From: Martin Simmons <qqxnjvamvxwx@dyxyl.com>
To: Chris Nicol <nicolc@uleth.ca>
Cc: qqxnjvamvxwx@dyxyl.com, simark@simark.ca, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gdb 8.3: "handler for the OSI ABI "FreeBSD" is not built into this configuration"
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 22:31:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeh7w1t68q.fsf@dyxyl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fde90674-fb5e-14de-7ab1-03d51b7d99ad@uleth.ca> (message from Chris Nicol on Sat, 23 May 2020 19:55:05 -0600)
Hi Chris,
Please post of the full output (including all start up messages) of
running gdb 9.1 with the llvm-tblgen core file and the gdb commands
info all
where
__Martin
>>>>> On Sat, 23 May 2020 19:55:05 -0600, Chris Nicol said:
>
> Thanks, Martin. Yes, when the gdb_6.1.1 did not work, I first had a look
> to build the 9.1 in /usr/ports/devel/gdb, but the Makefile indicates
> NOT_FOR_ARCHS= sparc64, and a comment above it "untested on sparc64,
> might work". Not encouraged, I went on to build the 9.1 from the gnu
> source. Maybe I will try the /usr/ports version if I comment out the
> NOT_FOR_ARCHS, since there might be some tweaks in there that is
> specific to FreeBSD.
>
> I will also try what you are suggesting below. Hard to track down the
> llvm-tblgen problem when I can't debug why it is seg. faulting... and
> getting some help on the llvm list has been pretty fruitless.
>
> Chris.
>
> On 5/23/2020 4:17 PM, Martin Simmons wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > Yes, the architecture is detected from the binary if given, otherwise it
> > defaults to the main architecture.
> >
> > BTW, have you tried building devel/gdb from the /usr/ports tree? That
> > is the normal way to get any specific tweaks that the FreeBSD project
> > already knows about.
> >
> > I can't give you comprehensive instructions on how to debug the nested
> > gdb. I think you should start by looking at the function
> > gdbarch_init_osabi in gdb/osabi.c to see what it does. In summary, it
> > is looking in the list gdb_osabi_handler_list for something that matches
> > the argument named info. It only finds a match if the osabi is the same
> > and it has an acceptable arch_info (the function can_run_code_for). It
> > prints the warning if it doesn't find a match.
> >
> > The command sequence to start debugging it is something like this:
> >
> > break gdbarch_init_osabi
> > run
> >
> > It should then stop at the breakpoint, where it is useful to do:
> >
> > print info
> > print *info.bfd_arch_info
> > set $tmp=gdb_osabi_handler_list
> > while $tmp
> > print *$tmp
> > print *$tmp->arch_info
> > set $tmp=$tmp->next
> > end
> >
> > That might be enough to find why there is no match, but otherwise you
> > have to repeatedly use the step command and print other things that the
> > code is examining.
> >
> > __Martin
>
>
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-27 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-20 18:24 gdb-9.1 Fails to build: "invalid cast to abstract class type" Chris Nicol
2020-05-21 14:12 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-22 3:55 ` Chris Nicol
2020-05-22 5:56 ` gdb 8.3: "handler for the OSI ABI "FreeBSD" is not built into this configuration" Chris Nicol
2020-05-22 17:36 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-22 18:22 ` Chris Nicol
2020-05-22 18:51 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-22 19:35 ` Chris Nicol
2020-05-23 17:40 ` Martin Simmons
2020-05-23 18:29 ` Chris Nicol
2020-05-23 22:17 ` Martin Simmons
2020-05-24 1:55 ` Chris Nicol
2020-05-24 14:05 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-27 21:31 ` Martin Simmons [this message]
[not found] ` <46566349-c023-6a75-7006-268aad4913c6@uleth.ca>
2020-05-28 10:57 ` Martin Simmons
2020-05-28 14:40 ` Chris Nicol
2020-05-28 17:30 ` Martin Simmons
2020-05-28 17:37 ` Chris Nicol
2020-05-23 16:29 ` gdb-9.1 Fails to build: "invalid cast to abstract class type" Joel Brobecker
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