This commit unifies all of the Python register lookup code (used by
Frame.read_register, PendingFrame.read_register, and
gdb.UnwindInfo.add_saved_register), and adds support for using a
gdb.RegisterDescriptor for register lookup.
Currently the register unwind code (PendingFrame and UnwindInfo) allow
registers to be looked up either by name, or by GDB's internal
number. I suspect the number was added for performance reasons, when
unwinding we don't want to repeatedly map from name to number for
every unwind. However, this kind-of sucks, it means Python scripts
could include GDB's internal register numbers, and if we ever change
this numbering in the future users scripts will break in unexpected
ways.
Meanwhile, the Frame.read_register method only supports accessing
registers using a string, the register name.
This commit unifies all of the register to register-number lookup code
in our Python bindings, and adds a third choice into the mix, the use
of gdb.RegisterDescriptor.
The register descriptors can be looked up by name, but once looked up,
they contain GDB's register number, and so provide all of the
performance benefits of using a register number directly. However, as
they are looked up by name we are no longer tightly binding the Python
API to GDB's internal numbering scheme.
As we may already have scripts in the wild that are using the register
numbers directly I have kept support for this in the API, but I have
listed this method last in the manual, and I have tried to stress that
this is NOT a good method to use and that users should use either a
string or register descriptor approach.
After this commit all existing Python code should function as before,
but users now have new options for how to identify registers.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* python/py-frame.c: Remove 'user-regs.h' include.
(frapy_read_register): Rewrite to make use of
gdbpy_parse_register_id.
* python/py-registers.c (gdbpy_parse_register_id): New function,
moved here from python/py-unwind.c. Updated the return type, and
also accepts register descriptor objects.
* python/py-unwind.c: Remove 'user-regs.h' include.
(pyuw_parse_register_id): Moved to python/py-registers.c.
(unwind_infopy_add_saved_register): Update to use
gdbpy_parse_register_id.
(pending_framepy_read_register): Likewise.
* python/python-internal.h (gdbpy_parse_register_id): Declare.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.python/py-unwind.py: Update to make use of a register
descriptor.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* python.texi (Unwinding Frames in Python): Update descriptions
for PendingFrame.read_register and
gdb.UnwindInfo.add_saved_register.
(Frames In Python): Update description of Frame.read_register.
Adds a new method 'find' to the gdb.RegisterDescriptorIterator class,
this allows gdb.RegisterDescriptor objects to be looked up directly by
register name rather than having to iterate over all registers.
This will be of use for a later commit.
I've documented the new function in the manual, but I don't think a
NEWS entry is required here, as, since the last release, the whole
register descriptor mechanism is new, and is already mentioned in the
NEWS file.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* python/py-registers.c: Add 'user-regs.h' include.
(register_descriptor_iter_find): New function.
(register_descriptor_iterator_object_methods): New static global
methods array.
(register_descriptor_iterator_object_type): Add pointer to methods
array.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.python/py-arch-reg-names.exp: Add additional tests.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* python.texi (Registers In Python): Document new find function.
The list of commands that a stub must implement was wrong.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2020-07-22 Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
* gdb.texinfo (Remote Protocol, Overview): Correct the description
of which remote protocol commands are mandatory for a stub to
implement.
The addition of an anchor for the "frame apply" command was causing
the HTML documentation to include files named both "frame-apply.html"
and "Frame-Apply.html", which collide on case-insensitive file
systems. This patch removes the redundant anchor and adjusts the two
xrefs to it.
2020-07-13 Paul Carroll <pcarroll@codesourcery.com>
PR gdb/25716
gdb/doc/
* gdb.texinfo (Frame Apply): Remove anchor for 'frame
apply' and adjust xrefs to it.
It was deemed better to explicitly mention in help and doc that build IDs
are used for comparison, and that symbols are loaded when asking to
load the exec-file.
This is V2, fixing 2 typos and replacing 'If the user asks to load'
by 'If the user confirms loading', as suggested by Pedro.
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-07-11 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
* exec.c (_initialize_exec): Update exec-file-mismatch help.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2020-07-11 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
* gdb.texinfo (Attach): Update exec-file-mismatch doc.
Fixes this testsuite fail on Windows:
FAIL: gdb.base/auto-load.exp: print $script_loaded
Converts the debugfile path from c:/dir/file to /c/dir/file, so it can be
appended to the auto-load path.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2020-07-08 Hannes Domani <ssbssa@yahoo.de>
* auto-load.c (auto_load_objfile_script_1): Convert drive part
of debugfile path on Windows.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2020-07-08 Hannes Domani <ssbssa@yahoo.de>
* gdb.texinfo: Document Windows drive conversion of
'set auto-load scripts-directory'.
Add a new method gdb.Architecture.register_groups which returns a new
object of type gdb.RegisterGroupsIterator. This new iterator then
returns objects of type gdb.RegisterGroup.
Each gdb.RegisterGroup object just wraps a single reggroup pointer,
and (currently) has just one read-only property 'name' that is a
string, the name of the register group.
As with the previous commit (adding gdb.RegisterDescriptor) I made
gdb.RegisterGroup an object rather than just a string in case we want
to add additional properties in the future.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* NEWS: Mention additions to Python API.
* python/py-arch.c (archpy_register_groups): New function.
