


 Did you "make test" when you recompiled gdb 6.3? 


 There is no "test" target :(


sorry "make check".

Thomas

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prev sibling parent Thomas Kuehne <thomas-dloop kuehne.thisisspam.cn> writes:
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Torben Gleich schrieb am Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:10:23 +0200:

 Hi,

 I am using gdc for a while now. I was never able to use gdb in combination
 with D, which makes it hard to debug segfaults.

 When I invoke gdb on a d executable I get:

 ../../gdb-6.3/gdb/dwarf2read.c:5446: internal-error: could not find
 partial DIE in cache

 Although I can continue the debugging session there are a lot warnings
 about missing debug symbols and I can't get any information from
 backtraces since they seem to contain only garbage, at least I can't
 explain why there are several calls to 0x00000000 :)

 I tried gdb on dmd, gdc 0.10 and 0.11pre1 (with gcc-3.4.3) executables.
 gdb version is 6.3, I used the debian version and after this didn't work
 I recompiled a clean gdb-6.3 using the fresh compiled gcc-3.4.3 which
 didn't work too.

 Has someone had the same error and was able to resolve it? Any hints are
 appreciated.


gdb-6.0-2mdk (the official Mandrake build) works most of the time.

Did you "make test" when you recompiled gdb 6.3? 

Thomas


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