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Cygwin-gdb can't find linker symbol for virtual table


Hey everybody,

I'm getting an (incorrect?) warning in gdb whenever I try to debug classes
with virtual functions.
When I try to print out a member variable, gdb states "warning: can't find
linker symbol for virtual table for `Object4' value".  It then prints out
the member variable correctly.  
  
This behavior is isolated to my cygwin configuration; I don't get this
warning on my Linux box.

I've searched the internet for this message and can't find any
answers...Geoff Alexander did post this question a while back to multiple
user groups, but to no avail.  I've searched the gcc man page for 'virtual'
but didn't find anything which would make the warning go away.

This warning message is particularly annoying to me when I use insight, the
gdb graphical debugger.  insight causes about 1 to 20 useless dialog boxes
to popup whenever I try to 'watch' a member variable.  They all say the same
thing: "can't find linker symbol for virtual table".

Below I show some very simple code that causes this warning on my system.
I also show what gdb commands I used to cause the warning message to appear.

Thanks for any help,
Josh Julin 



//----------------------------------------------------------------
//code  (THIS CODE IS FINE, BUT CAUSES WARNING IN GDB)
//----------------------------------------------------------------
class Object3
{
public:
    int x;
    ~Object3() { }                // no virtual foo
};

class Object4
{
public:
    int x;
    virtual ~Object4() { }       // virtual foo
};

int main()
{
    Object3 * ptr3 = new Object3;
    Object4 * ptr4 = new Object4;  // when I "watch" ptr4->x I get the
warning
}

//----------------------------------------------------------------
// gcc version (ON CYGWIN)
//----------------------------------------------------------------
gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.2 20020927 (prerelease)

//----------------------------------------------------------------
// gdb session on cygwin  (NOTICE THE WARNING)
//----------------------------------------------------------------
GNU gdb 2003-03-03-cvs (cygwin-special)
Copyright 2003 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 "i686-pc-cygwin"...
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x4010ae: file josh.cpp, line 17.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/josh/rearch/tryAgain/josh.exe 

Breakpoint 1, main () at josh.cpp:17
17          Object3 * ptr3 = new Object3;
(gdb) n
18          Object4 * ptr4 = new Object4;
(gdb) n
19      }
(gdb) p ptr4->x
warning: can't find linker symbol for virtual table for `Object4' value
$1 = 0
(gdb) 


//----------------------------------------------------------------
// gdb session on linux  (EVERYTHING WORKS!)
//----------------------------------------------------------------
GNU gdb 5.3
Copyright 2002 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 "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x8048656: file josh.cpp, line 17.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/josh/tmp/jjj/josh 

Breakpoint 1, main () at josh.cpp:17
17          Object * ptr1 = new Object();
(gdb) n
18          Object2 * ptr2 = new Object2();
(gdb) n
19      }
(gdb) p ptr2->x
$1 = 0
(gdb) 


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