Re: [patch] New testcase for PR:1291

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>]

Kris Warkentin writes:
 > > > A) move it and make it generic.
 > > > B) leave it and write it in assembly.
 > >
 > > I like (B) better.  The backtrace code is all about specific
 > > assembly instructions.  So I'd like it better in the style of the i386
 > > prologue tests, with explicit assembly.
 > >
 > > Michael C
 > 
 > Okay so this bit of assembly adequately demonstrates the problem.  There is
 > a bit of an issue here though that perhaps some sh4 expert can clear up for
 > me.  If I run this and go "until sub2", it stops on sub2 and works fine.
 > If, however, I go "until sub1", followed by "until sub2", it stops a couple
 > instructions before sub2 and I have to 'si' into it.  I can modify the test
 > case to not bother checking sub1 (since we know it's okay anyway) but I'm
 > still puzzled as to why this is having the problem.
 > 
 > cheers,
 > 
 > Kris
 > 

Ok.  Not sure why that happens. It defeinitely seems like a bug. File
a pr, and KFAIL it in the testsuite, with the pr number.

elena


 > 
 > void sub1 (void);
 > void sub2 (void);
 > 
 > main()
 > {
 >         sub1();
 >         sub2();
 > }
 > 
 > asm(".text\n"
 >     "    .align 5\n"
 >     "sub1:\n"
 >     "    mov.l  r14,@-r15\n"
 >     "    add    #-128,r15\n"
 >     "    add    #-128,r15\n"
 >     "    mov    r15,r14\n"
 >     "    mov.w  .STACK1,r7\n"
 >     "    add    r7,r14\n"
 >     "    mov    r14,r15\n"
 >     "    mov.l  @r15+,r14\n"
 >     "    rts\n"
 >     "    nop\n"
 >     "    .align 1\n"
 >     ".STACK1:\n"
 >     "    .short  256\n");
 > 
 > asm(".text\n"
 >     "    .align 5\n"
 >     "sub2:\n"
 >     "    mov.l  r14,@-r15\n"
 >     "    mov.w  .STACK2,r3\n"
 >     "    sub    r3,r15\n"
 >     "    mov    r15,r14\n"
 >     "    mov.w  .STACK2,r7\n"
 >     "    add    r7,r14\n"
 >     "    mov    r14,r15\n"
 >     "    mov.l  @r15+,r14\n"
 >     "    rts\n"
 >     "    nop\n"
 >     "    .align 1\n"
 >     ".STACK2:\n"
 >     "    .short  260\n");
 > 
 >