[Converted from Gnats 1987]

When I attempt to load the Linux kernel elf (i.e., vmlinux, not vmlinux.32 or vmlinux.srec) built for a MIPS64 machine, GDB crashes after smashing its stack from endless recursion. GDB is running on an amd64 workstation.

Release:
6.3

Environment:
Gentoo Linux 2005/08/09; GDB built from source downloaded from GDB web site

How-To-Repeat:
wise@gs104 ~/gdb-6.3/gdb $ catchsegv ./gdb --command gxemul.cmds 2>catchsegv.out
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This GDB was configured as "--host=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --target=mips64el-elf".
Setting up the environment for debugging gdb.
The target architecture is assumed to be mips:isa64r2
The target is assumed to be little endian
(gdb) file /local/linux-current/vmlinux
Reading symbols from /local/linux-current/vmlinux...*** Segmentation fault

gxemul.cmds contains:
set archi mips:isa64r2
set endian little