Internal Error in GDB (was: ld includes entire archive (.a) when compiling .elf file)

["Josh Keller" <jkeller at keytechinc dot com>]

Daniel, for some reason, when I turn on garbage collection, I get the
following error (many, many times) when I run gdb:

Internal error: pc 0x0 in read in psymtab, but not in symtab.

I can still debug my program, but I get these errors all over the place.
I saw a thread back in 2002 titled (Internal error in GDB) initially
posted by Steven Johnson.  I'm not sure what the ultimate resolution
was.  Any ideas?

-Josh

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Jacobowitz [mailto:drow@false.org] 
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 6:43 PM
To: Josh Keller
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org; Reuben Johnston
Subject: Re: ld includes entire archive (.a) when compiling .elf file

On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 06:08:53PM -0500, Josh Keller wrote:
> How will specifying the start of execution with (-e) remove the 
> uncalled functions and unused variables?  Does the ld linker even have

> the capability to automatically remove uncalled functions without 
> having to specify each used section?  I'm sorry if I sound really 
> confused, I'm pretty new to this.  Thanks for your patience.

No, you need that to prevent the linker from removing everything.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery