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Re: gdb/505: erroneous assignment to double when linked with libefence
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: nobody at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: gdb-prs at sources dot redhat dot com,
- Date: 23 Apr 2002 04:38:00 -0000
- Subject: Re: gdb/505: erroneous assignment to double when linked with libefence
- Reply-to: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
The following reply was made to PR gdb/505; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: cmaloney@physics.ucsb.edu
Cc: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: gdb/505: erroneous assignment to double when linked with libefence
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 00:33:25 -0400
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:21:58PM -0000, cmaloney@physics.ucsb.edu wrote:
>
> >Number: 505
> >Category: gdb
> >Synopsis: erroneous assignment to double when linked with libefence
> >Confidential: no
> >Severity: serious
> >Priority: medium
> >Responsible: unassigned
> >State: open
> >Class: sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id: net
> >Arrival-Date: Mon Apr 22 14:28:00 PDT 2002
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator: Craig Maloney
> >Release: GNU gdb 5.1.1
> >Organization:
> >Environment:
> libc6-2.2.5
> linux (debian woody): Linux version 2.4.16-k7 (herbert@gondolin) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011006 (Debian
> prerelease)) #1 Wed Nov 28 11:06:52 EST 2001
> >Description:
> When linked against libefence (electric fence), assignment
> to a double is erroneous when stepped through. When stepped
> over, no erroneous assignment occurs.
I don't know why efence is triggering this, but most likely this is a
known (and fixed) bug. Could you please try a current snapshot (see
http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/current) and let us know if it persists?
Or use the version of GDB in Debian/unstable, which should hit woody
before release. I hope.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer