I noticed that some methods in language_defn could use
unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> rather than a plain 'char *'. This patch
implements this change, fixing up the fallout and changing
gdb_demangle to also return this type. In one spot, std::string is
used to simplify some related code, and in another, an auto_obstack is
used to avoid manual management.
Regression tested on x86-64 Fedora 34.
Say we use a gcc version that (while supporting c++11) does not support c++11
by default, and needs an -std setting to enable it.
If gdb would use the default AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX from autoconf-archive, then
we'd have:
...
CXX="g++ -std=gnu++11"
...
That mechanism however has the following problem (quoting from commit
0bcda68539):
...
the top level Makefile passes CXX down to subdirs, and that overrides whatever
gdb/Makefile may set CXX to. The result would be that a make invocation from
the build/gdb/ directory would use "g++ -std=gnu++11" as expected, while a
make invocation at the top level would not.
...
Commit 0bcda68539 fixes this by using a custom AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX which
does:
...
CXX=g++
CXX_DIALECT=-std=gnu++11
...
The problem reported in PR28318 is that using the custom instead of the
default AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX makes the configure test for std::thread
support fail.
We could simply add $CXX_DIALECT to the test for std::thread support, but
that would have to be repeated for each added c++ support test.
Instead, fix this by doing:
...
CXX="g++ -std=gnu++11"
CXX_DIALECT=-std=gnu++11
...
This is somewhat awkward, since it results in -std=gnu++11 occuring twice in
some situations:
...
$ touch src/gdb/dwarf2/read.c
$ ( cd build/gdb; make V=1 dwarf2/read.o )
g++-4.8 -std=gnu++11 -x c++ -std=gnu++11 ...
...
However, both settings are needed:
- the switch in CXX for the std::thread tests (and other tests)
- the switch in CXX_DIALECT so it can be appended in Makefiles, to
counteract the fact that the top-level Makefile overrides CXX
The code added in gdb/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx.m4 is copied from the default
AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX from autoconf-archive.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28318
Consider test-case gdb.trace/entry-values.exp with target board
unix/-fPIE/-pie.
Using this command we have an abbreviated version, and can see the correct
@entry values for foo:
...
$ gdb -q -batch outputs/gdb.trace/entry-values/entry-values \
-ex start \
-ex "break foo" \
-ex "set print entry-values both" \
-ex continue
Temporary breakpoint 1 at 0x679
Temporary breakpoint 1, 0x0000555555554679 in main ()
Breakpoint 2 at 0x55555555463e
Breakpoint 2, 0x000055555555463e in foo (i=0, i@entry=2, j=2, j@entry=3)
...
Now, let's try the same again, but run directly to foo rather than stopping at
main:
...
$ gdb -q -batch outputs/gdb.trace/entry-values/entry-values \
-ex "break foo" \
-ex "set print entry-values both" \
-ex run
Breakpoint 1 at 0x63e
Breakpoint 1, 0x000055555555463e in foo (i=0, i@entry=<optimized out>, \
j=2, j@entry=<optimized out>)
...
So, what explains the difference? Noteworthy, this is a dwarf assembly
test-case, with debug info for foo and bar, but not for main.
In the first case:
- we run to main
- this does not trigger expanding debug info, because there's none for main
- we set a breakpoint at foo
- this triggers expanding debug info. Relocated addresses are used in
call_site info (because the exec is started)
- we continue to foo, and manage to find the call_site info
In the second case:
- we set a breakpoint at foo
- this triggers expanding debug info. Unrelocated addresses are used in
call_site info (because the exec is not started)
- we run to foo
- this triggers objfile_relocate1, but it doesn't update the call_site
info addresses
- we don't manage to find the call_site info
We could fix this by adding the missing call_site relocation in
objfile_relocate1.
This solution however is counter-trend in the sense that we're trying to
work towards the situation where when starting two instances of an executable,
we need only one instance of debug information, implying the use of
unrelocated addresses.
So, fix this instead by using unrelocated addresses in call_site info.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
This fixes all remaining unix/-fno-PIE/-no-pie vs unix/-fPIE/-pie
regressions, like f.i. PR24892.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24892
Co-Authored-By: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
In commit b4c919f752 "[gdb/symtab] Fix htab_find_slot call in
read_call_site_scope" , I removed the comment:
...
It must be the first field as we overload core_addr_hash and core_addr_eq for
it.
...
for field pc of struct call_site.
However, this was not tested, and when indeed moving field pc to the second
location, we run into a testsuite failure in gdb.trace/entry-values.exp.
This is caused by core_addr_eq (the eq_f function for the htab) being
called with a pointer to the pc field (as passed into htab_find_slot) and a
pointer to a hash table element. Now that pc is no longer the first field,
the pointer to hash table element no longer points to the pc field.
This could be fixed by simply reinstating the comment, but we're trying to
get rid of this kind of tricks that make refactoring more difficult.
Instead, fix this by:
- reverting commit b4c919f752, apart from the comment removal, such that
we're passing a pointer to element to htab_find_slot
- updating the htab_find_slot call in compunit_symtab::find_call_site
in a similar manner
- adding a call_site_eq and call_site_hash, and using these in the hash table
instead of core_addr_eq and core_addr_hash.
Tested on x86_64-linux, both with and without a trigger patch that moves pc to
the second location in struct call_site.
The change "make string-like set show commands use std::string
variable" caused remote-sim.c to fail to build. The issue is that the
code does:
const std::string &sysroot = gdb_sysroot;
if (is_target_filename (sysroot))
sysroot += strlen (TARGET_SYSROOT_PREFIX);
... which isn't valid.
This patch changes this code to use a 'const char *' again, fixing the
build.
GDB can notify observers when a parameter is changed.
To do that, do_set_command (in gdb/cli/cli-setshow.c) compares the new
value against the old one before updating it, and based on that notifies
observers. This looks like something like:
int valuechanged = 0;
switch (cmd->var.type ())
{
case var_integer:
{
LONGEST new_val = parse_and_eval_long (arg)
if (new_val != cmd->var.get<int> ())
{
cmd->var.get<int> (new_val);
value_changes = 1;
}
}
case var_uinteger:
case var_zuinteger:
{
unsigned int val
= parse_cli_var_uinteger (c->var->type (), &arg, true);
if (c->var->get<unsigned int> () != val)
{
c->var->set<unsigned int> (val);
option_changed = true;
}
}
case...
/* And so on for all possible var_types. */
}
This comparison is done for each possible var_type, which leads to
unnecessary logic duplication.
In this patch I propose to move all those checks in one place within the
setting setter method. This limits the code duplication and simplifies
the do_set_command implementation.
This patch also changes slightly the way a value change is detected.
Instead of comparing the user provided value against the current value
of the setting, we compare the value of the setting before and after the
set operation. This is meant to handle edge cases where trying to set
an unrecognized value would be equivalent to a noop (the actual value
remains unchanged). Doing this requires that the original value needs
to be copied before the update, which can be non trivial for
std::string.
There should be no user visible change introduced by this commit.
Tested on x86_64 GNU/Linux.
[1] https://review.lttng.org/c/binutils-gdb/+/5831/41
Change-Id: If064b9cede3eb56275aacd2b286f74eceb1aed11
The main motivation behind this improvement is to help the
implementation of a patch Simon Marchi is preparing to fix a bug when
MI or Python try to access parameters that are inferior dependent (see
PR/28085).
This commit extends the previous ones, which introduces the setting
object to represent a static variable whose value can be set or shown
with the appropriate commands. This patch proposes that a setting can
either contain a pointer to a static variable holding a setting, or
pointers to a pair of setter and getter callback functions.
The callbacks functions can be used to retrieve or change the value with
custom logic. This is useful when the source of truth for a given
setting is not contained in the variable pointed to by the setting
instance.
Given that the callback function call is hidden within the setting
abstraction introduced earlier, none of the sites accessing the setting
needs to be updated. The registered getter or setter is used whatever
the way to access it is (through MI, Python, Guile, the "with" command
and the $_gdb_setting / $_gdb_setting_str convenience functions).
All the add_setshow_*_cmd are given a new overload that will accept the
pair of function pointers (set / get functions) instead of the pointer
to a global variable.
Tested on GNU/Linux x86_64 with no regression observed.
Change-Id: Ieb81fef57550632ff66e6aa85f637372a226be8c
Co-authored-by: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
String-like settings (var_string, var_filename, var_optional_filename,
var_string_noescape) currently take a pointer to a `char *` storage
variable (typically global) that holds the setting's value. I'd like to
"mordernize" this by changing them to use an std::string for storage.
An obvious reason is that string operations on std::string are often
easier to write than with C strings. And they avoid having to do any
manual memory management.
Another interesting reason is that, with `char *`, nullptr and an empty
string often both have the same meaning of "no value". String settings
are initially nullptr (unless initialized otherwise). But when doing
"set foo" (where `foo` is a string setting), the setting now points to
an empty string. For example, solib_search_path is nullptr at startup,
but points to an empty string after doing "set solib-search-path". This
leads to some code that needs to check for both to check for "no value".
Or some code that converts back and forth between NULL and "" when
getting or setting the value. I find this very error-prone, because it
is very easy to forget one or the other. With std::string, we at least
know that the variable is not "NULL". There is only one way of
representing an empty string setting, that is with an empty string.
I was wondering whether the distinction between NULL and "" would be
important for some setting, but it doesn't seem so. If that ever
happens, it would be more C++-y and self-descriptive to use
optional<string> anyway.
Actually, there's one spot where this distinction mattered, it's in
init_history, for the test gdb.base/gdbinit-history.exp. init_history
sets the history filename to the default ".gdb_history" if it sees that
the setting was never set - if history_filename is nullptr. If
history_filename is an empty string, it means the setting was explicitly
cleared, so it leaves it as-is. With the change to std::string, this
distinction doesn't exist anymore. This can be fixed by moving the code
that chooses a good default value for history_filename to
_initialize_top. This is ran before -ex commands are processed, so an
-ex command can then clear that value if needed (what
gdb.base/gdbinit-history.exp tests).
Another small improvement, in my opinion is that we can now easily
give string parameters initial values, by simply initializing the global
variables, instead of xstrdup-ing it in the _initialize function.
