Re: [patch] Fix oddity in personality routine

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

borlum wrote:
> 
> 
> Jack Howarth-3 wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 05:13:31PM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> Sometimes it doesn't work, so you have to be inventive.  Try
>>> setting a breakpoint on Unwind_RaiseException, or step a single
>>> instruction at a time when you get to a call.
>>>
>>>> I assume that gcc trunk's
>>>> debug code is still compatible with Apple's gdb. If not, I do have
>>>> a build of gdb 7.0 on Intel darwin that I can use instead. Thanks
>>>> in advance for any hints on this issue.
>>>>               Jack
>>>> ps I do notice that gdb can't find the object files from
>>> /sw/src/fink.build/gcc45-4.4.999-20091116/darwin_objdir/x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/libjava/.libs/libgcj.lax
>>> so it might have problems with debugging within libgcj. If I recall
>>> correctly this .lax issue is known...
>>>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-10/msg00083.html
>>> Ouch.  That will cause gdb breakage, for sure.
>> Andrew,
>>    Re-reading Peter's comments in
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-10/msg00083.html, I think I
>> may be able to work around the lax issue with the proper setting of
>> LD_LIBRARY to point to 
>> the shared library in the build directory. I'll see if I can puzzle that
>> one out.
>>                  Jack
>>> Andrew.
>>
> 
> Hey Andrew,
> 
> Did you ever solve the problem? I'm having the same rather frustrating
> error.

Not me, no.  I don't have a Darwin system.

Andrew.