Anna Sidera <eep6sa1@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am trying to use gdb and I get the following error. I can not go to gdb prompt. Can you please advise? > > 3:19pm sidera@diana:> > 3:19pm sidera@diana:> > 3:19pm sidera@diana:>gcc -g -lm myprogram.c > 3:22pm sidera@diana:>gdb a.out > GNU gdb 6.0 > Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are > welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. > Type "show copying" to see the conditions. > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. > This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.8"...Bus error (core dumped) I would try a newer version of gdb; your version is five years old. If that doesn't help, ask on a gdb mailing list; see http://sourceware.org/gdb . Certainly nothing that the compiler does should cause gdb to crash. Ian