GDB could:
compile code struct_object.selffield = &struct_object
./compile/compile-c-types.c:83: internal-error: insert_type: Assertion `add == NULL || add->gcc_type == gcc_type' failed.
A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
further debugging may prove unreliable.
Quit this debugging session? (y or n) FAIL: gdb.compile/compile.exp: compile code struct_object.selffield = &struct_object (GDB internal
error)
The bug was not in GDB but in the GCC part interfacing with GDB.
Alexandre Oliva has fixed it the right way:
https://gcc.gnu.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=072dfdba0ea62abb65514cb3a90cdf3868efe286
git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git
aoliva/libcp1
Attaching this GDB testsuite update + info to user s/he should upgrade GCC.
After Alex upstreams the fix I can update the message to contain the specific
GCC release.
gdb/ChangeLog
2015-07-08 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
PR compile/18484
* compile/compile-c-types.c (insert_type): Change gdb_assert to error.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
2015-07-08 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
PR compile/18484
* gdb.compile/compile.c (struct struct_type): Add volatile to
selffield's type.
* gdb.compile/compile.exp
(compile code struct_object.selffield = &struct_object): Skip further
struct_object tests if this one xfails.
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