Help with MIPS "dbx" command

[Norman Diamond]

Does anyone know how to make the "dbx" command recognize symbol tables
in programs that need debugging?  This is on a MIPS box.  Programs
are entirely in C, compiled with the "-g" option and no "-O" option.
(A few times, I used "-O0 -g2", but it seems immune to this overkill
as well.)  "dbx" always says that there is no symbol table, so it
refuses to print a stack traceback for the "where" command, or set
breakpoints or do anything else useful.  Please kindly reply by
e-mail; I do not read this group.  Thank you very much.

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