gdb 7.0 crashes on Solaris 8 when reading symbols from the program being
debugged. This has been reproduced with several different programs, both big and
small. Here is an example:

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Reading symbols from
/ds/5/SOLARIS_build/red_redac/programs/rinf_to_pcb...Segmentation Fault (core
dumped)

I have built a debug version of gdb 7.0 and debugged it using gdb 6.7. Here is
the traceback:

#0  0x001f9f18 in bsearch_cie_cmp (key=0xffbed430, element=0x0) at
dwarf2-frame.c:1514
#1  0xfeeb60e0 in bsearch () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
#2  0x001fa024 in find_cie (cie_table=0xffbed640, cie_pointer=0) at
dwarf2-frame.c:1528
#3  0x001fa838 in decode_frame_entry_1 (unit=0xba4760, start=0xfef52774 "",
eh_frame_p=0,
    cie_table=0xffbed640, fde_table=0xffbed638) at dwarf2-frame.c:1686
#4  0x001fb354 in decode_frame_entry (unit=0xba4760, start=0xfef52774 "",
eh_frame_p=0,
    cie_table=0xffbed640, fde_table=0xffbed638) at dwarf2-frame.c:1907
#5  0x001fbab4 in dwarf2_build_frame_info (objfile=0x519910) at dwarf2-frame.c:2081
#6  0x000d1428 in elf_symfile_read (objfile=0x519910, mainline=0) at elfread.c:739
#7  0x00141b6c in syms_from_objfile (objfile=0x519910, addrs=0x504860,
offsets=0x0, num_offsets=0,
    add_flags=6) at symfile.c:889
#8  0x00141e08 in symbol_file_add_with_addrs_or_offsets (abfd=0x501b48,
add_flags=6, addrs=0x0,
    offsets=0x0, num_offsets=0, flags=0) at symfile.c:990
#9  0x00142194 in symbol_file_add_from_bfd (abfd=0x501b48, add_flags=6,
addrs=0x0, flags=0)
    at symfile.c:1091
#10 0x001421e0 in symbol_file_add (name=0xffbee0c1 "rinf_to_pcb", add_flags=6,
addrs=0x0, flags=0)
    at symfile.c:1103
#11 0x00142274 in symbol_file_add_main_1 (args=0xffbee0c1 "rinf_to_pcb",
from_tty=1, flags=0)
    at symfile.c:1126
#12 0x00142210 in symbol_file_add_main (args=0xffbee0c1 "rinf_to_pcb",
from_tty=1) at symfile.c:1119
#13 0x00173270 in catch_command_errors (command=0x1421f0 <symbol_file_add_main>,
    arg=0xffbee0c1 "rinf_to_pcb", from_tty=1, mask=6) at exceptions.c:525
#14 0x00047e78 in captured_main (data=0xffbedd20) at main.c:804
#15 0x00173170 in catch_errors (func=0x46d38 <captured_main>, func_args=0xffbedd20,
    errstring=0x3ed3a0 "", mask=6) at exceptions.c:510
#16 0x00048598 in gdb_main (args=0xffbedd20) at main.c:911
#17 0x00046974 in main (argc=2, argv=0xffbedda4) at gdb.c:33

The line in question is:

struct dwarf2_cie *cie = *(struct dwarf2_cie **) element;

and element is NULL