public inbox for binutils@sourceware.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, Indu Bhagat <gitlab@linux-git.oraclecorp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] libctf: get the offsets of fields of unnamed structs/unions right
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:38:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878rfinzd0.fsf@esperi.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZCF8ekefjBi5Ky5R@squeak.grove.modra.org> (Alan Modra's message of "Mon, 27 Mar 2023 21:52:34 +1030")

On 27 Mar 2023, Alan Modra said:

> On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 11:27:40AM +0100, Nick Alcock wrote:
>> On 25 Mar 2023, Alan Modra verbalised:
>> > On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 01:36:25PM +0000, Nick Alcock via Binutils wrote:
>> >> 	* testsuite/libctf-lookup/unnamed-field-info*: New test.
>> >
>> > arm-linux-gnueabi  +FAIL: /home/alan/src/binutils-gdb/libctf/testsuite/libctf-lookup/unnamed-field-info.c
>> > hppa-linux-gnu  +FAIL: /home/alan/src/binutils-gdb/libctf/testsuite/libctf-lookup/unnamed-field-info.c
>> > m68k-linux-gnu  +FAIL: /home/alan/src/binutils-gdb/libctf/testsuite/libctf-lookup/unnamed-field-info.c
>> > microblaze-linux-gnu  +FAIL: /home/alan/src/binutils-gdb/libctf/testsuite/libctf-lookup/unnamed-field-info.c
>> > mips-linux-gnu  +FAIL: /home/alan/src/binutils-gdb/libctf/testsuite/libctf-lookup/unnamed-field-info.c
>> > powerpc-linux-gnu  +FAIL: /home/alan/src/binutils-gdb/libctf/testsuite/libctf-lookup/unnamed-field-info.c
>> > s390-linux-gnu  +FAIL: /home/alan/src/binutils-gdb/libctf/testsuite/libctf-lookup/unnamed-field-info.c
>> > sh4-linux-gnu  +FAIL: /home/alan/src/binutils-gdb/libctf/testsuite/libctf-lookup/unnamed-field-info.c
>> 
>> Weird. I tested on two of those! (arm and powerpc).
>> 
>> Are they all 32-bit platforms? It looks like it.
>
> Yes, and built on x86_64-linux.  Which is why things go wrong.
> "lookup" is compiled and running on x86_64, thus compiled in offsets
> are for the 64-bit host.  The test objects are compiled by the
> relevant target compiler, in this case all 32-bit.  Things would break
> with a 32-bit host and 64-bit targets too of course.

Oh ugh of course. I need to run this one only where host == target.
Will fix. (How did this not come up in my cross-compiler testing?
I guess they all had similar offsets -- I think most of my cross-targers
are 64-bit... I need to add a 32-bit one, of course.)

>> I'll take a look. Maybe I can just make the test less picky -- all we're
>> actually interested in for this bug is "CTF says 0". But this is worthy
>> of investigation regardless. It's just as likely to be a compiler bug
>> as a bug in libctf, I'd guess.
>
> It's funny how we tend to not suspect the test.  :)

Yeah. Stands to reason an evil trick like that won't work everywhere!

-- 
NULL && (void)

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-27 12:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-24 13:36 [PATCH 1/4] libctf: fix assertion failure with no system qsort_r Nick Alcock
2023-03-24 13:36 ` [PATCH 2/4] libctf: work around an uninitialized variable warning Nick Alcock
2023-03-24 13:36 ` [PATCH 3/4] libctf: fix a comment typo Nick Alcock
2023-03-24 13:36 ` [PATCH 4/4] libctf: get the offsets of fields of unnamed structs/unions right Nick Alcock
2023-03-25  6:07   ` Alan Modra
2023-03-27 10:27     ` Nick Alcock
2023-03-27 11:22       ` Alan Modra
2023-03-27 12:38         ` Nick Alcock [this message]
2023-04-06 11:46         ` Nick Alcock
2023-04-08 15:50           ` Nick Alcock

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=878rfinzd0.fsf@esperi.org.uk \
    --to=nick.alcock@oracle.com \
    --cc=amodra@gmail.com \
    --cc=binutils@sourceware.org \
    --cc=gitlab@linux-git.oraclecorp.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).