GDB 3.2 won't read cc -g output on a Vax

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1 total messages Started by Andrew Thomas Mon, 18 Sep 1989 19:32

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Author: Andrew Thomas
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1989 19:32

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I'm running GDB 3.2 on a uVaxII under Ultrix 2.0.  I am unable to use
gdb to debug files output by cc.  This bug does not occur on a Sun 3
running SUNOS 3.x

Script started on Mon Sep 18 13:30:00 1989
% cat ttt.c
main()
{
  printf ("hello world\n");
}
% cc -g ttt.c
% gdb a.out
GDB 3.2, Copyright (C) 1988 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for GDB; type "info warranty" for details.
GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
 under certain conditions; type "info copying" to see the conditions.
Reading symbol data from /tmp/a.out...gdb: Bad symbol type 0x1e encountered in gdb scan
% exit
% 
script done on Mon Sep 18 13:30:32 1989

I assume this is the fault of Ultrix's cc compiler.  Is there a fix?
--

Andrew Thomas
andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu	Systems Design Eng.	University of Waterloo
"If a million people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing." - Opus

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