Fwd: Method call and calling convention

[Kifa The Great <kifathegreat@gmail.com>]

Hello!
I have faced a problem using GDB with GCC 4.8.0 x86 on Windows XP and
Ubuntu 12.04. Here is the issue description.

GDB has commands to call function from the program being debugged.
They are print and call. But unfortunately the mentioned above
commands work incorrectly for class methods with __thiscall calling
convention. Windows x86 targets are using the __thiscall calling
convention for C++ class-member functions by default from GCC 4.7.
Judging by command return values GDB does not set object address (this
pointer) to ECX registry before method call. So these commands trigger
for some object only if last executed line of the program being
debugged contains method call for the same object. In this case ECX
registry will contain necessary address (this pointer). For methods
with __cdecl calling convention print (call) works perfectly.

Could you please tell me if this is a bug, feature or maybe I do
something wrong?

Thanks,
Petr

C++ program Test:

01: #include <iostream>
02: class Test
03: {
04:    public:
05:        Test(int value) : _value(value) {}
06:        int value() const __attribute__((thiscall)) { return _value; }
07:    private:
08:        int _value;
09:};
10:int main()
11:{
12:    Test test1(123);
13:    Test test2(456);
14:    int value1 = test1.value();
15:    int value2 = test2.value();
16:    std::cout << value1 + value2 << std::endl;
17:    return 0;
18:}

GDB session:

GNU gdb (GDB) 7.5.1-ubuntu
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(gdb) file Test
Reading symbols from /home/petr/QtCreator/_Test_gcc4.8/Debug/Test...done.
(gdb) break main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x80487fd: file /home/petr/QtCreator/Test/main.cpp, line 12.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/petr/QtCreator/_Test_gcc4.8/Debug/Test
Breakpoint 1, main () at /home/petr/QtCreator/Test/main.cpp:12
12     Test test1(123);
(gdb) next
13     Test test2(456);
(gdb) print test1.value()
$1 = -11264
(gdb) next
14     int value1 = test1.value();
(gdb) print test1.value()
$2 = -11264
(gdb) next
15     int value2 = test2.value();
(gdb) print test1.value()
$3 = 123
(gdb) next
16     std::cout << value1 + value2 << std::endl;
(gdb) print test1.value()
$4 = 456
(gdb) next
579
17     return 0;
(gdb) print test1.value()
$5 = 0
(gdb) continue
Continuing.
[Inferior 1 (process 4180) exited normally]
(gdb)