These allow applications to give meaningful names to their sources.
Source names can then be used for debugging and profiling, for
example with systemtap or gdb.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606044
For some reason, even though the tests are linked against libgobject.la
and libgobject.la mentions libglib.la as a dependency, the tests are
running against the system glib instead of the in-tree one.
Adding the libglib.la file as an explicit LDFLAG fixes it.
Re-using glibc's __abort_msg symbol causes linking problems, since the symbol
is declared private. Always use our own__glib_abort_msg symbol to store
assertion messages, to avoid compatibility and linking problems.
Also fix the test case to work with out of tree builds (such as "make
distcheck"), and re-enable it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594872
It makes the IBM XL C Compiler (the 'native' non-free compiler
on the AIX 5.3 and 6.1 platform) stop compiling with syntax error.
Fixes https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581300
Signed-off-by: Javier Jardón <jjardon@gnome.org>
Crash interception/debugging systems like Apport or ABRT capture core dumps for
later crash analysis. However, if a program exits with an assertion failure,
the core dump is not useful since the assertion message is only printed to
stderr.
glibc recently got a patch which stores the message of assert() into the
__abort_msg global variable.
(http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=48dcd0ba)
That works fine for programs which actually use the standard C assert() macro.
This patch adds the same functionality for glib's assertion tests. If we are
building against a glibc which already has __abort_msg (2.11 and later, or
backported above git commit), use that, otherwise put it into our own field
__glib_assert_msg.
Usage:
$ cat test.c
#include <glib.h>
int main() {
g_assert(1 < 0);
return 0;
}
$ ./test
**ERROR:test.c:5:main: assertion failed: (1 < 0)
Aborted (Core dumped)
$ gdb --batch --ex 'print (char*) __abort_msg' ./test core
[...]
$1 = 0x93bf028 "ERROR:test.c:5:main: assertion failed: (1 < 0)"
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594872
