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From: Steve Ellcey <sellcey@mips.com>
To: Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@googlemail.com>
Cc: <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [patch, mips, stabs] Do any MIPS targets use stabs?
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:41:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1357591286.1703.4.camel@ubuntu-sellcey> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ip784tyl.fsf@talisman.default>

On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 20:30 +0000, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> "Steve Ellcey " <sellcey@mips.com> writes:
> > While testing all the variations of my mips-mti-elf target I found that
> > a number of debug tests like gcc.dg/debug/trivial.c fail when compiled
> > using a stabs debug flag (-gstabs3 for example) and -mips16.  While running
> > the GNU simulator I get:
> >
> > mips-core: 1 byte read to unmapped address 0xffffe820 at 0xffffffff80020278
> > program stopped with signal 10 (User defined signal 1).
> > FAIL: gcc.dg/debug/trivial.c -gstabs3 -O execution test
> 
> Do you know why selecting stabs causes an execution failure?
> That shouldn't happen regardless of whether the debug info itself is good.
> 
> I don't mind removing stabs from all MIPS targets, but I'd like to
> understand why we get the execution failure first.
> 
> Richard

No, I don't know why I get the execution failure.  I dug around a bit
but could not figure out what or where the problem was coming from.  I
assume the executable is accessing a bad address or an uninitialized bit
of memory somewhere but I could not figure out where.  The actual
executable code is the same with or without the debug information.  I
don't even know if this is a bug in GCC or in the GNU simulator.  My
inability to figure out where the problem was occurring is the main
reason I started wondering why I even cared about stabs.

Steve Ellcey
sellcey@mips.com



      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-07 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-07 18:27 Steve Ellcey 
2013-01-07 20:30 ` Richard Sandiford
2013-01-07 20:38   ` Richard Sandiford
2013-01-07 20:54     ` Steve Ellcey
2013-01-08 16:30       ` Steve Ellcey
2013-01-07 20:41   ` Steve Ellcey [this message]

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