(arch_object_methods): Add 'register_groups' method.
* python/py-registers.c (reggroup_iterator_object): New struct.
(reggroup_object): New struct.
(gdbpy_new_reggroup): New function.
(gdbpy_reggroup_to_string): New function.
(gdbpy_reggroup_name): New function.
(gdbpy_reggroup_iter): New function.
(gdbpy_reggroup_iter_next): New function.
(gdbpy_new_reggroup_iterator): New function
(gdbpy_initialize_registers): Register new types.
(reggroup_iterator_object_type): Define new Python type.
(gdbpy_reggroup_getset): New static global.
(reggroup_object_type): Define new Python type.
* python/python-internal.h
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.python/py-arch-reg-groups.exp: New file.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texi (Registers): Add @anchor for 'info registers
<reggroup>' command.
* python.texi (Architectures In Python): Document new
register_groups method.
(Registers In Python): Document two new object types related to
register groups.
This commit adds a new method gdb.Architecture.registers that returns
an object of the new type gdb.RegisterDescriptorIterator. This
iterator returns objects of the new type gdb.RegisterDescriptor.
A RegisterDescriptor is not a way to read the value of a register,
this is already covered by Frame.read_register, a RegisterDescriptor
is simply a way to discover from Python, which registers are
available for a given architecture.
I did consider just returning a string, the name of each register,
instead of a RegisterDescriptor, however, I'm aware that it we don't
want to break the existing Python API in any way, so if I return just
a string now, but in the future we want more information about a
register then we would have to add a second API to get that
information. By going straight to a descriptor object now, it is easy
to add additional properties in the future should we wish to.
Right now the only property of a register that a user can access is
the name of the register.
In future we might want to be able to ask the register about is
register groups, or its type.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* Makefile.in (SUBDIR_PYTHON_SRCS): Add py-registers.c
* python/py-arch.c (archpy_registers): New function.
(arch_object_methods): Add 'registers' method.
* python/py-registers.c: New file.
* python/python-internal.h
(gdbpy_new_register_descriptor_iterator): Declare.
(gdbpy_initialize_registers): Declare.
* python/python.c (do_start_initialization): Call
gdbpy_initialize_registers.
* NEWS: Mention additions to the Python API.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.python/py-arch-reg-names.exp: New file.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* python.texi (Python API): Add new section the menu.
(Frames In Python): Add new @anchor.
(Architectures In Python): Document new registers method.
(Registers In Python): New section.
It could be useful to determine the architecture of a frame being
unwound during the frame unwind process, that is, before we have a
gdb.Frame, but when we only have a gdb.PendingFrame.
The PendingFrame already has a pointer to the gdbarch internally, this
commit just exposes an 'architecture' method to Python, and has this
return a gdb.Architecture object (list gdb.Frame.architecture does).
gdb/ChangeLog:
* NEWS: Mention new Python API method.
* python/py-unwind.c (pending_framepy_architecture): New function.
(pending_frame_object_methods): Add architecture method.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.python/py-unwind.py (TestUnwinder::__call__): Add test for
gdb.PendingFrame.architecture method.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* python.texi (Unwinding Frames in Python): Document
PendingFrame.architecture method.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2020-06-26 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* gdb.texinfo (Shell Commands): More accurate description of use
of $SHELL. Reported by Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com>.
This commit adds a new maintenance command that dumps the current
target description as an XML document. This is a maintenance command
as I currently only see this being useful for GDB developers, or for
people debugging a new remote target.
By default the command will print whatever the current target
description is, whether this was delivered by the remote, loaded by
the user from a file, or if it is a built in target within GDB.
The command can also take an optional filename argument. In this case
GDB loads a target description from the file, and then reprints it.
This could be useful for testing GDB's parsing of target descriptions,
or to check that GDB can successfully parse a particular XML
description.
It is worth noting that the XML description printed will not be an
exact copy of the document fed into GDB. For example this minimal
input file:
<target>
<feature name="abc">
<reg name="r1" bitsize="32"/>
</feature>
</target>
Will produce this output:
(gdb) maint print xml-tdesc path/to/file.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE target SYSTEM "gdb-target.dtd">
<target>
<feature name="abc">
<reg name="r1" bitsize="32" type="int" regnum="0"/>
</feature>
</target>
Notice that GDB filled in both the 'type' and 'regnum' fields of the
<reg>. I think this is actually a positive as it means we get to
really understand how GDB processed the document, if GDB made some
assumptions that differ to those the user expected then hopefully this
will bring those issues to the users attention.
To implement this I have tweaked the output produced by the
print_xml_feature which is defined within the gdbsupport/ directory.
The changes I have made to this class are:
1. The <architecture>...</architecture> tags are now not produced if
the architecture name is NULL.
2. The <osabi>...</osabi> tags get a newline at the end.
3. And, the whole XML document is indented using white space in a
nested fashion (as in the example output above).
I think that these changes should be fine, the print_xml_feature class
is used:
1. In gdbserver to generate an XML document to send as the target
description to GDB.
2. In GDB as part of a self-check function, a target_desc is
converted to XML then parsed back into a target_desc. We then check
the before and after target_desc objects are the same.
