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From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <chastain@cygnus.com>
To: chastain@cygnus.com, shebs@apple.com
Cc: ac131313@cygnus.com, cagney@cygnus.com,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.cygnus.com, kettenis@wins.uva.nl,
	msnyder@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] Testsuite addition for x86 linux GDB and SIGALRM fix
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200106282002.NAA29458@stanley.cygnus.com> (raw)

Ah, I have an example in the existing test suite.

gdb.base/funcargs.c has several functions with one-line bodies:

  #ifdef PROTOTYPES
  void call5a (struct stag st)
  #else
  call5a (st)
  struct stag st;
  #endif
  {st.s1 = 5;}

In some configurations, this causes problems because gcc optimizes away
the stabn for the end of the prologue.  gdb needs that stabn; without
that stabn, it ultimately comes up with a bogus place to breakpoint and
thus prints incorrect values of the "st" argument.

I've seen this happen on native i686-pc-cygwin and native i686-pc-linux
with a gcc v2 compiler.  I haven't seen it happen with a gcc v3 compiler.
I haven't filed a bug report yet.

The bug depends on the fact that the whole function body is one line.
The Gnu Coding Standard prohibits this:

  http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_22.html#SEC22

MichaelC


             reply	other threads:[~2001-06-28 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-28 13:02 Michael Elizabeth Chastain [this message]
     [not found] <200106281927.MAA29407@stanley.cygnus.com>
2001-06-28 12:41 ` Stan Shebs
     [not found] <200005192321.e4JNLEv13368@delius.kettenis.local>
2001-06-27 22:22 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-06-28 10:54   ` Michael Snyder
2001-07-09 14:21   ` Fernando Nasser
2001-07-09 14:34     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
     [not found]       ` <3B4A2C7C.85C688C4@cygnus.com>
2001-07-09 15:17         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-07-09 15:28           ` Fernando Nasser
2001-07-25 16:11         ` Michael Snyder
2001-07-25 16:45           ` Fernando Nasser
2001-07-25 18:48             ` Andrew Cagney
2001-07-26  7:14               ` Fernando Nasser
2001-07-26  7:44                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-07-26  7:51                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-07-26  8:18                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-07-26  8:48                   ` Fernando Nasser
2001-07-26  8:56                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-07-26 10:21                       ` Fernando Nasser
2001-07-26 10:38                         ` Fernando Nasser
2001-07-26 10:06                     ` Andrew Cagney
2001-07-26 10:24                       ` Fernando Nasser
2001-07-26 10:45                         ` Andrew Cagney
2001-07-26 10:54                           ` Fernando Nasser
2001-07-26  6:10             ` Michael Snyder
2001-07-26  7:14               ` Fernando Nasser
2001-07-26  7:45                 ` Michael Snyder
2001-07-26  7:51                   ` Fernando Nasser

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