Gdb crashes with "segmentation fault" message.

[Daniel Manfis]

Hello.

When i run gdb on any  program (even precompiled binaries. Actually, 
i don't even have to run a program - even if i start gdb without any 
arguments), and type:

(gdb) break "abc"

(contents of a string is not important, it could even be an empty 
string or only a single double-quote character, what is important is 
that a double-quote is the first character after 'break')

or if i run gdb on any program and type:

(gdb) break .

(here, it is important that only one single '.' (point) will be 
present),

gdb crashes with segmentation fault message.



Environment information:
        OS           : linux 2.2.17-21mdk (Mandrake 7.2)
        gdb version : 5.0
   
I don't know which version of gcc was used to compile gdb - it came 
as an RPM package with default Mandrake 7.2 install disk.


By the way, is it a general gdb bug, or is it only a problem with my 
instance of gdb (may be misconfigured RPM)?


Daniel.

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