Bug 49582 – gdb 6.x segfaults in certain conditions

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Olivier Crete (RETIRED) 2004-05-01 01:33:10 UTC]

Found a bug in gdb.. In certains conditions (always on my system), gdb segfaults. The fix should already be in the gdb cvs. And I've added it to insight.

[Comment 1 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) 2004-05-01 01:34:32 UTC]

Created attachment 30435 [details, diff]
patch for gdb crash

forgot, add this to the ebuild:

cd ${S}/gdb
epatch ${FILESDIR}/gdb-6.x-crash.patch

[Comment 2 Brian Harring (RETIRED) 2004-06-17 10:41:48 UTC]

Don't spose you could elaborate on when the bug rears its head?  I've been experiencing pretty much continual gdb segfaults (figure after about 3-4 segfaults of the prog being debugged, gdb itself segfaults).  Would be curious under what conditions this occurs.

[Comment 3 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) 2004-06-17 15:29:22 UTC]

this bug occurs when trying to load separate debug information.. Especially when the program was "not" compiled with -g... so the debug info file is almost empty (it might only contain symbols, but no line numbers, etc).. And gdb used the wrong count to allocate a structure (which worked when the struct for the debug file was bigger than the original, but not the other way around)... or something like that.. 

[Comment 4 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) 2004-07-16 21:36:00 UTC]

arg.. they didnt put this in 6.1.1.. grrr.. its in their HEAD branch.. 

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2004-10-09 23:45:30 UTC]

doesnt seem to be in 6.2.1 either :/

can you guys verify ?  if so, we'll push it into our ebuilds

[Comment 6 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) 2004-10-10 01:54:28 UTC]

I had some problems on this patch with insight.. I'll try contacting the rh guy again..

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2004-11-09 16:08:45 UTC]

any word ?

[Comment 8 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) 2004-11-09 16:20:06 UTC]

got no anwser from jimb@redhat .. re-pinging him..

[Comment 9 SpanKY 2004-11-09 18:19:06 UTC]

added patch to 6.2.1-r1