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gdb/31: hppa_push_arguments alignment code is broken



>Number:         31
>Category:       gdb
>Synopsis:       hppa_push_arguments alignment code is broken
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Feb 21 21:58:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     chastain@redhat.com
>Release:        CVS 2001-01-22
>Organization:
>Environment:
hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20
hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.00

>Description:
>From the PA-RISC Run-Time Architecture Document:

  "Value parameters are mapped to a sequential list of argument
   words with successive parameters mapping to successive argument words,
   except 64-bit parameters, which must be aligned on 64-bit boundaries."

The 32-bit version of hppa_push_arguments has this code:

  if ((bytes_reserved == 2 * REGISTER_SIZE)
      && (offset[i] % 2 * REGISTER_SIZE))
    {
      ...
    }

% and * have the same precedence and they associate
left-to-right!

This bug causes several tests in gdb.base/call-ar-st.exp
to fail, specifically "print_long_arg_list".

>How-To-Repeat:
Run the gdb test suite.
Look at the results for "print_long_arg_list".
>Fix:
First note that there are two versions of
hppa_push_arguments: a 64-bit version and a 32-bit version.
This bug is in the 32-bit version.

Then fix the precedence problem.

After fixing the precedence problem, some tests still FAIL.
There is tricky code here to deal with arguments with
lengths like 3 bytes and 5 bytes.  It does not work in all
cases and it needs sorting out.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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