could not find partial DIE in cache

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 09:39:39AM +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've come across this internal-error:
> 
> ---cut---
> GNU gdb 6.3.0.20050323-cvs
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> This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db 
> library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /home/bernie/src/grs/display/display
> ../../src-HEAD/gdb/dwarf2read.c:5446: internal-error: could not find 
> partial DIE in cache
> ---cut---
> 
> The bug also affects versions of GDB shipped by RedHat
> (6.3.0.0-1.3rh and 6.1post-1.20040607.43rh).
> 
> It happens with any application linked against libqt-mt.so.3.3.4,
> when such library is built with -g or -ggdb2.  I'm using
> a recent GCC 4.0 snapshot to build it.

Normally, this error is a bug in GDB; there's one queued patch for a
related problem, and I have another after that one is approved. 
However, in this case it is almost certainly a bug in GCC.  Does your
snapshot include the fix for PR c++/19769?

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