From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:43:49 -0400
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Subject: Re: rhgdb and dwarf2 oddity
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> Does this happen with GDB as well?

No, but I also don't know what the equivalent sequence of commands would be. 
If load the program and set a breakpoint, gdb does it without complaint.

> 
> Also, what GDB sources were used to build RHGDB?  is this some recent
> snapshot, or something older?

I used rhgdb from the august 14th build of rhide 1.4.7.9 from 

> (Btw, does the ported Binutils 2.11.2 support DWARF2?)

I discovered yesterday that the alignment for dwarf2 sections must be set to 
0 so padding isn't added that would confuse gdb. Otherwise it may unable to 
use dwarf2 info. So the current version of 2.11.2 has a rather serious 
problem with dwarf2 support.

Mark