This changes struct objfile to use a gdb_bfd_ref_ptr. In addition to
removing some manual memory management, this fixes a use-after-free
that was introduced by the registry rewrite series. The issue there
was that, in some cases, registry shutdown could refer to memory that
had already been freed. This help fix the bug by delaying the
destruction of the BFD reference (and thus the per-bfd object) until
after the registry has been shut down.
Teach GDB how to dump memory tags for AArch64 when using the gcore command
and how to read memory tag data back from a core file generated by GDB
(via gcore) or by the Linux kernel.
The format is documented in the Linux Kernel documentation [1].
Each tagged memory range (listed in /proc/<pid>/smaps) gets dumped to its
own PT_AARCH64_MEMTAG_MTE segment. A section named ".memtag" is created for each
of those segments when reading the core file back.
To save a little bit of space, given MTE tags only take 4 bits, the memory tags
are stored packed as 2 tags per byte.
When reading the data back, the tags are unpacked.
I've added a new testcase to exercise the feature.
Build-tested with --enable-targets=all and regression tested on aarch64-linux
Ubuntu 20.04.
[1] Documentation/arm64/memory-tagging-extension.rst (Core Dump Support)
Now that filtered and unfiltered output can be treated identically, we
can unify the printf family of functions. This is done under the name
"gdb_printf". Most of this patch was written by script.
In an earlier version of the pager rewrite series, it was important to
audit unfiltered output calls to see which were truly necessary.
This is no longer necessary, but it still seems like a decent cleanup
to change calls to avoid explicitly passing gdb_stdout. That is,
rather than using something like fprintf_unfiltered with gdb_stdout,
the code ought to use plain printf_unfiltered instead.
This patch makes this change. I went ahead and converted all the
_filtered calls I could find, as well, for the same clarity.
This commit brings all the changes made by running gdb/copyright.py
as per GDB's Start of New Year Procedure.
For the avoidance of doubt, all changes in this commits were
performed by the script.
The motivation is to reduce the number of places where unmanaged
pointers are returned from allocation type routines. All of the
callers are updated.
There should be no user visible changes after this commit.
A following patch will want to take some action when a pending wait
status is set on or removed from a thread. Add a getter and a setter on
thread_info for the pending waitstatus, so that we can add some code in
the setter later.
The thing is, the pending wait status field is in the
thread_suspend_state, along with other fields that we need to backup
before and restore after the thread does an inferior function call.
Therefore, make the thread_suspend_state member private
(thread_info::suspend becomes thread_info::m_suspend), and add getters /
setters for all of its fields:
- pending wait status
- stop signal
- stop reason
- stop pc
For the pending wait status, add the additional has_pending_waitstatus
and clear_pending_waitstatus methods.
I think this makes the thread_info interface a bit nicer, because we
now access the fields as:
thread->stop_pc ()
rather than
thread->suspend.stop_pc
The stop_pc field being in the `suspend` structure is an implementation
detail of thread_info that callers don't need to be aware of.
For the backup / restore of the thread_suspend_state structure, add
save_suspend_to and restore_suspend_from methods. You might wonder why
`save_suspend_to`, as opposed to a simple getter like
thread_suspend_state &suspend ();
I want to make it clear that this is to be used only for backing up and
restoring the suspend state, _not_ to access fields like:
thread->suspend ()->stop_pc
Adding some getters / setters allows adding some assertions. I find
that this helps understand how things are supposed to work. Add:
- When getting the pending status (pending_waitstatus method), ensure
that there is a pending status.
- When setting a pending status (set_pending_waitstatus method), ensure
there is no pending status.
There is one case I found where this wasn't true - in
remote_target::process_initial_stop_replies - which needed adjustments
to respect that contract. I think it's because
process_initial_stop_replies is kind of (ab)using the
thread_info::suspend::waitstatus to store some statuses temporarily, for
its internal use (statuses it doesn't intent on leaving pending).
process_initial_stop_replies pulls out stop replies received during the
initial connection using target_wait. It always stores the received
event in `evthread->suspend.waitstatus`. But it only sets
waitstatus_pending_p, if it deems the event interesting enough to leave
pending, to be reported to the core:
if (ws.kind != TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED
|| ws.value.sig != GDB_SIGNAL_0)
evthread->suspend.waitstatus_pending_p = 1;
It later uses this flag a bit below, to choose which thread to make the
"selected" one:
if (selected == NULL
&& thread->suspend.waitstatus_pending_p)
selected = thread;
And ultimately that's used if the user-visible mode is all-stop, so that
we print the stop for that interesting thread:
/* In all-stop, we only print the status of one thread, and leave
others with their status pending. */
if (!non_stop)
{
thread_info *thread = selected;
if (thread == NULL)
thread = lowest_stopped;
if (thread == NULL)
thread = first;
print_one_stopped_thread (thread);
}
But in any case (all-stop or non-stop), print_one_stopped_thread needs
to access the waitstatus value of these threads that don't have a
pending waitstatus (those that had TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED +
GDB_SIGNAL_0). This doesn't work with the assertions I've
put.
So, change the code to only set the thread's wait status if it is an
interesting one that we are going to leave pending. If the thread
stopped due to a non-interesting event (TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED +
GDB_SIGNAL_0), don't store it. Adjust print_one_stopped_thread to
understand that if a thread has no pending waitstatus, it's because it
stopped with TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED + GDB_SIGNAL_0.
The call to set_last_target_status also uses the pending waitstatus.
