[Gdb] Internal GDB error: recursive internal error

[Sven . Hartrumpf]

Hi all.

I get a strange gdb error when I use a conditional breakpoint
(without this breakpoint, debugging works as expected).
The gdb process itself grows to a large size (3GB) while the
debugged process behaves normal, but then gdb crashes:
(Debugged program is compiled with -ggdb.)

> gdb test
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This GDB was configured as "i586-suse-linux"...
(gdb) b runtime.c:2179
Breakpoint 1 at 0x841e0f7: file runtime.c, line 2179.
(gdb) condition 1 (p2 < 1000)
(gdb) run
Internal GDB error: recursive internal error.
Aborted

~/>


Line 2179 of runtime.c:
    p->header = C_GC_FORWARDING_BIT | (C_word)p2;

Any ideas?
Sven