GDB 4.16 dumps core with egcs-1.0

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.980113224611.14365B-100000@goliath.csn.tu-chemnitz.
de>you write:
  > > Note that some of the code egcs installs into the init sections calls
  > > malloc behind gdb's back, which can cause this behavior.
  > > 
  > > egcs-1.0.1 will have a newer version of this code which will not call
  > > malloc and should avoid these kinds of problems with gdb.
  > 
  > Now I use pgcc-1.0.1 (based on egcs-1.0.1) and the bug still occurs. I
  > don't think that pgcc changes the init-code.
Hmmm, I can't speak for pgcc, but egcs-1.0.1 did remove the code which calls
malloc before main.  Primarily to fix this problem with gdb.

Note that if you have a shared library which was compiled with egcs-1.0
that is used by gdb, then you'll still trip over this problem until the
shared library is rebuilt with egcs-1.0.1.
jeff