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- From: cdurst@aecmail.PRime.COM (Charles Durst {x6163})
- Newsgroups: gnu.gdb.bug
- Subject: GDB on Ultrix with DEC C++
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 21:46:54 -0500
- Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
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- Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
- Approved: bug-gdb@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Distribution: gnu
- Message-ID: <9301222157.AA07695@edam.aecmail.prime.com>
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- I am trying to get GDB 4.7 to work on Ultrix 4.2a/4.3 with the object files
- produced by the DEC C++ compiler.
-
- I have already made several fixes to prevent GDB from crashing when it
- sees symbol types that it wasn't expecting, and I'm trying now to get
- it to understand DEC/MIPS' extensions to COFF format to store C++ symbol
- information (e.g. Classes, references, etc.).
-
- 1) Is there anyone else currently working on GDB on MIPS/Ultrix that may have
- a more recent version of "mipsread.c" that I should be changing?
-
- 2) What should I do about changes that need to be made to "symconst.h" to
- #define the new symbol types, etc.? The Ultrix version of that file
- doesn't have them either at this point.
-
- 3) We have also found that when you link a REALLY BIG program on Ultrix,
- the loader can end up mangling the symbol table information because it is
- not expecting that any program might have more than 32767 symbols. I have
- some fixes for this problem as well (allowing GDB to read the mangled
- symbol tables as if they were OK), but they are rather ugly. What should I
- do with them?
-
- Basically, is there anyone else there I should be talking to?
-
- Charles
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