3. In the new 'maint print xml-tdesc' command.
In all of these use cases adding the extra white space should be fine.
gdbsupport/ChangeLog:
* tdesc.cc (print_xml_feature::visit_pre): Use add_line to add
output content, and call indent as needed in all overloaded
variants.
(print_xml_feature::visit_post): Likewise.
(print_xml_feature::visit): Likewise.
(print_xml_feature::add_line): Two new overloaded functions.
* tdesc.h (print_xml_feature::indent): New member function.
(print_xml_feature::add_line): Two new overloaded member
functions.
(print_xml_feature::m_depth): New member variable.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* target-descriptions.c (tdesc_architecture_name): Protect against
NULL pointer dereference.
(maint_print_xml_tdesc_cmd): New function.
(_initialize_target_descriptions): Register new 'maint print
xml-tdesc' command and give it the filename completer.
* NEWS: Mention new 'maint print xml-tdesc' command.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.xml/tdesc-reload.c: New file.
* gdb.xml/tdesc-reload.exp: New file.
* gdb.xml/maint-xml-dump-01.xml: New file.
* gdb.xml/maint-xml-dump-02.xml: New file.
* gdb.xml/maint-xml-dump.exp: New file.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (Maintenance Commands): Document new 'maint print
xml-desc' command.
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-06-22 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
* NEWS: Mention change to the alias command.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2020-06-22 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
* gdb.texinfo (Command aliases default args): New node documenting
how to use default args for a command using aliases.
(Aliases): Document the new 'DEFAULT-ARGS...' option.
(Help): Update help aliases text and describe when full alias
definition is provided.
.gdb_index now supports Ada, so update the documentation to reflect
this.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2020-06-11 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Index Files): Reword. Remove Ada limitation.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo: Remove broken links Previous and Up from
contents.
Signed-off-by: Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Change-Id: Iad7323580a3c0c7f00eab1264d66f39e8d156e38
Readline has a styling feature for completion -- if it is enabled, the
common prefix of completions will be displayed in a different style.
This doesn't work in gdb, because gdb implements its own completer.
This patch implements the feature. However, it doesn't directly use
the Readline feature, because gdb can do a bit better: it can let the
user control the styling using the existing mechanisms.
This version incorporates an Emacs idea, via Eli: style the prefix,
the "difference character", and the suffix differently.
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-05-23 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* NEWS: Add entry for completion styling.
* completer.c (_rl_completion_prefix_display_length): Move
declaration earlier.
(gdb_fnprint): Use completion_style.
(gdb_display_match_list_1): Likewise.
* cli/cli-style.c (completion_prefix_style)
(completion_difference_style, completion_suffix_style): New
globals.
(_initialize_cli_style): Register new globals.
* cli/cli-style.h (completion_prefix_style)
(completion_difference_style, completion_suffix_style): Declare.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2020-05-23 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Output Styling): Mention completion styling.
(Editing): Mention readline completion styling.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
2020-05-23 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* gdb.base/style.exp: Add completion styling test.
* lib/gdb-utils.exp (style): Add completion styles.
The patch makes GDB do exec-file-mismatch validation by comparing
build IDs instead of the current method of comparing filenames.
Currently, the exec-file-mismatch feature simply compares filenames to
decide whether the exec file loaded in gdb and the exec file the
target reports is running match. This causes false positives when
remote debugging, because it'll often be the case that the paths in
the host and the target won't match. And of course misses the case of
the files having the same name but being actually different files
(e.g., different builds).
This also broke many testcases when running against gdbserver, causing
tests to be skipped like (here native-extended-gdbserver):
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/argv0-symlink/argv0-symlink-filelink
warning: Mismatch between current exec-file /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/argv0-symlink/argv0-symlink-filelink
and automatically determined exec-file /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/argv0-symlink/argv0-symlink
exec-file-mismatch handling is currently "ask"
Load new symbol table from "/home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/argv0-symlink/argv0-symlink"? (y or n) UNTESTED: gdb.base/argv0-symlink.exp: could not run to main
or to fail like (here native-gdbserver):
(gdb) spawn /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/../../gdbserver/gdbserver --once localhost:2346 /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/te
stsuite/outputs/gdb.btrace/buffer-size/skip_btrace_tests-19968.x
Process /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.btrace/buffer-size/skip_btrace_tests-19968.x created; pid = 20040
Listening on port 2346
target remote localhost:2346
Remote debugging using localhost:2346
warning: Mismatch between current exec-file /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/temp/19968/skip_btrace_tests-19968.x
and automatically determined exec-file /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.btrace/buffer-size/skip_btrace_tests-19968.x
exec-file-mismatch handling is currently "ask"
Load new symbol table from "/home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.btrace/buffer-size/skip_btrace_tests-19968.x"? (y or n) Quit
(gdb) UNSUPPORTED: gdb.btrace/buffer-size.exp: target does not support record-btrace
The former case is about GDB not realizing the two files are the same,
because one of the them is a symlink to the other. The latter case is
about GDB realizing that one file is a copy of the other.
Over the years, the toolchain has settled on build ID matching being
the canonical method to match core dumps to executables, and
executables with no debug info to their debug info.
This patch makes us use build IDs to match the running image of a
binary with its version loaded in gdb, which may or may not have debug
info. This is very much like the core dump/executable matching.
