From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3702 invoked by alias); 1 Apr 2003 15:08:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 3675 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2003 15:08:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.105) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Apr 2003 15:08:43 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AB1D2B23; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:08:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E89AB79.1060700@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 15:08:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Clifton Cc: carlton@math.stanford.edu, gdb , binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: gdb.mi/mi-cli.exp failures References: <3E88A369.6090403@redhat.com> <3E88AE3F.4030005@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-04/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 >> Applying the attached to BFD fixes the problem .... > > > Although applying it would be a bad idea because it reverts several > bug fixes that plug memory leaks. Leaky memory is a lesser evil to corrupt memory. > Instead here is a version that removes the use of "concat()" inside > dwarf2.c:concat_filename() which is a good thing, but which probably > does not solve the problem that you encountered in GDB. > > Can you narrow down which part of David Heine's patch (altered by me) > is causing you problems, or tell me which tests in GDB are now failing > so that I can try to track it down myself. Unfortunatly BFD changed an interface right in the middle of this - it's put GDB/BFD into a death spiral :-( I'm currently reverting a directory tree to see what can be seen ... FAIL: gdb.base/relocate.exp: get address of static_bar (timeout) FAIL: gdb.base/relocate.exp: static variables have different addresses FAIL: gdb.base/relocate.exp: get address of global_foo (timeout) FAIL: gdb.base/relocate.exp: get address of global_bar (timeout) FAIL: gdb.base/relocate.exp: global variables have different addresses FAIL: gdb.base/relocate.exp: get address of function_foo (timeout) FAIL: gdb.base/relocate.exp: get address of function_bar (timeout) FAIL: gdb.base/relocate.exp: functions have different addresses Andrew