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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Edjunior Barbosa Machado <emachado@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	       Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
	       Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>,
	       Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	       Omair Javaid <omair.javaid@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix possible alignment issue with dw2-dir-file-name test case
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:15:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52DFC458.4080105@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zjmq1lmv.fsf@br87z6lw.de.ibm.com>

On 01/20/2014 07:47 PM, Andreas Arnez wrote:

> * On s390x, the test case fails like this:
> 
>         Breakpoint 1, 0x00000000800005d2 in func (param=<error reading
>         variable: Cannot access memory at address 0x0>)
>         (gdb) p/x param
>         Cannot access memory at address 0x0
> 
>   Note that the debug info looks correct, and all addresses fit into
>   four bytes.  Still, the failure disappears when changing the DWARF
>   pointer size to 8.  Thus it seems that the address size mismatch
>   causes confusion somewhere in GDB on big-endian systems.

Hmm, yeah.  A little odd that dw2-dir-file-name also uses .byte 4
and doesn't have this issue.

> * On PPC64, 'func' and 'main' are function descriptors and don't point
>   to the actual code.  Thus the usage of these symbols in
>   dw2-ifort-parameter-debug.S is broken (similar to what has been
>   discussed in the thread, I think).  

Thanks.  I believe this alone would fix Thumb.  I think this bit should
go in as is (maybe with a comment), and independently of whatever
is the fix for the 64-bit issue.

-- 
Pedro Alves

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-22 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-08 18:00 Andreas Arnez
2014-01-10 11:29 ` Pedro Alves
2014-01-10 14:30   ` Andreas Arnez
2014-01-10 14:53     ` Jan Kratochvil
2014-01-10 16:39       ` Pedro Alves
2014-01-15 21:33         ` Edjunior Barbosa Machado
2014-01-16 14:37           ` Pedro Alves
2014-01-17 17:58             ` Andreas Arnez
2014-01-17 18:09               ` Pedro Alves
2014-01-17 18:20                 ` Pedro Alves
2014-01-20 19:47                   ` Andreas Arnez
2014-01-22 13:15                     ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2014-01-17 18:21               ` Edjunior Barbosa Machado
2014-01-22 16:13               ` Andreas Krebbel
2014-01-10 15:32     ` Pedro Alves

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