From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 128022 invoked by alias); 11 Apr 2017 15:41:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 127374 invoked by uid 89); 11 Apr 2017 15:41:40 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*r:sk:cable.0, Hx-languages-length:1302, his X-HELO: eggs.gnu.org Received: from eggs.gnu.org (HELO eggs.gnu.org) (208.118.235.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 11 Apr 2017 15:41:38 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cxxvG-0000XB-3I for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Tue, 11 Apr 2017 11:41:39 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57422) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cxxuz-0000Oe-Jy; Tue, 11 Apr 2017 11:41:21 -0400 Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1801 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cxxuy-0002ii-Qk; Tue, 11 Apr 2017 11:41:21 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 15:41:00 -0000 Message-Id: <83shlfj6j2.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Andreas Arnez CC: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, sergiodj@redhat.com, antoine.tremblay@ericsson.com, mishra.nitish.88@gmail.com In-reply-to: (message from Andreas Arnez on Tue, 11 Apr 2017 16:21:27 +0200) Subject: Re: GDB 8.0 release / imminent branching? (2017-04-10) Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20170411011802.s24zz4pygnt2qoyg@adacore.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-04/txt/msg00289.txt.bz2 > From: Andreas Arnez > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Sergio Durigan Junior , antoine.tremblay@ericsson.com, mishra.nitish.88@gmail.com > Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 16:21:27 +0200 > > On Mon, Apr 10 2017, Joel Brobecker wrote: > > > * build/21187 Static linking of libstdc++ and libgcc with GDB leads to broken exception handling on AIX platform > > > > For this one, I think the feedback so far is a question about > > the fact that this is only a work around. Parallel to that, > > did I see a thread where people are discussing a real fix > > for the exception handling issue? > > > > So, perhaps we might not need the GDB patch after all? > > Is there a version of GCC capable of compiling GDB 8.x > > on AiX? > > Maybe not be relevant for answering your question, but the issue doesn't > seem to be restricted to AIX. It occurs on Windows with mingw as well, > see gdb/21078 ("gdb compiled with mingw32 crashes on Windows7 when > entering any invalid command"). I cannot reproduce gdb/21078 in GDB 7.12 built with MinGW using static linking of libstdc++ and libgcc. I tried on Windows XP. Maybe the OP has some other issue with his build, like some inconsistency in how exceptions are handled?