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Re: GDB 8.1.1 release, 2018-05-30 update
On 06/04/2018 02:18 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
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> Sorry to hear that. Hope you're better now!
>
Some sort of 24-hour bug. Thank you for your well-wishes.
>> I'm still trying to write a reproducer. It's just really, really elusive.
>
> Do you think we have reached the point where we might be past
> what's reasonable for trying to create a regression test? Just
> trying to guage a bit whether it's worth pouring more resources
> into trying to get one, vs using the resources elsewhere.
Yeah, I've pretty much given up on triggering the exact conditions that cause a user-visible manifestation of this bug. I have a dwarf assembler file that I've been hacking at, and it is getting *quite* large. Still no luck in causing this bug to trigger.
However, I have been thinking about an alternative, easier way to trigger the bug. That is by wrapping add_symbol_to_list in dwarf2read.c with a custom version that checks if we are adding symbols to a language_minimal dictionary. If it sees that, it issues a complaint. [Or add another option to turn this on/off.]
Once again that adds complexity into an already performance-sensitive area, and I'm not really sure it is worth the effort anymore. Not to mention how hacky it is!
So really, I can continue down this road, or maintainers can make the call to omit a test case for it entirely. Otherwise, I'll return my attention to helping with the patch review backlog.
Keith