dbx: internal error: bad dwarf abbreviation code: 139

Forgot to mention: Sun compilers (Fortran, C and C++) are only available in Sun Studio Express for Linux. Your Linux installation shouldn't have them. Also, there were a lot of bugfixes and enhancement in DWARF debug information processing since Sun Studio 11 dbx release so there's one more reason to try to upgrate to latest dbx available in Sun Studio Express package. It might be that the problem you see is already fixed there.

SS Express can be downloaded here: http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/cc/downloads/express.jsp

MaximKartashev at 2007-7-7 1:59:35 >

That kind of error message indicates that dbx found an

abbreviation code in ".debug_info" which is not described

in ".debug_abbrev". It points to some sort of internal consistency

error in the dwarf data generated by the pgf77 compiler.

It could also be some sort of incompatible dwarf extension

in pgf77 that dbx does not handle. It is easy to add specific

extensions in a compatible way, and dbx should skip the

things it doesn't understand. But if the dwarf data format was

structurally changed in a basic way then dbx might

not understand.

dbx in Sun Studio 11 doesn't support dwarf with fortran yet.

We are working on that support for the Sun compilers now,

and Sun Studio 12 should have a much better chance of working

with pgf77. We have no immediate plans for *officially*

supporting that compiler. But basic dwarf support for fortran should

be much better in Sun Studio 12.

--chris

ChrisQuenelle at 2007-7-7 1:59:35 >