This patch splits the TRY_CATCH macro into three, so that we go from
this:
~~~
volatile gdb_exception ex;
TRY_CATCH (ex, RETURN_MASK_ERROR)
{
}
if (ex.reason < 0)
{
}
~~~
to this:
~~~
TRY
{
}
CATCH (ex, RETURN_MASK_ERROR)
{
}
END_CATCH
~~~
Thus, we'll be getting rid of the local volatile exception object, and
declaring the caught exception in the catch block.
This allows reimplementing TRY/CATCH in terms of C++ exceptions when
building in C++ mode, while still allowing to build GDB in C mode
(using setjmp/longjmp), as a transition step.
TBC, after this patch, is it _not_ valid to have code between the TRY
and the CATCH blocks, like:
TRY
{
}
// some code here.
CATCH (ex, RETURN_MASK_ERROR)
{
}
END_CATCH
Just like it isn't valid to do that with C++'s native try/catch.
By switching to creating the exception object inside the CATCH block
scope, we can get rid of all the explicitly allocated volatile
exception objects all over the tree, and map the CATCH block more
directly to C++'s catch blocks.
The majority of the TRY_CATCH -> TRY+CATCH+END_CATCH conversion was
done with a script, rerun from scratch at every rebase, no manual
editing involved. After the mechanical conversion, a few places
needed manual intervention, to fix preexisting cases where we were
using the exception object outside of the TRY_CATCH block, and cases
where we were using "else" after a 'if (ex.reason) < 0)' [a CATCH
after this patch]. The result was folded into this patch so that GDB
still builds at each incremental step.
END_CATCH is necessary for two reasons:
First, because we name the exception object in the CATCH block, which
requires creating a scope, which in turn must be closed somewhere.
Declaring the exception variable in the initializer field of a for
block, like:
#define CATCH(EXCEPTION, mask) \
for (struct gdb_exception EXCEPTION; \
exceptions_state_mc_catch (&EXCEPTION, MASK); \
EXCEPTION = exception_none)
would avoid needing END_CATCH, but alas, in C mode, we build with C90,
which doesn't allow mixed declarations and code.
Second, because when TRY/CATCH are wired to real C++ try/catch, as
long as we need to handle cleanup chains, even if there's no CATCH
block that wants to catch the exception, we need for stop at every
frame in the unwind chain and run cleanups, then rethrow. That will
be done in END_CATCH.
After we require C++, we'll still need TRY/CATCH/END_CATCH until
cleanups are completely phased out -- TRY/CATCH in C++ mode will
save/restore the current cleanup chain, like in C mode, and END_CATCH
catches otherwise uncaugh exceptions, runs cleanups and rethrows, so
that C++ cleanups and exceptions can coexist.
IMO, this still makes the TRY/CATCH code look a bit more like a
newcomer would expect, so IMO worth it even if we weren't considering
C++.
gdb/ChangeLog.
2015-03-07 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* common/common-exceptions.c (struct catcher) <exception>: No
longer a pointer to volatile exception. Now an exception value.
<mask>: Delete field.
(exceptions_state_mc_init): Remove all parameters. Adjust.
(exceptions_state_mc): No longer pop the catcher here.
(exceptions_state_mc_catch): New function.
(throw_exception): Adjust.
* common/common-exceptions.h (exceptions_state_mc_init): Remove
all parameters.
(exceptions_state_mc_catch): Declare.
(TRY_CATCH): Rename to ...
(TRY): ... this. Remove EXCEPTION and MASK parameters.
(CATCH, END_CATCH): New.
All callers adjusted.
gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog:
2015-03-07 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Adjust all callers of TRY_CATCH to use TRY/CATCH/END_CATCH
instead.
This normalizes some exception catch blocks that check for ex.reason
to look like this:
~~~
volatile gdb_exception ex;
TRY_CATCH (ex, RETURN_MASK_ALL)
{
...
}
if (ex.reason < 0)
{
...
