A few FreeBSD releases did not include the page holding the signal
code in core dumps. As a workaround, a sysctl was used to fetch the
default location of the signal code instead. The youngest affected
FreeBSD release is 10.1 released in November 2014 and EOLed in
December 2016. The fallback only works for native processes and would
require a separate unwinder once the FreeBSD arches are converted to
use tramp_frame for signal frames.
When building with clang, I run into an error:
...
tui/tui-disasm.c:138:25: error: moving a temporary object prevents copy
elision [-Werror,-Wpessimizing-move]
tal.addr_string = std::move (gdb_dis_out.release ());
^
tui/tui-disasm.c:138:25: note: remove std::move call here
tal.addr_string = std::move (gdb_dis_out.release ());
^~~~~~~~~~~ ~
...
The error above is caused by the recent commit 5d10a2041e ("gdb: add
string_file::release method").
Fix this by removing std::move.
Build on x86_64-linux with clang 13.0.0.
Add a .editorconfig [1] file. This helps configure editors
automatically with the right whitespace settings. It will help me,
since I need to juggle with different whitespace settings for different
projects. But I think it can also help newcomers get things right from
the start.
Some editors have native support for reading these files, while others
require a plug-in [2]. And if you don't want to use it, then this file
doesn't change anything to your life.
I added rules for the kinds of files I edit most often, but more can be
added later. I assumed that the rules were the same for GDB and the
other projects, but if that's not the case, we can always put
.editorconfig files in project subdirectories to override settings.
[1] https://editorconfig.org/
[2] https://editorconfig.org/#download
Change-Id: Ifda136d13877fafcf0d137fec8501f6a34e1367b
This is just a tidy, making the __ehdr_start symbol flag tweaks all in
one place.
* ldelf.c (ldelf_before_allocation): Don't set rel_from_abs
for __ehdr_start.
* ldlang.c (lang_symbol_tweaks): Set it here instead.
Using a symbol other than .TOC. with @tocbase is an extension to the
ABI. It is never valid to use a symbol without a definition in the
binary, and symbols on these expressions cannot be overridden. Make
this explicit by using ".hidden" in the testcase.
* testsuite/ld-powerpc/symtocbase-1.s: Align data. Make function
entry symbol hidden.
* testsuite/ld-powerpc/symtocbase-2.s: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-powerpc/symtocbase.d: Adjust expected output.
The assertion is this one in ppc_build_one_stub
BFD_ASSERT (stub_entry->stub_offset >= stub_entry->group->stub_sec->size);
It is checking that a stub doesn't overwrite the tail of a previous
stub, so not something trivial.
Normally, stub sizing iterates until no stubs are added, detected by
no change in stub section size. Iteration also continues if no stubs
are added but one or more stubs increases in size, which also can be
detected by a change in stub section size. But there is a
pathological case where stub section sizing decreases one iteration
then increases the next. To handle that situation, stub sizing also
stops at more than STUB_SHRINK_ITER (20) iterations when calculated
stub section size is smaller. The previous larger size is kept for
the actual layout (so that building the stubs, which behaves like
another iteration of stub sizing, will see the stub section sizes
shrink). The problem with that stopping condition is that it assumes
that stub sizing is only affected by addresses external to the stub
sections, which isn't always true.
This patch fixes that by also keeping larger individual stub_offset
addresses past STUB_SHRINK_ITER. It also catches a further
pathological case where one stub shrinks and another expands in such a
way that no stub section size change is seen.
PR 28827
* elf64-ppc.c (struct ppc_link_hash_table): Add stub_changed.
(STUB_SHRINK_ITER): Move earlier in file.
(ppc_size_one_stub): Detect any change in stub_offset. Keep
larger one if past STUB_SHRINK_ITER.
(ppc64_elf_size_stubs): Iterate on stub_changed too.
g++ 11.1.0 has a bug where it will emit a negative
DW_AT_data_member_location in some cases:
$ cat test.cpp
#include <memory>
int
main()
{
std::unique_ptr<int> ptr;
}
$ g++ -g test.cpp
$ llvm-dwarfdump -F a.out
...
