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authorFrank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>2019-08-06 11:23:48 -0400
committerFrank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>2019-08-06 15:09:53 -0400
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[PR build/24886] disable glibc mcheck support
This patch drops gdb's configury support for glibc's mcheck function. It has been observed to cause false abort()s, because it is thread-unsafe yet interposes every malloc/free operation. So if any library transitively used by gdb also uses threads, then these functions can easily corrupt their own checking data. These days, gcc ASAN and valgrind provide high quality checking, and mcheck is apparently itself being slowly deprecated. So, let's stop linking to it. Attached patch drops the autoconf/Makefile machinery for both gdb and gdbserver. No testsuite-visible impact. IMHO not worth mentioning in NEWS. See also: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9939 gdb/ChangeLog PR build/24886 * configure.ac: Drop enable-libmcheck support. * configure, config.in: Rebuild. * libmcheck.m4: Remove. * acinclude.m4: Don't include it. * Makefile.in: Don't distribute it. * top.c (print_gdb_configuration): Don't mention it. gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog PR build/24886 * configure.ac: Drop enable-libmcheck support. * configure, config.in: Rebuild. * acinclude.m4: Don't include it.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/top.c')
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diff --git a/gdb/top.c b/gdb/top.c
index 60f81b3..a9f9a38 100644
--- a/gdb/top.c
+++ b/gdb/top.c
@@ -1462,15 +1462,6 @@ This GDB was configured as follows:\n\
--without-intel-pt\n\
"));
#endif
-#if HAVE_LIBMCHECK
- fprintf_filtered (stream, _("\
- --enable-libmcheck\n\
-"));
-#else
- fprintf_filtered (stream, _("\
- --disable-libmcheck\n\
-"));
-#endif
#if HAVE_LIBMPFR
fprintf_filtered (stream, _("\
--with-mpfr\n\