}
~~~
This is a preparation step for running a script that converts all
TRY_CATCH uses to look like this instead:
~~~
TRY
{
...
}
CATCH (ex, RETURN_MASK_ALL)
{
...
}
END_CATCH
~~~
The motivation for that change is being able to reimplent TRY/CATCH in
terms of C++ try/catch.
This commit makes it so that:
- no condition other than ex.reason < 0 is checked in the if
predicate
- there's no "else" block to check whether no exception was caught
- there's no code between the TRY_CATCH (TRY) block and the
'if (ex.reason < 0)' block (CATCH).
- the exception object is no longer referred to outside the if/catch
block. Note the local volatile exception objects that are
currently defined inside functions that use TRY_CATCH will
disappear. In cases it's more convenient to still refer to the
exception outside the catch block, a new non-volatile local is
added and copy to that object is made within the catch block.
The following patches should make this all clearer.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-03-07 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* amd64-tdep.c (amd64_frame_cache, amd64_sigtramp_frame_cache)
(amd64_epilogue_frame_cache): Normal exception handling code.
* break-catch-throw.c (check_status_exception_catchpoint)
(re_set_exception_catchpoint): Ditto.
* cli/cli-interp.c (safe_execute_command):
* cli/cli-script.c (script_from_file): Ditto.
* compile/compile-c-symbols.c (generate_c_for_for_one_variable):
Ditto.
* compile/compile-object-run.c (compile_object_run): Ditto.
* cp-abi.c (baseclass_offset): Ditto.
* cp-valprint.c (cp_print_value): Ditto.
* exceptions.c (catch_exceptions_with_msg):
* frame-unwind.c (frame_unwind_try_unwinder): Ditto.
* frame.c (get_frame_address_in_block_if_available): Ditto.
* i386-tdep.c (i386_frame_cache, i386_epilogue_frame_cache)
(i386_sigtramp_frame_cache): Ditto.
* infcmd.c (post_create_inferior): Ditto.
* linespec.c (parse_linespec, find_linespec_symbols):
* p-valprint.c (pascal_object_print_value): Ditto.
* parse.c (parse_expression_for_completion): Ditto.
* python/py-finishbreakpoint.c (bpfinishpy_init): Ditto.
* remote.c (remote_get_noisy_reply): Ditto.
* s390-linux-tdep.c (s390_frame_unwind_cache): Ditto.
* solib-svr4.c (solib_svr4_r_map): Ditto.
One could not call IFUNCs (=indirect functions) from the compiled injected
code. Either it errored with:
gdb command line:1:1: error: function return type cannot be function
or it just called the IFUNC dispatcher in normal way, returning real function
implementation address instead of the function return value (and thus no
function was called).
gdb/ChangeLog
2015-02-26 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
* compile/compile-c-symbols.c (convert_one_symbol, convert_symbol_bmsym)
(gcc_symbol_address): Call gnu_ifunc_resolve_addr.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
2015-02-26 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
* gdb.compile/compile-ifunc.c: New file.
* gdb.compile/compile-ifunc.exp: New file.
This final patch adds the new "compile" command and subcommands, and
all the machinery needed to make it work.
A shared library supplied by gcc is used for all communications with
gcc. Types and most aspects of symbols are provided directly by gdb
to the compiler using this library.
gdb provides some information about the user's code using plain text.
Macros are emitted this way, and DWARF location expressions (and
bounds for VLA) are compiled to C code.
This hybrid approach was taken because, on the one hand, it is better
to provide global declarations and such on demand; but on the other
hand, for local variables, translating DWARF location expressions to C
was much simpler than exporting a full compiler API to gdb -- the same
result, only easier to implement, understand, and debug.
In the ordinary mode, the user's expression is wrapped in a dummy
function. After compilation, gdb inserts the resulting object code
into the inferior, then calls this function.
Access to local variables is provided by noting which registers are
used by location expressions, and passing a structure of register
values into the function. Writes to registers are supported by
copying out these values after the function returns.
