Debugging the compiler with gdb

["Steven Tjiang" <tjiang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am having problems debugging the be phase with
gdb.

I compiled the compiler with debugging on.
This really bloats up the binaries but the real 
problem is that if you use gdb-4.18 on be, 
gdb grows to 460 megabytes and then segfaults.
Here is the sequence I went through:

gdb be
b be_debug
run .... <lots of args>
b Lnoptimizer
c
p debug()

Gdb crashes leaving a very large core file.
This is on an RH6.1 ia32 system. 

Anybody experienced this, or have a workaround?