gdb/182: gdb 2001-07-26-cvs aborts with internal error on Tru64 UNIX V4.0F

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>Number:         182
>Category:       gdb
>Synopsis:       gdb 2001-07-26-cvs aborts with internal error on Tru64 UNIX V4.0F
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jul 27 11:38:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Rainer Orth
>Release:        gdb 2001-07-26-cvs (MI_OUT)
>Organization:
>Environment:
Compaq AlphaServer ES40 running Tru64 UNIX V4.0F
configured with configure --disable-nls alpha-dec-osf4.0f
built with gcc 2.95
>Description:
Trying to run the freshly built gdb on binutils/ar in the same
tree lets gdb abort with an internal error:

% gdb/gdb binutils/ar
GNU gdb 2001-07-26-cvs (MI_OUT)
Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "alpha-dec-osf4.0f"...
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x12000d8d4: file /vol/gnu/src/gdb/src/binutils/ar.c, line 379.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /vol/gcc/obj/gdb/4.0f/binutils/ar 
/vol/gnu/src/gdb/src/gdb/mdebugread.c:2443: gdb-internal-error: sect_index_data not initialized
An internal GDB error was detected.  This may make further
debugging unreliable.  Continue this debugging session? (y or n) n
>How-To-Repeat:
Build gdb an try to use it debugging any program.
>Fix:
Not known (the same error occured in the mips-sgi-irix5.3 and
mips-sgi-irix6.2 configurations when trying to debug
an O32/mdebug binary).
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: