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Hi, GDB calls some APIs from opcodes to do disassembly and provide some call backs. This model makes troubles on C++ exception unwinding, because GDB is a C++ program, and opcodes is still compiled as C. As we can see, frame #10 and #12 are C++, while #frame 11 is C, #10 0x0000000000544228 in memory_error (err=TARGET_XFER_E_IO, memaddr=<optimized out>) at ../../binutils-gdb/gdb/corefile.c:237 #11 0x00000000006b0a54 in print_insn_aarch64 (pc=0, info=0xffffffffeeb0) at ../../binutils-gdb/opcodes/aarch64-dis.c:3185 #12 0x0000000000553590 in gdb_pretty_print_insn (gdbarch=gdbarch@entry=0xbbceb0, uiout=uiout@entry=0xbc73d0, di=di@entry=0xffffffffeeb0, insn=0xffffffffed40, insn@entry=0xffffffffed90, flags=flags@entry=0, C++ exception unwinder can't go across frame #11 unless it has unwind table. However, C program on many architectures doesn't have it in default. As a result, GDB aborts, which is described in PR 20939. This is not the first time we see this kind of problem. We've had a commit 89525768cd086a0798a504c81fdf7ebcd4c904e1 "Propagate GDB/C++ exceptions across readline using sj/lj-based TRY/CATCH". We can fix the disassembly bug in a similar way, this is the option one. Since opcodes is built with gdb, we fix this problem in a different way as we did for the same issue with readline. Instead of throwing exception in dis_asm_memory_error, we record the failed memory address, and throw exception when GDB returns from opcodes disassemblers. gdb: 2017-01-26 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org> Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> PR gdb/20939 * disasm.c (gdb_disassembler::dis_asm_memory_error): Don't call memory_error, save memaddr instead. (gdb_disassembler::print_insn): If gdbarch_print_insn returns negative, cal memory_error. * disasm.h (gdb_disassembler) <m_err_memaddr>: New field. gdb/testsuite: 2017-01-26 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org> * gdb.base/all-architectures.exp.in (do_arch_tests): Test disassemble on address 0.
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