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Re: internal-error: arm_elf_osabi_sniffer
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 21:45, Nagender Telkar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am working on gdb 6.0.
>
> When I do an
>
> gdb> arm-elf-gdb helloworld.elf
>
> I get the following error.
>
> ../../insight-6.0.ori/gdb/arm-tdep.c:2747: internal-error: arm_elf_osabi_sniffer
> : Unknown ARM EABI version 0x4000000
>
You don't say so, but I guess you are compiling your code with ARM's
RVDS compiler...
> I looked into the arm-tdep file in the gdb, it seems to be failing at
> the function
>
> static enum gdb_osabi arm_elf_osabi_sniffer (bfd *abfd)
>
> where it gets
>
> unsgined int elfosabi = elf_elfheader (abfd)->e_ident[EI_OSABI];
>
> The elfosabi is getting set to ELFOSABI_NONE.
>
> Then it tries to get the eflags as
>
> eflags = EF_ARM_EABI_VERSION(elf_elfheader(abfd)->e_flags);
>
> eflags is not getting set to EF_ARM_EABI_VER1, EF_ARM_EABI_VER2 or
> EF_ARM_EABI_UNKNOWN.
>
> I think that is the problem. Thats the reason it gets to the internal error.
Yep. GDB doesn't understand the EABI yet (even gdb 6.2 -- gdb 6.0
predates the EABI, so has no chance). Even if it got past this point
you'd run into further problems.
R.