I am running the following old gdb:
gdb --version GDB 4.16 (rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5), Copyright 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc. on an IBM PowerPC 604e CPU under AIX 4.3.3. When I try to debug an executable built with gcc 2.95.2: gcc -v Reading specs from /gnu/gcc-2.95.2/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.2.0/2.95.2/specs gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) I get the following message: "/usr/lpp/pmtoolkit/lib/libpmapi.a": not in executable format: File format not recognized. This happens when I execute the "run" command after setting a single breakpoint in my own code (not the archive). The executable statically links together numerous *.o files of my own, plus two archives. When I execute the "file" command on the two archives, the one that causes no problems is just listed as an archive, while the one that causes the problem is listed as: archive (big format) My questions are: 1) Does anyone know for sure what causes this problem? 2) Will upgrading to a newer version of gdb fix this? (Probably cannot get sysadmins to upgrade "just to see if it helps" unless there is a solid reason to believe that it will help). 3) Any idea what "big format" means as output from the 'file' command? Thanks for any info. Clark Coleman _______________________________________________ Bug-gdb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gdb
