[fpc-devel] gdb crashes with trunk

[Jonas Maebe]

On 05 Apr 2008, at 13:32, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> This is caused by the fact that some restructuring of the debug info  
> writer broke this fix:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> r8565 | jonas | 2007-09-19 18:37:49 +0200 (Wed, 19 Sep 2007) | 5 lines
> Changed paths:
>   M /trunk/compiler/dbgstabs.pas
>   M /trunk/compiler/symconst.pas
>   A /trunk/tests/webtbs/tw9766.pp
>
>  * avoid writing the stabs for a child class before those of a parent
>    class in case the parent class has a field with as type the  
> (forward
>    defined) child class, because this crashes gdb
>  + (interactive) test for this
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I'll try to fix it again.

Fixed. gdb 6.5 also works again. It starts a lot slower than 6.6, so I  
guess 6.5 read all debug information on startup (which is why it  
crashed immediately) while 6.6 and later only read the debug info as  
needed (and hence only crashed when the type info it can't handle was  
needed).


Jonas