The change to gdb_bfd_open is necessary to get rid of the "transfers
from remote targets can be slow" warning when we open the remote file
to read its build ID:
(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/break/break
Reading /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/argv0-symlink/argv0-symlink from remote target...
warning: File transfers from remote targets can be slow. Use "set sysroot" to access files locally instead.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
warning: Mismatch between current exec-file /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/break/break
and automatically determined exec-file /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/argv0-symlink/argv0-symlink
exec-file-mismatch handling is currently "ask"
Load new symbol table from "/home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/argv0-symlink/argv0-symlink"? (y or n)
While trying this out, I was worried that bfd would read a lot of
stuff from the binary in order to extract the build ID, making it
potentially slow, but turns out we don't read all that much. Maybe a
couple hundred bytes, and most of it seemingly is the read-ahead
cache. So I'm not worried about that. Otherwise I'd consider whether
a new qXfer:buildid:read would be better. But I'm happy that we
seemingly don't need to worry about it.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2020-05-19 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* NEWS (set exec-file-mismatch): Adjust entry.
* exec.c: Include "build-id.h".
(validate_exec_file): Try to match build IDs instead of filenames.
* gdb_bfd.c (struct gdb_bfd_open_closure): New.
(gdb_bfd_iovec_fileio_open): Adjust to use gdb_bfd_open_closure
and pass down 'warn_if_slow'.
(gdb_bfd_open): Add 'warn_if_slow' parameter. Use
gdb_bfd_open_closure to pass it down.
* gdb_bfd.h (gdb_bfd_open): Add 'warn_if_slow' parameter.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2020-05-19 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Attach): Update exec-file-mismatch description to
mention build IDs.
(Separate Debug Files): Add "build id" anchor.
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-05-15 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
* NEWS: Mention changes to help and apropos.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2020-05-15 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
* gdb.texinfo (Help): Document the help and apropos changes.
(Aliases): Document new meaning of -a abbreviation flag.
Now that Python code can create TUI windows, it seemed appropriate to
allow Python commands to appear in the "TUI" help class. This patch
adds this capability.
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-04-28 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* NEWS: Update.
* python/py-cmd.c (gdbpy_initialize_commands): Add COMMAND_TUI.
(cmdpy_init): Allow class_tui.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2020-04-28 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* python.texi (Commands In Python): Document gdb.COMMAND_TUI.
This expands the Python dynamic type documentation, as suggested by
Christian.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2020-04-27 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
* python.texi (Types In Python): Mention missing fields. Add
dynamic type example.
This changes the gdb Python API to add support for dynamic types. In
particular, this adds an attribute to gdb.Type, and updates some
attributes to reflect dynamic sizes and field offsets.
There's still no way to get the dynamic type from one of its concrete
instances. This could perhaps be added if needed.
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-04-24 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
PR python/23662:
* python/py-type.c (convert_field): Handle
FIELD_LOC_KIND_DWARF_BLOCK.
(typy_get_sizeof): Handle TYPE_HAS_DYNAMIC_LENGTH.
(typy_get_dynamic): Nw function.
(type_object_getset): Add "dynamic".
* NEWS: Add entry.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2020-04-24 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
PR python/23662:
* python.texi (Types In Python): Document new features.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
2020-04-24 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
PR python/23662:
* gdb.ada/variant.exp: Add Python checks.
* gdb.rust/simple.exp: Add dynamic type checks.
Building gdb-9.1 on a system that has an older version of makeinfo
(4.8) shows the following warnings:
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make[4]: Entering directory '/home/tester/gdb-9.1/build/gdb/doc'
makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 -I
../../../gdb/doc/../../readline/readline/doc -I ../../../gdb/doc/../mi
-I ../../../gdb/doc \
-o gdb.info ../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21867: warning: unlikely character [ in @var.
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21867: warning: unlikely character ] in @var.
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21868: warning: unlikely character [ in @var.
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21868: warning: unlikely character ] in @var.
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21869: warning: unlikely character [ in @var.
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21869: warning: unlikely character ] in @var.
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21872: warning: unlikely character [ in @var.
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21872: warning: unlikely character ] in @var.
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21874: warning: unlikely character [ in @var.
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21874: warning: unlikely character ] in @var.
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21876: warning: unlikely character [ in @var.
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21876: warning: unlikely character ] in @var.
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21879: warning: unlikely character [ in @var.
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21879: warning: unlikely character ] in @var.
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21931: warning: unlikely character [ in @var.
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21931: warning: unlikely character ] in @var.
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21933: warning: unlikely character [ in @var.
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21933: warning: unlikely character ] in @var.
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21936: warning: unlikely character [ in @var.
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21936: warning: unlikely character ] in @var.
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21939: warning: unlikely character [ in @var.
../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo:21939: warning: unlikely character ] in @var.
../../../gdb/doc//python.texi:3297: warning: `.' or `,' must follow
@xref, not `A'.
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/tester/gdb-9.1/build/gdb/doc'
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These are thrown by expressions like `@var{[host]}`, intended to
produce `[HOST]`.
In that context this should instead be changed to `[@var{host}]`, which
has the same effect but without the warnings.
As for the warning in `python.texi`, there's period missing at the end
of one `@xref{}` clause. Added.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2020-04-15 Artur Shepilko <nomadbyte@gmail.com>
* gdb.texinfo: Transform @var{[host]} to [@var{host}]; this
clears makeinfo warnings.
