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Re: psymtab/symtab error
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 08:00:52PM -0500, Paul Koning wrote:
> >>>>> "David" == David Carlton <carlton@math.stanford.edu> writes:
>
> David> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:50:36 -0500, Paul Koning
> David> <pkoning@equallogic.com> said:
> >> I've been wading all over the guts of gdb for most of today,
> >> trying to track down the cause of this message:
>
> >> (gdb) info addr CFreeList<CVolume>::m_base Internal: global symbol
> >> `_ZN9CFreeListI7CVolumeE6m_baseE' found in iSCSIInit.cpp psymtab
> >> but not in symtab. _ZN9CFreeListI7CVolumeE6m_baseE may be an
> >> inlined function, or may be a template function (if a template,
> >> try specifying an instantiation:
> >> _ZN9CFreeListI7CVolumeE6m_baseE<type>). (gdb) info addr
> >> CFreeList<CVolume>::m_base Symbol
> >> "_ZN9CFreeListI7CVolumeE6m_baseE" is static storage at address
> >> 0x4000dcf4. (gdb)
>
> >> I get this simply by invoking gdb and loading the symbol table of
> >> the image in question (a large RTOS application).
>
> >> I dove deep into the guts of symbol table processing without
> >> getting particularly enlightened. As a guess, perhaps the problem
> >> is that this symbol is entered into the symtab in its friendly
> >> form?
>
> David> I was reading through old saved emails and noticed this; what
> David> debug format are you using?
>
> I don't know. I ran into this with gcc 3.0.1, NetBSD i386 host,
> NetBSD MIPS target.
>
> Is there a tool that will tell me?
Try looking at the output of objdump -h. If there are .stab/.stabstr,
then you're in STABS mode; if there are .debug_info sections, you're in
DWARF-2 most likely.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer