gdb problem on Solaris SPARC

[Stephen A. Witt]

On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Stephen A. Witt wrote:

> Machine: sun4m
> OS:      Solaris 2.6
> cc:	 gcc 2.8.1
> gdb:	 gdb 4.17 sparc-sun-solaris2.6
> 
> I'm having a problem using gdb on the above system. I compile a simple
> hello.c with:
> 
> $ make gcc -g -DXCONF -ansi -c hello.c -o hello.o hello.c:  
> In function `main':  
> hello.c:6: warning: return type of `main' is not `int' 
> gcc -o hello hello.o
> 
> 
> 
> Then run gdb:
> 
> $ gdb hello 
> GNU gdb 4.17 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 details. 
> This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.6"... 
> 
> I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that.  Symbol format `elf32-sparc' unknown. 
> No display number 0. 
> Disabling display 0 to avoid infinite recursion.
> (gdb) q
> 
> 
> 
> So apparently gdb isn't able to read the executable because it is in an
> unrecognized format. Is there a way to solve this problem?
> 
> Thanks...
> 

To follow up on my own message, just for grins I build gdb 4.16 to see if
there was any difference. gdb 4.16 does not seem to have this problem and
works perfectly [minus any 4.17 bugfixes :)].