0x00000964: DW_TAG_member
DW_AT_name [DW_FORM_strp] ("_M_head_impl")
DW_AT_decl_file [DW_FORM_data1] ("/usr/include/c++/11.1.0/tuple")
DW_AT_decl_line [DW_FORM_data1] (125)
DW_AT_decl_column [DW_FORM_data1] (0x27)
DW_AT_type [DW_FORM_ref4] (0x0000067a "default_delete<int>")
DW_AT_data_member_location [DW_FORM_sdata] (-1)
...
This leads to a GDB crash (when built with ASan, otherwise probably
garbage results), since it tries to read just before (to the left, in
ASan speak) of the value's buffer:
==888645==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x6020000c52af at pc 0x7f711b239f4b bp 0x7fff356bd470 sp 0x7fff356bcc18
READ of size 1 at 0x6020000c52af thread T0
#0 0x7f711b239f4a in __interceptor_memcpy /build/gcc/src/gcc/libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_common_interceptors.inc:827
#1 0x555c4977efa1 in value_contents_copy_raw /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/value.c:1347
#2 0x555c497909cd in value_primitive_field(value*, long, int, type*) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/value.c:3126
#3 0x555c478f2eaa in cp_print_value_fields(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*, type**, int) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-valprint.c:333
#4 0x555c478f63b2 in cp_print_value /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-valprint.c:513
#5 0x555c478f02ca in cp_print_value_fields(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*, type**, int) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-valprint.c:161
#6 0x555c478f63b2 in cp_print_value /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-valprint.c:513
#7 0x555c478f02ca in cp_print_value_fields(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*, type**, int) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-valprint.c:161
#8 0x555c478f63b2 in cp_print_value /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-valprint.c:513
#9 0x555c478f02ca in cp_print_value_fields(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*, type**, int) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-valprint.c:161
#10 0x555c4760d45f in c_value_print_struct /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/c-valprint.c:383
#11 0x555c4760df4c in c_value_print_inner(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/c-valprint.c:438
#12 0x555c483ff9a7 in language_defn::value_print_inner(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*) const /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/language.c:632
#13 0x555c49758b68 in do_val_print /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/valprint.c:1048
#14 0x555c49759b17 in common_val_print(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*, language_defn const*) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/valprint.c:1151
#15 0x555c478f2fcb in cp_print_value_fields(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*, type**, int) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-valprint.c:335
#16 0x555c478f63b2 in cp_print_value /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-valprint.c:513
#17 0x555c478f02ca in cp_print_value_fields(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*, type**, int) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-valprint.c:161
#18 0x555c4760d45f in c_value_print_struct /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/c-valprint.c:383
#19 0x555c4760df4c in c_value_print_inner(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/c-valprint.c:438
#20 0x555c483ff9a7 in language_defn::value_print_inner(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*) const /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/language.c:632
#21 0x555c49758b68 in do_val_print /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/valprint.c:1048
#22 0x555c49759b17 in common_val_print(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*, language_defn const*) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/valprint.c:1151
#23 0x555c478f2fcb in cp_print_value_fields(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*, type**, int) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-valprint.c:335
#24 0x555c4760d45f in c_value_print_struct /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/c-valprint.c:383
#25 0x555c4760df4c in c_value_print_inner(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/c-valprint.c:438
#26 0x555c483ff9a7 in language_defn::value_print_inner(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*) const /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/language.c:632
#27 0x555c49758b68 in do_val_print /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/valprint.c:1048
#28 0x555c49759b17 in common_val_print(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*, language_defn const*) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/valprint.c:1151
#29 0x555c4760f04c in c_value_print(value*, ui_file*, value_print_options const*) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/c-valprint.c:587
#30 0x555c483ff954 in language_defn::value_print(value*, ui_file*, value_print_options const*) const /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/language.c:614
#31 0x555c49759f61 in value_print(value*, ui_file*, value_print_options const*) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/valprint.c:1189
#32 0x555c48950f70 in print_formatted /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/printcmd.c:337
#33 0x555c48958eda in print_value(value*, value_print_options const&) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/printcmd.c:1258
#34 0x555c48959891 in print_command_1 /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/printcmd.c:1367
#35 0x555c4895a3df in print_command /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/printcmd.c:1458
#36 0x555c4767f974 in do_simple_func /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cli/cli-decode.c:97
#37 0x555c47692e25 in cmd_func(cmd_list_element*, char const*, int) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cli/cli-decode.c:2475
#38 0x555c4936107e in execute_command(char const*, int) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/top.c:670
