Path: utzoo!telly!ddsw1!lll-winken!killer!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ATARI.NAC.DEC.COM!reilly From: reilly@ATARI.NAC.DEC.COM (Michael Reilly / DECnet Nameserver) Newsgroups: gnu.gdb.bug Subject: xgdb V2.8 dumps core on a microVAX Message-ID: <8809201559.AA10566@atari.NaC.dec.com> Date: 20 Sep 88 15:59:32 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 41 I originally posted this to bug-gnu-emacs. Someone was nice enough to inform me of the existance of this list. I apologize to anyone who has already seen it. ---- The following shows my attempt at using xgdb on a microVAX running Ultrix. Note the X Toolkit warning message. The core dump occured when I set a breakpoint in the main function and clicked on the "run" button. - -- Information -- gdb - V2.8 (as received with Emacs 18.52 + the patch posted by Mr. Stallman) gcc - V1.28 with no patches installed X - V11R2 as released by MIT with patches through number 33 applied. microVAX II/GPX 8-plane color system - ---- Session log ---- % gcc -g -o hacker.g hacker.c % xgdb hacker.g X Toolkit Warning: No type converter registered for 'String' to 'EditMode' conversion. GDB 2.7, Copyright (C) 1988 Free Software Foundation, Inc. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for GDB; type "info warranty" for details. GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it under certain conditions; type "info copying" to see the conditions. Reading symbol data from /usr1/users/reilly/work/hacker.g...done. Type "help" for a list of commands. (gdb) Breakpoint 1 at 0xd3: file hacker.c, line 17. (gdb) Bus error (core dumped) % - ---- End of session ---- mike Michael Reilly @ Digital Equipment Corporation Networks and Communications Group reilly@atari.NaC.dec.com reilly%atari.NaC.dec.com@decwrl.dec.com ...{allegra,decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!atari.dec.com!reilly