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- From: keithw@ccorp.UUCP (Keith Weintraub - dpr2)
- Subject: Our gcc/gdb problem.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.181849.12291@ccorp.uucp>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Organization: Citicorp, New York City
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:18:49 GMT
- Approved: bug-gdb@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Lines: 105
-
- Folks,
-
- We have been having some problems with gcc/gdb and were hoping you
- could help. We have some code that works under the Sun ANSI C compiler
- acc but does not work under gcc. The only distinguishing feature of
- this code (that we can figure) is the use of large automatic arrays of
- doubles. Since this code is somewhat long and part of a much larger
- executable I tried to test the problem with a much smaller
- self-contained program:
-
- ------------------------8<------Cut---Here------>8-----------------------------
-
- #define MAX_ITER 10000
- #define MAX_ASIZE 170
-
- int
- main(int argc, char *argv[])
- {
- int i;
- double a[MAX_ASIZE];
-
- for(i = 0; i < MAX_ITER; i++) {
-
- }
-
- }
-
- ------------------------8<------Cut---Here------>8-----------------------------
-
-
- We are compiling and running on Sun Sparcs. The compilation and link
- lines are as follows:
-
- gcc -ansi -c -Dsparc -DLINT_ARGS -g -sun4 -c gtest.c
- gcc -ansi -o gtest gtest.o -L/usr/lang/SC1.0 -lF77 -lm /usr/5lib/libc.a
-
- The program runs fine (in fact much more complicated versions with
- more automatic arrays of doubles run as well) when the macro MAX_ASIZE
- is set to 170 or 171. However, when brought into the debugger (gdb) with
- MAX_ASIZE set to 171 setting a breakpoint on main and then running the
- program results in the following:
-
- Current directory is /user/keithw/gtest/
- Reading symbols from gtest...done.
- (gdb) b main
- Breakpoint 1 at 0x229c: file gtest.c, line 10.
- (gdb) r
- Starting program: /user/keithw/gtest/gtest
-
- Breakpoint 1, main (Cannot access memory at address 0x44.
- (gdb) f 0
- argc=#0 main (Cannot access memory at address 0x44.
- (gdb) show version
- GDB 4.0, Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- Obviously it is the "(Cannot access memory at address 0x44" that is
- disturbing. Note that when MAX_ASIZE is 170 the debugging session runs
- with no problems as follows:
-
- (gdb) b main
- Breakpoint 1 at 0x229c: file gtest.c, line 10.
- (gdb) r
- Starting program: /user/keithw/gtest/gtest
-
- Breakpoint 1, main (argc=1, argv=0xf7fff62c) at gtest.c:10
-
- I do not know if the problems that we have with our production code is
- related to this but if any of you experts have any ideas I would
- welcome any help you could give.
-
-
- By the way, here is the verbose compile/link listing if it helps:
-
- gcc -ansi -v -c -Dsparc -DLINT_ARGS -g -sun4 -c gtest.c
- gcc version 1.37.1
- /usr/local/lib/gcc-cpp -v -Dsparc -DLINT_ARGS -undef -D__GNUC__ \
- -trigraphs -$ -D__STRICT_ANSI__ -D__sparc__ \
- -D__sun__ -D__unix__ gtest.c /usr/tmp/cca29450.cpp
- GNU CPP version 1.37.1
- /usr/local/lib/gcc-cc1 /usr/tmp/cca29450.cpp -quiet\
- -dumpbase gtest.c -g -ansi -version -o /usr/tmp/cca29450.s
- GNU C version 1.37.1 (sparc) compiled by GNU C version 1.39.
- default target switches: -mfpu -mepilogue
- as -o gtest.o /usr/tmp/cca29450.s
- gcc -ansi -v -o gtest gtest.o -L/usr/lang/SC1.0 -lF77 -lm /usr/5lib/libc.a
- gcc version 1.37.1
- /usr/local/lib/gcc-ld -o gtest -e start -dc -dp /lib/crt0.o \
- -L/usr/lang/SC1.0 gtest.o -lF77 -lm /usr/5lib/libc.a \
- /usr/local/lib/gcc-gnulib -lc /usr/local/lib/gcc-gnulib
-
-
- I'll try to read the gnu.* tree for the next couple of weeks but if
- you could email answers directly I would be most appreciative.
-
- Thanks for your time,
- KW
-
- Keith Weintraub (KW) -- Citicorp | I told you a trillion times:
- keithw@Citicorp.COM | "Don't exaggerate."
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- Keith Weintraub (KW) -- Citicorp | I told you a trillion times:
- keithw@Citicorp.COM | "Don't exaggerate."
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