Re: problems building ecgs-19980803 on i386-nextstep

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <9808081316.AA03566@hobbes.dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM>you write:
  > Now let's see what's wrong:
  > 
  > ~/Library/nobackup/egcs-19980803/objdir/gcc> gdb ./gencheck
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  > Reading symbols from  
  > /Users/tschwarz/Library/nobackup/egcs-19980803/objdir/gcc/gencheck...done.
  > Reading symbols from /usr/shlib/libsys_s.B.shlib...done.
  > 
  > Breakpoint 1 at 0x505a693
  > Breakpoint 2 at 0x505a344
  > Function "fancy_abort" not defined.
  > (gdb) run
  > Starting program:  
  > /Users/tschwarz/Library/nobackup/egcs-19980803/objdir/gcc/gencheck
  > /* This file is generated using gencheck. Do not edit. */
  > Program generated(1): Memory access exception on address 0x6850900f  
  > (invalid address).
  > Reading in symbols for ../../gcc/gencheck.c...done.
  > 0x2983 in main (argc=?, argv=0xbffffc1c) at ../../gcc/gencheck.c:53
  > 53        for (i = 0; tree_codes[i]; i++)
  > (gdb) l
  > 48            usage ();
  > 49            exit (1);
  > 50          }
  > 51
  > 52        printf ("/* This file is generated using gencheck. Do not  
  > edit. */\n");
  > 53        for (i = 0; tree_codes[i]; i++)
  > 54          {
  > 55            printf ("#define %s_CHECK(t)\tTREE_CHECK (t, %s)\n",
  > 56                    tree_codes[i], tree_codes[i]);
  > 57            printf ("#define %s_CHECK1(t)\tTREE_CHECK1 (t, %s)\n",
  > (gdb) The program is running.  Quit anyway? (y or n) y
Can you dig into this further?  ie, debug it like you would any other
hunk of code?  There's nothing particularly tricky happening here.  The
code wants to walk down the array of tree_codes and do something on each
node.

What is the value of "i"?  What is "tree_nodes[i]"?

jeff