Re: [re] Java executables can abort trying to access a null pointer in a leaf function

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

tsuraan writes:
 > > Someone will need the assembly and/or object file for a small test case
 > > to examine the DWARF frame data.
 > 
 > I can send a tarball of the entire directory, if desired.  It's 14 KB
 > without the core dump and 1.2MB with it.  I don't know what filesize
 > starts to anger people on this list, so I'll just send the smaller
 > tarball for now.  If the core is desired, I can send that too.

This looks OK to me: we are generating te null pointer check.  

Until we actually see the faulting instruction in gdb we're not going
to get anywhere.  Just load your program into gdb, run it, and tel us
when it hits the SEGV.

FWIW, I'm guessing that this is actually a problem with debuginfo.

Andrew.





NullPointer.foo(NullPointer):
.LFB4:
        .loc 1 19 0
        pushl   %ebp
.LCFI28:
        movl    %esp, %ebp
.LCFI29:
        subl    $8, %esp
.LCFI30:
.LBB5:
        .loc 1 20 0
        movl    NullPointer.j, %eax
        addl    $5, %eax
        movl    %eax, NullPointer.j
        .loc 1 21 0
        movl    12(%ebp), %eax
        movl    %eax, -4(%ebp)
        movl    -4(%ebp), %eax
        testl   %eax, %eax
        jne     .L17
        call    _Jv_ThrowNullPointerException
.L17:
        movl    -4(%ebp), %eax
        movl    %eax, %edx
        movl    4(%edx), %eax
        addl    $4, %eax
        movl    %eax, 4(%edx)
.LBE5:
        .loc 1 22 0
        leave
        ret
.LFE4: