Re: Is GDB broken on ia64?
>>>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:14:59 -0800, Richard Harke <rharke@earthlink.net> said:
Richard> When I look at the back trace, the first three entries look
Richard> legit but higher up, the back trace has call sequences that
Richard> are not possible.
Older GDB use code-reading to create a backtrace, which can't be
reliable, especially with newer compilers. The latest GDB will use
libunwind to build the backtrace. I don't know if any distro has
picked that up yet, but it's definitely in the CVS tree.
Richard> But the call parameters printed out at the breakpoint are
Richard> completely different from the call parameters printed after
Richard> the seg fault.
Depends on the details, but optimizations can confuse GDB in this fashion.
Richard> I have trouble stepping thru C code. It seems to jump around
Richard> in a manner inconsistent with teh code.
That's normal when code gets rescheduled. The easiest way to avoid
this problem is to build with -g -O (instead of "-g -O2").
There is also a debugger from Intel (idb), which has
gdb-compatibility, but I never tried it myself.
--david
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