gdb Process record does not support instruction 0xc5

[Rob Latham]

the 'process record' feature of gdb allows reverse debugging. neato. but on Ubuntu-16.04 it fails to work, complaining about an unhandled instruction.

% gdb simple
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Reading symbols from simple...done.
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x400db7: file /home/robl/work/mpich/src/mpi/romio/test/simple.c, line 26.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/robl/work/build/mpich-logfs/src/mpi/romio/test/simple
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".

Breakpoint 1, main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffd698)
    at /home/robl/work/mpich/src/mpi/romio/test/simple.c:26
26 {
(gdb) record
(gdb) continue
Continuing.
Process record does not support instruction 0xc5 at address 0x7ffff7dee6e7.
Process record: failed to record execution log.

Program stopped.
_dl_runtime_resolve_avx () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/dl-trampoline.h:81
81 ../sysdeps/x86_64/dl-trampoline.h: No such file or directory.

If we examine the address we see this:

(gdb) x/i 0x7ffff7dee6e7
=> 0x7ffff7dee6e7 <_dl_runtime_resolve_avx+71>: vmovdqa %ymm0,(%rsp)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gdb 7.11-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Apr 22 15:34:03 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-09-10 (225 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
SourcePackage: gdb
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-22 (0 days ago)

[Diaa Sami (diaa.sami)]

I had the same problem but it disappeared once I compiled the executable statically (by adding -static option to g++ command-line)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[silvio (silvio-port1024)]

Just a pointer to a thread with a good explanation about this problem: https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2016-08/msg00025.html