>Number:         32683
>Category:       toolchain
>Synopsis:       gdb can't step over strdup and co.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    toolchain-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan 31 19:10:00 +0000 2006
>Originator:     Dieter Baron
>Release:        NetBSD 3.0
>Organization:
NetBSD
>Environment:
	
	
NetBSD legba 3.0 NetBSD 3.0 (LEGBA) #0: Sun Dec 25 23:59:10 MET 2005  root@wintermute:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/LEGBA i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	In gdb, when stepping over a line containing a call to
	strdup or strlen (and possibly others) with `n', gdb breaks
	in _init_fallthru:

$ cat a.c             
#include <string.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
char *a;

a = strdup("a");
strlen(a);
return 0;
}
$ gcc -g a.c
$ gdb a.out
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This GDB was configured as "i386--netbsdelf"...
(gdb) br main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x8048758: file a.c, line 7.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /tmp/a.out 

Breakpoint 1, main (argc=1, argv=0xbfbfe914) at a.c:7
7       a = strdup("a");
(gdb) n
0x0804849c in init_fallthru ()
(gdb) n
Single stepping until exit from function init_fallthru, 
which has no line number information.

Program exited normally.
(gdb)

	Stepping into the functions with ``s'' will run and stop
	at the next line.
>How-To-Repeat:
	See above.
>Fix:
	None known.

>Unformatted: