Re: AIX 4.3.3: gdb 4.16 cannot understand archive format

[Tim Mooney]

In article <address@hidden>,
Clark L. Coleman <address@hidden> wrote:
  
> 1) Does anyone know for sure what causes this problem?

AIX 4.3.x has LP64 support, and "big format" is one facet of that.  Older
gdbs didn't know anything about big format.

> 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).

Yes.
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