egcs-1.0.1 and gdb

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199802041558.QAA12988@schoenberg.mchp.siemens.de >you write:
  > I installed the egcs-1.0.1 compiler on my PPro running Solaris 2.5.1. The
  > first thing I tried was to compile with debug information. But it does not
  > work.  I tried all the different -g options, but gdb-4.16 is not able to find the
  > debugging symbols? I did
Did you try -gstabs?

BY default I believe x86-solaris uses dwarf debug records, which gdb-4.16
has a difficult time understanding.

jeff