For Sun C compiled 64 bit target programs "print localvar" does not work 
(PR gdb/1669).

I verified this against these compiler versions:

   Sun C 5.5 2003/03/12
   Forte Developer 7 C 5.4 2002/03/09
   Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 2001/05/15
   Sun WorkShop 6 2000/04/07 C 5.1

This is what happens:

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   (gdb) b main
   Breakpoint 1 at 0x100000894: file p2.c, line 6.
   (gdb) run
   Starting program: /export/home/michaelm/gdb/gdb-6.1.patch/tst/p2

   Breakpoint 1, main () at p2.c:6
   6               int n = 7;
   (gdb) p n
   Cannot access memory at address 0x7ffff009


There are 2 different problems that need to be fixed. One might involve 
binutils.

*** Problem 1 *************************************************

In dbxread.c function read_ofile_symtab macro INTERNALIZE_SYMBOL (nlist, 
bufp, abfd) is called to set nlist.n_value (type bfd_vma = unsigned 
long, size 64 bit) to the negative offset of a local variable inside the 
stack frame. This offset is taken from bufp->e_value which is 4 bytes 
(bfd_byte e_value[4]). This is the macro definition:

#define INTERNALIZE_SYMBOL(intern, extern, abfd)                 \
   {                                                              \
     (intern).n_type = bfd_h_get_8 (abfd, (extern)->e_type);      \
     (intern).n_strx = bfd_h_get_32 (abfd, (extern)->e_strx);     \
     (intern).n_desc = bfd_h_get_16 (abfd, (extern)->e_desc);     \
     if (bfd_get_sign_extend_vma (abfd))                          \
       (intern).n_value = bfd_h_get_signed_32 (abfd, (extern)->e_value);\
     else                                                         \
       (intern).n_value = bfd_h_get_32 (abfd, (extern)->e_value); \
   }

The problem is that bfd_get_sign_extend_vma returns 0 and the negative 
value is not sign extended and turns into a large positive number.

There was a similar problem in the past for mips 64 bit:

     The problem with stabs and sign extension
     http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2001-08/msg00078.html

     db/ChangeLog-2001:
     2001-08-14  H.J. Lu  (hjl@gnu.org)

It was fixed by introducing the call to bfd_get_sign_extend_vma into the 
macro. Following this example one could fix this by changing binutils to 
make bfd_get_sign_extend_vma return 1 for sparc solaris 64 bit.

Function bfd_get_sign_extend_vma is also called in dwarf2read.c and I 
don't know what the effects of such a change would be there. I'm also 
not sure if this it the intended use of bfd_get_sign_extend_vma.

As a temporary workaround I changed INTERNALIZE_SYMBOL to always call 
bfd_h_get_signed_32 (see the appended dbxread.workaround).


*** Problem 2 *************************************************

Function sparc64_frame_base_address in sparc64-tdep.c needs to be fixed:

   /* ??? Should we take BIAS into account here?  */
   return cache->base;


The answer to the question in comment is yes, see the appended patch.



2004-05-18  Michael Mueller  <m.mueller99@kay-mueller.de>
     * sparc64-tdep.c: fix PR gdb/1669, printing of 64 bit
       local variables