GDB cannot access struct member whose offset is larger than 256MB

Issue

• GDB cannot access struct member whose offset is larger than 256MB
• The following is the sample program to reproduce it.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#define BSIZE (0x10000000)

struct s {
     char buf1[BSIZE];
     char buf2[8];
     char buf3[8];
     char buf4[8];
};

int main()
{
     struct s *p = malloc(sizeof(struct s));
     memset(p,0,sizeof(struct s));
     printf("%p %x\n", &p->buf2[0], p->buf2[0]);
     return(0);
}

• Compile the program:

[root@localhost test]# gcc -Wall -g test.c

• Run in GDB as follows:

[root@localhost test]# gdb ./a.out
(gdb) b 18
Breakpoint 1 at 0x400554: file test.c, line 18.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /root/gdb/a.out
warning: no loadable sections found in added symbol-file system-supplied DSO at 0x2aaaaaac7000

Breakpoint 1, main () at test.c:18
18              printf("%p %x\n", &p->buf2[0], p->buf2[0]);
(gdb) p p->buf2[0]
Cannot access memory at address 0x2aaa9b022010
(gdb)

• This works correctly for any value less than 0x10000000 for BSIZE