Multi-Arch symbol read warning message

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 07:16:49PM -0800, mrcompiler@mrcompiler.com wrote:
> Jim Blandy writes: 
> 
> >If you set a breakpoint
> >on the appropriate 'complaint' call in dbxread.c:read_dbx_symtab and
> >'print namestring' when you get there, what does it say?
> 
> Jim, 
> 
> Thanks for the prompt response, the namestring value is below. 
> 
> Breakpoint 3, read_dbx_symtab (objfile=0x2b3c38) at dbxread.c:2024
> 2024                complain (&unknown_symchar_complaint, p[1]);
> (top-gdb) print namestring
> $1 = 0xbd089f "(10,7)=##(10,6);:;2A.;;" 
> 
> It complains about the ';' symbol, I believe its the one in front of 2A. 
> 
> Its kind of interesting that this only occurs when I specify the 
> arm-vxworks target, if I build a powerpc-vxworks target it doesn't happen. 

At an off-the-wall guess, the problem is that ARM tools use
continuation characters in stabs and PowerPC tools don't.  Are you sure
a plain arm-vxworks debugger doesn't show the same thing?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer