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In article <MLM.92Aug6164122@hookipa.cs.brown.edu>, mlm@cs.brown.edu (Moises Lejter) writes:
|> I just compiled GDB-4.6 for the HPPA (HP800s), using the gdb-4.6
|> sources plus the files in pa-gsb-4.6.tar.Z.  GDB compiled fine, after
|> having to tweak a couple of things (hppa-tdep.o was not in the link
|> line, so some symbols ended up being missing).  
|> 
|> However, someone here ran his program inside gdb, and had it dump
|> core.  GDB was then unable to find any debugging symbols in the
|> binary.  Did I mis-install something?  Is it a known bug?  Is there a
|> fix?
|> 

If his program was compiled with the hpux c compiler gdb won't be able to
read the debug symbols since the hpux debug symbol format is proprietary.
Therefore for gdb to be useful, he must use gcc to compile his programs.

-Paul