gdb debugging native solaris c++ code

[Peter.Schauer]

This is a known problem (Sun C++ uses extensions to the stab format, which
are not officially documented AFAIK).

I suspect that it will remain a problem, until someone contributes clean
patches or funds the necessary non trivial work involved.

This is becoming a FAQ, perhaps we should add a note to gdb/README...

> Hi,
> 
> if I compile more than one c++-file with native CC 4.2 on 
> Solaris 2.5.1, gdb-4.16 seems to be unable to read the debugging
> symbols from the resulting binary.
> It is, however, able to do a backtrace if I run a binary
> from within gdb, albeit the c++-method names are still mangled.
> It is also unable to read a core generated by such a binary.
> If I compile things with gcc (2.8.0 for that matter), debugging
> is no problem at all.
> 
> Does anybody know help, besides compiling with gcc or egc?
> Are things different on Solaris 2.6?
> 
>   Guenther

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Peter Schauer			pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de