However, given that the pending waitstatus for the thread may have been
cleared in print_one_stopped_thread (and that there might not even be a
pending waitstatus in the first place, as explained above), it is no
longer possible to do it at this point. To fix that, move the call to
set_last_target_status in print_one_stopped_thread. I think this will
preserve the existing behavior, because set_last_target_status is
currently using the current thread's wait status. And the current
thread is the last one for which print_one_stopped_thread is called. So
by calling set_last_target_status in print_one_stopped_thread, we'll get
the same result. set_last_target_status will possibly be called
multiple times, but only the last call will matter. It just means
possibly more calls to set_last_target_status, but those are cheap.
Change-Id: Iedab9653238eaf8231abcf0baa20145acc8b77a7
Convert these three macros to methods of obj_section. The problem fixed
by the following patch is caused by an out of bound access of the
objfile::section_offsets vector. Since this is deep in macros, we don't
get a clear backtrace and it's difficult to debug. Changing that to
methods means we can step in them and break on them.
Because their implementation requires knowing about struct objfile, move
struct obj_section below struct objfile in objfiles.h.
The obj_section_offset was used in one place as an lvalue to set
offsets, in machoread.c. Replace that with a set_offset method.
Add the objfile::section_offset and objfile::set_section_offset methods
to improve encapsulation (reduce other objects poking into struct
objfile's internals).
gdb/ChangeLog:
* objfiles.h (struct obj_section): Move down.
<offset, set_offset, addr, endaddr>: New.
(obj_section_offset, obj_section_addr, obj_section_endaddr),
replace all users to use obj_section methods.
(struct objfile) <section_offset, set_section_offset>: New.
Change-Id: I97e8fcae93ab2353fbdadcb4a5ec10d7949a7334
The alias creation functions currently accept a name to specify the
target command. They pass this to add_alias_cmd, which needs to lookup
the target command by name.
Given that:
- We don't support creating an alias for a command before that command
exists.
- We always use add_info_alias just after creating that target command,
and therefore have access to the target command's cmd_list_element.
... change add_com_alias to accept the target command as a
cmd_list_element (other functions are done in subsequent patches). This
ensures we don't create the alias before the target command, because you
need to get the cmd_list_element from somewhere when you call the alias
creation function. And it avoids an unecessary command lookup. So it
seems better to me in every aspect.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* command.h (add_com_alias): Accept target as
cmd_list_element. Update callers.
Change-Id: I24bed7da57221cc77606034de3023fedac015150
While reviewing the Linux and FreeBSD core dumping code within GDB for
another patch series, I noticed that the code that collects the
registers for each thread and writes these into ELF note format is
basically identical between Linux and FreeBSD.
This commit merges this code and moves it into a new file gcore-elf.c.
The function find_signalled_thread is moved from linux-tdep.c to
gcore.c despite not being shared. A later commit will make use of
this function.
I did merge, and then revert a previous version of this patch (commit
82a1fd3a49 for the original patch and 03642b7189 for the revert).
The problem with the original patch is that it introduced a
unconditional dependency between GDB and some ELF specific functions
in the BFD library, e.g. elfcore_write_prstatus and
elfcore_write_register_note. It was pointed out in this mailing list
post:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-February/175750.html
that this change was breaking any build of GDB for non-ELF targets.
To confirm this breakage, and to test this new version of GDB I
configured and built for the target x86_64-apple-darwin20.3.0.
Where the previous version of this patch placed all of the common code
into gcore.c, which is included in all builds of GDB, this new patch
only places non-ELF specific generic code (i.e. find_signalled_thread)
into gcore.c, the ELF specific code is put into the new gcore-elf.c
file, which is only included in GDB if BFD has ELF support.
The contents of gcore-elf.c are referenced unconditionally from
linux-tdep.c and fbsd-tdep.c, this is fine, we previously always
assumed that these two targets required ELF support, and we continue
to make that assumption after this patch; nothing has changed there.
With my previous version of this patch the darwin target mentioned
above failed to build, but with the new version, the target builds
fine.
There are a couple of minor changes to the FreeBSD target after this
commit, but I believe that these are changes for the better:
(1) For FreeBSD we always used to record the thread-id in the core
file by using ptid_t.lwp (). In contrast the Linux code did this:
/* For remote targets the LWP may not be available, so use the TID. */
long lwp = ptid.lwp ();
if (lwp == 0)
lwp = ptid.tid ();
Both target now do this:
/* The LWP is often not available for bare metal target, in which case
use the tid instead. */
if (ptid.lwp_p ())
lwp = ptid.lwp ();
else
lwp = ptid.tid ();
Which is equivalent for Linux, but is a change for FreeBSD. I think
that all this means is that in some cases where GDB might have
previously recorded a thread-id of 0 for each thread, we might now get
something more useful.
(2) When collecting the registers for Linux we collected into a zero
initialised buffer. By contrast on FreeBSD the buffer is left
uninitialised. In the new code the buffer is always zero initialised.
I suspect once the registers are copied into the buffer there's
probably no gaps left so this makes no difference, but if it does then
using zeros rather than random bits of GDB's memory is probably a good
thing.
Otherwise, there should be no other user visible changes after this
commit.
Tested this on x86-64/GNU-Linux and x86-64/FreeBSD-12.2 with no
regressions.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* Makefile.in (SFILES): Add gcore-elf.c.
(HFILES_NO_SRCDIR): Add gcore-elf.h
* configure: Regenerate.
