Sun Workshop C/C++ Debugging Formats

Sun Workshop C/C++ Debugging Formats

Post by Saurabh Jan » Wed, 24 Nov 1999 04:00:00



Hi,

We use Sun Workshop C/C++ 4.2 on Solaris 2.6 (Ultra E3000 platforms) and
have run into several problems where dbx will not be able to read core
files generated properly, even though the executables were built with
Sun CC/C++ 4.2.

Gdb also seems to have some problems with executables built with Sun CC/C++ 4.2
and core files genereated from them.

If it helps, the problems are quite often involved with core dumps in statically
linked libraries.

What is the debugging format used by Sun S/C++ in Solaris 2.6 ELF
executables? Would gdb have a problem with this?

Saurabh

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