GDB 2.8 dies on humongous executables (?)

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1 total messages Started by Roland McGrath Sat, 15 Oct 1988 01:52

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Author: Roland McGrath
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1988 01:52

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I am using GDB self-proclaimed version 2.8, got from wheaties:/gp/gnu/gdb
on Oct 12.

With a very big executable file (only one that I know of), GDB gets a SEGV
while reading the symbol tables.

The file is a `temacs', quite large (abnormally so, lots of pure lisp):
-rwxr-xr-x  1 mcgrath   spur      1632491 Oct  4 17:10 temacs
text	data	bss	dec	hex
417792	532480	32858	983130	f005a

If you want to try to fix this bug, send me mail at roland@wheaties and I'll
either give you the executable (it's a 68020 Sun-3 executable, so most GNU
people can use it) or tell you how to get onto the machines where all the
files are.

Roland

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