* configure.ac: Add gcore-elf.o to CONFIG_OBS if we have ELF
support.
* fbsd-tdep.c: Add 'gcore-elf.h' include.
(struct fbsd_collect_regset_section_cb_data): Delete.
(fbsd_collect_regset_section_cb): Delete.
(fbsd_collect_thread_registers): Delete.
(struct fbsd_corefile_thread_data): Delete.
(fbsd_corefile_thread): Delete.
(fbsd_make_corefile_notes): Call
gcore_elf_build_thread_register_notes instead of the now deleted
FreeBSD code.
* gcore-elf.c: New file, the content was moved here from
linux-tdep.c, functions were renamed and given minor cleanup.
* gcore-elf.h: New file.
* gcore.c (gcore_find_signalled_thread): Moved here from
linux-tdep.c and given a new name. Minor cleanups.
* gcore.h (gcore_find_signalled_thread): Declare.
* linux-tdep.c: Add 'gcore.h' and 'gcore-elf.h' includes.
(struct linux_collect_regset_section_cb_data): Delete.
(linux_collect_regset_section_cb): Delete.
(linux_collect_thread_registers): Delete.
(linux_corefile_thread): Call
gcore_elf_build_thread_register_notes.
(find_signalled_thread): Delete.
(linux_make_corefile_notes): Call gcore_find_signalled_thread.
This reverts commit 82a1fd3a49.
It was pointed out:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-February/175750.html
that commit 82a1fd3a49 caused GDB to have an unconditional
dependency on ELF specific parts of BFD. What this means is that if
GDB and BFD are built for a non-elf target then there will be
undefined symbol references within GDB.
The right solution isn't immediately obvious. So rather than rush a
fix in I'm reverting this commit for now, and will bring it back once
I have a good solution.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* gcore.c (struct gcore_collect_regset_section_cb_data): Delete.
(gcore_collect_regset_section_cb): Delete.
(gcore_collect_thread_registers): Delete.
(gcore_build_thread_register_notes): Delete.
(gcore_find_signalled_thread): Delete.
* gcore.h: Remove 'gdbsupport/gdb_signals.h' include and delete
'gdbarch' and 'thread_info' declarations.
(gcore_build_thread_register_notes): Delete declaration.
(gcore_find_signalled_thread): Likewise.
* fbsd-tdep.c: Remove 'gcore.h' include.
(struct fbsd_collect_regset_section_cb_data): New struct.
(fbsd_collect_regset_section_cb): New function.
(fbsd_collect_thread_registers): New function.
(struct fbsd_corefile_thread_data): New struct.
(fbsd_corefile_thread): New function.
(fbsd_make_corefile_notes): Call FreeBSD specific code.
* linux-tdep.c: Remove 'gcore.h' include.
(struct linux_collect_regset_section_cb_data): New struct.
(linux_collect_regset_section_cb): New function.
(linux_collect_thread_registers): New function.
(linux_corefile_thread): Call Linux specific code.
(find_signalled_thread): New function.
(linux_make_corefile_notes): Call find_signalled_thread.
While reviewing the Linux and FreeBSD core dumping code within GDB for
another patch series, I noticed that the code that collects the
registers for each thread and writes these into ELF note format is
basically identical between Linux and FreeBSD.
This commit merges this code and moves it into the gcore.c file,
which seemed like the right place for generic writing a core file
code.
The function find_signalled_thread is moved from linux-tdep.c despite
not being shared. A later commit will make use of this function.
There are a couple of minor changes to the FreeBSD target after this
commit, but I believe that these are changes for the better:
(1) For FreeBSD we always used to record the thread-id in the core file by
using ptid_t.lwp (). In contrast the Linux code did this:
/* For remote targets the LWP may not be available, so use the TID. */
long lwp = ptid.lwp ();
if (lwp == 0)
lwp = ptid.tid ();
Both target now do this:
/* The LWP is often not available for bare metal target, in which case
use the tid instead. */
if (ptid.lwp_p ())
lwp = ptid.lwp ();
else
lwp = ptid.tid ();
Which is equivalent for Linux, but is a change for FreeBSD. I think
that all this means is that in some cases where GDB might have
previously recorded a thread-id of 0 for each thread, we might now get
something more useful.
(2) When collecting the registers for Linux we collected into a zero
initialised buffer. By contrast on FreeBSD the buffer is left
uninitialised. In the new code the buffer is always zero initialised.
I suspect once the registers are copied into the buffer there's
probably no gaps left so this makes no difference, but if it does then
using zeros rather than random bits of GDB's memory is probably a good
thing.
Otherwise, there should be no other user visible changes after this
commit.
Tested this on x86-64/GNU-Linux and x86-64/FreeBSD-12.2 with no
regressions.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* Makefile.in (HFILES_NO_SRCDIR): Add corefile.h.
* gcore.c (struct gcore_collect_regset_section_cb_data): Moved
here from linux-tdep.c and given a new name. Minor cleanups.
(gcore_collect_regset_section_cb): Likewise.
(gcore_collect_thread_registers): Likewise.
(gcore_build_thread_register_notes): Likewise.
(gcore_find_signalled_thread): Likewise.
* gcore.h (gcore_build_thread_register_notes): Declare.
(gcore_find_signalled_thread): Declare.
* fbsd-tdep.c: Add 'gcore.h' include.
(struct fbsd_collect_regset_section_cb_data): Delete.
(fbsd_collect_regset_section_cb): Delete.