#39 0x555c485f1bff in catch_command_errors /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:523
#40 0x555c485f249c in execute_cmdargs /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:618
#41 0x555c485f6677 in captured_main_1 /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:1317
#42 0x555c485f6c83 in captured_main /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:1338
#43 0x555c485f6d65 in gdb_main(captured_main_args*) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:1363
#44 0x555c46e41ba8 in main /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/gdb.c:32
#45 0x7f71198bcb24 in __libc_start_main (/usr/lib/libc.so.6+0x27b24)
#46 0x555c46e4197d in _start (/home/simark/build/binutils-gdb-one-target/gdb/gdb+0x77f197d)
0x6020000c52af is located 1 bytes to the left of 8-byte region [0x6020000c52b0,0x6020000c52b8)
allocated by thread T0 here:
#0 0x7f711b2b7459 in __interceptor_calloc /build/gcc/src/gcc/libsanitizer/asan/asan_malloc_linux.cpp:154
#1 0x555c470acdc9 in xcalloc /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/alloc.c:100
#2 0x555c49b775cd in xzalloc(unsigned long) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/common-utils.cc:29
#3 0x555c4977bdeb in allocate_value_contents /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/value.c:1029
#4 0x555c4977be25 in allocate_value(type*) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/value.c:1040
#5 0x555c4979030d in value_primitive_field(value*, long, int, type*) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/value.c:3092
#6 0x555c478f6280 in cp_print_value /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-valprint.c:501
#7 0x555c478f02ca in cp_print_value_fields(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*, type**, int) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-valprint.c:161
#8 0x555c478f63b2 in cp_print_value /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-valprint.c:513
#9 0x555c478f02ca in cp_print_value_fields(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*, type**, int) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-valprint.c:161
#10 0x555c478f63b2 in cp_print_value /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-valprint.c:513
#11 0x555c478f02ca in cp_print_value_fields(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*, type**, int) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-valprint.c:161
#12 0x555c4760d45f in c_value_print_struct /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/c-valprint.c:383
#13 0x555c4760df4c in c_value_print_inner(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/c-valprint.c:438
#14 0x555c483ff9a7 in language_defn::value_print_inner(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*) const /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/language.c:632
#15 0x555c49758b68 in do_val_print /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/valprint.c:1048
#16 0x555c49759b17 in common_val_print(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*, language_defn const*) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/valprint.c:1151
#17 0x555c478f2fcb in cp_print_value_fields(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*, type**, int) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-valprint.c:335
#18 0x555c478f63b2 in cp_print_value /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-valprint.c:513
#19 0x555c478f02ca in cp_print_value_fields(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*, type**, int) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-valprint.c:161
#20 0x555c4760d45f in c_value_print_struct /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/c-valprint.c:383
#21 0x555c4760df4c in c_value_print_inner(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/c-valprint.c:438
#22 0x555c483ff9a7 in language_defn::value_print_inner(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*) const /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/language.c:632
#23 0x555c49758b68 in do_val_print /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/valprint.c:1048
#24 0x555c49759b17 in common_val_print(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*, language_defn const*) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/valprint.c:1151
#25 0x555c478f2fcb in cp_print_value_fields(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*, type**, int) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cp-valprint.c:335
#26 0x555c4760d45f in c_value_print_struct /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/c-valprint.c:383
#27 0x555c4760df4c in c_value_print_inner(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*) /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/c-valprint.c:438
#28 0x555c483ff9a7 in language_defn::value_print_inner(value*, ui_file*, int, value_print_options const*) const /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/language.c:632
#29 0x555c49758b68 in do_val_print /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/valprint.c:1048
Since there are some binaries with this in the wild, I think it would be
useful for GDB to work around this. I did the obvious simple thing, if
the DW_AT_data_member_location's value is -1, replace it with 0. I
added a producer check to only apply this fixup for GCC 11. The idea is
that if some other compiler ever uses a DW_AT_data_member_location value
of -1 by mistake, we don't know (before analyzing the bug at least) if
they did mean 0 or some other value. So I wouldn't want to apply the
fixup in that case.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28063
Change-Id: Ieef3459b0b9bbce8bdad838ba83b4b64e7269d42
Fedora Rawhide is now using gcc-12.0. As part of updating to the
gcc-12.0 package set, Rawhide is also now using a version of libgcc_s
which lacks a .data section. This causes gdb to fail in the following
fashion while debugging a program (such as gdb) which uses libgcc_s:
(top-gdb) run
Starting program: rawhide-master/bld/gdb/gdb
...
objfiles.h:467: internal-error: sect_index_data not initialized
A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
further debugging may prove unreliable.
