5.2 branch gdb crash - infinite recursion stack overflow

[Gianni Mariani]

This is a snippet of a stack trace of a gdb build from top of 
gdb_5_2-branch as of a few hours ago.

The executable was build using gcc v3

   g++  -W -Wpointer-arith -pipe -ggdb3 -fcheck-new -fPIC ...

#4256 0x0807dc69 in search_struct_field (name=0x90c8a64 
"HA_ErrorReport", arg1=0x9488b60,
   offset=0, type=0x8c69468, looking_for_baseclass=1) at valops.c:2094
#4257 0x0807b8d5 in value_cast (type=0x90c8a1c, arg2=0x9488b60) at 
valops.c:245
#4258 0x081346a7 in gnuv3_baseclass_offset (type=0x8c69468, index=0,
   valaddr=0x9488af4 "hW$\bÃŒu-\b", address=137221140) at gnu-v3-abi.c:396
#4259 0x080e0241 in baseclass_offset (type=0x8c69468, index=0,
   valaddr=0x9488af4 "hW$\bÃŒu-\b", address=137221140) at cp-abi.c:69
#4260 0x0807dc69 in search_struct_field (name=0x90c8a64 
"HA_ErrorReport", arg1=0x9488ab8,
   offset=0, type=0x8c69468, looking_for_baseclass=1) at valops.c:2094
#4261 0x0807b8d5 in value_cast (type=0x90c8a1c, arg2=0x9488ab8) at 
valops.c:245
#4262 0x081346a7 in gnuv3_baseclass_offset (type=0x8c69468, index=0,
   valaddr=0x9488a4c "hW$\bÃŒu-\b", address=137221140) at gnu-v3-abi.c:396
#4263 0x080e0241 in baseclass_offset (type=0x8c69468, index=0,
   valaddr=0x9488a4c "hW$\bÃŒu-\b", address=137221140) at cp-abi.c:69
#4264 0x0807dc69 in search_struct_field (name=0x90c8a64 
"HA_ErrorReport", arg1=0x9488a10,
   offset=0, type=0x8c69468, looking_for_baseclass=1) at valops.c:2094
#4265 0x0807b8d5 in value_cast (type=0x90c8a1c, arg2=0x9488a10) at 
valops.c:245
#4266 0x081346a7 in gnuv3_baseclass_offset (type=0x8c69468, index=0,
   valaddr=0x94889a4 "hW$\bÃŒu-\b", address=137221140) at gnu-v3-abi.c:396
#4267 0x080e0241 in baseclass_offset (type=0x8c69468, index=0,
   valaddr=0x94889a4 "hW$\bÃŒu-\b", address=137221140) at cp-abi.c:69
#4268 0x0807dc69 in search_struct_field (name=0x90c8a64 
"HA_ErrorReport", arg1=0x9488968,
   offset=0, type=0x8c69468, looking_for_baseclass=1) at valops.c:2094
#4269 0x0807b8d5 in value_cast (type=0x90c8a1c, arg2=0x9488968) at 
valops.c:245
#4270 0x081346a7 in gnuv3_baseclass_offset (type=0x8c69468, index=0,
   valaddr=0x94888fc "hW$\bÃŒu-\b", address=137221140) at gnu-v3-abi.c:396
#4271 0x080e0241 in baseclass_offset (type=0x8c69468, index=0,
   valaddr=0x94888fc "hW$\bÃŒu-\b", address=137221140) at cp-abi.c:69
#4272 0x0807dc69 in search_struct_field (name=0x90c8a64 
"HA_ErrorReport", arg1=0x94888c0,
   offset=0, type=0x8c69468, looking_for_baseclass=1) at valops.c:2094
#4273 0x0807b8d5 in value_cast (type=0x90c8a1c, arg2=0x94888c0) at 
valops.c:245
#4274 0x081346a7 in gnuv3_baseclass_offset (type=0x8c69468, index=0,
   valaddr=0x9488854 "hW$\bÃŒu-\b", address=137221140) at gnu-v3-abi.c:396
#4275 0x080e0241 in baseclass_offset (type=0x8c69468, index=0,
   valaddr=0x9488854 "hW$\bÃŒu-\b", address=137221140) at cp-abi.c:69
#4276 0x0807dc69 in search_struct_field (name=0x90c8a64 
"HA_ErrorReport", arg1=0x9488818,
   offset=0, type=0x8c69468, looking_for_baseclass=1) at valops.c:2094
#4277 0x0807b8d5 in value_cast (type=0x90c8a1c, arg2=0x9488818) at 
valops.c:245
#4278 0x081346a7 in gnuv3_baseclass_offset (type=0x8c69468, index=0,
   valaddr=0x94887ac "hW$\bÃŒu-\b", address=137221140) at gnu-v3-abi.c:396
#4279 0x080e0241 in baseclass_offset (type=0x8c69468, index=0,
   valaddr=0x94887ac "hW$\bÃŒu-\b", address=137221140) at cp-abi.c:69

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