Subject: Re: toolchain/32683: gdb can't step over strdup and co.
To: None <toolchain-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/31/2006 19:20:02
The following reply was made to PR toolchain/32683; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, toolchain-manager@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
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Subject: Re: toolchain/32683: gdb can't step over strdup and co.
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:19:17 -0500

 On Jan 31,  7:10pm, dillo@danbala.tuwien.ac.at (dillo@danbala.tuwien.ac.at) wrote:
 -- Subject: toolchain/32683: gdb can't step over strdup and co.
 
 | >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:
 | 
 This is fixed in 1.109 of rtld.c, I've issued a pullup request.
 
 christos