[Converted from Gnats 1797]

$ gdb a.out
GNU gdb 6.2.1
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welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.8"...
dwarf2-frame.c:1136: internal-error: Invalid or unsupported encoding
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Release:
gdb-6.2.1

Environment:
Solaris 2.8/SPARC
GDB 6.2.1 compiled with Sun C 5.5 Patch 112760-12 2004/07/20
GCC 3.3.2 using the Sun assembler

How-To-Repeat:
$ uname -a
SunOS gax 5.8 Generic_108528-27 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V250
$ g++ -v  
Reading specs from
/opt/TWWfsw/gcc332/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.3.2/specs
Configured with: /opt/build/gcc-3.3.2/configure --enable-nls
--with-included-gettext --enable-shared --enable-libgcj
--enable-threads --datadir=/opt/TWWfsw/gcc332/share
--with-local-prefix=/opt/TWWfsw/gcc332 --prefix=/opt/TWWfsw/gcc332
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.2 (TWW)
$ gdb --version
GNU gdb 6.2.1
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.8".

$ cat libmy.cc
#include <stdio.h>

int func()
{
  return printf("func\n");
}

$ cat static.cc
#include <stdio.h>

extern int func();

int main()
{
  func();
}

$ g++ -g -fPIC -c -o libmy.o libmy.cc
$ ar cr libmy.a libmy.o
$ ranlib libmy.a
$ g++ -g static.cc -L. -lmy