RE: [PATCH] The parameter in value_entirely_optimized_out is NULL

["建明 乔" <kiki-good@hotmail.com>]

Yes, I can duplicate this issue reliably. it is cross-compiled(X86/ARM) gdb 7.11 version.
and It is really easy to duplicate this issue with a special application core file(Application is not
open source) on X86.

It is possible that the error can occur between TRY and CATCH block therefore leaving the value
of v still be NULL.

For example, In my failure case,it shows 

<error reading variable: Missing ELF symbol "std::basic_string<unsigned char, std::char_traits<unsigned char>, std::allocator<unsigned char>>::npos".>
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Thanks
Jmqiao
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH] The parameter in value_entirely_optimized_out is NULL
> To: kiki-good@hotmail.com; gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: palves@redhat.com
> Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 12:44:20 +0100
>
> On 05/17/2016 03:45 PM, 建明 乔 wrote:
>> Hi:
>>
>
> FYI, something is odd with your emails -- lots of seemingly spurious empty lines:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2016-05/msg00259.html
>
> Also, the follow up reply you sent was quite garbled, and it doesn't look
> like it managed to reach the list.
>
>>
>>
>> The GDB(v7.7 onwards) will crash at value_entirely_optimized_out (value=0x0) in some cases.
>>
>>
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>> These cases are reported in GDB Database as Bug 20020,17076,17685 in X86 platform
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>>
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>> and other reports that use cross-compiled GDB host(ARM & MIPS) from our side.
>
> I tried a couple tests from those bug reports, and I couldn't reproduce the problem
> with current master. Can you reproduce it reliably? It'd be great to have a testcase
> in the testsuite for this. Best would probably be to write it using the Dwarf::assemble
> mechanism (gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwarf2/).
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> This bug is introduced when the patch https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-10/msg00353.html is added.
>>
>>
>>
>> The code from this patch that caused the regression is listed below:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> diff --git a/gdb/cp-valprint.c b/gdb/cp-valprint.c
>> index 1d7147c..4b625d1 100644
>> --- a/gdb/cp-valprint.c
>> +++ b/gdb/cp-valprint.c
>> @@ -333,12 +333,9 @@ cp_print_value_fields (struct type *type, struct type *real_type,
>> fprintf_filtered (stream,
>> _("<error reading variable: %s>"),
>> ex.message);
>> - else if (v == NULL)
>> - val_print_optimized_out (NULL, stream);
>> - else
>> - cp_print_static_field (TYPE_FIELD_TYPE (type, i),
>> - v, stream, recurse + 1,
>> - options);
>> + cp_print_static_field (TYPE_FIELD_TYPE (type, i),
>> + v, stream, recurse + 1,
>> + options);
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Therefore, I propose to partly revert the previous patch and apply the change below.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Is it acceptable ?
>
> Can't tell without a more expanded rationale for the change. E.g.,:
>
> - Why is 'v' NULL here?
>
> - Why is it OK for 'v' to be NULL here?
>
> Thanks,
> Pedro Alves
>