...
I snipped the backtrace from the above output. Instead, here's a
portion of a backtrace obtained using GDB's backtrace command.
(Obviously, in order to obtain it, I used a GDB which has been patched
with this commit.)
#0 internal_error (
file=0xc6a508 "gdb/objfiles.h", line=467,
fmt=0xc6a4e8 "sect_index_data not initialized")
at gdbsupport/errors.cc:51
#1 0x00000000005f9651 in objfile::data_section_offset (this=0x4fa48f0)
at gdb/objfiles.h:467
#2 0x000000000097c5f8 in relocate_address (address=0x17244, objfile=0x4fa48f0)
at gdb/stap-probe.c:1333
#3 0x000000000097c630 in stap_probe::get_relocated_address (this=0xa1a17a0,
objfile=0x4fa48f0)
at gdb/stap-probe.c:1341
#4 0x00000000004d7025 in create_exception_master_breakpoint_probe (
objfile=0x4fa48f0)
at gdb/breakpoint.c:3505
#5 0x00000000004d7426 in create_exception_master_breakpoint ()
at gdb/breakpoint.c:3575
#6 0x00000000004efcc1 in breakpoint_re_set ()
at gdb/breakpoint.c:13407
#7 0x0000000000956998 in solib_add (pattern=0x0, from_tty=0, readsyms=1)
at gdb/solib.c:1001
#8 0x00000000009576a8 in handle_solib_event ()
at gdb/solib.c:1269
...
The function 'relocate_address' in gdb/stap-probe.c attempts to do
its "relocation" by using objfile->data_section_offset(). That
method, data_section_offset() is defined as follows in objfiles.h:
CORE_ADDR data_section_offset () const
{
return section_offsets[SECT_OFF_DATA (this)];
}
The internal error occurs when the SECT_OFF_DATA macro finds that the
'sect_index_data' field is -1:
#define SECT_OFF_DATA(objfile) \
((objfile->sect_index_data == -1) \
? (internal_error (__FILE__, __LINE__, \
_("sect_index_data not initialized")), -1) \
: objfile->sect_index_data)
relocate_address() is obtaining the section offset in order to compute
a relocated address. For some ABIs, such as the System V ABI, the
section offsets will all be the same. So for those ABIs, it doesn't
matter which offset is used. However, other ABIs, such as the FDPIC
ABI, will have different offsets for the various sections. Thus, for
those ABIs, it is vital that this and other relocation code use the
correct offset.
In stap_probe::get_relocated_address, the address to which to add the
offset (thus forming the relocated address) is obtained via
this->get_address (); get_address is a getter for m_address in
probe.h. It's documented/defined as follows (also in probe.h):
/* The address where the probe is inserted, relative to
SECT_OFF_TEXT. */
CORE_ADDR m_address;
(Thanks to Tom Tromey for this observation.)
So, based on this, the current use of data_section_offset /
SECT_OFF_DATA is wrong. This relocation code should have been using
text_section_offset / SECT_OFF_TEXT all along. That being the
case, I've adjusted the stap-probe.c relocation code accordingly.
Searching the sources turned up one other use of data_section_offset,
in gdb/dtrace-probe.c, so I've updated that code as well. The same
reasoning presented above applies to this case too.
Summary:
* gdb/dtrace-probe.c (dtrace_probe::get_relocated_address):
Use method text_section_offset instead of data_section_offset.
* gdb/stap-probe.c (relocate_address): Likewise.
In remote_target::remote_btrace_maybe_reopen, we switch to the currently
iterated thread in order to set inferior_ptid for a subsequent xfer.
Move the switch_to_thread call directly before the target_read_stralloc
call to clarify why we need to switch threads.
The enable_btrace target method takes a ptid_t to identify the thread on
which tracing shall be enabled.
Change this to thread_info * to avoid translating back and forth between
the two. This will be used in a subsequent patch.
