[PING 2] [PATCH] Fix for gdb.base/stap-probe.c

Carl Love cel@us.ibm.com
Thu Jun 30 15:14:11 GMT 2022


On Wed, 2022-06-22 at 08:11 -0700, Carl Love wrote:
> Ping?
> 
> On Tue, 2022-06-14 at 16:54 -0700, Carl Love wrote:
> > GDB maintainers:
> > 
> > The gdb.base/stap-probe.exp test fails on Power 10 with a compile
> > error
> > due to a missing include file.  The include file provides the
> > definition for ATTRIBUTE_NOCLONE.  The following patch add the
> > missing
> > include file.  
> > 
> > The test now runs on Power 10 with 98 expected passes and 4
> > unsupported
> > tests.
> > 
> > Please let me know if this patch is acceptable for mainline.
> > 
> >                         Carl Love
> > 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----
> > Fix for gdb.base/stap-probe.c
> > 
> > On PowePC, the test fails on a compile error:
> > 
> >   /../binutils-gdb-current/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/stap-
> > probe.c:107:1: 
> > error: expected '=', ',', ';', 
> >   'asm' or 'attribute' before 'use_xmm_reg'
> >   107 | use_xmm_reg (int val)
> >   | ^~~~~~~~~~~
> > 
> > Where the source code for stap-probe.c is:
> > 
> >   ...
> >   static const char * __attribute__((noinline)) ATTRIBUTE_NOCLONE
> >   use_xmm_reg (int val)                         <-- line 107
> >   {
> >   ...
> > 
> > The issue is the ATTRIBUTE_NOCLONE is not defined as an attribute
> > as
> > expected.  The #define for ATTRIBUTE_NOCLONE can be found in
> > ../lib/attributes.h.
> > 
> > This patch adds the missing include statement for the definition of
> > ATTRIBUTE_NOCLONE.
> > 
> > The patch has been tested and verified on a Power10 system.
> > ---
> >  gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/stap-probe.c | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/stap-probe.c
> > b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/stap-probe.c
> > index d1482c35caf..527f7e187eb 100644
> > --- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/stap-probe.c
> > +++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/stap-probe.c
> > @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
> >     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
> > License
> >     along with this program.  If not, see <
> > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
> > 
> > +#include "../lib/attributes.h"
> > +
> >  #if USE_SEMAPHORES
> > 
> >  #define _SDT_HAS_SEMAPHORES



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