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RE: GDB 6.0 backtrace limit to only 3 lines
- From: Reschke Benjamin-A16256 <Benjamin dot Reschke at motorola dot com>
- To: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:18:31 +0930
- Subject: RE: GDB 6.0 backtrace limit to only 3 lines
>
> > I recently downloaded and compiled GDB 6.0 for Sparc Solaris 8 and it
> > seems that whenever I issue the "backtrace" command it will only ever
> > print out 3 lines. No more, no less. Is there an option or setting
> > that I need to configure when compiling the tool. Or after compilation
> > is there a setting or option I need to set?
>
> I would try 6.2.1. IIRC, there were some known issues on sparc-solaris
> with 6.0.
>
> --
> Joel
So I downloaded an compiled GDB 6.2 and now I receive the follow output when I run gdb with my exe and core file:
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%> gdb myExe.exe core
GNU gdb 6.2
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"...
/home/elixir/temp/gdb-6.2/gdb/dwarf2-frame.c:1071: internal-error: Unsupported encoding: DW_EH_PE_indirect
A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
further debugging may prove unreliable.
Quit this debugging session? (y or n) y
/home/elixir/temp/gdb-6.2/gdb/dwarf2-frame.c:1071: internal-error: Unsupported encoding: DW_EH_PE_indirect
A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
further debugging may prove unreliable.
Create a core file of GDB? (y or n) n
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Any ideas what is causing this? I also compiled it for Linux and had no problems whatsoever.