Bug 479914 - -g3 vs predefines
Summary: -g3 vs predefines
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gcc
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 516995
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Reported: 2009-01-14 00:04 UTC by Roland McGrath
Modified: 2011-06-27 14:05 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-06-27 14:05:26 UTC
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gcc44-rh479914.patch (1.57 KB, patch)
2009-02-11 13:09 UTC, Jakub Jelinek
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Description Roland McGrath 2009-01-14 00:04:51 UTC
Description of problem:

-g3 puts both implicit predefines and -D/-U records in the wrong place in .debug_macinfo.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gcc-4.3.2-7.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. echo '#define foo bar' > g3.c; echo 'foo(){}' >> g3.c
2. gcc -c -g3 g3.c -DFOO=1 -UFOO
3. readelf --debug-dump=macro g3.o
  
Actual results:

The implicit predefines appear after the start_file record for "g3.c",
with fake line numbers, then the -D/-U records also with fake line numbers.

Expected results:

DWARF spec says predefines come before the first start_file record, and all use line number 0.

Additional info:

It's fine to fix this only in 4.4, I think.

Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2009-02-11 13:09:00 UTC
Created attachment 331560 [details]
gcc44-rh479914.patch

Patch to fix that.  Unfortunately, gdb doesn't handle that, at least not
gdb-6.8-29.fc10.x86_64.  So I'm not sure it is a good idea to change it for Fedora11/RHEL6, and changing it upstream will be even more problematic.
Before the patch I get:
b main
r
info macro __GNUC__
Defined at /usr/src/gcc/obj/gcc/u.c:0
#define __GNUC__ 4
p __GNUC__
4
While after the patch:
b main
r
info macro __GNUC__
The symbol `__GNUC__' has no definition as a C/C++ preprocessor macro at /usr/src/gcc/obj/gcc/u.c:7
p __GNUC__
No symbol "__GNUC__" in current context.

Comment 2 Roland McGrath 2009-02-11 19:06:08 UTC
It certainly ought to be safe to fix the bogus line numbers to all use 0 instead.  That would at least be unambiguous vs real in-source #define's.

Clearly gdb ought to be fixed to cope with data that is correct by the spec, regardless.

I tend to think that -g3 is used so little today that noone would really mind the predefines encoding changing, since it's not like it makes gdb go wrong or anything--it just can't show you __GNUC__ and __linux__ and so forth.

Comment 3 Jan Kratochvil 2009-02-12 23:11:25 UTC
I find the line numbers depending on the compilation method.
In fact it behaves exactly the same on all these three gcc versions:
gcc-4.3.2-7.x86_64
gcc-4.4.0-0.17.x86_64
gcc-4.4-20090211 (SVN, unpatched)

gcc -DFROM_COMMANDLINE -g3 -o g3testold g3.c
readelf -Wwm g3testold
 DW_MACINFO_define - lineno : 0 macro : __STDC__ 1
 DW_MACINFO_define - lineno : 0 macro : __STDC_HOSTED__ 1

gcc -DFROM_COMMANDLINE -g3 -S -o g3testold.s g3.c
gcc -c -o g3testold.o g3testold.s
readelf -Wwm g3testold.o
 DW_MACINFO_define - lineno : 0 macro : __STDC__ 1
 DW_MACINFO_define - lineno : 0 macro : __STDC_HOSTED__ 1

gcc -DFROM_COMMANDLINE -g3 -c -o g3testold.o g3.c
readelf -Wwm g3testold.o
 DW_MACINFO_define - lineno : 1 macro : __STDC__ 1
 DW_MACINFO_define - lineno : 2 macro : __STDC_HOSTED__ 1
 
This my comment is unrelated to where/if exists DW_MACINFO_start_file.

Comment 4 Jan Kratochvil 2009-02-17 10:53:45 UTC
Sorry for my Comment 3 - it is not for gcc - it is caused by ccache.
Unfortunately ccache is automatically installed even on a new reserved RHTS box.
(And with the verification of SVN gcc-4.4 I had to overlook it during the test.)

Comment 5 Jan Kratochvil 2009-03-09 18:59:42 UTC
The GDB compatibility part is checked-in for FSF GDB HEAD:
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-cvs/2009-03/msg00041.html

ccache problem has been filed as Fedora Bug 488863.

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 10:42:35 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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Comment 8 Jakub Jelinek 2010-04-27 12:58:18 UTC
Does vanilla GDB 7.0 now handle GCC output with patch #c1 ?  If yes, I guess we should change GCC 4.6 and 4.4-RH, GCC 4.5+ and 4.4-RH requires GDB 7.0 for proper debugging anyway.

Comment 9 Jakub Jelinek 2010-04-27 14:00:40 UTC
Unfortunately, it seems even 7.0.1-44.fc12 doesn't handle this when the #c1 patch is applied:

/* { dg-options "-g3 -dA -DFOO" } */

#define BAR 1
int i = FOO + BAR;

int
main (void)
{
  return 0;
}

print BAR in the debugger works, but print FOO does not.  Without the #c1 patch both work.

Comment 10 Roland McGrath 2010-04-27 18:46:05 UTC
Perhaps we should file a gdb bug for that if there isn't one already.
Maybe Jan knows the gdb situation.

Comment 11 Tom Tromey 2010-04-27 19:23:36 UTC
I tried both the original test, and the test from #c9, with CVS head gdb.
I used gcc 4.5 with the patch from #c1.
It all worked fine.
I also tried GDB 7.1, and that also worked.

I think the GCC patch ought to go upstream.

Comment 12 Jan Kratochvil 2010-04-27 20:17:12 UTC
(In reply to comment #9)
> Unfortunately, it seems even 7.0.1-44.fc12 doesn't handle this when the #c1
> patch is applied:

archer-jankratochvil-fedora12 commit b12d3a87fc83e2d2a9c2416400de2016fb0248be undoes the patch, it seems to be by a mistake.  Only F-12 cannot parse it.

FSF GDB 7.0 upwards contains the fix.
archer-jankratochvil-fedora13 is a new branch and F-13 + RHEL-6 GDBs incl. for example gdb-7.1-16.fc13 contain the fix.

Comment 13 Bug Zapper 2011-06-02 18:18:02 UTC
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plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' 
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Comment 14 Bug Zapper 2011-06-27 14:05:26 UTC
Fedora 13 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2011-06-25. Fedora 13 is 
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