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authorCarl Love <cel@us.ibm.com>2022-03-16 15:23:12 +0000
committerCarl Love <cel@us.ibm.com>2022-03-16 15:25:12 +0000
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Powerpc fix for gdb.base/ending-run.exp
The last two tests in gdb.base/ending-run.exp case fail on Powerpc when the system does not have the needed glibc debug-info files loaded. In this case, gdb is not able to determine where execution stopped. This behavior looks as follows for the test case: The next to the last test does a next command when the program is stopped at the closing bracket for main. The message printed is: 0x00007ffff7d01524 in ?? () from /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 which fails to match any of the test_multiple options. The test then does another next command. On Powerpc, the message printed it: Cannot find bounds of current function The test fails as the output does not match any of the options for the gdb_test_multiple. I checked the behavior on Powerpc to see if this is typical. I ran gdb on the following simple program as shown below. #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { printf("Hello, world!\n"); return 0; } gdb ./hello_world <snip the gdb start info> Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"... Reading symbols from ./hello_world... (No debugging symbols found in ./hello_world) (gdb) break main Breakpoint 1 at 0x818 (gdb) r Starting program: /home/carll/hello_world [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1". Breakpoint 1, 0x0000000100000818 in main () (gdb) n Single stepping until exit from function main, which has no line number information. Hello, world! 0x00007ffff7d01524 in ?? () from /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (gdb) n Cannot find bounds of current function So it would seem that the messages seen from the test case are "normal" output for Powerpc when the debug-info is not available. The following patch adds the output from Powerpc as an option to the gdb_test_multiple statement, identifying the output as the expected output on Powerpc without the needed debug-info files installed. The patch has been tested on a Power 10 system and an Intel 64-bit system. No additional regression failures were seen on either platform.
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diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/ending-run.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/ending-run.exp
index 32435b2..906f1ac 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/ending-run.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/ending-run.exp
@@ -202,6 +202,22 @@ gdb_test_multiple "next" "step out of main" {
# This is what happens on system using uClibc.
pass "step out of main"
}
+ -re "0x.*\\?\\? \\(\\) from /lib/powerpc.*$gdb_prompt $" {
+ # This case occurs on Powerpc when gdb steps out of main and the
+ # needed debug info files are not loaded on the system, preventing
+ # GDB to determine which function it reached (__libc_start_call_main).
+ # Ideally, the target system would have the necessary debugging
+ # information, but in its absence, GDB's behavior is as expected.
+ #
+ # Another consequence of this missing information is that GDB
+ # can no longer continue to perform "next" operations, as doing
+ # so requires GDB to know the bounds of the current function.
+ # Not know what the current function it, it cannot determine
+ # its bounds. So we also set program_exited to 1 to indicate
+ # that we need to stop this testcase at this stage of the testing.
+ pass "step out of main"
+ set program_exited 1
+ }
}
# When we're talking to a program running on a real stand-alone board,