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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,  Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Find tailcall frames before inline frames
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 19:59:51 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blojdgfc.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cf5d7ef5-95e6-1976-6dbb-788b8cb948b2@linaro.org> (Luis Machado's message of "Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:24:03 -0300")

>>>>> "Luis" == Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org> writes:

Luis> Having spent a few days trying to understand this problem, it seems
Luis> all of these fi->level assertions (including 
Luis> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22748) are related to
Luis> attempting to unwind from places not safe to do so. That is, we're 
Luis> trying to unwind some content (registers for example) before a given
Luis> frame is assigned a frame id.

Yes, I agree.

Luis> I think dwarf2_tailcall_sniffer_first would have to be called from
Luis> somewhere else, or conditions put in place. But I'm afraid adding more 
Luis> conditions would complicate things further. And this code is already
Luis> reasonably complicated.

Luis> Since this is causing a number of inlining test failures for aarch64
Luis> and, from what i saw, some other architectures like s390, should we 
Luis> consider reverting this while we discuss/review a reworked version of
Luis> the patch?

I think that would be fine.  I haven't found the time to really dig into it.

I suspect that maybe the architectures doing this aren't playing by the rules.
Even so, though, it doesn't change that this used to work and now doesn't.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-26  1:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-20 15:58 Tom Tromey
2020-03-03 21:45 ` Tom Tromey
2020-03-05 10:21   ` Luis Machado
2020-03-05 16:56     ` Tom Tromey
2020-03-09 17:55     ` Luis Machado
2020-03-12 21:34     ` Tom Tromey
2020-03-13 13:31       ` Luis Machado
2020-03-24 21:24         ` Luis Machado
2020-03-26  1:59           ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2020-03-26  2:47             ` Luis Machado
2020-06-18 18:25 ` Andrew Burgess
2020-06-18 21:07   ` Tom Tromey

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