Unable to trace assembler in GDB 14.2 on Solaris 11.3/sparc [SOLVED]

[john o goyo]

Greetings, Tom.

On 2024-03-21 12:29, Tom Tromey wrote:
> I didn't want to let this go unanswered, but I was hoping someone more
> familiar with Solaris would reply.
>
>> I am learning Sparc assembler (mostly through Paul's book and various
>> tutorials).  I built GDB 14.2 on Solaris 11.3/sparc and can debug C
>> code with no problem.
>>          .section ".data"
>> hello:  .asciz "Hello, World!\n"
>>          .global main
>>          .align 4
>> main:
> Does main end up in .data here?  If so that could be the issue.
Yes -- that was exactly my mistake.  I added .section ".text" before the 
.global main and now main shows up as it should.

Thank you very much!

john

>
> Normally this kind of thing should work ok, as far as I know.
>
> Maybe dumping the minimal symbols ("maint print msymbols") would be
> informative.
>
> Tom