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From: Kevin Buettner via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use get_frame_address_in_block in print_frame
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 19:33:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230825193317.698943d7@f37-zws-nv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230804173635.392319-1-tom@tromey.com>

On Fri,  4 Aug 2023 11:36:35 -0600
Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> wrote:

> The author of 'mold' pointed out that with a certain shared library,
> gdb would fail to find the shared library's name in 'bt'.
> 
> The function in question appeared at the end of the .so's .text
> segment and ended with a call to 'abort'.
> 
> This turned out to be a classic case of calling get_frame_pc when
> get_frame_address_in_block is needed -- the former will be off-by-one
> for purposes of finding the enclosing function or shared library.
> 
> The included test fails without the patch on my system.  However, I
> imagine it can't be assumed to reliably fail.  Nevertheless it seemed
> worth doing.
> 
> Regression tested on x86-64 Fedora 38.
> 
> Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29074

LGTM.

Reviewed-by: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>


      reply	other threads:[~2023-08-26  2:33 UTC|newest]

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