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17 # Tests for PR gdb/1250.
18 # 2003-07-15 Michael Chastain <mec@shout.net>
20 # This file is part of the gdb testsuite.
22 if $tracelevel then {
23 strace $tracelevel
27 # test running programs
29 set prms_id 0
30 set bug_id 0
32 set testfile "gdb1250"
33 set srcfile ${testfile}.c
34 set binfile ${objdir}/${subdir}/${testfile}
36 if { [gdb_compile "${srcdir}/${subdir}/${srcfile}" "${binfile}" executable {debug}] != "" } {
37 gdb_suppress_entire_file "Testcase compile failed, so all tests in this file will automatically fail."
40 gdb_exit
41 gdb_start
42 gdb_reinitialize_dir $srcdir/$subdir
43 gdb_load ${binfile}
45 if ![runto abort {allow-pending}] then {
46 perror "couldn't run to breakpoint"
47 continue
50 # See http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/bugs/1250
52 # In a nutshell: the function 'beta' ends with a call to 'abort', which
53 # is a noreturn function. So the last instruction of 'beta' is a call
54 # to 'abort'. When gdb looks for information about the caller of
55 # 'beta', it looks at the instruction after the call to 'abort' -- which
56 # is the first instruction of 'alpha'! So gdb uses the wrong frame
57 # information. It thinks that the test program is in 'alpha' and that
58 # the prologue "push %ebp / mov %esp,%ebp" has not been executed yet,
59 # and grabs the wrong values.
61 # By the nature of the bug, it could pass if the C compiler is not smart
62 # enough to implement 'abort' as a noreturn function. This is okay.
63 # The real point is that users often put breakpoints on noreturn
64 # functions such as 'abort' or some kind of exitting function, and those
65 # breakpoints should work.
67 gdb_test_multiple "backtrace" "backtrace from abort" {
68 -re "#0.*abort.*\r\n#1.*beta.*\r\n#2.*alpha.*\r\n#3.*main.*\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
69 pass "backtrace from abort"
71 -re "#0.*abort.*\r\n#1.*beta.*\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
72 # This happens with gdb HEAD as of 2003-07-13, with gcc 3.3,
73 # binutils 2.14, either -gdwarf-2 or -gstabs+, on native
74 # i686-pc-linux-gnu.
76 # gdb gets 'abort' and 'beta' right and then goes into the
77 # weeds.
78 kfail "gdb/1250" "backtrace from abort"