Bad struct name in gdb with g++ 4.1.2

[Michel METZGER <michel.metzger@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm having some issues with debugging an application compiled with g++ 4.1.2 The type names for structures appear in gdb as ".0", ".1", etc.

Here is a simple testcase:

foo.h
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typedef struct {
    int bar;
    char br;
} foo_t;
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foo.c
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#include "foo.h"

foo_t * global_foo_ptr;

int main(void) {
  return 0;
}
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Compiled with 
>g++4 -g -m32 foo.c -o test

GDB trace:
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(gdb) whatis global_foo_ptr
type = ._0 *
(gdb) ptype foo_t
No symbol "foo_t" in current context.
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readelf -w test
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[...]
<1><66>: Abbrev Number: 2 (DW_TAG_structure_type)
     DW_AT_sibling     : <8e>
     DW_AT_name        : ._0
     DW_AT_byte_size   : 8
     DW_AT_decl_file   : 3
     DW_AT_decl_line   : 1
[...]
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>g++4 --version
g++4 (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)

>gdb --version
GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.162.el4rh)


A more recent version of gcc (4.5.1) gives the expected results.


Any idea?

Thanks for your help,

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Michel Metzger