From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Recent gdb does not create correct ELF32 file. (1) set write on (2) load an ELF32 executable (3) set value of an global variable (4) quit (5) always dumps core (SIGSEGV) I have reported the problem to GDB Bug Database, and posted a quick fix today. http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl View Problem Report: #1410 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdb-5.3post-0.20021129.18 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: See GDB Bug Database #1410. http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl Additional info:
FC5 gdb-6.3.0.0-1.122 no longer segfaults although it is probably due to: (gdb) set write on (gdb) set symbol1=1 Cannot access memory at address 0x80495b8 so the bug is just a different type, it is disfunctionality, not a crash. Fix still TBD.
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Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. f you are currently still running Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.