'next' command broken on sparc

Dieter Stüken stueken@conterra.de
Thu Feb 17 19:17:00 GMT 2005


Mark Kettenis wrote:
>    Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:35:16 +0100
>    From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dieter_St=FCken?= <stueken@conterra.de>
> 
>    I frequently observe the 'next' command not to stop
>    at then next line. Instead the program continues to the end.
>    Similar problems are reported some time ago in conjunction
>    with mips, threads or shlibs.
> 
> I doubt that this is related to the MIPS issue.  Unfortunately it's
> not easy to establish what the cause is.  I noticed that you use gcc
> 3.4.3.  It might be that the compiler is optimizing in ways that GDB
> looses track....

The problem is not related to the generated code.
But I build gdb as a 64bit binary.
Building gdb using -m32 it seems to work with gcc 3.4.3.

Let me know, if I can do futher tests to narrow that problem.

Dieter.
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