(fbsd_collect_thread_registers): Delete.
(struct fbsd_corefile_thread_data): Delete.
(fbsd_corefile_thread): Delete.
(fbsd_make_corefile_notes): Call
gcore_build_thread_register_notes instead of the now deleted
FreeBSD code.
* linux-tdep.c: Add 'gcore.h' include.
(struct linux_collect_regset_section_cb_data): Delete.
(linux_collect_regset_section_cb): Delete.
(linux_collect_thread_registers): Delete.
(linux_corefile_thread): Call
gcore_build_thread_register_notes.
(find_signalled_thread): Delete.
(linux_make_corefile_notes): Call gcore_find_signalled_thread.
This commits the result of running gdb/copyright.py as per our Start
of New Year procedure...
gdb/ChangeLog
Update copyright year range in copyright header of all GDB files.
I found some code in gcore.c that has been commented out since
d3420b2fce (Mark Kettenis 2003-09-04 166) #if 1 /* See if this even matters... */
This patch deletes this entire function, because the body was reduced
to just "return 0".
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-10-29 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* gcore.c (default_gcore_mach): Remove.
(create_gcore_bfd): Update.
Since we converted gdbarch_make_corefile_notes to returning a
gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr, I figured it would make sense to converted
target_ops::make_corefile_notes as well.
The only implementation of that is in procfs.c, and it should ideally be
re-written as a gdbarch method (see comment in write_gcore_file_1), but
in the mean time I guess it doesn't hurt to throw some unique pointer at
it.
I tested that it builds on Solaris 11 (gcc compile farm machine gcc211),
but I am not able to test it, because I can't get GDB to start a
process (I'll look at that separately).
gdb/ChangeLog:
* target.h (struct target_ops) <make_corefile_notes>:
Change return type to unique pointer.
* target.c (dummy_make_corefile_notes): Likewise.
* exec.c (struct exec_target) <make_corefile_notes>:
Likewise.
(exec_target::make_corefile_notes): Likewise.
* procfs.c (class procfs_target) <make_corefile_notes>:
Likewise.
(procfs_do_thread_registers): Adjust to unique pointer.
(struct procfs_corefile_thread_data): Add constructor.
<note_data>: Change type to unique pointer.
(procfs_corefile_thread_callback): Adjust to unique pointer.
(procfs_target::make_corefile_notes): Change return type to
unique pointer.
* target-delegates.c: Re-generate.
* gcore.c (write_gcore_file_1): Adjust.
* target-debug.h (target_debug_print_gdb_unique_xmalloc_ptr_char):
New.
Change-Id: I768fb17ac0f7adc67d2fe95e952c784fe0ac37ab
This patch starts by making the gdbarch_make_corefile_notes function
return a gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> and takes care of the fallouts,
mostly in linux-tdep.c and fbsd-tdep.c.
The difficulty in these files is that they use the BFD API for writing
core files, where you pass in a pointer to a malloc-ed buffer (or NULL
in the beginning), it re-allocs it if needed, and returns you the
possibly updated pointer. I therefore used this pattern everywhere:
note_data.reset (elfcore_write_note (obfd, note_data.release (), ...)
This hands over the ownership of note_data to the BFD function for the
duration of the call, and then puts its back in note_data right after
the call.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* gdbarch.sh (make_corefile_notes): Return unique pointer.
* gdbarch.c: Re-generate.
* gdbarch.h: Re-generate.
* gcore.c (write_gcore_file_1): Adjust.
* fbsd-tdep.c (struct fbsd_collect_regset_section_cb_data): Add
constructor.
<note_data>: Change type to unique pointer.
<abort_iteration>: Change type to bool.
(fbsd_collect_regset_section_cb): Adjust to unique pointer.
(fbsd_collect_thread_registers): Return void, adjust.
(struct fbsd_corefile_thread_data): Add construtor.
<note_data>: Change type to unique pointer.
(fbsd_corefile_thread): Adjust.
(fbsd_make_corefile_notes): Return unique pointer, adjust.
* linux-tdep.c (linux_make_mappings_corefile_notes): Change type
to unique pointer, adjust.
(struct linux_collect_regset_section_cb_data): Add constructor.
<note_data>: Change type to unique pointer.
<abort_iteration>: Change type to bool.
(linux_collect_thread_registers): Return void, adjust.
(struct linux_corefile_thread_data): Add constructor.
<note_data>: Change type to unique pointer.
(linux_corefile_thread): Adjust.
(linux_make_corefile_notes): Return unique pointer, adjust.
Change-Id: I1e03476bb47b87c6acb3e12204d193f38cc4e02b
This changes gcore_memory_sections to avoid bfd_map_over_sections, in
favor of iteration.
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-09-19 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* gcore.c (make_output_phdrs): Remove 'ignored' parameter.
(gcore_copy_callback): Likewise.
(gcore_memory_sections): Use foreach.
Add new API for systems with native kernel support for dumping
a process on demand. Wire it into the gdb's gcore functionality.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* target.h (supports_dumpcore, dumpcore): New
function declarations.
* target.c (supports_dumpcore, dumpcore): New
functions.
* target-delegates.c: Rebuild.
* gcore.c (gcore_command): Use target_supports_dumpcore ()
and target_dumpcore ().
This replaces a TRY/CATCH in write_gcore_file with a use of SCOPE_EXIT
instead. I find that this is simpler to understand.
2019-03-06 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* gcore.c (write_gcore_file): Use SCOPE_EXIT.
