Bug 86240

Summary: Need to update libbfd.so on RH AS 2.1 / IA64
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Reporter: David Connelly <dwconnelly>
Component: binutilsAssignee: Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
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Version: 2.1CC: johan.walles
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Description David Connelly 2003-03-18 00:18:29 UTC
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Description of problem:
The installed version of libbfd.so cannot handle some object files generated 
by gcc 3.0. In particular, the function bfd_find_nearest_line will barf on 
some objects with the following error message:

   BFD: Dwarf Error: Invalid or unhandled FORM value: 14.

Unfortunately, the function will abort with this error message rather than 
just return an error code, so there is no easy workaround.

If you look at bfd/dwarf2.c in binutils-2.11.2 there is in fact no handler for 
DW_FORM_strp (14). This apparently has been fixed in binutils-2.13.2 so we 
should probably update to that.

- David

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
binutils-2.11.90.0.8-12.2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compile C program with gcc 3.0.2 and -g
2. Write program to open object bfd and call bfd_find_nearest_line
3. Run program on previously generated object file

Additional info:

Comment 3 Bob Johnson 2003-04-25 20:04:54 UTC
As a workaround, one answer  might be to compile programs with -gstabs or
-gstabs+ as a workaround.  That would probably bypass the Dwarf-2 issues.

gcc 3.x is not supported on AS 2.1
Only gcc 2.9x


Comment 4 Jakub Jelinek 2004-10-06 18:57:56 UTC
There are several changes that would be needed in binutils and
even more so in gdb, I don't think the changes are appropriate for
AS2.1 at this point.