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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 08:12:21 -0700
From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Cc: Carsten Lange <Carsten.Lange@detewe.de>,
   "'linux-mips@oss.sgi.com'" <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: mipsel-linux-gdb(5.2): DW_FORM_strp pointing outside of .debug_str section
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References: <3D171ECB.28F566C1@detewe.de> <20020624150001.GA5373@branoic.them.org>
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On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:00:01AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:29:47PM +0200, Carsten Lange wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I get the above error from gdb 5.2 when using the <file> command.
> > ...
> > (gdb) file iprbs
> > file iprbs
> > Reading symbols from iprbs...DW_FORM_strp pointing outside of .debug_str section
> > (gdb)                                                       
> > ...
> > 
> > My mipsel-linux- toolchain consist of the following packages:
> > 	binutils-2.12.1
> > 	gcc-3.1
> > 	glibc-2.2.5
> > 	gdb-5.2
> > 
> > I have no idea what the problem might be.
> > 
> > Any hints (solutions/workaround) are welcome.
> 
> Can you produce a testcase?  These versions of the tools should not
> show the problem, assuming you rebuilt everything using them.
> 

Please get the Linux binutils 2.12.90.0.12. You need that for gcc 3.1
on Linux/mips.


H.J.