* python.texi: Add a missing period trailing an @xref{} clause;
this clears a makeinfo warning.
Replace "the the" by "the".
gdb/ChangeLog:
2020-03-06 Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
* NEWS: Fix "the the".
* ctfread.c: Same.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2020-03-06 Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
* gdb.texinfo: Fix "the the".
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2020-03-06 Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
* README: Fix "the the".
* gdb.base/dprintf.exp: Same.
Since commit 3453e7e409 'Clean up "Reading symbols" output' we no longer print
"done." after the "Reading symbols from" message:
...
$ gdb -q a.out
Reading symbols from a.out...
(gdb)
...
Update docs accordingly.
Build on x86_64-linux.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2020-03-04 Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
* gdb.texinfo: Remove trailing "done." in "Reading symbols from" lines.
* python.texi: Same.
This commit aims to give a cleaner mechanism by which the user can
prevent GDB from trying to load any previous command history.
Currently the user can change the path to the history file, either
using a command line flag, or by setting the GDBHISTFILE environment
variable, and if the path is set to a non-existent file, then
obviously GDB wont load any command history. However, this feels like
a bit of a bodge, I'd like to add an official mechanism by which we
can disable command history loading.
Why would we want to prevent command history loading? The specific
use case I have is GDB starting with a CWD that is a network mounted
directory, and there is no command history present. Still GDB will
access the network in order to check for the file. In my particular
use case I'm actually starting a large number of GDB instances in
parallel, all in the same network mounted directory, the large number
of network accesses looking for this file introduces a noticeable
delay at GDB startup.
The approach I'm proposing here is a slight adjustment to the current
rules for setting up the history filename. Currently, if a user does
this, they see an error:
(gdb) set history filename
Argument required (filename to set it to.).
However, if a user does this:
$ GDBHISTFILE= gdb --quiet
(gdb) set history save on
(gdb) q
warning: Could not rename -gdb18416~ to : No such file or directory
So, we already have a bug in this area. My plan is to allow the empty
filename to be accepted, and for this to mean, neither load, nor save
the command history.
This does mean that we now have two mechanisms to prevent saving the
command history:
(gdb) set history filename
or
(gdb) set history save off
But the only way to prevent loading the command history is to set the
filename to the empty string _before_ you get to a GDB prompt, either
using a command line option, or the environment variable.
I've updated some of the show commands, for example this session:
(gdb) set history filename
(gdb) show history filename
There is no filename currently set for recording the command history in.
(gdb) show history save
Saving of the history record on exit is off.
(gdb) set history save on
(gdb) show history save
Saving of the history is disabled due to the value of 'history filename'.
(gdb) set history filename /tmp/hist
(gdb) show history save
Saving of the history record on exit is on.
I've updated the manual, and added some tests.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* NEWS: Mention new behaviour of the history filename.
* top.c (write_history_p): Add comment.
(show_write_history_p): Add header comment, give a different
message when history writing is on, but the history filename is
empty.
(history_filename): Add comment.
(history_filename_empty): New function.
(show_history_filename): Add header comment, give a different
message when the filename is empty.
(init_history): Compare history_filename against nullptr, and only
read history if the filename is not empty.
(set_history_filename): Add header comment, and only make
non-empty filenames absolute.
(init_main): Make the filename argument to 'set history filename'
optional.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (Command History): Extend description for
GDBHISTFILE and GDBHISTSIZE, add detail about the filename for
'set history filename' being optional. Describe the effect of an
empty history filename on 'set history save on'.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.base/default.exp: Remove test of 'set history filename'.
* gdb.base/gdbinit-history.exp: Add tests for setting the history
filename to the empty string.
* lib/gdb.exp (gdb_init): Unset environment variables GDBHISTFILE
and GDBHISTSIZE.
Change-Id: Ia586e4311182fac99113b60f11ef8a11fbd5450b
debuginfod is a lightweight web service that indexes ELF/DWARF debugging
resources by build-id and serves them over HTTP.
This patch enables GDB to query debuginfod servers for separate debug
files and source code when it is otherwise not able to find them.
GDB can be built with debuginfod using the --with-debuginfod configure
option.
This requires that libdebuginfod be installed and found at configure time.
debuginfod is packaged with elfutils, starting with version 0.178.
For more information see https://sourceware.org/elfutils/.
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 31.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2020-02-26 Aaron Merey <amerey@redhat.com>
* Makefile.in: Handle optional debuginfod support.
* NEWS: Update.
* README: Add --with-debuginfod summary.
* config.in: Regenerate.
* configure: Regenerate.
* configure.ac: Handle optional debuginfod support.
* debuginfod-support.c: debuginfod helper functions.
* debuginfod-support.h: Ditto.
* doc/gdb.texinfo: Add --with-debuginfod to configure options
summary.
* dwarf2/read.c (dwarf2_get_dwz_file): Query debuginfod servers
when a dwz file cannot be found.
* elfread.c (elf_symfile_read): Query debuginfod servers when a
debuginfo file cannot be found.
* source.c (open_source_file): Query debuginfod servers when a
source file cannot be found.
* top.c (print_gdb_configuration): Include
--{with,without}-debuginfod in the output.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2020-02-26 Aaron Merey <amerey@redhat.com>
* gdb.debuginfod: New directory for debuginfod tests.
