[PING][PATCH v2] Fix gdb.dwarf2/clztest.exp with Clang

Gary Benson gbenson@redhat.com
Wed Nov 18 09:20:12 GMT 2020


Ping.

gdb-patches wrote:
> Hi Tom, Andreas,
> 
> Tom Tromey wrote:
> > >> Shouldn't .eh_frame always be read-only?
> > 
> > Gary> I don't know.
> > 
> > For a test in particular I think the question is whether the change
> > can somehow negatively affect the test itself; and maybe secondarily
> > whether some plausible and/or planned future change would break the
> > test.
> > 
> > If not then it seems fine to move forward.
> 
> GCC doesn't complain about making that section read-only, so I've
> updated the test to make the section read-only always.
> 
> > Generally I think we'd be better off eliminating these assembly
> > tests in favor of something like the test suite's DWARF assembler,
> > though I didn't look to see whether this one would qualify.
> 
> Sure, but I'm not volunteering to do this one today! ;)
> 
> I've inlined an updated patch below.  As before I checked it on
> Fedora 32 x86_64, with GCC and Clang.  Is it ok for me to commit?
> 
> Thanks,
> Gary
> 
> ---
> Clang fails to compile gdb.dwarf2/clztest.S, with the following error:
> 
>   gdb compile failed, /gdbtest/src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwarf2/clztest.S:181:2:
>     error: changed section flags for .eh_frame, expected: 0x2
> 
> This commit fixes the testcase by defining .eh_frame's flags
> as Clang expects, as "a" rather than as "aw", thus making the
> section read-only.
> 
> gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
> 
> 	* gdb.dwarf2/clztest.S (.eh_frame): Make read-only.
> ---
>  gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog            | 4 ++++
>  gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwarf2/clztest.S | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwarf2/clztest.S b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwarf2/clztest.S
> index a904fee..5e6cdae 100644
> --- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwarf2/clztest.S
> +++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwarf2/clztest.S
> @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ _start:
>  .LEFDE4:
>  #NO_APP
>  #APP
> -	.section	.eh_frame,"aw",@progbits
> +	.section	.eh_frame,"a",@progbits
>  .Lframe1:
>  	.long	.LECIE1-.LSCIE1	# Length of Common Information Entry
>  .LSCIE1:
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 

-- 
Gary Benson - he / him / his
Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat



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