Re: GDB will not resolve symbols for Sun WS's CC without -xs

[Andrew Cagney]

> Hi,
>
> (I'm reposting this in the hope some-one may know)
>
> I've found that gdb 5.0 will not resolve the symbols of a binary built
> without the flag '-xs' on Sun Workshop 4.2's CC compiler, (Solaris 2.6).
> Here's the blurb from the Solaris 'CC's manpage about this
> option..
>
>    -xs       Disables Auto-Read for dbx.  Use this option in

Yes.  That was a trick sun pulled to speed up link time.

> Is this an known bug/limitation and has it been fixed or will it be?

GDB doesn't know how to handle this.  I don't know of anyone working on 
this problem so I encourage you to do so.

I would suggest starting with a more current GDB:
        http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/

        Andrew