call strcmp

[Réginald LIPS]

Dear all,

I found a strange change since gdb 7.1.
I just would like to call strcmp within gdb (as a breakpoint command for ex.).
So here I am:

(gdb) call strcmp("toto", "toto")
$1 = -138906208
(gdb)

It never returns the good value.
So I wrote this test program:

address@hidden:/tmp$ cat test.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int     main()
{
  printf("strcmp: %d\n", strcmp("toto", "toto"));
  return (0);
}
address@hidden:/tmp$ gcc ./test.c -g3
address@hidden:/tmp$ ./a.out
strcmp: 0

But still the issue:
address@hidden:/tmp$ gdb ./a.out
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.1-ubuntu
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
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There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /tmp/a.out...done.
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x400528: file ./test.c, line 6.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /tmp/a.out

Breakpoint 1, main () at ./test.c:6
6         printf("strcmp: %d\n", strcmp("toto", "toto"));
(gdb) call strcmp("toto", "toto")
$1 = -138906208

Another test seems to be fine:
(gdb) call strdup("toto")
$8 = 6299856
(gdb) p (char *)$
$9 = 0x6020d0 "toto"


It worked in 7.0, so I really don't get it, if you have any idea?

Thanks.
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Réginald