Hi, with custom patched dwarf2out.c I got a crash on memory mangled by the garbage collector. With patched GTY there the crash no longer happened - but I do not have a reproducer anymore, sorry if it is a bogus patch.
The memory corrupted later was initially allocated and stored into mem_loc_result->dw_loc_oprnd1.v.val_loc. I do not think there is any other reference to it than that field with no GTY. GIT 33e7b55c2549d655d88ec64c06c51912d0d07527 gcc (GCC) 4.7.0 20111002 (experimental) 11900 mem_loc_result->dw_loc_oprnd1.v.val_loc = op0; (gdb) bt #0 mem_loc_descriptor (rtl=, mode=SImode, mem_mode=VOIDmode, initialized=VAR_INIT_STATUS_INITIALIZED) at gcc/dwarf2out.c:11900 #1 in loc_descriptor (rtl=, mode=SImode, initialized=VAR_INIT_STATUS_INITIALIZED) at gcc/dwarf2out.c:12790 #2 in loc_descriptor (rtl=, mode=SImode, initialized=VAR_INIT_STATUS_INITIALIZED) at gcc/dwarf2out.c:12614 #3 in dw_loc_list_1 (loc=, varloc=, want_address=2, initialized=VAR_INIT_STATUS_INITIALIZED) at gcc/dwarf2out.c:12889 #4 in dw_loc_list (loc_list=, decl=, want_address=2) at gcc/dwarf2out.c:13145 #5 in loc_list_from_tree (loc=, want_address=2) at gcc/dwarf2out.c:13538 #6 in add_location_or_const_value_attribute (die=, decl=, cache_p=0 '\000', attr=DW_AT_location) at gcc/dwarf2out.c:15048 #7 in gen_formal_parameter_die (node=, origin=0x0, emit_name_p=1 '\001', context_die=) at gcc/dwarf2out.c:16804 #8 in gen_decl_die (decl=, origin=0x0, context_die=) at gcc/dwarf2out.c:19632 #9 in gen_subprogram_die (decl=, context_die=) at gcc/dwarf2out.c:17560 #10 in gen_decl_die (decl=, origin=0x0, context_die=) at gcc/dwarf2out.c:19545 #11 in dwarf2out_decl (decl=) at gcc/dwarf2out.c:19919 #12 in dwarf2out_function_decl (decl=) at gcc/dwarf2out.c:19927 #13 in rest_of_handle_final () at gcc/final.c:4252 #14 in execute_one_pass (pass=0x4dbe120) at gcc/passes.c:2064 #15 in execute_pass_list (pass=0x4dbe120) at gcc/passes.c:2119 #16 in execute_pass_list (pass=0x4dbef00) at gcc/passes.c:2120 #17 in execute_pass_list (pass=0x4dbeea0) at gcc/passes.c:2120 #18 in tree_rest_of_compilation (fndecl=) at gcc/tree-optimize.c:420 #19 in cgraph_expand_function (node=) at gcc/cgraphunit.c:1803 #20 in cgraph_expand_all_functions () at gcc/cgraphunit.c:1862 #21 in cgraph_optimize () at gcc/cgraphunit.c:2133 #22 in cgraph_finalize_compilation_unit () at gcc/cgraphunit.c:1310 #23 in c_write_global_declarations () at gcc/c-decl.c:9936 #24 in compile_file () at gcc/toplev.c:581 #25 in do_compile () at gcc/toplev.c:1925 #26 in toplev_main (argc=101, argv=) at gcc/toplev.c:2001 #27 in main (argc=101, argv=) at gcc/main.c:36 It was later freed (watchpoint hit) by: (gdb) bt #0 __memset_sse2 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/memset.S:333 #1 in poison_pages () at gcc/ggc-page.c:1845 #2 in ggc_collect () at gcc/ggc-page.c:1938 #3 in execute_todo (flags=2) at gcc/passes.c:1763 #4 in execute_one_pass (pass=0x4dbce80) at gcc/passes.c:2087 #5 in execute_pass_list (pass=0x4dbce80) at gcc/passes.c:2119 #6 in tree_rest_of_compilation (fndecl=) at gcc/tree-optimize.c:420 #7 in cgraph_expand_function (node=) at gcc/cgraphunit.c:1803 #8 in cgraph_expand_all_functions () at gcc/cgraphunit.c:1862 #9 in cgraph_optimize () at gcc/cgraphunit.c:2133 #10 in cgraph_finalize_compilation_unit () at gcc/cgraphunit.c:1310 #11 in c_write_global_declarations () at gcc/c-decl.c:9936 #12 in compile_file () at gcc/toplev.c:581 #13 in do_compile () at gcc/toplev.c:1925 #14 in toplev_main (argc=101, argv=) at gcc/toplev.c:2001 #15 in main (argc=101, argv=) at gcc/main.c:36 And later it crashed on the mangled memory. OK to check it in? No regression testing done. Thanks, Jan gcc/ 2011-10-20 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratoch...@redhat.com> * dwarf2out.c (struct dw_loc_list_struct): Add GTY for expr; --- a/gcc/dwarf2out.c +++ b/gcc/dwarf2out.c @@ -1211,7 +1210,7 @@ typedef struct GTY(()) dw_loc_list_struct { char *ll_symbol; /* Label for beginning of location list. Only on head of list */ const char *section; /* Section this loclist is relative to */ - dw_loc_descr_ref expr; + dw_loc_descr_ref GTY(()) expr; hashval_t hash; /* True if all addresses in this and subsequent lists are known to be resolved. */