* gdb.debuginfod/main.c: New test file.
* gdb.debuginfod/fetch_src_and_symbols.exp: New tests.
Fixes small white space issue in the example output of 'info threads'.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (Threads): Fix alignment in 'info threads' example
output.
This patch adds support for writing new TUI windows in Python.
2020-02-22 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* NEWS: Add entry for gdb.register_window_type.
* tui/tui-layout.h (window_factory): New typedef.
(tui_register_window): Declare.
* tui/tui-layout.c (saved_tui_windows): New global.
(tui_apply_current_layout): Use it.
(tui_register_window): New function.
* python/python.c (do_start_initialization): Call
gdbpy_initialize_tui.
(python_GdbMethods): Add "register_window_type" function.
* python/python-internal.h (gdbpy_register_tui_window)
(gdbpy_initialize_tui): Declare.
* python/py-tui.c: New file.
* Makefile.in (SUBDIR_PYTHON_SRCS): Add py-tui.c.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2020-02-22 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* python.texi (Python API): Add menu item.
(TUI Windows In Python): New node.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
2020-02-22 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* gdb.python/tui-window.exp: New file.
* gdb.python/tui-window.py: New file.
Change-Id: I85fbfb923a1840450a00a7dce113a05d7f048baa
This changes the TUI layout engine to add horizontal splitting. Now,
windows can be side-by-side.
A horizontal split is defined using the "-horizontal" parameter to
"tui new-layout".
This also adds the first "winheight" test to the test suite. One open
question is whether we want a new "winwidth" command, now that
horizontal layouts are possible. This is easily done using the
generic layout code.
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-02-22 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
PR tui/17850:
* tui/tui-win.c (tui_gen_win_info::max_width): New method.
* tui/tui-layout.h (class tui_layout_base) <get_sizes>: Add
"height" argument.
(class tui_layout_window) <get_sizes>: Likewise.
(class tui_layout_split) <tui_layout_split>: Add "vertical"
argument.
<get_sizes>: Add "height" argument.
<m_vertical>: New field.
* tui/tui-layout.c (tui_layout_split::clone): Update.
(tui_layout_split::get_sizes): Add "height" argument.
(tui_layout_split::adjust_size, tui_layout_split::apply): Update.
(tui_new_layout_command): Parse "-horizontal".
(_initialize_tui_layout): Update help string.
(tui_layout_split::specification): Add "-horizontal" when needed.
* tui/tui-layout.c (tui_layout_window::get_sizes): Add "height"
argument.
* tui/tui-data.h (struct tui_gen_win_info) <max_width, min_width>:
New methods.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2020-02-22 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
PR tui/17850:
* gdb.texinfo (TUI Commands): Document horizontal layouts.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
2020-02-22 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
PR tui/17850:
* gdb.tui/new-layout.exp: Add horizontal layout and winheight
tests.
Change-Id: I38b35e504f34698578af86686be03c0fefd954ae
This adds a new command, "tui new-layout". This command can be used
to define a new TUI window layout.
The command is used like:
(gdb) tui new-layout name src 1 regs 1 status 0 cmd 1
The first argument is the name of the layout. In this example, it is
"name", so the new layout could be seen by "layout name".
Subsequent arguments come in pairs, where the first item in a pair is
the name of a window, and the second item in a pair is the window's
weight. A weight is just an integer -- a window's allocated size is
proportional to the total of the weights given. So, in the above
example, all windows will have the same size (the status windows's
weight does not matter, because it has fixed height).
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-02-22 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* NEWS: Add "tui new-layout" item.
* tui/tui-layout.c (add_layout_command): Return cmd_list_element.
Add new-layout command to help text.
(validate_window_name): New function.
(tui_new_layout_command): New function.
(_initialize_tui_layout): Register "new-layout".
(tui_layout_window::specification): New method.
(tui_layout_window::specification): New method.
* tui/tui-layout.h (class tui_layout_base) <specification>: New
method.
(class tui_layout_window) <specification>: New method.
(class tui_layout_split) <specification>: New method.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2020-02-22 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* gdb.texinfo (TUI Overview): Mention user layouts.
(TUI Commands): Document "tui new-layout".
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
2020-02-22 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* gdb.tui/new-layout.exp: New file.
Change-Id: Id7c3ace20ab1e8924f8f4ad788f40210f58a5c05
From what I can tell, The m68k floating point target feature should
apparently always be called "org.gnu.gdb.coldfire.fp" -- even when the
primary feature is not "coldfire", because m68k_gdbarch_init only
checks for this feature when assigning register numbers.
However, the floating point registers are expected to match what gdb
thinks are the register sizes for the primary feature. For example,
if the main feature is "coldfire", then the floating point registers
should be 64 bits.
See this note for some an instance of this confusion:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-06/msg04564.html
This patch documents the oddity.
Let me know what you think. An alternate approach here might be to
make gdb adapt to the register sizes as actually reported. I'm not
sure if this makes sense or not.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2020-01-26 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
* gdb.texinfo (M68K Features): Document floating-point feature
correspondence.
Change-Id: I4cd86acbe3449a29ce38327524c508c206b25b8f
Mention in NEWS the new option and the set/show commands.
