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Re: GDB internal error: pc in psymtab, not in symtab


On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:29:07PM -0700, Michael Eager wrote:
> I've been bitten by this same problem:
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2005-11/msg00279.html
> 
> It looks like GDB issues a warning when the ELF symbol
> table contains symbols, but the DWARF data doesn't.
> Assembler source with a .file will have DWARF sections,
> but only a TAG_Compilation_Unit.  It's legit DWARF.

Psymtabs do not come from the ELF symbol table; they come from a first
pass over the DWARF information. So, if this warning triggers, that
pass must have done something bogus.

"maint print psymbols" and "maint print symbols" might be useful;
the interesting question is, what psymtab thought it covered the
address, and why didn't the corresponding symtab?

Oh, one frequent cause is mis-estimating the range of addresses covered
by the psymtab.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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