Bug 439234

Summary:	Corrupted DWARF expression
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Ravi Ramaseshan <rramase>
Component:	gdb	Assignee:	Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	5.1	CC:	ebachalo
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	ia64
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.cygwin.com/ml/gdb-patches/2007-01/msg00561.html
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Bug Depends On:	232353, 454303
Bug Blocks:	439257

Description Ravi Ramaseshan 2008-03-27 17:01:08 UTC

Description of problem:

The problem occurs with a large program that I am debugging. It has been
correctly diagnosed and fixed in the URL. It is fixed in later versions of GDB
too (6.7 for sure).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.5-25.el5_1.1rh)

How reproducible:
I guess while debugging large programs, try and print some values.
  
Actual results:
dwarf2_read_address: Corrupted DWARF expression.

Expected results:
values for variables.

Additional info:

Comment 2 Jan Kratochvil 2008-04-01 16:34:23 UTC

Fixed in HEAD by upstream:
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-01/msg00561.html

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2008-06-02 20:11:51 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 5 Eric Bachalo 2008-07-10 18:36:32 UTC

This issue should be remedied with the gdb rebase in RHEL 5.3
reference: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454303

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2009-01-20 22:02:36 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0207.html