In Python and Guile, when registering a string-like parameter, we
allocate (with new) an std::string that is owned by the param_smob (in
Guile) and the parmpy_object (in Python) objects.
This patch started by changing all relevant add_setshow_* commands to
take an `std::string *` instead of a `char **` and fixing everything
that failed to build. That includes of course all string setting
variable and their uses.
string_option_def now uses an std::string also, because there's a
connection between options and settings (see
add_setshow_cmds_for_options).
The add_path function in source.c is really complex and twisted, I'd
rather not try to change it to work on an std::string right now.
Instead, I added an overload that copies the std:string to a `char *`
and back. This means more copying, but this is not used in a hot path
at all, so I think it is acceptable.
Change-Id: I92c50a1bdd8307141cdbacb388248e4e4fc08c93
Co-authored-by: Lancelot SIX <lsix@lancelotsix.com>
cmd_list_element can contain a pointer to data that can be set and / or
shown. This is achieved with the void* VAR member which points to the
data that can be accessed, while the VAR_TYPE member (of type enum
var_types) indicates how to interpret the data pointed to.
With this pattern, the user of the cmd_list_element needs to know what
is the storage type associated with a given VAR_TYPES in order to do
the proper casting. No automatic safeguard is available to prevent
miss-use of the pointer. Client code typically looks something like:
switch (c->var_type)
{
case var_zuinteger:
unsigned int v = *(unsigned int*) c->var;
...
break;
case var_boolean:
bool v = *(bool *) c->var;
...
break;
...
}
This patch proposes to add an abstraction around the var_types and void*
pointer pair. The abstraction is meant to prevent the user from having
to handle the cast and verify that the data is read or written as a type
that is coherent with the setting's var_type. This is achieved by
introducing the struct setting which exposes a set of templated get /
set member functions. The template parameter is the type of the
variable that holds the referred variable.
Using those accessors allows runtime checks to be inserted in order to
ensure that the data pointed to has the expected type. For example,
instantiating the member functions with bool will yield something
similar to:
const bool &get<bool> () const
{
gdb_assert (m_var_type == var_boolean);
gdb_assert (m_var != nullptr);
return *static_cast<bool *> (m_var);
}
void set<bool> (const bool &var)
{
gdb_assert (m_var_type == var_boolean);
gdb_assert (m_var != nullptr);
*static_cast<bool *> (m_var) = var;
}
Using the new abstraction, our initial example becomes:
switch (c->var_type)
{
case var_zuinteger:
unsigned int v = c->var->get<unsigned int> ();
...
break;
case var_boolean:
bool v = c->var->get<bool> ();
...
break;
...
}
While the call site is still similar, the introduction of runtime checks
help ensure correct usage of the data.
In order to avoid turning the bulk of add_setshow_cmd_full into a
templated function, and following a suggestion from Pedro Alves, a
setting can be constructed from a pre validated type erased reference to
a variable. This is what setting::erased_args is used for.
Introducing an opaque abstraction to describe a setting will also make
it possible to use callbacks to retrieve or set the value of the setting
on the fly instead of pointing to a static chunk of memory. This will
be done added in a later commit.
Given that a cmd_list_element may or may not reference a setting, the
VAR and VAR_TYPES members of the struct are replaced with a
gdb::optional<setting> named VAR.
Few internal function signatures have been modified to take into account
this new abstraction:
-The functions value_from_setting, str_value_from_setting and
get_setshow_command_value_string used to have a 'cmd_list_element *'
parameter but only used it for the VAR and VAR_TYPE member. They now
take a 'const setting &' parameter instead.
- Similarly, the 'void *' and a 'enum var_types' parameters of
pascm_param_value and gdbpy_parameter_value have been replaced with a
'const setting &' parameter.
No user visible change is expected after this patch.
Tested on GNU/Linux x86_64, with no regression noticed.
Co-authored-by: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
Change-Id: Ie1d08c3ceb8b30b3d7bf1efe036eb8acffcd2f34
While working on other problems, I encountered situations where GDB
fails to properly unwind the stack because some functions use the C.MV
instruction in the prologue. The prologue scanner stops when it hits
this instruction assuming its job is done at this point. Unfortunately
the prologue is not necessarily finished yet, preventing GDB to properly
unwind.
This commit adds support for handling such instruction in
riscv_scan_prologue.
Note that C.MV is part of the compressed instruction set. The MV
counterpart from the base ISA is a pseudo instruction that expands to
'ADDI RD,RS1,0' which is already supported.
Tested on riscv64-linux-gnu.
All feedback are welcome.
Remove macro COMPUNIT_CALL_SITE_HTAB, and provide access to the htab using
member functions:
- compunit_symtab::find_call_site
- compunit_symtab::set_call_site_htab
Tested on x86_64-linux.
