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[crash] Section index is uninitialized


I can provide the binary on request if anyone is curious to poke
at it.  It is a c++ testsuite test case created by today's cvs gcc.

Any hints on finding the problem?


r~



(top-gdb) run ./z
Starting program: /castro/street/rth/binu/build/axp/gdb/./gdb ./z
During symbol reading, register number 312 too large (max 66) in symbol buf.
During symbol reading, PDR for _start, but no symbol.
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This GDB was configured as "alphaev6-unknown-linux-gnu"...
Setting up the environment for debugging gdb.
.gdbinit:5: Error in sourced command file:
Function "internal_error" not defined.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /castro/street/rth/binu/build/axp/gdb/./z 
During symbol reading, register number 312 too large (max 66) in symbol buf.
During symbol reading, PDR for _start, but no symbol.
During symbol reading, type qualifier 'const' ignored.

Breakpoint 1, internal_error (
    string=0x12025f387 "Section index is uninitialized")
    at ../../../src/gdb/utils.c:734
734	  va_start (ap, string);
(top-gdb) up
#1  0x12016c770 in new_symbol (die=0x1204af6e0, type=0x0, objfile=0x120307dd0, 
    cu_header=0x11fffebb8) at ../../../src/gdb/dwarf2read.c:4184
4184			      SYMBOL_VALUE_ADDRESS (sym) +=
(top-gdb) p *sym
$1 = {ginfo = {name = 0x1206e18f0 "_ZTIP1D", value = {ivalue = 4831863968, 
      block = 0x1200064a0, bytes = 0x1200064a0 "\206\002", 
      address = 4831863968, chain = 0x1200064a0}, language_specific = {
      cplus_specific = {demangled_name = 0x0}, chill_specific = {
        demangled_name = 0x0}}, language = language_cplus, section = -1, 
    bfd_section = 0x120304400}, type = 0x1206e2a48, namespace = VAR_NAMESPACE, 
  aclass = LOC_STATIC, line = 0, aux_value = {basereg = 0}, aliases = 0x0, 
  ranges = 0x0}
(top-gdb) p *sym->ginfo.bfd_section
$2 = {name = 0x120301188 ".rodata", id = 64, index = 14, next = 0x120304660, 
  flags = 595, user_set_vma = 1, reloc_done = 0, linker_mark = 0, gc_mark = 0, 
  segment_mark = 0, vma = 4831863952, lma = 4831863952, _cooked_size = 1638, 
  _raw_size = 1638, output_offset = 0, output_section = 0x0, 
  alignment_power = 4, relocation = 0x0, orelocation = 0x0, reloc_count = 0, 
  filepos = 25744, rel_filepos = 0, line_filepos = 0, userdata = 0x0, 
  contents = 0x0, lineno = 0x0, lineno_count = 0, comdat = 0x0, 
  kept_section = 0x0, moving_line_filepos = 0, target_index = 0, 
  used_by_bfd = 0x120304560, constructor_chain = 0x0, owner = 0x120300a60, 
  symbol = 0x120304500, symbol_ptr_ptr = 0x1203044e0, link_order_head = 0x0, 
  link_order_tail = 0x0}

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