Well, after much hair-pulling, printf-adding, etc., I finally tracked
down the problem that was causing GDB to not work properly printing
function arguments, locals, etc.  At least, it now appears to work.

Anyway:

gcc was improperly configured to generate the wrong kind of debugging
symbols.


Solution:

The next snapshot i kick out will fix the problem.  in the mean time,
compile things you want to debug with '-g -ggdb'.



cgd