This is just a testcase addition that I am proposing for upstream GDB.
We have this in our internal tree, and the related RH bug is:
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809179>
(You might not be able to see all the comments without privileges.)
This bug is about a global variable that got incorrectly displayed by
GDB. This bug has already been fixed a long time ago by Joel's
commit:
commit 19630284f5
Author: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>
Date: Tue Jun 5 13:50:50 2012 +0000
But I think a testcase for it wouldn't hurt.
So, consider the following scenario:
$ cat solib1.c
int test;
void c_main (void)
{
test = 42;
}
$ cat solib2.c
int test;
void b_main (void)
{
test = 42;
}
$ cat main.c
int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
c_main ();
b_main ();
return 0;
}
$ gcc -g -fPIC -shared -o libSO1.so -c solib1.c
$ gcc -g -fPIC -shared -o libSO2.so -c solib2.c
$ gcc -g -o main -L$PWD -lSO1 -lSO2 main.c
$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. gdb -q -batch -ex 'b c_main' -ex r -ex n -ex 'p test' ./main
...
$1 = 0
This happened with GDB before Joel's commit above. Now, things work
and GDB is able to correctly display the nested global variable:
$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. gdb -q -batch -ex 'b c_main' -ex r -ex n -ex 'p test' ./main
...
$1 = 42
The testcase attached tests this behavior.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2014-09-16 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* gdb.base/global-var-nested-by-dso-solib1.c: New file.
* gdb.base/global-var-nested-by-dso-solib2.c: Likewise.
* gdb.base/global-var-nested-by-dso.c: Likewise.
* gdb.base/global-var-nested-by-dso.exp: Likewise.
