[971114] Unknown problem building DDD 2.2

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199711182036.PAA19431@calumny.jyacc.com >you write:
  > I built the latest release of DDD (a graphical front-end for gdb)
  > on Linux, using egcs-971114. Things compile and run, but the program
  > then seems to hang forever without getting a response from gdb.
  > Compiling the same code with the standard gcc results in a program
  > which works properly.
  > 
  > I don't have any more information about what might be wrong, but I'll
  > keep trying to build DDD with new snapshots.
You might consider trying to isolate the problem down to a file/routine
either using the debugger to see where things go wrong or via binary
search style replacement of .o's to track down which one is being mis-compiled.

jeff