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In article <WPWOOD.95Mar28090240@moonrash.austin.ibm.com> wpwood@moonrash.austin.ibm.com writes:
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>OK, this may be a stupid question, but I've looked at the docs for GDB
>and I can't find an answer.  Is it possible to use GDB to debug a
>binary on AIX which was not compiled with gcc.  Because of the build
>environment here, everything is compiled with xlc, and GDB core dumps
>when I try to run xlc-compiled programs through it.
>
>I found the docs about GDB supporting XCOFF format but that it used
>stabs information in the executable for the debugging info.  Anyway,
>any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>BTW, this is GDB 4.13.  TIA,
>

If anyone cares, I got e-mail from a someone out here (who's name I
unfortunately deleted before I could attribute the help to him).
Anyway, apparently gdb-4.13 had a bug where it would core dump on apps
compiled with newer versions of xlc.  He said that gdb-4.14 fixes the
problem, and sure enough, it does.

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