Strange backtrace from GDB 7.5.91

Jan Kratochvil jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
Wed Mar 20 17:58:00 GMT 2013


On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:45:02 +0100, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>   #0  relocate_path (flag=1, initial=0x71a51b "d:/usr/share/gdb",
>       progname=0x260ed0 "d:\\usr\\eli\\utils\\gdb-7.5.91\\gdb\\gdb.exe")
>       at main.c:124
>   #1  relocate_gdb_directory (
>       initial=initial@entry=0x71a51b "d:/usr/share/gdb", flag=flag@entry=1)
>       at main.c:124
[...]
> But relocate_path's argument list is this:
> 
>   relocate_path (const char *progname, const char *initial, int flag)
> 
> i.e., the FLAG argument is the last one, not the first one.

It needs a fix in GDB:
	Bug 15223 - reversed order of inlined function parameters 
	http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15223


>   #0  relocate_path (initial=0x71a51b "d:/usr/share/gdb",
>       progname=0x260ed0 "d:\\usr\\eli\\utils\\gdb-7.5.91\\gdb\\gdb.exe",
>       flag=<optimized out>) at main.c:109
>   #1  relocate_path (flag=1, initial=0x71a51b "d:/usr/share/gdb",
>       progname=0x260ed0 "d:\\usr\\eli\\utils\\gdb-7.5.91\\gdb\\gdb.exe")
>       at main.c:120
>   #2  relocate_gdb_directory (
>       initial=initial@entry=0x71a51b "d:/usr/share/gdb", flag=flag@entry=1)
>       at main.c:124
>   #3  0x004f0b1d in captured_main (data=data@entry=0x572ff10) at main.c:399
> 
> Is this due to inlining or something?  Is this a bug?

Probably all the frames #0..#2 are inlined, see "info frame".  It is not a bug
a single function is there multiple times, GCC does so.


Jan



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