[Help-smalltalk] GST segfaults when running under GDB

[Jan Vrany]

Hi, 

I'm trying to refresh my knowledge of GST internal workings. 
I compiled the most recent master from git. 

When run it normally (gst -i) it runs just fine. 
When trying to run under GDB, it crashes on segmentation
fault. Details below. 

Is it normal? If so, do I have to setup GDB specially or
compile GST specially to be able to debug it?
Any help is appreciated! 

Best, Jan

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Backtrace from GDB:
(gdb)
exec-file /home/jv/Projects/GNUSmalltak/sources/smalltalk/dist/bin/gst
(gdb) r -i 
Starting
program: /home/jv/Projects/GNUSmalltak/sources/smalltalk/dist/bin/gst -i
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library
"/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
_gst_mem_alloc (h=0x61d250, sz=296) at alloc.c:226
226           blk->vSmall.avail--;
(gdb) bt 30
#0  _gst_mem_alloc (h=0x61d250, sz=296) at alloc.c:226
#1  0x00007ffff7b2796e in _gst_tenure_oop (oop=0x61d250) at oop.c:756
#2  0x00007ffff7b27a65 in tenure_one_object () at oop.c:1624
#3  queue_put (q=0x7ffff7dd4c68 <_gst_mem+104>,
address@hidden, n=<optimized out>) at oop.c:1554
#4  0x00007ffff7b28309 in _gst_copy_an_oop (oop=0x7fffee6462f0) at
oop.c:2064
#5  0x00007ffff7b29932 in scan_grey_pages () at oop.c:1851
#6  copy_oops () at oop.c:1759
#7  _gst_scavenge () at oop.c:1227
#8  0x00007ffff7b29d45 in _gst_alloc_obj (address@hidden,
address@hidden) at oop.c:789
#9  0x00007ffff7b1c932 in instantiate_numbytes (numBytes=312,
instanceSpec=<optimized out>, p_oop=0x7fffffffd9f8,
class_oop=0x7fffee5926a0) at dict.inl:719
#10 instantiate_with (p_oop=0x7fffffffd9f8, numIndexFields=<optimized
out>, class_oop=0x7fffee5926a0) at dict.inl:779
#11 method_new (class=0x7fffee66fba0, methodDesc=0x7fffee670410,
bytecodes=0x623fa0, literals=0x7fffee6703e0, header=...) at comp.c:2725
#12 _gst_make_new_method (numArgs=<optimized out>, numTemps=<optimized
out>, address@hidden, maximumStackDepth=<optimized out>,
address@hidden, 
    address@hidden,
address@hidden, bytecodes=0x623fa0,
address@hidden, class=0x7fffee66fba0, 
    selector=0x7fffee5919f0, categoryOOP=0x7fffee670390, startPos=16113,
endPos=17294) at comp.c:2702
#13 0x00007ffff7b1e1d8 in _gst_compile_method (method=0x626f80,
address@hidden, address@hidden,
address@hidden)
    at comp.c:838
#14 0x00007ffff7b10733 in parse_method (address@hidden,
address@hidden) at gst-parse.c:1359
#15 0x00007ffff7b10ebd in parse_scoped_method (address@hidden,
address@hidden) at gst-parse.c:1154
#16 0x00007ffff7b118d8 in parse_class_definition
(address@hidden, classOOP=0x7fffee66fc50,
address@hidden) at gst-parse.c:1014
#17 0x00007ffff7b12363 in parse_scoped_definition (first_stmt=0x620200,
p=0x7fffffffdeb0) at gst-parse.c:691
#18 parse_doit (address@hidden,
address@hidden) at gst-parse.c:624
#19 0x00007ffff7b128ad in parse_chunks (address@hidden) at
gst-parse.c:475
#20 0x00007ffff7b12cf8 in _gst_parse_chunks
(address@hidden) at gst-parse.c:449
#21 0x00007ffff7b14878 in _gst_parse_stream
(address@hidden) at lex.c:1209
#22 0x00007ffff7b3f2cf in _gst_process_file
(address@hidden <standard_files+1186>
"AnsiDates.st", address@hidden) at input.c:855
#23 0x00007ffff7b0c063 in load_standard_files () at files.c:580
#24 _gst_initialize (kernel_dir=<optimized out>, image_file=<optimized
out>, flags=<optimized out>) at files.c:522
#25 0x00007ffff7b0b4f5 in gst_initialize (kernel_dir=<optimized out>,
image_file=<optimized out>, flags=<optimized out>) at gstpub.c:156
#26 0x00000000004010d3 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized
out>) at main.c:386
(gdb) 

System (stock Debian testing):
uname -a
Linux sao 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt4-3 (2015-02-03) x86_64
GNU/Linux
address@hidden:~/Projects/gdb/sources1/gdb$ gcc --version

gcc (Debian 4.9.1-19) 4.9.1
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.

gdb -version
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(same behaviour also when using hand-baked gdb 7.9.40)

gst compiled as follows:
./configure --prefix=$PWD/dist
make
make install