This removes the ALL_OBJSECTIONS macro, replacing its uses with ranged
for loops.
The special code in this macro for noticing a "break" from the inner
loop was only needed in a single place; so rather than try to
replicate this, I've simply replaced that use with a "goto".
gdb/ChangeLog
2019-01-09 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* symfile.c (overlay_invalidate_all, find_pc_overlay)
(find_pc_mapped_section, list_overlays_command)
(map_overlay_command, unmap_overlay_command)
(simple_overlay_update): Use all_objfiles.
* spu-tdep.c (spu_overlay_update): Use all_objfiles.
* printcmd.c (info_symbol_command): Use all_objfiles.
* objfiles.h (ALL_OBJSECTIONS): Remove.
* maint.c (maintenance_translate_address): Use all_objfiles.
* gcore.c (gcore_create_callback): Use all_objfiles.
(objfile_find_memory_regions): Likewise.
This commit applies all changes made after running the gdb/copyright.py
script.
Note that one file was flagged by the script, due to an invalid
copyright header
(gdb/unittests/basic_string_view/element_access/char/empty.cc).
As the file was copied from GCC's libstdc++-v3 testsuite, this commit
leaves this file untouched for the time being; a patch to fix the header
was sent to gcc-patches first.
gdb/ChangeLog:
Update copyright year range in all GDB files.
This replaces a few uses of pointer+length with gdb::array_view, in
call_function_by_hand and related code.
Unfortunately, due to -Wnarrowing, there are places where we can't
brace-initialize an gdb::array_view without an ugly-ish cast. To
avoid the cast, this patch introduces a gdb::make_array_view function.
Unit tests included.
This patch in isolation may not look so interesting, due to
gdb::make_array_view uses, but I think it's still worth it. Some of
the gdb::make_array_view calls disappear down the series, and others
could be eliminated with more (non-trivial) gdb::array_view
detangling/conversion (e.g. code around eval_call). See this as a "we
have to start somewhere" patch.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2018-11-21 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* ada-lang.c (ada_evaluate_subexp): Adjust to pass an array_view.
* common/array-view.h (make_array_view): New.
* compile/compile-object-run.c (compile_object_run): Adjust to
pass an array_view.
* elfread.c (elf_gnu_ifunc_resolve_addr): Adjust.
* eval.c (eval_call): Adjust to pass an array_view.
(evaluate_subexp_standard): Adjust to pass an array_view.
* gcore.c (call_target_sbrk): Adjust to pass an array_view.
* guile/scm-value.c (gdbscm_value_call): Likewise.
* infcall.c (push_dummy_code): Replace pointer + size parameters
with an array_view parameter.
(call_function_by_hand, call_function_by_hand_dummy): Likewise and
adjust.
* infcall.h: Include "common/array-view.h".
(call_function_by_hand, call_function_by_hand_dummy): Replace
pointer + size parameters with an array_view parameter.
* linux-fork.c (inferior_call_waitpid): Adjust to use array_view.
* linux-tdep.c (linux_infcall_mmap): Likewise.
* objc-lang.c (lookup_objc_class, lookup_child_selector)
(value_nsstring, print_object_command): Likewise.
* python/py-value.c (valpy_call): Likewise.
* rust-lang.c (rust_evaluate_funcall): Likewise.
* spu-tdep.c (flush_ea_cache): Likewise.
* valarith.c (value_x_binop, value_x_unop): Likewise.
* valops.c (value_allocate_space_in_inferior): Likewise.
* unittests/array-view-selftests.c (run_tests): Add
gdb::make_array_view test.
This updates some help strings in corefile.c and gcore.c.
2018-04-27 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* corefile.c (_initialize_core): Update help string.
* gcore.c (_initialize_gcore): Update help string.
This removes a cleanup from gcore.c, replacing it with
unique_xmalloc_ptr.
Regression tested by the buildbot.
ChangeLog
2017-11-26 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* gcore.c (write_gcore_file_1): Use gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr.
The fact that GDB defaults to assuming that functions return int, when
it has no debug info for the function has been a recurring source of
user confusion. Recently this came up on the errno pretty printer
discussions. Shortly after, it came up again on IRC, with someone
wondering why does getenv() in GDB return a negative int:
(gdb) p getenv("PATH")
$1 = -6185
This question (with s/getenv/random-other-C-runtime-function) is a FAQ
on IRC.
The reason for the above is:
(gdb) p getenv
$2 = {<text variable, no debug info>} 0x7ffff7751d80 <getenv>
(gdb) ptype getenv
type = int ()
... which means that GDB truncated the 64-bit pointer that is actually
returned from getent to 32-bit, and then sign-extended it:
(gdb) p /x -6185
$6 = 0xffffe7d7
The workaround is to cast the function to the right type, like:
(gdb) p ((char *(*) (const char *)) getenv) ("PATH")
$3 = 0x7fffffffe7d7 "/usr/local/bin:/"...
IMO, we should do better than this.
I see the "assume-int" issue the same way I see printing bogus values
for optimized-out variables instead of "<optimized out>" -- I'd much
rather that the debugger tells me "I don't know" and tells me how to
fix it than showing me bogus misleading results, making me go around
tilting at windmills.
If GDB prints a signed integer when you're expecting a pointer or
aggregate, you at least have some sense that something is off, but
consider the case of the function actually returning a 64-bit integer.
