6.0 BUG? SIGSEGV under cygwin

[Pierre Muller]

At 16:51 15/07/2003, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:40:56PM +0200, Pierre Muller wrote:
>>   I compiled the 6.0 branch GDB
>> with -gstabs+  debug option.
>> 
>>   I think that there is a problem 
>> in the current main and 6.0 branches,
>> regarding use of sym_private file of struct objfile.
>> 
>>  This field is used to stored two incompatible 
>> things :
>>   in dwarf2-frame.c it is assumed that 
>> this field contains a struct dwarf2_fde pointer,
>> but the same field is also used in 
>> coffread.c and xcoffread.c
>> to store a struct coff_symfile_info pointer.
>
>Mark Kettenis posted a patch for this just a few days ago on
>gdb-patches.  Would you test it?  See:
>  Subject: [RFC/RFA] Per-objfile data mechanism

I just tested this patch and it does indeed solve the problem.
Thanks Mark!
This (or something equivalent) should really be 
incorporated into 6.0 branch...


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