Co-Authored-By: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
Fix these rather obvious warnings reported by flake8:
./lib/gdb/FrameIterator.py:16:1: F401 'gdb' imported but unused
./lib/gdb/FrameIterator.py:17:1: F401 'itertools' imported but unused
./lib/gdb/command/prompt.py:55:26: E712 comparison to False should be 'if cond is False:' or 'if not cond:'
./lib/gdb/command/explore.py:526:9: F841 local variable 'has_explorable_fields' is assigned to but never used
./lib/gdb/command/explore.py:697:56: E712 comparison to False should be 'if cond is False:' or 'if not cond:'
./lib/gdb/command/explore.py:736:62: E712 comparison to False should be 'if cond is False:' or 'if not cond:'
./lib/gdb/command/explore.py:767:61: E712 comparison to False should be 'if cond is False:' or 'if not cond:'
./lib/gdb/command/frame_filters.py:21:1: F401 'copy' imported but unused
./lib/gdb/command/frame_filters.py:22:1: F401 'gdb.FrameIterator.FrameIterator' imported but unused
./lib/gdb/command/frame_filters.py:23:1: F401 'gdb.FrameDecorator.FrameDecorator' imported but unused
./lib/gdb/command/frame_filters.py:25:1: F401 'itertools' imported but unused
./lib/gdb/command/frame_filters.py:179:17: E712 comparison to True should be 'if cond is True:' or 'if cond:'
Change-Id: I4f49c0cb430359ee872222600c61d9c5283b09ab
When building master GDB, I ran into the following:
binutils-gdb/gdb/bt-utils.c: In function 'int libbacktrace_print(void*, uintptr_t, const char*, int, const char*)':
binutils-gdb/gdb/bt-utils.c:93:44: error: format '%lx' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'uintptr_t {aka unsigned int}' [-Werror=format=]
snprintf (buf, sizeof (buf), "0x%lx ", pc);
Fix this by using %PRIxPTR as opposed to %lx.
In read_call_site_scope we have:
...
call_site_local.pc = pc;
slot = htab_find_slot (cu->call_site_htab, &call_site_local, INSERT);
...
The call passes a call_site pointer as element. OTOH, the hashtab is created
using hash_f == core_addr_hash and eq_f == core_addr_eq, so the element
will be accessed through a CORE_ADDR pointer.
This is not wrong (at least in C), given that pc is the first field in
call_site.
Nevertheless, as in call_site_for_pc, make the htab_find_slot call match the
used hash_f and eq_f by using &pc instead:
...
slot = htab_find_slot (cu->call_site_htab, &pc, INSERT);
...
Tested on x86_64-linux.
Co-Authored-By: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
Change how rnglists and loclists procs to align them with how procs for
aranges (and other things in the DWARF assembler) work. Instead of
using "args" (variable number of parameters in TCL) and command-line
style option arguments, use one leading "option" parameters, used as a
kind of key/value dictionary of options parsed using `parse_options`.
Change-Id: I63e60d17ae16a020ce4d6de44baf3d152ea42a1a
When I wrote support for rnglists and loclists in the testsuite's DWARF
assembler, I made it with nested procs, for example proc "table" inside
proc "rnglists". The intention was that this proc "table" could only be
used by the user while inside proc "rnglists"'s body. I had chosen very
simple names, thinking there was no chance of name clashes. I recently
learned that this is not how TCL works. This ends up defining a proc
"table" in the current namespace ("Dwarf" in this case).
Things still work if you generate rnglists and loclists in the same
file, as each redefines its own procedures when executing. But if a
user of the assembler happened to define a convenience "table" or
"start_end" procedure, for example, it would get overriden.
I'd like to change how this works to reduce the chances of a name clash.
- Move the procs out of each other, so they are not defined in a nested
fashion.
- Prefix them with "_rnglists_" or "_loclists_".
- While calling $body in the various procs, temporarily make the procs
available under their "short" name. For example, while in rngllists'
body, make _rnglists_table available as just "table". This allows
existing code to keep working and keeps it not too verbose.
- Modify with_override to allow the overriden proc to not exist. In
that case, the temporary proc is deleted on exit.
Note the non-conforming indentation when calling with_override in
_loclists_list. This is on purpose: as we implement more loclists (and
rnglists) entry types, the indentation would otherwise get larger and
larger without much value for readability. So I think it's reasonable
here to put them on the same level.
Change-Id: I7bb48d26fcb0dba1ae4dada05c0c837212424328
Remove the `TYPE_FIELD_NAME` and `FIELD_NAME` macros, changing all the
call sites to use field::name directly.
Change-Id: I6900ae4e1ffab1396e24fb3298e94bf123826ca6
Add the `name` and `set_name` methods on `struct field`, in order to
remove `FIELD_NAME` and `TYPE_FIELD_NAME` macros. In this patch, the
macros are changed to use `field::name`, so all the call sites that are
used to set the field's name are changed to use `field::set_name`.
The next patch will remove the macros completely.
Note that because of the name clash between the existing field named
`name` and the new method, I renamed the field `m_name`. It is not
private per-se, because we can't make `struct field` a non-POD yet, but
it should be considered private anyway (not accessed outside `struct
field`).
Change-Id: If16ddbca4e0c39d0ff9da420bb5cdebe5b9b0896
PR gdb/28369 reports that gdb/ser-pipe.c has an 'execl' function call
with a hard-coded "/bin/sh" as its argument. We've had 'get_shell'
for a while now, which is conscious about the SHELL environment and a
better alternative to always calling "/bin/sh".