In remote_btrace_maybe_reopen() we iterate over threads and use
set_general_thread() to set the thread from which to transfer the btrace
configuration.
This sets the remote general thread but does not affect inferior_ptid. On
the xfer request later on, remote_target::xfer_partial() again sets the
remote general thread to inferior_ptid, overwriting what
remote_btrace_maybe_reopen() had done.
In one case, this led to inferior_ptid being null_ptid when we tried to
enable tracing on a newly created thread inside a newly created process
during attach.
This, in turn, led to find_inferior_pid() asserting when we iterated over
threads in record_btrace_is_replaying(), which was called from
record_btrace_target::xfer_partial() when reading the btrace configuration
of the new thread to check whether it was already being recorded.
The bug was exposed by
0618ae4149 gdb: optimize all_matching_threads_iterator
and found by
FAIL: gdb.btrace/enable-new-thread.exp: ... (GDB internal error)
Use switch_to_thread() in remote_btrace_maybe_reopen().
We use record_btrace_enable_warn() as the new-thread observer callback.
It is not used in other contexts.
Rename it to record_btrace_on_new_thread() to make its role more clear.
This commit adds support for source files that contain non utf-8
characters when performing source styling using the Python pygments
package. This does not change the behaviour of GDB when the GNU
Source Highlight library is used.
For the following problem description, assume that either GDB is built
without GNU Source Highlight support, of that this has been disabled
using 'maintenance set gnu-source-highlight enabled off'.
The initial problem reported was that a source file containing non
utf-8 characters would cause GDB to print a Python exception, and then
display the source without styling, e.g.:
Python Exception <class 'UnicodeDecodeError'>: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc0 in position 142: invalid start byte
/* Source code here, without styling... */
Further, as the user steps through different source files, each time
the problematic source file was evicted from the source cache, and
then later reloaded, the exception would be printed again.
Finally, this problem is only present when using Python 3, this issue
is not present for Python 2.
What makes this especially frustrating is that GDB can clearly print
the source file contents, they're right there... If we disable
styling completely, or make use of the GNU Source Highlight library,
then everything is fine. So why is there an error when we try to
apply styling using Python?
The problem is the use of PyString_FromString (which is an alias for
PyUnicode_FromString in Python 3), this function converts a C string
into a either a Unicode object (Py3) or a str object (Py2). For
Python 2 there is no unicode encoding performed during this function
call, but for Python 3 the input is assumed to be a uft-8 encoding
string for the purpose of the conversion. And here of course, is the
problem, if the source file contains non utf-8 characters, then it
should not be treated as utf-8, but that's what we do, and that's why
we get an error.
My first thought when looking at this was to spot when the
PyString_FromString call failed with a UnicodeDecodeError and silently
ignore the error. This would mean that GDB would print the source
without styling, but would also avoid the annoying exception message.
However, I also make use of `pygmentize`, a command line wrapper
around the Python pygments module, which I use to apply syntax
highlighting in the output of `less`. And this command line wrapper
is quite happy to syntax highlight my source file that contains non
utf-8 characters, so it feels like the problem should be solvable.
It turns out that inside the pygments module there is already support
for guessing the encoding of the incoming file content, if the
incoming content is not already a Unicode string. This is what
happens for Python 2 where the incoming content is of `str` type.
We could try and make GDB smarter when it comes to converting C
strings into Python Unicode objects; this would probably require us to
just try a couple of different encoding schemes rather than just
giving up after utf-8.
However, I figure, why bother? The pygments module already does this
for us, and the colorize API is not part of the documented external
API of GDB. So, why not just change the colorize API, instead of the
content being a Unicode string (for Python 3), lets just make the
content be a bytes object. The pygments module can then take
responsibility for guessing the encoding.
So, currently, the colorize API receives a unicode object, and returns
a unicode object. I propose that the colorize API receive a bytes
object, and return a bytes object.
This removes the global wrap_here function, so that future calls
cannot be introduced. Instead, all callers must use the method on the
appropriate ui_file.
This temporarily moves the implementation of this method to utils.c.
This will change once the remaining patches to untangle the pager have
been written.
