error message : I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that. Symbol format 'elf32-xc16x' unknown.

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 07:35:25PM +0530, Bhushan Attarde wrote:
> And got the following output :
> 
> test_flavour 3.. our flavour  5...
> test_flavour 2.. our flavour  5...
> test_flavour 1.. our flavour  5...
> I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that.  Symbol format 'elf32-xc16x' unknown.

This means that GDB supports a.out, coff, and ecoff.  4 and 5 are
xcoff and ELF.

Earlier versions of GDB always included ELF support.  New versions
only include ELF support if they detect ELF support in BFD, by
compiling a program which uses bfd_get_elf_phdr_upper_bound (see
gdb/configure.ac).  So is this function missing from BFD
for xc16x?  If so how?  It looks to me like it should be there.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery