GDB problems

[Alec Teal]

Heya,

Long story short, I hit this: 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12595631/debugging-with-gdb-on-a-program-with-no-optimization-but-still-there-is-no-symbo 
and can't find the problem, it applies here because like the asker of 
that question I am using a recent GCC build, maybe a week old?

I do suspect (there's a mention of a -ggdb3 flag) that I am using an 
older build of gdb, the guy in the question tried gdb 7.5 (but this was 
tried a while a go) so even if this isn't gcc related (which I highly 
doubt, if it were a bug it would have been noticed) I am hoping I'll get 
even a sentence to point me in the right direction. MAYBE (hint) some 
links to literature of of how debug data gets scattered over the binary 
and what has changed between 4.6 (stock) and 4.8 (my current version)...

Alec