Right now, wrap_here is a global function. In the long run, we'd like
output streams to be relatively self-contained objects, and having a
global function like this is counter to that goal. Also, existing
code freely mixes writes to some parameterized stream with calls to
wrap_here -- but wrap_here only really affects gdb_stdout, so this is
also incoherent.
This step is a patch toward making wrap_here more sane. It adds a
wrap_here method to ui_file and changes ui_out implementations to use
it.
I think it only really makes sense to call wrap_here with an argument
consisting solely of spaces. Given this, it seemed better to me that
the argument be an int, rather than a string. This patch is the
result. Much of it was written by a script.
This commit attempts to improve the help text that is generated for
gdb.Parameter objects when the user fails to provide their own
documentation.
Documentation for a gdb.Parameter is currently pulled from two
sources: the class documentation string, and the set_doc/show_doc
class attributes. Thus, a fully documented parameter might look like
this:
class Param_All (gdb.Parameter):
"""This is the class documentation string."""
show_doc = "Show the state of this parameter"
set_doc = "Set the state of this parameter"
def get_set_string (self):
val = "on"
if (self.value == False):
val = "off"
return "Test Parameter has been set to " + val
def __init__ (self, name):
super (Param_All, self).__init__ (name, gdb.COMMAND_DATA, gdb.PARAM_BOOLEAN)
self._value = True
Param_All ('param-all')
Then in GDB we see this:
(gdb) help set param-all
Set the state of this parameter
This is the class documentation string.
Which is fine. But, if the user skips both of the documentation parts
like this:
class Param_None (gdb.Parameter):
def get_set_string (self):
val = "on"
if (self.value == False):
val = "off"
return "Test Parameter has been set to " + val
def __init__ (self, name):
super (Param_None, self).__init__ (name, gdb.COMMAND_DATA, gdb.PARAM_BOOLEAN)
self._value = True
Param_None ('param-none')
Now in GDB we see this:
(gdb) help set param-none
This command is not documented.
This command is not documented.
That's not great, the duplicated text looks a bit weird. If we drop
different parts we get different results. Here's what we get if the
user drops the set_doc and show_doc attributes:
(gdb) help set param-doc
This command is not documented.
This is the class documentation string.
That kind of sucks, we say it's undocumented, then proceed to print
the documentation. Finally, if we drop the class documentation but
keep the set_doc and show_doc:
(gdb) help set param-set-show
Set the state of this parameter
This command is not documented.
That seems OK.
So, I think there's room for improvement.
With this patch, for the four cases above we now see this:
# All values provided by the user, no change in this case:
(gdb) help set param-all
Set the state of this parameter
This is the class documentation string.
# Nothing provided by the user, the first string is now different:
(gdb) help set param-none
Set the current value of 'param-none'.
This command is not documented.
# Only the class documentation is provided, the first string is
# changed as in the previous case:
(gdb) help set param-doc
Set the current value of 'param-doc'.
This is the class documentation string.
# Only the set_doc and show_doc are provided, this case is unchanged
# from before the patch:
(gdb) help set param-set-show
Set the state of this parameter
This command is not documented.
The one place where this change might be considered a negative is when
dealing with prefix commands. If we create a prefix command but don't
supply the set_doc / show_doc strings, then this is what we saw before
my patch:
(gdb) python Param_None ('print param-none')
(gdb) help set print
set print, set pr, set p
Generic command for setting how things print.
List of set print subcommands:
... snip ...
set print param-none -- This command is not documented.
... snip ...
And after my patch:
(gdb) python Param_None ('print param-none')
(gdb) help set print
set print, set pr, set p
Generic command for setting how things print.
List of set print subcommands:
... snip ...
set print param-none -- Set the current value of 'print param-none'.
... snip ...
This seems slightly less helpful than before, but I don't think its
terrible.
Additionally, I've changed what we print when the get_show_string
method is not provided in Python.
Back when gdb.Parameter was first added to GDB, we didn't provide a
show function when registering the internal command object within
GDB. As a result, GDB would make use of its "magic" mangling of the
show_doc string to create a sentence that would display the current
value (see deprecated_show_value_hack in cli/cli-setshow.c).
However, when we added support for the get_show_string method to
gdb.Parameter, there was an attempt to maintain backward compatibility
by displaying the show_doc string with the current value appended, see
get_show_value in py-param.c. Unfortunately, this isn't anywhere
close to what deprecated_show_value_hack does, and the results are
pretty poor, for example, this is GDB before my patch:
(gdb) show param-none
This command is not documented. off
I think we can all agree that this is pretty bad.
