Today's snapshot aborts reading Emacs 23's src/.gdbinit

[Eli Zaretskii]

This is on a machine whose "uname -a" says:

  Linux fencepost 2.6.16.29-xen #1 SMP Wed Dec 6 07:32:36 EST 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux

It crashes like so:

  eliz@fencepost:~$ cd emacs/src/
  eliz@fencepost:emacs/src$ ~/gdb-6.8.50.20090815/gdb/gdb ./emacs
  GNU gdb (GDB) 6.8.50.20090815
  Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
  This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
  and "show warranty" for details.
  This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu".
  For bug reporting instructions, please see:
  <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
  SIGINT is used by the debugger.
  Are you sure you want to change it? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from terminal]
  Environment variable "DISPLAY" not defined.
  TERM = xterm
  value.c:1094: internal-error: bad type       <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
  A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
  further debugging may prove unreliable.
  Quit this debugging session? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from terminal]
  value.c:1094: internal-error: bad type
  A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
  further debugging may prove unreliable.
  Create a core file of GDB? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from terminal]
  Aborted