Richard Sandiford <rdsandif...@googlemail.com> writes:
> "Steve Ellcey " <sell...@mips.com> writes:
>> While testing all the variations of my mips-mti-elf target I found that
>> a number of debug tests like gcc.dg/debug/trivial.c fail when compiled
>> using a stabs debug flag (-gstabs3 for example) and -mips16. While running
>> the GNU simulator I get:
>>
>> mips-core: 1 byte read to unmapped address 0xffffe820 at 0xffffffff80020278
>> program stopped with signal 10 (User defined signal 1).
>> FAIL: gcc.dg/debug/trivial.c -gstabs3 -O execution test
>>
>> Since I don't actually care about STABS I was looking at undefining
>> DBX_DEBUGGING_INFO in mips-mti-elf.h and mips-mti-linux.h which makes
>> the failures a moot point for me since I would no longer run the tests
>> with any -stabs flags.
>>
>> But I was wondering, are there any MIPS targets that do use stabs? If not
>> maybe we should just remove the define of DBX_DEBUGGING_INFO from mips.h
>> instead of undefing it just for my targets. Opinions?
>
> Do you know why selecting stabs causes an execution failure?
> That shouldn't happen regardless of whether the debug info itself is good.
Ah, sorry, this reminded me of a patch I'd written a year ago and never
got around to sanity-checking. Does it fix the problem for you?
Richard
Index: gas/config/tc-mips.c
===================================================================
--- gas/config/tc-mips.c 2012-01-28 14:47:10.000000000 +0000
+++ gas/config/tc-mips.c 2012-01-28 14:48:14.000000000 +0000
@@ -1476,7 +1476,9 @@ static const pseudo_typeS mips_pseudo_ta
{"section", s_change_section, 0},
{"short", s_cons, 1},
{"single", s_float_cons, 'f'},
+ {"stabd", s_mips_stab, 'd'},
{"stabn", s_mips_stab, 'n'},
+ {"stabs", s_mips_stab, 's'},
{"text", s_change_sec, 't'},
{"word", s_cons, 2},
@@ -16817,9 +16819,7 @@ s_insn (int ignore ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
static void
s_mips_stab (int type)
{
- if (type == 'n')
- mips_mark_labels ();
-
+ mips_mark_labels ();
s_stab (type);
}
