Re: RFA: Check for corruption of cv_type chain

[Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>]

Second try.

2002-05-03  Jim Blandy  <jimb@redhat.com>

	* gdb.c++/hang.exp: Check for corruption of the cv_type chain.
	* gdb.c++/hang3.C: New file.

Index: gdb/testsuite/gdb.c++/hang.exp
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.c++/hang.exp,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -c -r1.1 hang.exp
*** gdb/testsuite/gdb.c++/hang.exp	2 May 2002 07:03:53 -0000	1.1
--- gdb/testsuite/gdb.c++/hang.exp	4 May 2002 00:27:05 -0000
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*** 29,41 ****
  set testfile hang
  set binfile ${objdir}/${subdir}/${testfile}
  
! foreach file {hang1 hang2} {
!     if  { [gdb_compile "${srcdir}/${subdir}/${file}.C" "${file}.o" object {debug c++}] != "" } {
          gdb_suppress_entire_file "Testcase compile failed, so all tests in this file will automatically fail."
      }
  }
  
! if {[gdb_compile "hang1.o hang2.o" ${binfile} executable {debug c++}] != "" } {
       gdb_suppress_entire_file "Testcase compile failed, so all tests in this file will automatically fail."
  }
  
--- 29,41 ----
  set testfile hang
  set binfile ${objdir}/${subdir}/${testfile}
  
! foreach file {hang1 hang2 hang3} {
!     if {[gdb_compile "${srcdir}/${subdir}/${file}.C" "${file}.o" object {c++ debug}] != ""} {
          gdb_suppress_entire_file "Testcase compile failed, so all tests in this file will automatically fail."
      }
  }
  
! if {[gdb_compile "hang1.o hang2.o hang3.o" ${binfile} executable {c++ debug}] != "" } {
       gdb_suppress_entire_file "Testcase compile failed, so all tests in this file will automatically fail."
  }
  
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*** 110,113 ****
  # in `cleanup_undefined_types' corrupted the target type's `cv_type'
  # ring, `finish_cv_type' enters an infinite loop.
  
! gdb_test "print var_in_b" " = 1729" "can read debug info"
--- 110,128 ----
  # in `cleanup_undefined_types' corrupted the target type's `cv_type'
  # ring, `finish_cv_type' enters an infinite loop.
  
! # This checks that GDB recognizes when a structure is about to be
! # overwritten, and refuses, with a complaint.
! gdb_test "print var_in_b" " = 1729" "doesn't overwrite struct type"
! 
! # This checks that cleanup_undefined_types doesn't create corrupt
! # cv_type chains.  Note that var_in_hang3 does need to be declared in
! # a separate compilation unit, whose psymtab depends on hang1.o's
! # psymtab.  Otherwise, GDB won't call cleanup_undefined_types (as it
! # finishes hang1.o's symbols) before it calls make_cv_type (while
! # reading hang3.o's symbols).
! #
! # The bug only happens when you compile with -gstabs+; Otherwise, GCC
! # won't include the `const' qualifier on `const_B_ptr' in `hang3.o''s
! # STABS, so GDB won't try to create a const variant of the smashed
! # struct type, and get caught by the corrupted cv_type chain.
! gdb_test "print var_in_hang3" " = 42" "doesn't corrupt cv_type chain"
Index: gdb/testsuite/gdb.c++/hang3.C
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RCS file: gdb/testsuite/gdb.c++/hang3.C
diff -N gdb/testsuite/gdb.c++/hang3.C
*** gdb/testsuite/gdb.c++/hang3.C	1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
--- gdb/testsuite/gdb.c++/hang3.C	4 May 2002 00:27:05 -0000
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*** 0 ****
--- 1,4 ----
+ #include "hang.H"
+ 
+ const struct B *const_B_ptr;
+ int var_in_hang3 = 42;