[Bug 1719110] Re: gdb gets SIGSEGV before calling main()

[Jim Starkey]

apt-get upgrade reported that gdb was up to date.  However, removing and
re-installing gdb with apt-get got it working again.

The gdb packaging?  The upgrade procedure?

I have a copy of the systems with bad gdb instances if anyone would like
to take this on.

But for now, I'm out of the woods...

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Title:
  gdb gets SIGSEGV before calling main()

Status in gdb package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This about covers it:

  jas at rpi3:~$ cat foo.cpp
  #include <stdio.h>

  int main (int argc, const char **argv)
  {
          printf("hello, world\n");

          return 0;
  }
  jas at rpi3:~$ g++ foo.cpp
  jas at rpi3:~$ gdb a.out
  GNU gdb (Ubuntu 7.11.1-0ubuntu1~16.5) 7.11.1
  Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
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  Reading symbols from a.out...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
  (gdb) r
  Starting program: /home/jas/a.out

  Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
  0x76fd9dde in ?? () from /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
  (gdb)

  
  I can't image how this can be.  It seems to happen on all images.

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