This approach was taken so that we could eventually implement other
more interesting features based on this same infrastructure; for
example, we're planning to investigate inferior-side breakpoint
conditions.
gdb/ChangeLog
2014-12-12 Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
* NEWS: Update.
* symtab.h (struct symbol_computed_ops) <generate_c_location>: New
field.
* p-lang.c (pascal_language_defn): Update.
* opencl-lang.c (opencl_language_defn): Update.
* objc-lang.c (objc_language_defn): Update.
* m2-lang.c (m2_language_defn): Update.
* language.h (struct language_defn) <la_get_compile_instance,
la_compute_program>: New fields.
* language.c (unknown_language_defn, auto_language_defn)
(local_language_defn): Update.
* jv-lang.c (java_language_defn): Update.
* go-lang.c (go_language_defn): Update.
* f-lang.c (f_language_defn): Update.
* dwarf2loc.h (dwarf2_compile_property_to_c): Declare.
* dwarf2loc.c (dwarf2_compile_property_to_c)
(locexpr_generate_c_location, loclist_generate_c_location): New
functions.
(dwarf2_locexpr_funcs, dwarf2_loclist_funcs): Update.
* defs.h (enum compile_i_scope_types): New.
(enum command_control_type) <compile_control>: New constant.
(struct command_line) <control_u>: New field.
* d-lang.c (d_language_defn): Update.
* compile/compile.c: New file.
* compile/compile-c-support.c: New file.
* compile/compile-c-symbols.c: New file.
* compile/compile-c-types.c: New file.
* compile/compile.h: New file.
* compile/compile-internal.h: New file.
* compile/compile-loc2c.c: New file.
* compile/compile-object-load.c: New file.
* compile/compile-object-load.h: New file.
* compile/compile-object-run.c: New file.
* compile/compile-object-run.h: New file.
* cli/cli-script.c (multi_line_command_p, print_command_lines)
(execute_control_command, process_next_line)
(recurse_read_control_structure): Handle compile_control.
* c-lang.h (c_get_compile_context, c_compute_program): Declare.
* c-lang.c (c_language_defn, cplus_language_defn)
(asm_language_defn, minimal_language_defn): Update.
* ada-lang.c (ada_language_defn): Update.
* Makefile.in (SUBDIR_GCC_COMPILE_OBS, SUBDIR_GCC_COMPILE_SRCS):
New variables.
(SFILES): Add SUBDIR_GCC_COMPILE_SRCS.
(HFILES_NO_SRCDIR): Add compile.h.
(COMMON_OBS): Add SUBDIR_GCC_COMPILE_OBS.
(INIT_FILES): Add SUBDIR_GCC_COMPILE_SRCS.
(compile.o, compile-c-types.o, compile-c-symbols.o)
(compile-object-load.o, compile-object-run.o, compile-loc2c.o)
(compile-c-support.o): New targets.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2014-12-12 Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Altering): Update.
(Compiling and Injecting Code): New node.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
2014-12-12 Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
* configure.ac: Add gdb.compile/.
* configure: Regenerate.
* gdb.compile/Makefile.in: New file.
* gdb.compile/compile-ops.exp: New file.
* gdb.compile/compile-ops.c: New file.
* gdb.compile/compile-tls.c: New file.
* gdb.compile/compile-tls.exp: New file.
* gdb.compile/compile-constvar.S: New file.
* gdb.compile/compile-constvar.c: New file.
* gdb.compile/compile-mod.c: New file.
* gdb.compile/compile-nodebug.c: New file.
* gdb.compile/compile-setjmp-mod.c: New file.
* gdb.compile/compile-setjmp.c: New file.
* gdb.compile/compile-setjmp.exp: New file.
* gdb.compile/compile-shlib.c: New file.
* gdb.compile/compile.c: New file.
* gdb.compile/compile.exp: New file.
* lib/gdb.exp (skip_compile_feature_tests): New proc.
Pedro Alves