For example, compile this without debug info:
unsigned long long
function ()
{
return 0x7fffffffffffffff;
}
Currently, with pristine GDB, you get:
(gdb) p function ()
$1 = -1 # incorrect
(gdb) p /x function ()
$2 = 0xffffffff # incorrect
maybe after spending a few hours debugging you suspect something is
wrong with that -1, and do:
(gdb) ptype function
type = int ()
and maybe, just maybe, you realize that the function actually returns
unsigned long long. And you try to fix it with:
(gdb) p /x (unsigned long long) function ()
$3 = 0xffffffffffffffff # incorrect
... which still produces the wrong result, because GDB simply applied
int to unsigned long long conversion. Meaning, it sign-extended the
integer that it extracted from the return of the function, to 64-bits.
and then maybe, after asking around on IRC, you realize you have to
cast the function to a pointer of the right type, and call that. It
won't be easy, but after a few missteps, you'll get to it:
..... (gdb) p /x ((unsigned long long(*) ()) function) ()
$666 = 0x7fffffffffffffff # finally! :-)
So to improve on the user experience, this patch does the following
(interrelated) things:
- makes no-debug-info functions no longer default to "int" as return
type. Instead, they're left with NULL/"<unknown return type>"
return type.
(gdb) ptype getenv
type = <unknown return type> ()
- makes calling a function with unknown return type an error.
(gdb) p getenv ("PATH")
'getenv' has unknown return type; cast the call to its declared return type
- and then to make it easier to call the function, makes it possible
to _only_ cast the return of the function to the right type,
instead of having to cast the function to a function pointer:
(gdb) p (char *) getenv ("PATH") # now Just Works
$3 = 0x7fffffffe7d7 "/usr/local/bin:/"...
(gdb) p ((char *(*) (const char *)) getenv) ("PATH") # continues working
$4 = 0x7fffffffe7d7 "/usr/local/bin:/"...
I.e., it makes GDB default the function's return type to the type
of the cast, and the function's parameters to the type of the
arguments passed down.
After this patch, here's what you'll get for the "unsigned long long"
example above:
(gdb) p function ()
'function' has unknown return type; cast the call to its declared return type
(gdb) p /x (unsigned long long) function ()
$4 = 0x7fffffffffffffff # correct!
Note that while with "print" GDB shows the name of the function that
has the problem:
(gdb) p getenv ("PATH")
'getenv' has unknown return type; cast the call to its declared return type
which can by handy in more complicated expressions, "ptype" does not:
(gdb) ptype getenv ("PATH")
function has unknown return type; cast the call to its declared return type
This will be fixed in the next patch.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2017-09-04 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* ada-lang.c (ada_evaluate_subexp) <TYPE_CODE_FUNC>: Don't handle
TYPE_GNU_IFUNC specially here. Throw error if return type is
unknown.
* ada-typeprint.c (print_func_type): Handle functions with unknown
return type.
* c-typeprint.c (c_type_print_base): Handle functions and methods
with unknown return type.
* compile/compile-c-symbols.c (convert_symbol_bmsym)
<mst_text_gnu_ifunc>: Use nodebug_text_gnu_ifunc_symbol.
* compile/compile-c-types.c: Include "objfiles.h".
(convert_func): For functions with unknown return type, warn and
default to int.
* compile/compile-object-run.c (compile_object_run): Adjust call
to call_function_by_hand_dummy.
* elfread.c (elf_gnu_ifunc_resolve_addr): Adjust call to
call_function_by_hand.
* eval.c (evaluate_subexp_standard): Adjust calls to
call_function_by_hand. Handle functions and methods with unknown
return type. Pass expect_type to call_function_by_hand.
* f-typeprint.c (f_type_print_base): Handle functions with unknown
return type.
* gcore.c (call_target_sbrk): Adjust call to
call_function_by_hand.
* gdbtypes.c (objfile_type): Leave nodebug text symbol with NULL
return type instead of int. Make nodebug_text_gnu_ifunc_symbol be
an integer address type instead of nodebug.
* guile/scm-value.c (gdbscm_value_call): Adjust call to
call_function_by_hand.
* infcall.c (error_call_unknown_return_type): New function.
(call_function_by_hand): New "default_return_type" parameter.
Pass it down.
(call_function_by_hand_dummy): New "default_return_type"
parameter. Use it instead of defaulting to int. If there's no
default and the return type is unknown, throw an error. If
there's a default return type, and the called function has no
debug info, then assume the function is prototyped.
* infcall.h (call_function_by_hand, call_function_by_hand_dummy):
New "default_return_type" parameter.
(error_call_unknown_return_type): New declaration.
* linux-fork.c (call_lseek): Cast return type of lseek.
(inferior_call_waitpid, checkpoint_command): Adjust calls to
call_function_by_hand.
* linux-tdep.c (linux_infcall_mmap, linux_infcall_munmap): Adjust
calls to call_function_by_hand.
* m2-typeprint.c (m2_procedure): Handle functions with unknown
return type.
* objc-lang.c (lookup_objc_class, lookup_child_selector)
(value_nsstring, print_object_command): Adjust calls to
call_function_by_hand.
* p-typeprint.c (pascal_type_print_varspec_prefix): Handle
functions with unknown return type.
(pascal_type_print_func_varspec_suffix): New function.
(pascal_type_print_varspec_suffix) <TYPE_CODE_FUNC,
TYPE_CODE_METHOD>: Use it.
* python/py-value.c (valpy_call): Adjust call to
call_function_by_hand.
