Re: Issue with Latest GDB on AIX with GCC-6.12

>>>>> Pedro Alves writes:

> Sounds like a manifestation of:
>
>  Bug 60939 - AIX: exceptions not caught when calling function via pointer
>  https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60939
>
> since ui->input_handler is a function pointer here:
>
> static void
> gdb_rl_callback_handler (char *rl) noexcept
> {
>   struct gdb_exception gdb_rl_expt = exception_none;
>   struct ui *ui = current_ui;
>
>   TRY
>     {
>       ui->input_handler (rl);
>     }
>   CATCH (ex, RETURN_MASK_ALL)
>     {
>       gdb_rl_expt = ex;
>     }
>   END_CATCH

If the problem is throwing an exception through a function called via
pointer, then the solution should be to follow the suggestion in
comment #8 and add an appropriate incantation of

-Wl,-bkeepfile:

to the link step for GDB, something like

gdb/config/powerpc/aix.mh
MH_LDFLAGS = -Wl,-bkeepfile:event-top.o

Thanks, David