gdb 5.1.92-1 crash on C++ program

[Craig Rodrigues]

Hi,

I downloaded the Source rpm for gdb 5.1.92-1 from rawhide.redhat.com.

I compiled a C++ program with:

2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-85)

When I tried to debug my program, gdb coredumped:
==================================================================================
% gdb server

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(gdb) b 93
Breakpoint 1 at 0x80512b7: file server.cpp, line 93.
(gdb) run -o server.ior
Starting program: /home/crodrigu/Big_Twoways/server -o server.ior
[New Thread 1024 (LWP 2348)]
[Switching to Thread 1024 (LWP 2348)]

Breakpoint 1, main (argc=3, argv=0xbffff5b4) at server.cpp:96
96              coordinator_impl->_this (ACE_ENV_SINGLE_ARG_PARAMETER);
(gdb) p coordinator_impl
$1 = (class Coordinator *) 0x80bf0a8
(gdb) p *coordinator_impl
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
==================================================================================

The static trace for gdb looked like:

#0  0x080a77bd in fill_in_vptr_fieldno ()
#1  0x080a77f2 in fill_in_vptr_fieldno ()
#2  0x080a77f2 in fill_in_vptr_fieldno ()
#3  0x080a77f2 in fill_in_vptr_fieldno ()
#4  0x080a77f2 in fill_in_vptr_fieldno ()
#5  0x080a77f2 in fill_in_vptr_fieldno ()
#6  0x080a77f2 in fill_in_vptr_fieldno ()
#7  0x080a77f2 in fill_in_vptr_fieldno ()
#8  0x080a77f2 in fill_in_vptr_fieldno ()
#9  0x080a77f2 in fill_in_vptr_fieldno ()
#10 0x080a77f2 in fill_in_vptr_fieldno ()
#11 0x080a77f2 in fill_in_vptr_fieldno ()
#12 0x080a77f2 in fill_in_vptr_fieldno ()
#13 0x080a77f2 in fill_in_vptr_fieldno ()
#14 0x080a77f2 in fill_in_vptr_fieldno ()
#15 0x080a77f2 in fill_in_vptr_fieldno ()
#16 0x080a77f2 in fill_in_vptr_fieldno ()
#17 0x080a77f2 in fill_in_vptr_fieldno ()
#18 0x080a77f2 in fill_in_vptr_fieldno ()
#19 0x080a77f2 in fill_in_vptr_fieldno ()
#20 0x080a77f2 in fill_in_vptr_fieldno ()

[ etc. ]



Just for fun, I tried compiling the same program with gcc 3.1 (prerelease)
and I got the same coredump in gdb.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what the problem could be?

Thanks.
-- 
Craig Rodrigues        
http://www.gis.net/~craigr    
rodrigc@attbi.com