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authorJoel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>2009-03-17 17:26:52 +0000
committerJoel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>2009-03-17 17:26:52 +0000
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* frame.c (get_prev_frame_1): Do not perform the inner_frame
sanity check if this_frame is not NORMAL. (frame_id_inner): Update the description of this function.
-rw-r--r--gdb/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--gdb/frame.c31
2 files changed, 25 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 7d0ce0a..fc4ba69 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2009-03-17 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
+
+ * frame.c (get_prev_frame_1): Do not perform the inner_frame
+ sanity check if this_frame is not NORMAL.
+ (frame_id_inner): Update the description of this function.
+
2009-03-17 Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
* stack.c: Change the introduce of "disassemble-next-line".
diff --git a/gdb/frame.c b/gdb/frame.c
index dfd6b3d..1d1856e 100644
--- a/gdb/frame.c
+++ b/gdb/frame.c
@@ -376,23 +376,29 @@ frame_id_eq (struct frame_id l, struct frame_id r)
to sigaltstack).
However, it can be used as safety net to discover invalid frame
- IDs in certain circumstances.
+ IDs in certain circumstances. Assuming that NEXT is the immediate
+ inner frame to THIS and that NEXT and THIS are both NORMAL frames:
- * If frame NEXT is the immediate inner frame to THIS, and NEXT
- is a NORMAL frame, then the stack address of NEXT must be
- inner-than-or-equal to the stack address of THIS.
+ * The stack address of NEXT must be inner-than-or-equal to the stack
+ address of THIS.
Therefore, if frame_id_inner (THIS, NEXT) holds, some unwind
error has occurred.
- * If frame NEXT is the immediate inner frame to THIS, and NEXT
- is a NORMAL frame, and NEXT and THIS have different stack
- addresses, no other frame in the frame chain may have a stack
- address in between.
+ * If NEXT and THIS have different stack addresses, no other frame
+ in the frame chain may have a stack address in between.
Therefore, if frame_id_inner (TEST, THIS) holds, but
frame_id_inner (TEST, NEXT) does not hold, TEST cannot refer
- to a valid frame in the frame chain. */
+ to a valid frame in the frame chain.
+
+ The sanity checks above cannot be performed when a SIGTRAMP frame
+ is involved, because signal handlers might be executed on a different
+ stack than the stack used by the routine that caused the signal
+ to be raised. This can happen for instance when a thread exceeds
+ its maximum stack size. In this case, certain compilers implement
+ a stack overflow strategy that cause the handler to be run on a
+ different stack. */
static int
frame_id_inner (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, struct frame_id l, struct frame_id r)
@@ -1274,9 +1280,10 @@ get_prev_frame_1 (struct frame_info *this_frame)
/* Check that this frame's ID isn't inner to (younger, below, next)
the next frame. This happens when a frame unwind goes backwards.
- This check is valid only if the next frame is NORMAL. See the
- comment at frame_id_inner for details. */
- if (this_frame->next->unwind->type == NORMAL_FRAME
+ This check is valid only if this frame and the next frame are NORMAL.
+ See the comment at frame_id_inner for details. */
+ if (get_frame_type (this_frame) == NORMAL_FRAME
+ && this_frame->next->unwind->type == NORMAL_FRAME
&& frame_id_inner (get_frame_arch (this_frame->next), this_id,
get_frame_id (this_frame->next)))
{