After my patch, we how show this:
(gdb) show param-none
The current value of 'param-none' is "off".
Which at least is a real sentence, even if it's not very informative.
This patch does change the way that the Python API behaves slightly,
but only in the cases when the user has missed providing GDB with some
information. In most cases I think the new behaviour is a lot better,
there's the one case (noted above) which is a bit iffy, but I think is
still OK.
I've updated the existing gdb.python/py-parameter.exp test to cover
the modified behaviour.
Finally, I've updated the documentation to (I hope) make it clearer
how the various bits of help text come together.
Add a new function gdb.history_count to the Python api, this function
returns an integer, the number of items in GDB's value history.
This is useful if you want to pull items from the history by their
absolute number, for example, if you wanted to show a complete history
list. Previously we could figure out how many items are in the
history list by trying to fetch the items, and then catching the
exception when the item is not available, but having this function
seems nicer.
This simplifies things a bit, as we don't need two variables and think
about reverting target_async_permitted_1 and target_non_stop_enabled_1
values if we can't change the setting.
Change-Id: I36acab045dacf02ae1988486cfdb27c1dff309f6
aarch64-tdep.c defines the following macro:
#define MEM_ALLOC(MEMS, LENGTH, RECORD_BUF) \
do \
{ \
unsigned int mem_len = LENGTH; \
if (mem_len) \
{ \
MEMS = XNEWVEC (struct aarch64_mem_r, mem_len); \
memcpy(&MEMS->len, &RECORD_BUF[0], \
sizeof(struct aarch64_mem_r) * LENGTH); \
} \
} \
while (0)
This is simlpy allocating a new array and copying it. However, for
the destination address, it is actually copying into the first member
of the first element of the array (`&MEMS->len"). This elicits a
warning with GCC 12:
../../binutils-gdb/gdb/aarch64-tdep.c: In function ‘int aarch64_process_record(gdbarch*, regcache*, CORE_ADDR)’:
../../binutils-gdb/gdb/aarch64-tdep.c:3711:23: error: writing 16 bytes into a region of size 8 [-Werror=stringop-overflow=]
3711 | memcpy(&MEMS->len, &RECORD_BUF[0], \
| ^
../../binutils-gdb/gdb/aarch64-tdep.c:4394:3: note: in expansion of macro ‘MEM_ALLOC’
4394 | MEM_ALLOC (aarch64_insn_r->aarch64_mems, aarch64_insn_r->mem_rec_count,
| ^~~~~~~~~
../../binutils-gdb/gdb/aarch64-tdep.c:3721:12: note: destination object ‘aarch64_mem_r::len’ of size 8
3721 | uint64_t len; /* Record length. */
| ^~~
The simple fix is to reference the array, `MEMS' as the destination of the copy.
Tested by rebuilding.
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A common pattern for string_file is to want to move out the internal
string buffer, because it is the result of the computation that we want
to return. It is the reason why string_file::string returns a non-const
reference, as explained in the comment. I think it would make sense to
have a dedicated method for that instead and make string_file::string
return a const reference.
This allows removing the explicit std::move in the typical case. Note
that compile_program::compute was missing a move, meaning that the
resulting string was copied. With the new version, it's not possible to
forget to move.
Change-Id: Ieaefa35b73daa7930b2f3a26988b6e3b4121bb79
It's sometimes useful to temporarily set some gdb parameter from
Python. Now that the 'endian' crash is fixed, and now that the
current language is no longer captured by the Python layer, it seems
reasonable to add a helper function for this situation.
This adds a new gdb.with_parameter function. This creates a context
manager which temporarily sets some parameter to a specified value.
The old value is restored when the context is exited. This is most
useful with the Python "with" statement:
with gdb.with_parameter('language', 'ada'):
... do Ada stuff
This also adds a simple function to set a parameter,
gdb.set_parameter, as suggested by Andrew.
This is PR python/10790.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10790
While looking into the language-capturing issue, I found another way
to crash gdb using parameters from Python:
(gdb) python print(gdb.parameter('endian'))
(This is related to PR python/12188, though this patch isn't going to
fix what that bug is really about.)
