Re: gdb/2188: gdb 6.5 -- internal error with "-var-update *" command

[Greg Watson <g dot watson at computer dot org>]

The following reply was made to PR gdb/2188; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Greg Watson <g.watson@computer.org>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: Clement Chu <clement.chu@infotech.monash.edu.au>,
 gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: gdb/2188: gdb 6.5 -- internal error with "-var-update *" command
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:36:42 -0700

 Daniel,
 
 CVS doesn't build on FC6. I get a whole lot of warnings like "p- 
 valprint.c: warning: 'tmp_objstack.alloc_failed' may be used  
 uninitialized" which cause the build to fail. However I did manage to  
 build one of the 6.6 snapshots. Using this version I no longer see  
 the assertion for the argc issue, so it appears to have been fixed in  
 the later release.
 
 BTW, I've confirmed that the bug is present when compiling with gcc  
 4.1.0, but not gcc 4.0.3, so it appears to be a 4.1 bug.
 
 Regards,
 
 Greg
 
 On Jan 10, 2007, at 7:00 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
 
 > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 01:59:02AM +1100, Clement Chu wrote:
 >> Hi Daniel,
 >>
 >>    The following is the message from gdb.  You can see my step and  
 >> the
 >> error message.  Please find the attached file.
 >
 > This is caused by a bug in GCC.  The debug information claims the
 > variables are at 0(%ecx) and 4(%ecx) due to the stack realignment code
 > added to the beginning of main (not added to any other functions, just
 > main).
 >
 > As for the failure, I do not get an internal error on either gdb  
 > 6.5 or
 > gdb from CVS.  Please try building CVS.  I know that the code where  
 > you
 > are encountering an assertion was recently improved.
 >
 > -- 
 > Daniel Jacobowitz
 > CodeSourcery