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Re: [commit+7.5] [patchv2] Write bpt at the ON_STACK bpt address
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Edjunior Barbosa Machado <emachado at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>, Philippe Waroquiers <philippe dot waroquiers at skynet dot be>, Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at codesourcery dot com>, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 01:59:29 +0100
- Subject: Re: [commit+7.5] [patchv2] Write bpt at the ON_STACK bpt address
- References: <5012B1B6.1030003@redhat.com> <1343339398.2258.119.camel@soleil> <20120727184633.GA14182@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120731073643.GA18696@host2.jankratochvil.net> <501B03E4.1020209@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <m3vch0gacz.fsf@redhat.com>
On 08/03/2012 12:09 AM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
> On Thursday, August 02 2012, Edjunior Barbosa Machado wrote:
>
>> On 07/31/2012 04:36 AM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
>>>> gdb/testsuite/
>>>> 2012-07-27 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
>>>>
>>>> * gdb.base/valgrind-infcall.c: New file.
>>>> * gdb.base/valgrind-infcall.exp: New file.
>>
>> I've faced this internal-error when running this testcase on Fedora17 (which has valgrind-3.7.0) on ppc64:
>>
>> ...
>> (gdb) PASS: gdb.base/valgrind-infcall.exp: continue #1 (false warning)
>> continue
>> Continuing.
>> ==7541== Invalid free() / delete / delete[] / realloc()
>> ==7541== at 0x40458BC: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:427)
>> ==7541== by 0x10000763: main (valgrind-infcall.c:38)
>> ==7541== Address 0x4070040 is 0 bytes inside a block of size 1 free'd
>> ==7541== at 0x40458BC: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:427)
>> ==7541== by 0x10000757: main (valgrind-infcall.c:37)
>> ==7541==
>> ==7541== (action on error) vgdb me ...
>>
>> Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
>> ../../gdb.git/gdb/frame.c:2396: internal-error: frame_cleanup_after_sniffer: Assertion `frame->prologue_cache == NULL' failed.
>> A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
>> FAIL: gdb.base/valgrind-infcall.exp: continue (GDB internal error)
>> further debugging may prove unreliable.
>> Quit this debugging session? (y or n) n
>>
>> With this error, gdb connection is closed and the testsuite gets stuck
>> at this point.
>
> (Adding Tom to CC list).
>
> Thanks for the report.
>
> Just as an FYI (or For Our Information, rather),
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-08/msg00075.html clearly fixes
> the bug. I will keep an eye on this since I am interested as well.
Curious. But is the cause the same? If something sending C-c to gdb at the "wrong" time?
--
Pedro Alves