The problem here is that the global variable that underlies the
"endian" parameter is initialized to NULL. However, that's not a
valid value for an "enum" set/show parameter.
My understanding is that, in gdb, an "enum" parameter's underlying
variable must have a value that is "==" (not just strcmp-equal) to one
of the values coming from the enum array. This invariant is relied on
in various places.
I started this patch by fixing the problem with "endian". Then I
added some assertions to add_setshow_enum_cmd to try to catch other
problems of the same type.
This patch fixes all the problems that I found. I also looked at all
the calls to add_setshow_enum_cmd to ensure that they were all
included in the gdb I tested. I think they are: there are no calls in
nat-* files, or in remote-sim.c; and I was trying a build with all
targets, Python, and Guile enabled.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12188
Currently, gdb's Python layer captures the current architecture and
language when "entering" Python code. This has some undesirable
effects, and so this series changes how this is handled.
First, there is code like this:
gdbpy_enter enter_py (python_gdbarch, python_language);
This is incorrect, because both of these are NULL when not otherwise
assigned. This can cause crashes in some cases -- I've added one to
the test suite. (Note that this crasher is just an example, other
ones along the same lines are possible.)
Second, when the language is captured in this way, it means that
Python code cannot affect the current language for its own purposes.
It's reasonable to want to write code like this:
gdb.execute('set language mumble')
... stuff using the current language
gdb.execute('set language previous-value')
However, this won't actually work, because the language is captured on
entry. I've added a test to show this as well.
This patch changes gdb to try to avoid capturing the current values.
The Python concept of the current gdbarch is only set in those few
cases where a non-default value is computed or needed; and the
language is not captured at all -- instead, in the cases where it's
required, the current language is temporarily changed.
Make bfd.stamp depend on source bfd.texi to avoid regenerating
doc/bfd.info for each make run.
PR binutils/28807
* Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* doc/local.mk (%D%/bfd.stamp): Depend on $(srcdir)/%D%/bfd.texi.
1. Compute the desired PT_GNU_RELRO segment base and find the maximum
section alignment of sections starting from the PT_GNU_RELRO segment.
2. Find the first preceding load section.
3. Don't add the 1-page gap between the first preceding load section and
the relro segment if the maximum page size >= the maximum section
alignment. Align the PT_GNU_RELRO segment first. Subtract the maximum
page size if therer is still a 1-page gap.
PR ld/28743
PR ld/28819
* ldlang.c (lang_size_relro_segment_1): Rewrite.
* testsuite/ld-x86-64/pr28743-1.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-x86-64/pr28743-1.s: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-x86-64/x86-64.exp: Run pr28743-1.
When running the testsuite, I have lines similar to the following in the
gdb.sum file:
~~~
PASS: gdb.base/break-interp.exp: ldprelink=NO: ldsepdebug=NO: first backtrace: p /x 0x7f283d2f0fd1
...
PASS: gdb.base/break-interp.exp: ldprelink=NO: ldsepdebug=NO: binprelink=NO: binsepdebug=NO: binpie=NO: INNER: first backtrace: p /x 0x7f00de0317a5
...
~~~
The address part of the command might change between execution of the
test, which adds noise to a diff between two .sum files.
This patch changes to test name to "p /x $pc" in order to have constant
test name.
Tested on x86_64-Linux.
Change-Id: I973c1237a084dd6d424276443cbf0920533c9a21
linux-thread-db.c has a bit of unusual code that unconditionally
prints a message, but decides whether to print to gdb_stdout or
gdb_stdlog based on a debug flag. It seems better to me to simply
always print this; and this is the only spot in gdb where we
conditionally pass gdb_stdout to one of the f*_unfiltered functions.
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 changes the time / space / symtab per-command statistics code to
send its output to gdb_stdlog rather than gdb_stdout. This seems
slightly more correct to me.
The gold subdir doesn't actually have a manual, so this hack doesn't
do anything. Plus the automake cygnus option was removed years ago
by Simon in d0ac1c4488 ("Bump to autoconf 2.69 and
automake 1.15.1"). So delete it here.
This was needed when gas was using the automake cygnus option, but
this was removed years ago by Simon in d0ac1c4488
("Bump to autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.15.1"). So delete it here.
The info pages are already & still installed by default w/out it.
