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* debug/10005: gcc -O -g does not produce location information for aliases of a variable
@ 2003-03-08 14:36 werner
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From: werner @ 2003-03-08 14:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gcc-gnats
>Number: 10005
>Category: debug
>Synopsis: gcc -O -g does not produce location information for aliases of a variable
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: unassigned
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Mar 08 14:36:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Werner Almesberger
>Release: 3.3 20030303 (prerelease)
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: Linux ar 2.4.18 #5 Mon Mar 18 09:25:24 ART 2002 i686 unknown
Architecture: i686
host: i686-pc-linux-gnu
build: i686-pc-linux-gnu
target: i686-pc-linux-gnu
configured with: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/gcc20030303/ --enable-languages=c
>Description:
gcc -O -g does not produce location information for
aliases of a variable, so a debugger may fail to
change the variable.
Of course, one could argue that with -O, all bets are off as
far as the accuracy of debugging information is concerned, but
this still seems to be a fairly bad case.
>How-To-Repeat:
Example (with Red Hat's gcc 3.1 20011127 on ia32; gcc 3.3 yields
different code, but the problem remains):
$ cat <<EOF >foo.c
int bar;
int main(int argc)
{
bar = (int) &argc;
bar = argc;
label:
return argc;
}
EOF
$ gcc -O -g foo.c
$ readelf -w a.out
...
DW_AT_name : (indirect string, offset: 0x3a): argc
...
DW_AT_location : 2 byte block: 91 8 (DW_OP_fbreg: 8; )
...
DW_AT_name : (indirect string, offset: 0x55): label
...
DW_AT_low_pc : 0x80483a9 134513577
...
$ objdump -d a.out
...
08048398 <main>:
...
80483a1: 8b 45 08 mov 0x8(%ebp),%eax
80483a4: a3 24 95 04 08 mov %eax,0x8049524
80483a9: c9 leave
...
So suppose we place a breakpoint at "label" (0x80483a9), change
"argc" (supposedly at 8(%ebp)), and let the program continue.
In this case, "main" will still return the original value, and
ignore the change.
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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