Comment 4 for bug 1248981

A very similiar problem here:

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Open On-Chip Debugger 0.8.0-dev-00269-g30fb9dd (2013-11-11-13:07)

arm-none-eabi-gdb crossARMexample.elf
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
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Reading symbols from /home/niall/workspace/crossARMexample/Debug/crossARMexample.elf...done.
(gdb) set debug remote 1
(gdb) tar ext :3333
Remote debugging using :3333
Sending packet: $qSupported:multiprocess+;qRelocInsn+#2a...Ack
Packet received: PacketSize=3fff;qXfer:memory-map:read+;qXfer:features:read+;QStartNoAckMode+
Packet qSupported (supported-packets) is supported
Sending packet: $QStartNoAckMode#b0...Ack
Packet received: OK
Sending packet: $!#21...Packet received: OK
Sending packet: $Hg0#df...Packet received: OK
Sending packet: $qXfer:features:read:target.xml:0,fff#7d...Packet received: l<?xml version="1.0"?>\n<!DOCTYPE target SYSTEM "gdb-target.dtd">\n<target version="1.0">\n<feature name="org.gnu.gdb.arm.m-profile">\n<reg name="r0" bitsize="32" regnum="0" save-restore="yes" type="int" group="general"/>\n<reg name="r1" bitsize="32" regnum="1" save-restore="yes" type="int" group="general"/>\n<reg name="r2" bitsize="32" regnum="2" save-restore="yes" type="int" group="general"/>\n<reg name="r3" bitsize="32" regnum="3" save-restore="yes" type="int" group="general"/>\n<reg name="r4" bitsize="32" regnum="4" save-restore="yes" type="int" group="general"/>\n<reg name="r5" bitsize="32" regnum="5" save-restore="yes" type="int" group="general"/>\n<reg name="r6" bitsize="32" regnum="6" save-restore="yes" type="int" group="general"/>\n<reg name="r7" bitsize="32" regnum="7" save-restore="yes" type="int" group="general"/>\n<reg name="r8" bitsize="32" regnum="8" save-restore="yes" type="int" group="general"/>\n<reg name="r9" bitsize="32" regnum="9" save-restore="yes" type="int" group="general"/>\n<reg name="r10" bitsize="32" regnum="10" save-restore="yes" type="int" group="general"/>\n<reg name="r11" bitsize="32" regnum="11" save-restore="yes" type="int" group="general"/>\n<reg name="r12" bitsize="32" regnum="12" save-restore="yes" type="int" group="general"/>\n<reg name="sp" bitsize="32" regnum="13" save-restore="yes" type="data_ptr" group="general"/>\n<reg name="lr" bitsize="32" regnum="14" save-restore="yes" type="int" group="general"/>\n<reg name="pc" bitsize="32" regnum="15" save-restore="yes" type="code_ptr" group="general"/>\n<reg name="xPSR" bitsize="32" regnum="16" save-restore="yes" type="int" group="general"/>\n</feature>\n<feature name="org.gnu.gdb.arm.m-system">\n<reg name="msp" bitsize="32" regnum="17" save-restore="yes" type="data_ptr" group="system"/>\n<reg name="psp" bitsize="32" regnum="18" save-restore="yes" type="data_ptr" group="system"/>\n<reg name="primask" bitsize="1" regnum="19" save-restore="yes" type="int8" group="system"/>\n<reg name="basepri" bitsize="8" regnum="20" save-restore="yes" type="int8" group="system"/>\n<reg name="faultmask" bitsize="1" regnum="21" save-restore="yes" type="int8" group="system"/>\n<reg name="control" bitsize="2" regnum="22" save-restore="yes" type="int8" group="system"/>\n</feature>\n</target>\n
Sending packet: $?#3f...Packet received: S05
Sending packet: $Hc-1#09...Packet received: OK
Sending packet: $qC#b4...Packet received: QC0
Sending packet: $qAttached#8f...Packet received: 1
Packet qAttached (query-attached) is supported
Sending packet: $qOffsets#4b...Packet received: Text=0;Data=0;Bss=0
Sending packet: $g#67...Packet received: 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d8fffffff9ffffff8901000803000001
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Something about the symbol 'end' I don't understand, had to fudge the default sections.ld to get it to link so still investigating.