SDB out of memory?

[Michael Galassi]

In article <633 at ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> mercer at ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
>In article <163 at bdt.UUCP> david at bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) writes:

>>What can be done when sdb gives the following fatal error message:
>>"Cannot allocate space for internal symbol table; Goodbye."
>>I can't find anything in my Microport manuals. Thanks in advance.

I have run into this when I work with VERY large programs in which
all (or many) of the files are compiled with the "-g" flag.  My solution
is to not use the "-g" flag on modules that have reached some reasonable
level of stability.

>I've had this happen to me,  usually when I inadvertently call:
>sdb sourcefile.c
>instead of the loadable program
>sdb a.out
>My guess is you made the same mistake.

I hope not.  That could lead to problems.  One solution to this is
to just type "sdb<c/r>", the defaults for the executable's name,
the core file's name and the source directory are:
a.out
core
.
so typicaly you don't even need any parameters.

-michael
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