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28369
As follow-up to this discussion:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-August/171385.html
... make runto_main not pass no-message to runto. This means that if we
fail to run to main, for some reason, we'll emit a FAIL. This is the
behavior we want the majority of (if not all) the time.
Without this, we rely on tests logging a failure if runto_main fails,
otherwise. They do so in a very inconsisteny mannet, sometimes using
"fail", "unsupported" or "untested". The messages also vary widly.
This patch removes all these messages as well.
Also, remove a few "fail" where we call runto (and not runto_main). by
default (without an explicit no-message argument), runto prints a
failure already. In two places, gdb.multi/multi-re-run.exp and
gdb.python/py-pp-registration.exp, remove "message" passed to runto.
This removes a few PASSes that we don't care about (but FAILs will still
be printed if we fail to run to where we want to). This aligns their
behavior with the rest of the testsuite.
Change-Id: Ib763c98c5f4fb6898886b635210d7c34bd4b9023
Make gdb_open_cloexec return a scoped_fd, to encourage using automatic
management of the file descriptor closing. Except in the most trivial
cases, I changed the callers to just release the fd, which retains their
existing behavior. That will allow the transition to using scoped_fd
more to go gradually, one caller at a time.
Change-Id: Ife022b403f96e71d5ebb4f1056ef6251b30fe554
The "make thread_suspend_state::stop_pc optional" patch caused a
regression on Windows when using shared libraries. I tracked this
down to an unguarded use of stop_pc() in the TARGET_WAITKIND_LOADED
case of handle_inferior_event. This patch fixes the bug by ensuring
that the stop PC is set at this point.
With running test-case gdb.debuginfod/fetch_src_and_symbols.exp with target
board unix/-bad, I get:
...
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-bad'^M
compiler exited with status 1
gdb compile failed, gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-bad'
FAIL: gdb.debuginfod/fetch_src_and_symbols.exp: compile
...
Replace the FAIL with the usual:
...
UNTESTED: gdb.debuginfod/fetch_src_and_symbols.exp: failed to compile
...
Tested on x86_64-linux.
When running test-case gdb.base/info-os.exp with target board unix/-bad, I run
into:
...
gdb compile failed, gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-bad'
UNTESTED: gdb.base/info-os.exp: failed to prepare
FAIL: gdb.base/info-os.exp: cannot compile test program
...
Remove the redundant FAIL.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
When running test-case gdb.base/info-os.exp, I run into:
...
PASS: gdb.base/info-os.exp: get threads
PASS: gdb.base/info-os.exp: get threads
DUPLICATE: gdb.base/info-os.exp: get threads
...
Fix this not doing pass followed by exp_continue in gdb_test_multiple.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
When running test-case gdb.dwarf2/dw2-opt-structptr.exp with target board
unix/-bad, I get:
...
gdb compile failed, gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-bad'
UNTESTED: gdb.dwarf2/dw2-opt-structptr.exp: dw2-opt-structptr.exp
UNTESTED: gdb.dwarf2/dw2-opt-structptr.exp: failed to compile
ERROR: (dw2-opt-structptr) No such file or directory
UNRESOLVED: gdb.dwarf2/dw2-opt-structptr.exp: console: set print object on
...
Merge the two UNTESTEDs.
Fix the UNRESOLVED by checking result of compilation.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
When running test-case gdb.base/structs.exp with target board unix/-bad, I
get:
...
gdb compile failed, gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-bad'
UNTESTED: gdb.base/structs.exp: failed to prepare
ERROR: tcl error sourcing src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/structs.exp.
ERROR: can't read "use_gdb_stub": no such variable
...
Fix this by checking the compilation result.
Fix the resulting DUPLICATEs using with_test_prefix.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
When running test-case gdb.base/cvexpr.exp with target board unix/-bad, I get:
...
gdb compile failed, gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-bad'
ERROR: tcl error sourcing src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/cvexpr.exp.
ERROR: can't read "use_gdb_stub": no such variable
...
This is triggered in a part of the test that claims to require no debug
information, but uses the exec containing either dwarf or ctf.
Fix this by preparing another executable compiled with nodebug, and using
that one instead.
Also use with_test_prefix to mark the nodebug part, such that we have:
...
gdb compile failed, gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-bad'
UNTESTED: gdb.base/cvexpr.exp: dwarf: failed to prepare
gdb compile failed, gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-bad'
UNTESTED: gdb.base/cvexpr.exp: nodebug: failed to prepare
...
Tested on x86_64-linux.
When running test-case gdb.base/call-sc.exp with target board unix/-bad, I
get:
...
gdb compile failed, gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-bad'
UNTESTED: gdb.base/call-sc.exp: failed to prepare
ERROR: tcl error sourcing src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/call-sc.exp.
ERROR: can't read "use_gdb_stub": no such variable
...
Fix this by checking the compilation result.
Fix the resulting DUPLICATE:
...
DUPLICATE: gdb.base/call-sc.exp: failed to prepare
...
using with_test_prefix.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
The effect of:
...
untested "y.exp"
...
in a gdb.x/y.exp is:
...
