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Re: GCC 4.6 breaks GNU Mach debugger


From: Thomas Schwinge
Subject: Re: GCC 4.6 breaks GNU Mach debugger
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:32:47 +0200
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Hi!

On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 22:02:11 +0200, Sergio López <slpml@sinrega.org> wrote:
> GCC 4.6.1 manual states that, starting with version 4.6, targets
> Linux_x86 and Darwin_x86 use "-fomit-frame-pointer" when not
> optimizing for size. This seems to be also the case for Hurd_x86,
> since compiling GNU Mach with it breaks i386/i386/locore.S:kdb_kintr,
> as it expects to find the base frame pointer in ebp.
> 
> I see three solutions for this problem:
> 
>  1.- Modify GCC build options to disable "-fomit-frame-pointer" for
> Hurd_x86 target.
>  2.- Compile GNU Mach with "-fno-omit-frame-pointer".
>  3.- Fix all code which depends on having the frame pointer in ebp.
> 
> Personally, I'd go with the first one. What do you think?

Obviously, 3. is the most work-intensive one, but would be my preference.
Meanwhile, I'd suggest 2. (but only if --enable-kdb is specified?).  I
don't like 1: generally, we try not to differ/can't afford to differ from
GNU/Linux toolchain configuration unless there are striking reasons,
which a deficiency in the in-kernel debugger is not, in my opinion.  (Of
course, this specific proposed change (1.) wouldn't cause a big future
maintenance overhead, but still.)


Grüße,
 Thomas

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