gdb: add test for readline handling very long commands
The test added in this commit tests for a long fixed readline issue
relating to long command lines. A similar patch has existed in the
Fedora GDB tree for several years, but I don't see any reason why this
test would not be suitable for inclusion in upstream GDB. I've
updated the patch to current testsuite standards.
The test is checking for an issue that was fixed by this readline
patch:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2006-11/msg00002.html
Which was merged into readline 6.0 (released ~2010). The issue was
triggered when the user enters a long command line, which wrapped over
multiple terminal lines. The crash looks like this:
free(): invalid pointer
Fatal signal: Aborted
----- Backtrace -----
0x4fb583 gdb_internal_backtrace_1
../../src/gdb/bt-utils.c:122
0x4fb583 _Z22gdb_internal_backtracev
../../src/gdb/bt-utils.c:168
0x6047b9 handle_fatal_signal
../../src/gdb/event-top.c:964
0x7f26e0cc56af ???
0x7f26e0cc5625 ???
0x7f26e0cae8d8 ???
0x7f26e0d094be ???
0x7f26e0d10aab ???
0x7f26e0d124ab ???
0x7f26e1d32e12 rl_free_undo_list
../../readline-5.2/undo.c:119
0x7f26e1d229eb readline_internal_teardown
../../readline-5.2/readline.c:405
0x7f26e1d3425f rl_callback_read_char
../../readline-5.2/callback.c:197
0x604c0d gdb_rl_callback_read_char_wrapper_noexcept
../../src/gdb/event-top.c:192
0x60581d gdb_rl_callback_read_char_wrapper
../../src/gdb/event-top.c:225
0x60492f stdin_event_handler
../../src/gdb/event-top.c:545
0xa60015 gdb_wait_for_event
../../src/gdbsupport/event-loop.cc:694
0xa6078d gdb_wait_for_event
../../src/gdbsupport/event-loop.cc:593
0xa6078d _Z16gdb_do_one_eventi
../../src/gdbsupport/event-loop.cc:264
0x6fc459 start_event_loop
../../src/gdb/main.c:411
0x6fc459 captured_command_loop
../../src/gdb/main.c:471
0x6fdce4 captured_main
../../src/gdb/main.c:1310
0x6fdce4 _Z8gdb_mainP18captured_main_args
../../src/gdb/main.c:1325
0x44f694 main
../../src/gdb/gdb.c:32
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I recreated the above crash by a little light hacking on GDB, and then
linking GDB against readline 5.2. The above stack trace was generated
from the test included in this patch, and matches the trace that was
included in the original bug report.
It is worth acknowledging that without hacking things GDB has a
minimum requirement of readline 7.0. This test is not about checking
whether GDB has been built against an older version of readline, it is
about checking that readline doesn't regress in this area.
Reviewed-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>