Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:17:54 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Chris Reay <mrchameleon AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: gcc -g, but no debugging info?
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On 29 Oct 2002, Chris Reay wrote:

> I'm a newbie, so please excuse my ignorance. I can't seem to get
> debugging info into my exe's, as this snippet shows:
> 
> C:\Nensuite>gcc -Wall -g -o hello.exe hello.c
> 
> C:\Nensuite>gdb hello.exe
> GNU gdb 4.18
> Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and
> you are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
> conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for
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> This GDB was configured as "i386-pc-msdosdjgpp"...
> (no debugging symbols found)...

GDB 4.18 doesn't support the debug info format used by the latest GCC.  
Upgrade to the latest GDB 5.2.1, and things will begin to work.