UNTESTED: gdb.x/y.exp: y.exp
...
which is a bit pointless.
Replace these untested messages in gdb.mi/*.exp with the usual "failed to
compile".
Likewise for an:
...
untested $testname
...
where the variable is undefined.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
On ubuntu 18.04.5, I run into:
...
(gdb) mt print objfiles dwindex^M
^M
Object file build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.rust/dwindex/dwindex: \
Objfile at 0x55dab0b87a50, bfd at 0x55dab0b0cfa0, 1095 minsyms^M
^M
Psymtabs:^M
vendor/compiler_builtins/src/int/specialized_div_rem/mod.rs at 0x55dab0db0720^M
...
library/std/src/sys/unix/stdio.rs at 0x55dab0d96320^M
ERROR: internal buffer is full.
UNRESOLVED: gdb.rust/dwindex.exp: check if index present
...
Fix this by using -lbl in proc ensure_gdb_index.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
When running test-case gdb.base/break-interp.exp on openSUSE Leap 42.3, I get:
...
(gdb) info addr dl_main^M
Symbol "dl_main" is at 0x1750 in a file compiled without debugging.^M
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.base/break-interp.exp: info addr dl_main
...
while the regexp expects "Symbol \"dl_main\" is a function at address $hex\\."
Fix this by also accepting this variant.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
The gdb.multi/multi-term-settings.exp testcase sometimes fails like so:
Running /home/pedro/gdb/mygit/src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.multi/multi-term-settings.exp ...
FAIL: gdb.multi/multi-term-settings.exp: inf1_how=attach: inf2_how=attach: stop with control-c (SIGINT)
It's easier to reproduce if you stress the machine at the same time, like e.g.:
$ stress -c 24
Looking at gdb.log, we see:
(gdb) attach 60422
Attaching to program: build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.multi/multi-term-settings/multi-term-settings, process 60422
[New Thread 60422.60422]
Reading symbols from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6...
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug//lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.31.so...
Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...
(No debugging symbols found in /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2)
0x00007f2fc2485334 in __GI___clock_nanosleep (clock_id=<optimized out>, clock_id@entry <mailto:clock_id@entry>=0, flags=flags@entry <mailto:flags@entry>=0, req=req@entry <mailto:req@entry>=0x7ffe23126940, rem=rem@entry <mailto:rem@entry>=0x0) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/clock_nanosleep.c:78
78 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/clock_nanosleep.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) PASS: gdb.multi/multi-term-settings.exp: inf1_how=attach: inf2_how=attach: inf2: attach
set schedule-multiple on
(gdb) PASS: gdb.multi/multi-term-settings.exp: inf1_how=attach: inf2_how=attach: set schedule-multiple on
info inferiors
Num Description Connection Executable
1 process 60404 1 (extended-remote localhost:2349) build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.multi/multi-term-settings/multi-term-settings
* 2 process 60422 1 (extended-remote localhost:2349) build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.multi/multi-term-settings/multi-term-settings
(gdb) PASS: gdb.multi/multi-term-settings.exp: inf1_how=attach: inf2_how=attach: info inferiors
pid=60422, count=46
pid=60422, count=47
pid=60422, count=48
pid=60422, count=49
pid=60422, count=50
pid=60422, count=51
pid=60422, count=52
pid=60422, count=53
pid=60422, count=54
pid=60422, count=55
pid=60422, count=56
pid=60422, count=57
pid=60422, count=58
pid=60422, count=59
pid=60422, count=60
pid=60422, count=61
pid=60422, count=62
pid=60422, count=63
pid=60422, count=64
pid=60422, count=65
pid=60422, count=66
pid=60422, count=67
pid=60422, count=68
pid=60422, count=69
pid=60404, count=54
pid=60404, count=55
pid=60404, count=56
pid=60404, count=57
pid=60404, count=58
PASS: gdb.multi/multi-term-settings.exp: inf1_how=attach: inf2_how=attach: continue
Quit
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.multi/multi-term-settings.exp: inf1_how=attach: inf2_how=attach: stop with control-c (SIGINT)
If you look at the testcase's sources, you'll see that the intention
is to resumes the program with "continue", wait to see a few of those
"pid=..., count=..." lines, and then interrupt the program with
Ctrl-C. But somehow, that resulted in GDB printing "Quit", instead of
the Ctrl-C stopping the program with SIGINT.
Here's what is happening:
#1 - those "pid=..., count=..." lines we see above weren't actually
output by the inferior after it has been continued (see #1).
Note that "inf1_how" and "inf2_how" are "attach". What happened
is that those "pid=..., count=..." lines were output by the
inferiors _before_ they were attached to. We see them at that
point instead of earlier, because that's where the testcase
reads from the inferiors' spawn_ids.
#2 - The testcase mistakenly thinks those "pid=..., count=..." lines
happened after the continue was processed by GDB, meaning it has
waited enough, and so sends the Ctrl-C. GDB hasn't yet passed
the terminal to the inferior, so the Ctrl-C results in that
Quit.
