Recent versions of gcc have had a bug in how they emit debugging information for C++ methods (when using dbx-style stabs). This patch should fix the problem. Fix you can't fix gcc, you can alternatively define GCC_MANGLE_BUG when compling gdb/symtab.c. =================================================================== RCS file: /rel/cvsfiles/devo/gcc/dbxout.c,v retrieving revision 1.53 diff -c -r1.53 dbxout.c *** 1.53 1992/07/05 09:50:22 --- dbxout.c 1992/07/09 07:00:33 *************** *** 683,688 **** --- 683,689 ---- tree type_encoding; register tree fndecl; register tree last; + char formatted_type_identifier_length[16]; register int type_identifier_length; if (methods == NULL_TREE) *************** *** 711,716 **** --- 712,719 ---- type_identifier_length = IDENTIFIER_LENGTH (type_encoding); + sprintf(formatted_type_identifier_length, "%d", type_identifier_length); + if (TREE_CODE (methods) == FUNCTION_DECL) fndecl = methods; else if (TREE_VEC_ELT (methods, 0) != NULL_TREE) *************** *** 754,762 **** --- 757,769 ---- if (debug_name[0] == '_' && debug_name[1] == '_') { char *method_name = debug_name + 2; + char *length_ptr = formatted_type_identifier_length; /* Get past const and volatile qualifiers. */ while (*method_name == 'C' || *method_name == 'V') method_name++; + /* Skip digits for length of type_encoding. */ + while (*method_name == *length_ptr && *length_ptr) + length_ptr++, method_name++; if (! strncmp (method_name, IDENTIFIER_POINTER (type_encoding), type_identifier_length)) *************** *** 768,775 **** --- 775,786 ---- else if (debug_name[0] == '_' && debug_name[1] == '_') { char *ctor_name = debug_name + 2; + char *length_ptr = formatted_type_identifier_length; while (*ctor_name == 'C' || *ctor_name == 'V') ctor_name++; + /* Skip digits for length of type_encoding. */ + while (*ctor_name == *length_ptr && *length_ptr) + length_ptr++, ctor_name++; if (!strncmp (IDENTIFIER_POINTER (type_encoding), ctor_name, type_identifier_length)) debug_name = ctor_name + type_identifier_length;