* rust-lang.c (rust_evaluate_funcall): Adjust call to
call_function_by_hand.
* valarith.c (value_x_binop, value_x_unop): Adjust calls to
call_function_by_hand.
* valops.c (value_allocate_space_in_inferior): Adjust call to
call_function_by_hand.
* typeprint.c (type_print_unknown_return_type): New function.
* typeprint.h (type_print_unknown_return_type): New declaration.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2017-09-04 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.base/break-main-file-remove-fail.exp (test_remove_bp): Cast
return type of munmap in infcall.
* gdb.base/break-probes.exp: Cast return type of foo in infcall.
* gdb.base/checkpoint.exp: Simplify using for loop. Cast return
type of ftell in infcall.
* gdb.base/dprintf-detach.exp (dprintf_detach_test): Cast return
type of getpid in infcall.
* gdb.base/infcall-exec.exp: Cast return type of execlp in
infcall.
* gdb.base/info-os.exp: Cast return type of getpid in infcall.
Bail on failure to extract the pid.
* gdb.base/nodebug.c: #include <stdint.h>.
(multf, multf_noproto, mult, mult_noproto, add8, add8_noproto):
New functions.
* gdb.base/nodebug.exp (test_call_promotion): New procedure.
Change expected output of print/whatis/ptype with functions with
no debug info. Test all supported languages. Call
test_call_promotion.
* gdb.compile/compile.exp: Adjust expected output to expect
warning.
* gdb.threads/siginfo-threads.exp: Likewise.
This patch introduces the use of various containers -- std::vector,
std::string, or gdb::byte_vector -- in several spots in gdb that were
using xmalloc and a cleanup.
ChangeLog
2017-08-03 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* valops.c (search_struct_method): Use gdb::byte_vector.
* valarith.c (value_concat): Use std::vector.
* target.c (memory_xfer_partial): Use gdb::byte_vector.
(simple_search_memory): Likewise.
* printcmd.c (find_string_backward): Use gdb::byte_vector.
* mi/mi-main.c (mi_cmd_data_write_memory): Use gdb::byte_vector.
* gcore.c (gcore_copy_callback): Use gdb::byte_vector.
* elfread.c (elf_rel_plt_read): Use std::string.
* cp-valprint.c (cp_print_value): Use gdb::byte_vector.
* cli/cli-dump.c (restore_section_callback): Use
gdb::byte_vector.
This introduces a new class, gdb::unlinker, that unlinks a file in the
destructor. The user of this class has the option to preserve the
file instead, by calling the "keep" method.
This patch then changes the spots in gdb that use unlink in a cleanup
to use this class instead. In one spot I went ahead and removed all
the cleanups from the function.
This fixes one latent bug -- do_bfd_delete_cleanup could refer to
freed memory, by decref'ing the BFD before using its filename.
2017-01-10 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* record-full.c (record_full_save_cleanups): Remove.
(record_full_save): Use gdb::unlinker.
* gcore.c (do_bfd_delete_cleanup): Remove.
(gcore_command): Use gdb::unlinker, unique_xmalloc_ptr. Remove
cleanups.
* dwarf2read.c (unlink_if_set): Remove.
(write_psymtabs_to_index): Use gdb::unlinker.
* common/gdb_unlinker.h: New file.
This introduces a new specialization of gdb::ref_ptr that can be used
to manage BFD reference counts. Then it changes most places in gdb to
use this new class, rather than explicit reference-counting or
cleanups. This patch removes make_cleanup_bfd_unref.
If you look you will see a couple of spots using "release" where a use
of gdb_bfd_ref_ptr would be cleaner. These will be fixed in the next
patch.
I think this patch fixes some latent bugs. For example, it seems to
me that previously objfpy_add_separate_debug_file leaked a BFD.
I'm not 100% certain that the macho_symfile_read_all_oso change is
correct. The existing code here is hard for me to follow. One goal
of this sort of automated reference counting, though, is to make it
more difficult to make logic errors; so hopefully the code is clear
now.
2017-01-10 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* windows-tdep.c (windows_xfer_shared_library): Update.
* windows-nat.c (windows_make_so): Update.
* utils.h (make_cleanup_bfd_unref): Remove.
* utils.c (do_bfd_close_cleanup, make_cleanup_bfd_unref): Remove.
* symfile.h (symfile_bfd_open)
(find_separate_debug_file_in_section): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
* symfile.c (read_symbols, symbol_file_add)
(separate_debug_file_exists): Update.
(symfile_bfd_open): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(generic_load, reread_symbols): Update.
* symfile-mem.c (symbol_file_add_from_memory): Update.
* spu-linux-nat.c (spu_bfd_open): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(spu_symbol_file_add_from_memory): Update.
* solist.h (struct target_so_ops) <bfd_open>: Return
gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(solib_bfd_fopen, solib_bfd_open): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
* solib.c (solib_bfd_fopen, solib_bfd_open): Return
gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(solib_map_sections, reload_shared_libraries_1): Update.
* solib-svr4.c (enable_break): Update.
* solib-spu.c (spu_bfd_fopen): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
* solib-frv.c (enable_break2): Update.
* solib-dsbt.c (enable_break): Update.
* solib-darwin.c (gdb_bfd_mach_o_fat_extract): Return
gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(darwin_solib_get_all_image_info_addr_at_init): Update.
(darwin_bfd_open): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
* solib-aix.c (solib_aix_bfd_open): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
* record-full.c (record_full_save): Update.
