Dwarf Error: Could not find abbrev number 1.

[Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>]

I recently updated my binutils (arm-elf target), and now when I
try to read symbols from some files (not all of them), I get a
dwarf error message.  The odd thing is that some files work and
some don't (it seems to have something to do with which linker
command file is used).  objdump and nm both seem happy with the
files, and I can "load" them fine, it's just the "symbol"
command that complains.

The only difference I can see between the files that work and
the ones that don't is the order of the section headers.

Any ideas what could have causes this?

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$ arm-elf-gdb
GNU gdb 4.18
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
[...]
This GDB was configured as "--host=i586-pc-linux-gnu
--target=arm-elf".
JEENI (ADP, ARM7TDI) Rev 1.1
Rebuilt on Apr 13 1998 at 13:23:52
SN=9805J050 ENET=00:80:CF:00:03:31 IP=204.73.219.108
Connected to ARM RDI target.

(gdb) symbol lan
Reading symbols from lan...Dwarf Error: Could not find abbrev number 1.

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$ arm-elf-objdump --headers lan

lan:     file format elf32-bigarm

Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
  0 .text         00001170  00000000  00000000  00008000  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  1 .data         00000092  00001170  00001170  00009170  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
  2 .bss          00006158  00001210  00001210  00009210  2**4
                  ALLOC
  3 .rodata       0000009d  00007368  00007368  0000f368  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  4 .glue         00000000  00007408  00007408  0000f408  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  5 .stab         000000d8  00000000  00000000  0000f408  2**2
                  CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGING
  6 .stabstr      00000009  000000d8  000000d8  0000f4e0  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGING
  7 .debug_abbrev 0000026e  000000e1  000000e1  0000f4e9  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGING
  8 .debug_info   000015f1  0000034f  0000034f  0000f757  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGING
  9 .debug_line   0000080f  00001940  00001940  00010d48  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGING
 10 .debug_pubnames 00000412  0000214f  0000214f  00011557  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGING
 11 .debug_aranges 00000060  00002561  00002561  00011969  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGING


-- 
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com