Document in gdb.texinfo the new option and the set/show commands.
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-01-25 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
* NEWS: Mention the new option and the set/show commands.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2020-01-25 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
* gdb.texinfo (Attach): Document the new option and the
set/show commands.
(Connecting): Reference the exec-file-mismatch option.
I spotted a few misplaced entries in the ChangeLog-2019 entries, and
went on to fix them.
Looking around I saw a good number of other entries in other years.
Then OCD got the best of me and I fixed them all.
Also fixes cases of wrong paths in entries, like "* gdb/foo.c" instead
of "* foo.c".
This commit documents the new multi-target features in both NEWS and
user manual.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2020-01-10 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* NEWS: Mention multi-target debugging, "info connections", and
"add-inferior -no-connection".
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2020-01-10 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Starting): Say "current inferior not connected"
instead of "GDB not connected".
(Inferiors and Programs): Rename node to ...
(Inferiors Connections and Programs): ... this. Update all
references. Talk about multiple target connections. Update "info
inferiors" info to mention the connections column. Describe "info
connections". Document "add-inferior -no-connection".
* guile.texi, python.texi: Update cross references.
These are files that need to be updated by hand, because the copyright.py
script isn't able to handle them automatically.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* gdbarch.sh: Update copyright year range of generated files.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo, refcard.tex: Update copyright year range.
In this commit:
commit 086baaf134
Date: Tue Oct 15 16:18:26 2019 +0100
gdb/python: Introduce gdb.lookup_static_symbols
A duplicate description of gdb.lookup_global_symbol was accidentally
added. This commit corrects this mistake and removes the duplicate.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* python.texi (Symbols In Python): Remove duplicate description of
gdb.lookup_global_symbol.
Change-Id: I4457b42cf05bde39e5c0ff39f168af919cad1255
The option framework documentation was speaking about a 'print -raw'
option, but this option does not exist.
This patch implements -raw-values option that tells to ignore the
active pretty printers when printing a value.
As we already have -raw-frame-arguments, I thought -raw-values
was more clear, in particular to differentiate
set print raw-values and set print raw-frame-arguments.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2019-12-11 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
* gdb.texinfo (Command Options): Use -p and -pretty in the example,
as -r is ambiguous. Update the print - TAB TAB completion result.
(Data): Document new option -raw-values. Use -p and -pretty in the
example, as -r is ambiguous.
(Print Settings): Document set print raw values.
(Pretty-Printer Commands): Document interaction between enabled
pretty printers and -raw-values/-raw-frame-arguments.
gdb/ChangeLog
2019-12-11 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
* NEWS: Document -raw-values option and the related setting commands.
* printcmd.c (print_command_parse_format): Do not set opts->raw off,
only set it on when /r is given.
* valprint.c (value_print_option_defs): New element raw-values.
* Makefile.in: Add the new file.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
2019-12-11 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
* gdb.base/options.exp: Add -raw-values in the print completion list.
* gdb.python/py-prettyprint.exp: Add tests for -raw-values.
I noticed that an example in the gdb.prompt documentation used the
wrong kind of quotes -- because it is code, it should use a plain
ASCII quotation mark. I also slightly shortened the sample text here,
so it would more clearly fit on a single line.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2019-12-10 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* python.texi (gdb.prompt): Use correct quotes in example.
Shorten sample text.
Change-Id: I4153928c0d88001244ad410f3943c952a6ebfeb1
Adds a new parameter -max-results to -symbol-info-functions,
-symbol-info-variables, -symbol-info-types, and -symbol-info-modules.
This parameter limits the number of results returned.
This change still leaves -symbol-info-module-functions and
-symbol-info-module-variables always returning all results, fixing
these commands is slightly harder.
There's currently no mechanism for the user of these commands to know
if the result list has been truncated if you get back the maximum
number of results, so if there are exactly 10 functions and you call
'-symbol-info-functions --max-results 10' the reply would appear no
different than if you had 20 functions and called with a max of 10.
Right now, if you get back the maximum then you should assume that
there might be more results available.
One other thing to note is that the global_symbol_searcher::search by
default returns SIZE_MAX results, there's no longer a mechanism to
return an unlimited number of results, though hopefully this will not
be a huge issue.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* mi/mi-symbol-cmds.c (mi_symbol_info): Take extra parameter, and
add it into the search spec.
(parse_max_results_option): New function.
(mi_info_functions_or_variables): Parse -max-results flag and pass
it to mi_symbol_info.
(mi_cmd_symbol_info_modules): Likewise.
(mi_cmd_symbol_info_types): Likewise.
* symtab.c (global_symbol_searcher::add_matching_symbols): Change
return type to bool, change result container into a set, and don't
add new results if we have enough already.
(global_symbol_searcher::add_matching_msymbols): Change return
type to bool, and don't add new results if we have enough already.
(sort_search_symbols_remove_dups): Delete.
(global_symbol_searcher::search): Early exit from search loop when
we have enough results. Use a std::set to collect the results
from calling add_matching_symbols.
* symtab.h (global_symbol_searcher) <set_max_seach_results>: New
member function.
(global_symbol_searcher) <m_max_search_results>: New member
variable.
(global_symbol_searcher) <add_matching_symbols>: Update header
comment and change return type to bool.
