dwarf-2 problem on cc1

[Robert Lipe <robertl@sco.com>]

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 20:00:46 -0500
From: Robert Lipe <robertl@sco.com>
To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
Cc: gdb@gdb.cygnus.com
Subject: dwarf-2 problem on cc1
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[ Two disparate groups copied; please drop the other as appropriate. ] 

I can't tell if this is an GCC problem or a GDB problem.   I'm inclined
to think it's EGCS becuase SCO's 'debug' complains about the binary, too.

I'm looking at GCC 2.95 (i686-UnixWare7.1.0-sysv5) with GDB 4.18.  Small
binaries work OK.   Big ones fail and I need help understanding why.

The easiest way to see this fail is in GCC itself after a full three-stage:

(robertl) rjludi:/home3/negcs/gcc
$ gdb ./cc1
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This GDB was configured as "i686-UnixWare7.1.0-sysv5"...

Dwarf Error: bad offset (0x93000200) in compilation unit header (offset 0x2320b5 + 6).

.gdbinit:8: Error in sourced command file:


Now, if I use GDB on GDB to debug cc1 and set breakpoints on this error,
I can see that it's not anything as "obvious" as a sign extension
problem.

(top-gdb) print /x cu_header
$2 = {length = 0x28000000, version = 0x2, abbrev_offset = 0x93000200, 
  addr_size = 0xce}

That's a pretty bogus looking length.




If I feed that same binary to the SCO dwarf-2 debugger, it complains in 
a different way:

$ debug cc1
Error: Unrecognized debugging information at offset 0x2320b5
Error: Inconsistent state in function Dwarf2build::get_syminfo at line 788
Error: Unrecognized debugging information at offset 0x2320b5
Error: Inconsistent state in function Dwarf2build::get_syminfo at line 788
Error: Unrecognized debugging information at offset 0x2320b5
Error: Inconsistent state in function Dwarf2build::get_syminfo at line 788
Error: Unrecognized debugging information at offset 0x2320b5
Error: Inconsistent state in function Dwarf2build::get_syminfo at line 788
Error: Unrecognized debugging information at offset 0x2320b5
Error: Inconsistent state in function Dwarf2build::get_syminfo at line 788
Error: Unimplemented DWARFII location operator at offset 0x5237: DW_OP_fbreg
Error: Unimplemented DWARFII debugging information entry in section .debug_info
New program cc1 (process p1) created


It's not strictly size related.   I can invoke gdb on cc1plus and it's 
fine.   gdb on several of the gen* programs and it's fine.   but the inability
to debug cc1 worries me.

Any ideas?

RJL



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