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Re: graceful unwind termination when we'd need unavailable/uncollect memory or registers to unwind further
- From: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <pedro at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:41:32 +0100
- Subject: Re: graceful unwind termination when we'd need unavailable/uncollect memory or registers to unwind further
- References: <201102221834.42413.pedro@codesourcery.com>
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:34:42 +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> This teaches GDB about terminating unwinding gracefully if
> unwind further we would need registers/memory that haven't
> been collected.
>
> Here's the result:
>
> (gdb) bt
> #0 begin (a=<unavailable>) at ../../../src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.trace/unavailable.cc:182
> #1 0x00000000004008ad in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fff0e22cf28, envp=0x7fff0e22cf38)
> at ../../../src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.trace/unavailable.cc:210
> #2 <unavailable> in ?? ()
> Backtrace stopped: Not enough registers or memory available to unwind further
In my case:
(gdb) tfind 0
Found trace frame 0, tracepoint 2
#0 f () at 1.c:11
11 v++;
(gdb) bt
#0 f () at 1.c:11
Backtrace stopped: Not enough registers or memory available to unwind further
(gdb)
That is without that <unavailable>. I think it is a bug.
Thanks,
Jan
$ ./gdb -nx -x ~/.gdbinit -ex 'target remote localhost:1234' ./gdbserver/1 -ex 'tb main' -ex c
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2.50.20110228-cvs
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and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /home/jkratoch/redhat/gdb-clean/gdb/gdbserver/1...done.
Remote debugging using localhost:1234
Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib64/ld-2.13.90.so.debug...done.
done.
Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
0x00007fcc89596600 in _start () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
Temporary breakpoint 1 at 0x4004aa: file 1.c, line 18.
Continuing.
Temporary breakpoint 1, main () at 1.c:18
18 f ();
(gdb) trace 11
Tracepoint 2 at 0x400480: file 1.c, line 11.
(gdb) actions
Enter actions for tracepoint 2, one per line.
End with a line saying just "end".
>collect v
>end
(gdb) tstart
(gdb) b b
Breakpoint 3 at 0x400478: file 1.c, line 6.
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Breakpoint 3, b () at 1.c:6
6 }
(gdb) tstop
(gdb) tstatus
Trace stopped by a tstop command.
Collected 9 trace frames.
Trace buffer has 5242691 bytes of 5242880 bytes free (0% full).
Trace will stop if GDB disconnects.
Not looking at any trace frame.
(gdb) tfind 0
Found trace frame 0, tracepoint 2
#0 f () at 1.c:11
11 v++;
(gdb) bt
#0 f () at 1.c:11
Backtrace stopped: Not enough registers or memory available to unwind further
(gdb)
$ ./gdbserver :1234 ./1
Process ./1 created; pid = 20703
Listening on port 1234
Remote debugging from host 127.0.0.1
1:int v = 1;
2:int q = 1;
3:void
4:b (void)
5:{
6:}
7:int
8:f (void)
9:{
10: while (v < 10)
11: v++;
12: b ();
13: return 5;
14:}
15:int
16:main (void)
17:{
18: f ();
19: return 0;
20:}