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From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
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Subject: Re: gcc 3.0.2 and -ggdb debugging info
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 00:30:20 +0100
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> I cannot use those: they are in some strange format, so it seems.  The
> Web page says they are *.gz files, but Gzip says they are not in gzip
> format.  Looking at the files, I see that they begin with "MZ", so I
> thought they are uncompressed executables and tried to debug them with
> GDB.  But GDB says "unrecognized file format".  So I'm stumped.

Hmm - probably a nonstandard stub.  IIRC gdb (well, bfd) does not handle
anything other than a standard-length stub (because it uses a file
header that includes a buffer of STUBSIZE bytes before the actual COFF
header).  This may prove a problem if the standard stub size ever
changes.