*gdb* crashes when attempting to debug swarm app

[Jason Alexander]

I just tried debugging a swarm application on my RH 6 linux box and had
the extremely disconcerting experience of watching gdb crash.  Here's a
screen dump of what happened:

  address@hidden bayes]$ gdb bayes
  GNU gdb 4.17.0.11 with Linux support
  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 "i386-redhat-linux"...
  (gdb) run
  Starting program: /home/jalex/prog/swarm/bayes/bayes
  Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Now, the application itself does not (as far as I can tell) have any
problems.  It runs without errors and does what it should.  I was also
able to successfully debug the code when I was working on a Sun Ultra a
few months ago, but this was the first time I tried debugging it on my
linux box.

I would assume this problem is fairly rare.  Has anyone else experienced
something similar?  I'm reluctant to begin more projects with swarm if I
don't have a working debugger.

Oh -- just for the record gdb works with other programs.  I was able to
use it for other stuff I've written (not in swarm).  Xxgdb and ddd work,
too.

Thanks,

Jason

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