Re: gdb/1618: Invalid or unsupported encoding (sparc-sun-solaris2.8)

[Martin Sebor <sebor at roguewave dot com>]

The following reply was made to PR gdb/1618; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Sebor <sebor@roguewave.com>
To: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: gdb/1618: Invalid or unsupported encoding (sparc-sun-solaris2.8)
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 16:32:51 -0700

 Still present with gdb 6.3 (but this time with gcc 3.4.3 on
 Solaris 9):
 
 $ /usr/local/gdb-6.3/bin/gdb a.out
 GNU gdb 6.3
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 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 "sparc-sun-solaris2.9"...
 dwarf2-frame.c:1133: internal-error: Invalid or unsupported encoding
 A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
 further debugging may prove unreliable.
 Quit this debugging session? (y or n) y
 
 dwarf2-frame.c:1133: internal-error: Invalid or unsupported encoding
 A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
 further debugging may prove unreliable.
 Create a core file of GDB? (y or n) n
 
 Commenting out dwarf2_build_frame_info in elfread.c did the trick
 again.