* python/py-objfile.c (objfpy_add_separate_debug_file): Update.
* procfs.c (insert_dbx_link_bpt_in_file): Update.
* minidebug.c (find_separate_debug_file_in_section): Return
gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
* machoread.c (macho_add_oso_symfile): Change abfd to
gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(macho_symfile_read_all_oso): Update.
(macho_check_dsym): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(macho_symfile_read): Update.
* jit.c (bfd_open_from_target_memory): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(jit_bfd_try_read_symtab): Update.
* gdb_bfd.h (gdb_bfd_open, gdb_bfd_fopen, gdb_bfd_openr)
(gdb_bfd_openw, gdb_bfd_openr_iovec)
(gdb_bfd_openr_next_archived_file, gdb_bfd_fdopenr): Return
gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(gdb_bfd_ref_policy): New struct.
(gdb_bfd_ref_ptr): New typedef.
* gdb_bfd.c (gdb_bfd_open, gdb_bfd_fopen, gdb_bfd_openr)
(gdb_bfd_openw, gdb_bfd_openr_iovec)
(gdb_bfd_openr_next_archived_file, gdb_bfd_fdopenr): Return
gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
* gcore.h (create_gcore_bfd): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
* gcore.c (create_gcore_bfd): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(gcore_command): Update.
* exec.c (exec_file_attach): Update.
* elfread.c (elf_symfile_read): Update.
* dwarf2read.c (dwarf2_get_dwz_file): Update.
(try_open_dwop_file, open_dwo_file): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(open_and_init_dwo_file): Update.
(open_dwp_file): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(open_and_init_dwp_file): Update.
* corelow.c (core_open): Update.
* compile/compile-object-load.c (compile_object_load): Update.
* common/gdb_ref_ptr.h (ref_ptr::operator->): New operator.
* coffread.c (coff_symfile_read): Update.
* cli/cli-dump.c (bfd_openr_or_error, bfd_openw_or_error): Return
gdb_bfd_ref_ptr. Rename.
(dump_bfd_file, restore_command): Update.
* build-id.h (build_id_to_debug_bfd): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
* build-id.c (build_id_to_debug_bfd): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(find_separate_debug_file_by_buildid): Update.
This applies the second part of GDB's End of Year Procedure, which
updates the copyright year range in all of GDB's files.
gdb/ChangeLog:
Update copyright year range in all GDB files.
There are a bunch of places where a void* is implicitely casted into a
gdb_byte*. The auto-insert-casts script added explicit casts at those
places. However, in many cases, it makes more sense to just change the
void* to a gdb_byte*.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* aarch64-tdep.c (stack_item_t): Change type of data to gdb_byte*.
* arm-tdep.c (struct stack_item): Likewise.
(push_stack_item): Add gdb_byte* cast.
* avr-tdep.c (struct stack_item): Change type of data to gdb_byte*.
(push_stack_item): Add gdb_byte* cast.
* cli/cli-dump.c (dump_memory_to_file): Change type of buf to gdb_byte*
and add cast.
* cris-tdep.c (struct stack_item): Change type of data to gdb_byte*.
(push_stack_item): Add gdb_byte* cast.
* gcore.c (gcore_copy_callback): Change type of memhunk to gdb_byte* and
add cast.
* gdbtypes.h (print_scalar_formatted): Change type of first parameter to
gdb_byte*.
* h8300-tdep.c (h8300_extract_return_value): Change type of valbuf to
gdb_byte* and remove unnecessary cast.
(h8300h_extract_return_value): Likewise.
(h8300_store_return_value): Change type of valbuf to gdb_byte*.
(h8300h_store_return_value): Likewise.
* iq2000-tdep.c (iq2000_extract_return_value): Change type of valbuf to
gdb_byte* and remove unnecessary cast.
* jit.c (jit_reader_try_read_symtab): Change type of gdb_mem to gdb_byte*
and add cast.
* m32r-tdep.c (m32r_store_return_value): Change type of valbuf to
gdb_byte* and remove unnecessary cast.
(m32r_extract_return_value): Change type of dst to gdb_byte* and remove
valbuf.
* mep-tdep.c (mep_pseudo_cr32_read): Change type of buf to gdb_byte*.
(mep_pseudo_cr64_read): Likewise.
(mep_pseudo_csr_write): Likewise.
(mep_pseudo_cr32_write): Likewise.
(mep_pseudo_cr64_write): Likewise.
* mi/mi-main.c (mi_cmd_data_write_memory): Change type of buffer to
gdb_byte* and add cast.
* moxie-tdep.c (moxie_store_return_value): Change type of valbuf to
gdb_byte* and remove unnecessary cast.
(moxie_extract_return_value): Change type of dst to gdb_byte* and remove
valbuf.
* p-valprint.c (print_scalar_formatted): Change type of valaddr to
gdb_byte*.
* printcmd.c (void): Likewise.
* python/py-inferior.c (infpy_read_memory): Change type of buffer to
gdb_byte* and add cast.
(infpy_write_memory): Likewise.
(infpy_search_memory): Likewise.
* regcache.c (regcache_raw_write_signed): Change type of buf to gdb_byte*
and add cast.
(regcache_raw_write_unsigned): Likewise.
(regcache_cooked_write_signed): Likewise.
(regcache_cooked_write_unsigned): Likewise.
* sh64-tdep.c (h64_extract_return_value): Change type of valbuf to
gdb_byte*.
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.
Tom Tromey