The fix here is twofold:
#1 - flush inferior output right after attaching
#2 - consume the "Continuing" printed by "continue", indicating the
inferior has the terminal. This is the same as done throughout
the testsuite to handle this exact problem of sending Ctrl-C too
soon.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
yyyy-mm-dd Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net <mailto:pedro@palves.net>>
* gdb.multi/multi-term-settings.exp (create_inferior): Flush
inferior output.
(coretest): Use $gdb_test_name. After issuing "continue", wait
for "Continuing".
Change-Id: Iba7671dfe1eee6b98d29cfdb05a1b9aa2f9defb9
I build gdb without xml support using --without-expat, and ran into:
...
(gdb) target remote | vgdb --wait=2 --max-invoke-ms=2500 --pid=22032^M
Remote debugging using | vgdb --wait=2 --max-invoke-ms=2500 --pid=22032^M
relaying data between gdb and process 22032^M
warning: Can not parse XML target description; XML support was disabled at \
compile time^M
...
(gdb) PASS: gdb.base/valgrind-infcall.exp: continue #1
p gdb_test_infcall ()^M
Remote 'g' packet reply is too long (expected 560 bytes, got 800 bytes): ...^M
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.base/valgrind-infcall.exp: p gdb_test_infcall ()
...
After googling the error message with context valgrind gdbserver, I found
indications that the Remote 'g' packet reply error is due to missing xml
support.
And here ( https://www.valgrind.org/docs/manual/manual-core-adv.html ) I
found:
...
GDB version needed for ARM and PPC32/64.
You must use a GDB version which is able to read XML target description sent
by a gdbserver. This is the standard setup if GDB was configured and built
with the "expat" library. If your GDB was not configured with XML support, it
will report an error message when using the "target" command. Debugging will
not work because GDB will then not be able to fetch the registers from the
Valgrind gdbserver.
...
So I guess I'm running into the same problem for x86_64.
Fix this by skipping all gdb.base/valgrind-*.exp tests if xml support is not
available. Although only the gdb.base/valgrind-infcall*.exp produce fails,
the Remote 'g' packet reply error occurs in all tests, so it seems prudent to
disable them all.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
With a gdb build using python 2.7, I run into:
...
(gdb) python \
gdb.events.breakpoint_modified.connect(lambda bp: print(bp.enabled))^M
File "<string>", line 1^M
gdb.events.breakpoint_modified.connect(lambda bp: print(bp.enabled))^M
^^M
SyntaxError: invalid syntax^M
Error while executing Python code.^M
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.python/py-breakpoint.exp: test_bkpt_auto_disable: \
trap breakpoint_modified event
...
This is caused by the following:
- a lambda function body needs to be an expression
- in python 2, print is a statement, while in python 3 it's a function
- a function call is an expression, and a statement is not.
Fix this by defining a function print_bp_enabled:
...
def print_bp_enabled (bp):
print (bp.enabled)
end
...
and using that instead.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
With a gdb configured to be somewhat minimal, while still supporting python:
...
$ gdb --configuration
This GDB was configured as follows:
configure --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
--with-auto-load-dir=$debugdir:$datadir/auto-load
--with-auto-load-safe-path=$debugdir:$datadir/auto-load
--without-expat
--with-gdb-datadir=$install/share/gdb (relocatable)
--with-jit-reader-dir=$install/lib64/gdb (relocatable)
--without-libunwind-ia64
--without-lzma
--without-babeltrace
--without-intel-pt
--with-mpfr
--without-xxhash
--with-python=/usr
--with-python-libdir=/usr/lib
--with-debuginfod
--without-guile
--disable-source-highlight
--with-separate-debug-dir=/usr/lib/debug
--with-system-gdbinit=$devel/system-gdbinit
...
and using gcc 4.8 to build gdb (causing std::thread not to be used due to
PR28318) I ran into:
...
(gdb) PASS: gdb.gdb/python-helper.exp: start inner gdb
print 1^M
^M
Breakpoint 2, value_print () at src/gdb/valprint.c:1174^M
1174 scoped_value_mark free_values;^M
(xgdb) FAIL: gdb.gdb/python-helper.exp: hit breakpoint in inner gdb (timeout)
...
The problem is that the regexp expects "hit Breakpoint $decimal". The "hit"
part is missing.
The "hit" is printed by maybe_print_thread_hit_breakpoint, when
show_thread_that_caused_stop returns true:
...
int
show_thread_that_caused_stop (void)
{
return highest_thread_num > 1;
}
...
Apparently, that's not the case.
Fix this by removing "hit" from the regexp, making the regexp more similar to
what is used in say, continue_to_breakpoint.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
In this commit:
commit abbbd4a3e0
Date: Wed Aug 11 13:24:33 2021 +0100
gdb: use libbacktrace to create a better backtrace for fatal signals
The build of GDB was broken iff, the execinfo backtrace API is not
available, and, libbacktrace is either disabled, or not usable. In
this case you'll see build errors like this:
CXX bt-utils.o
/home/username/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/bt-utils.c: In function 'void gdb_internal_backtrace()':
/home/username/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/bt-utils.c:165:5: error: 'gdb_internal_backtrace_1' was not declared in this scope
gdb_internal_backtrace_1 ();
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This commit fixes the issue by guarding the call to
gdb_internal_backtrace_1 with '#ifdef GDB_PRINT_INTERNAL_BACKTRACE',
which is only defined when one of the backtrace libraries are
available.
