On both Linux/ia32 and Linux/x86-64, I got [hjl@gnu-9 gcc]$ gdb cc1 GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.21rh) Copyright 2004 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 "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1". Breakpoint 1 at 0x4d6cf5: file /net/gnu-13/export/gnu/src/gcc-4.0/gcc/gcc/diagnostic.c, line 555. Breakpoint 2 at 0x4d6c29: file /net/gnu-13/export/gnu/src/gcc-4.0/gcc/gcc/diagnostic.c, line 496. Function "exit" not defined. Function "abort" not defined. (gdb) watch costs Hardware watchpoint 3: {<data variable, no debug info>} 10097096 Gcc 3.4 works fine.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 21828 ***