(global_symbol_searcher) <add_matching_msymbols>: Update header
comment and change return type to bool.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* doc/gdb.texinfo (GDB/MI Symbol Query): Add documentation of
-max-results to some -symbol-info-* commands.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.mi/mi-sym-info.exp: Add tests for -max-results parameter.
Change-Id: I90a28feb55b388fb46461a096c5db08b6b0bd427
Two new MI command -symbol-info-module-variables and
-symbol-info-module-functions, which are the equivalent of the CLI
command 'info module variables' and 'info module functions'. These
return information about functions and variables within Fortran
modules.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* mi/mi-cmds.c (mi_cmds): Add -symbol-info-module-functions and
-symbol-info-module-variables entries.
* mi/mi-cmds.h (mi_cmd_symbol_info_module_functions): Declare.
(mi_cmd_symbol_info_module_variables): Declare.
* mi/mi-symbol-cmds.c
(module_symbol_search_iterator): New typedef.
(output_module_symbols_in_single_module_and_file): New function.
(output_module_symbols_in_single_module): New function.
(mi_info_module_functions_or_variables): New function.
(mi_cmd_symbol_info_module_functions): New function.
(mi_cmd_symbol_info_module_variables): New function.
* NEWS: Mention new MI command.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* doc/gdb.texinfo (GDB/MI Symbol Query): Document new MI command
-symbol-info-module-functions and -symbol-info-module-variables.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.mi/mi-fortran-modules.exp: Add additional tests for
-symbol-info-module-functions and -symbol-info-module-variables.
Change-Id: Ic96f12dd14bd7e34774c3cde008fec30a4055bfe
This adds the ability to change the color of the TUI borders, both
ordinary and active. Unlike other styling options, this doesn't allow
setting the intensity, because that is already done by the TUI in a
different way.
gdb/ChangeLog
2019-12-01 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* NEWS: Document new settings.
* tui/tui-wingeneral.c (box_win): Apply appropriate border style.
* tui/tui-win.c (_initialize_tui_win): Add border style
observers.
* tui/tui-io.h (tui_apply_style): Declare.
* tui/tui-io.c (tui_apply_style): Rename from apply_style. No
longer static.
(apply_ansi_escape, tui_set_reverse_mode): Update.
* cli/cli-style.h (class cli_style_option) <add_setshow_commands>:
Add "skip_intensity" parameter.
<changed>: New member.
<do_set_value>: Declare.
(tui_border_style, tui_active_border_style): Declare.
* cli/cli-style.c (tui_border_style, tui_active_border_style): New
globals.
(cli_style_option): Initialize "changed".
(cli_style_option::do_set_value): New function.
(cli_style_option::add_setshow_commands): Add "skip_intensity"
parameter. Update.
(STYLE_ADD_SETSHOW_COMMANDS): Add "SKIP" parameter.
(_initialize_cli_style): Update. Create TUI border style
commands.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2019-12-01 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* gdb.texinfo (TUI Configuration): Mention TUI border styles.
(Output Styling): Document new settings.
Change-Id: Id13e2af0af2a0bde61282752f2c379db3220c9fc
The source window currently uses a field width of 6 for line numbers,
and it further aligns to the next tab stop. This seemed a bit
wasteful of horizontal space to me, so I changed that in an earlier
patch.
However, that change wasn't universally popular. This patch instead
adds the option to use less horizontal space in the TUI source window.
gdb/ChangeLog
2019-12-01 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* tui/tui-winsource.h (tui_copy_source_line): Add "ndigits"
parameter.
* tui/tui-winsource.c (tui_copy_source_line): Add "ndigits"
parameter.
* tui/tui-win.h (compact_source): Declare.
* tui/tui-win.c (compact_source): New global.
(tui_set_compact_source, tui_show_compact_source): New functions.
(_initialize_tui_win): Add "compact-source" setting.
* tui/tui-source.c (tui_source_window::set_contents): Handle
compact_source setting.
* tui/tui-disasm.c (tui_disasm_window::set_contents): Update.
* NEWS: Document new setting.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2019-12-01 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* gdb.texinfo (TUI Configuration): Document new setting.
Change-Id: I46ce9a68b12c9c79332d510f9c14b3c84b7efadd
gdb/ChangeLog
2019-11-30 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
* NEWS: Mention define-prefix. Tell that command names can now
contain a . character.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2019-11-30 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
* gdb.texinfo (Define): Indicate that user-defined prefix can
be used in 'define' command. Document 'define-prefix' command.
Add '-symbol-info-modules', an MI version of the CLI 'info modules'
command.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* mi/mi-cmds.c (mi_cmds): Add 'symbol-info-modules' entry.
* mi/mi-cmds.h (mi_cmd_symbol_info_modules): Declare.
* mi/mi-symbol-cmds.c (mi_cmd_symbol_info_modules): New function.
* NEWS: Mention new MI command.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.mi/mi-fortran-modules-2.f90: New file.
* gdb.mi/mi-fortran-modules.exp: New file.
* gdb.mi/mi-fortran-modules.f90: New file.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* doc/gdb.texinfo (GDB/MI Symbol Query): Document new MI command
-symbol-info-modules.
Change-Id: Ibc618010d1d5f36ae8a8baba4fb9d9d724e62b0f