With this commit:
commit 91f2597bd2
Date: Thu Aug 12 18:24:59 2021 +0100
gdb: print backtrace for internal error/warning
I included some references to 'stderr', which, it was pointed out,
would be better written as 'standard error stream'. See:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-September/182225.html
This commit replaces the two instances of 'stderr' that I introduced.
In a recent commit I used 'manor' in some comments rather than
'manner'. This commit fixes those two mistakes.
I also looked through the gdb/ tree and found one additional instance
of this mistake that this commit also fixes.
The following scenario hangs:
- maint set target-non-stop on
- `gdbserver --attach`
- a multi-threaded program
For example:
Terminal 1:
$ gnome-calculator&
[1] 495731
$ ../gdbserver/gdbserver --once --attach :1234 495731
Attached; pid = 495731
Listening on port 1234
Terminal 2:
$ ./gdb -nx -q --data-directory=data-directory /usr/bin/gnome-calculator -ex "maint set target-non-stop on" -ex "tar rem :1234"
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/gnome-calculator...
(No debugging symbols found in /usr/bin/gnome-calculator)
Remote debugging using :1234
* hangs *
What happens is:
- The protocol between gdb and gdbserver is in non-stop mode, but the
user-visible behavior is all-stop
- On connect, gdbserver sends one stop reply for one thread that is
stops, the others stay running
- In process_initial_stop_replies, gdb calls stop_all_threads to stop
these other threads, because we are using the all-stop user-visible
mode
- stop_all_threads sends a stop request for all the running threads and
then waits for resulting events
- At this point, the remote target is in target_async(0) mode, which
makes stop_all_threads not consider it for events
- stop_all_threads loops indefinitely (it does not even block
indefinitely, it is in an infinite busy loop) because there are no
event sources. wait_one_event returns a TARGET_WAITKIND_NO_RESUMED
wait status.
Fix that by making the remote target async around the stop_all_threads
call.
I haven't implemented it because I'm not sure how to do it, but I think
it would be a good idea to have, in stop_all_threads / wait_one /
handle_one, an assert to check that if we are expecting one or more
event, then there are some targets that are in a state where they can
supply some events. Otherwise, we'll necessarily be stuck in this
infinite loop, and it's probably due to a bug in GDB. I'm not too sure
where to put this or how to express it though. Perhaps in
stop_all_threads, here:
for (int i = 0; i < waits_needed; i++)
{
wait_one_event event = wait_one ();
*here*
if (handle_one (event))
break;
}
If at that point, the returned event is TARGET_WAITKIND_NO_RESUMED,
there's a problem. We expect some event, because we've asked some
threads to stop, but all targets are answering that they won't have any
events for us. That's a contradiction, and a sign that something has
gone wrong. It could perhaps event be:
gdb_assert (event.ws.kind != TARGET_WAITKIND_NO_RESUMED);
in handle_one, as the idea is the same in prepare_for_detach.
A bit more sophisticated would be: we know which targets we are
expecting waits from, since we know which threads we have asked to
stop. So if any of these targets returns TARGET_WAITKIND_NO_RESUMED,
something is fishy.
Add a test that tests attaching with gdbserver's --attach flag to a
multi-threaded program, and then connecting to it. Without the fix, the
test reproduces the hang.
Change-Id: If6f6690a4887ca66693ef1af64791dda4c65f24f
There are two errors of this kind:
CXX darwin-nat.o
/Users/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/darwin-nat.c:1175:19: error: format specifies type 'unsigned long' but the argument has type 'ULONGEST' (aka 'unsigned long long') [-Werror,-Wformat]
ptid.pid (), ptid.tid ());
^~~~~~~~~~~
Fix them by using ptid_t's to_string method.
Change-Id: I52087d5f7ee0fc01ac8b3f87d4db0217cb0d7cc7
The test currently requires the "inf 1" breakpoint to be before the "inf
2" breakpoint. This is not always the case:
info breakpoints 2
Num Type Disp Enb Address What
2 breakpoint keep y <MULTIPLE>
2.1 y 0x0000555555554730 in callee at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/foll-fork.c:9 inf 2
2.2 y 0x0000555555554730 in callee at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/foll-fork.c:9 inf 1
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.base/foll-fork.exp: follow-fork-mode=parent: detach-on-fork=off: cmd=next 2: test_follow_fork: info breakpoints
Since add_location_to_breakpoint uses only the address as a criterion to
sort locations, the order of locations at the same address is not
stable: it will depend on the insertion order. Here, the insertion
order comes from the order of SALs when creating the breakpoint, which
can vary from machine to machine. While it would be more user-friendly
to have a more stable order for printed breakpoint locations, it doesn't
really matter for this test, and it would be hard to define an order
that will be the same everywhere, all the time.
So, loosen the regexp to accept "inf 1" and "inf 2" in any order.
Co-Authored-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
Change-Id: I5ada2e0c6ad0669e0d161bfb6b767229c0970d16
