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Date:      Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:05:07 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Lukas Ertl <le@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        obrien@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: GDB broken?
Message-ID:  <20040416180054.A664@korben>
In-Reply-To: <200404161447.29595.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <200404161447.29595.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> Hi,
> I was helping someone test patches in -current and got a crash dump, but GDB
> doesn't like reading it..

Same symptoms here.  I tracked down the particular commit that causes
this:

<http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2004-March/020682.html>;

Revert the change, and everything should go fine.

Alexander Kabaev has proposed a different fix, I don't know if this one
works:

--8<--
Index: i386-tdep.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/contrib/gdb/gdb/i386-tdep.c,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 i386-tdep.c
--- i386-tdep.c	28 Jun 2002 00:14:01 -0000	1.3
+++ i386-tdep.c	1 Apr 2004 06:01:52 -0000
@@ -685,8 +685,8 @@

 /* Return PC of first real instruction.  */

-int
-i386_skip_prologue (int pc)
+CORE_ADDR
+i386_skip_prologue (CORE_ADDR pc)
 {
   unsigned char op;
   int i;
Index: config/i386/tm-i386.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/contrib/gdb/gdb/config/i386/tm-i386.h,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.3
diff -u -r1.1.1.3 tm-i386.h
--- config/i386/tm-i386.h	27 Jun 2002 23:04:07 -0000	1.1.1.3
+++ config/i386/tm-i386.h	1 Apr 2004 05:58:35 -0000
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@

 #define SKIP_PROLOGUE(frompc)   (i386_skip_prologue (frompc))

-extern int i386_skip_prologue (int);
+extern CORE_ADDR i386_skip_prologue (CORE_ADDR);

 /* Immediately after a function call, return the saved pc.  */
--8<--

cheers,
le

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