When running gdb.dlang/watch-loc.exp with target board cc-with-debug-names, we
run into:
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FAIL: gdb.dlang/watch-loc.exp: disassemble _Dmain (GDB internal error)
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in more detail:
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(gdb) disassemble _Dmain
gdb/dwarf2read.c:5293: internal-error: \
compunit_symtab* dw2_find_pc_sect_compunit_symtab(objfile*, \
bound_minimal_symbol, CORE_ADDR, obj_section*, int): \
Assertion `result != NULL' failed.
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The problem is that the .debug_aranges section in watch-loc.c contains a
debug_info_offset which is set to 0:
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asm (
" .pushsection .debug_aranges,\"\",%progbits\n"
" .4byte .Laranges_end - .Laranges_start\n"
".Laranges_start:\n"
" .2byte 0x2\n"
" .4byte 0\n"
...
while the compilation unit at offset 0 in the .debug_section in the executable
is in fact not the compilation unit generated from watch-loc-dw.S.
[ Note: this is a non-trivial test-case. The file watch-loc-dw.S contains a
.debug_info section, but not an .debug_aranges section or any actual code.
The file watch-loc.c contains code and a .debug_aranges section, but no other
debug section. So, the intent for the .debug_aranges section in watch-loc.c
is to refer to a compilation unit in the .debug_info section in
watch-loc-dw.S. ]
This happens when linked in object files contain dwarf info and are placed in
the .debug_info section before the compilation units generated from
watch-loc.c and watch-loc-dw.S.
Fix this by defining the debug_info_offset field using a label .Lcu1_begin
that defines the start of an empty .debug_section compilation unit:
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asm (
+ " .pushsection .debug_info,\"\",%progbits\n"
+ ".Lcu1_begin:"
+ " .popsection\n"
" .pushsection .debug_aranges,\"\",%progbits\n"
" .4byte .Laranges_end - .Laranges_start \n"
".Laranges_start:\n"
" .2byte 0x2\n"
- " .4byte 0\n"
+ " .4byte .Lcu1_begin\n"
...
which during linking merges with the start of the .debug_info section of
watch-loc-dw.S.
Tested on x86_64-linux with native, cc-with-gdb-index and cc-with-debug-names.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2019-05-07 Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
PR testsuite/24522
* gdb.dlang/watch-loc.c: Fix debug_info_offset in .debug_aranges
section.
75f06e9dc5