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gdb.python/py-unwind: Disable stack protection

Message ID 1500028034-19731-1-git-send-email-simon.marchi@ericsson.com
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Simon Marchi July 14, 2017, 10:27 a.m. UTC 
  I see the following failure on Ubuntu 16.04's gcc 5.4.0:

Running /home/emaisin/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-unwind.exp ...
FAIL: gdb.python/py-unwind.exp: continue to breakpoint: break backtrace-broken
FAIL: gdb.python/py-unwind.exp: Backtrace restored by unwinder (pattern 1)

The problem is that the test expects a very particular stack layout.
When stack protection is enabled, it adds a canary value which looks
like an additional local variable.  This makes the test complain about
a bad stack layout and fail.

The simple solution is to disable stack protection for that test using
-fno-stack-protector.  I checked older compilers (gcc 4.4, clang 3.5)
and they support that flag, so I don't think it's necessary to probe for
whether the compiler supports it.

Maybe a better solution would be to change the test to make it cope with
different stack layouts (perhaps it could save addresses of stuff in
some global variables which GDB/the unwinder would read).  I'll go with
the simple solution for now though.

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:

	* gdb.python/py-unwind.exp: Disable stack protection when
	building test file.
---
 gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-unwind.exp | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-unwind.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-unwind.exp
index 625b04c..4a64f15 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-unwind.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-unwind.exp
@@ -20,7 +20,12 @@  load_lib gdb-python.exp
 
 standard_testfile
 
-if { [prepare_for_testing "failed to prepare" ${testfile} ${srcfile}] } {
+# Stack protection can make the stack look a bit different, breaking the
+# assumptions of this test about the stack lay out.
+
+set flags "additional_flags=-fno-stack-protector"
+
+if { [prepare_for_testing "failed to prepare" ${testfile} ${srcfile} "debug $flags"] } {
     return -1
 }