When using gdb for debugging Ada source code, there are several catchpoint
types you can define in order to stop upon certain conditions. Let's
use this small example:
procedure Foo is
begin
begin
raise Constraint_Error;
exception
when Program_Error =>
null;
when Constraint_Error =>
null;
when others =>
null;
end;
end Foo;
One can stop when the exception is being raised by using the exception
catchpoint like below:
(gdb) catch exception
Catchpoint 1: all Ada exceptions
(gdb)
In that case, when running Foo, gdb will stop at the line where the exception
was raised:
begin
>>> raise Constraint_Error;
exception
This patch introduces new type of catchpoint, when the user wants to stop
at the location of the exception handling.
Imagine we want to stop on any exception handled by the program, we can do:
(gdb) catch handlers
Catchpoint 1: all Ada exceptions handlers
(gdb) r
Starting program: /tmp/foo
By doing so, when running Foo, gdb will stop here:
Catchpoint 1, exception at 0x000000000040255a in foo () at foo.adb:25
25 when Constraint_Error =>
(gdb)
It is also possible to stop when the Constraint_Error exception is being
handled in this program. With this patch, we can use:
(gdb) catch handlers Constraint_Error
Catchpoint 1: `Constraint_Error' Ada exception handlers
(gdb)
Like for other catchpoint, you can set a condition when adding a catchpoint
on exception handlers.
Here the handlers catchpoint checks Global_Var:
(gdb) catch handlers Constraint_Error if Global_Var /= 0
gdb/ChangeLog:
* ada-lang.h (ada_exception_catchpoint_kind) <ada_catch_handlers>:
Add field.
* ada-lang.c (struct exception_support_info) <catch_handlers_sym>:
Add field.
(default_exception_support_info) <catch_handlers_sym>: Add field.
(exception_support_info_fallback) <catch_handlers_sym>: Add field.
(ada_exception_name_addr_1): Add "catch handlers" handling.
(ada_exception_catchpoint_cond_string) <ex>: New parameter.
Update all callers.
(create_excep_cond_exprs) <ex>: Add parameter.
(re_set_exception): Update create_excep_cond_exprs call.
(print_it_exception, print_one_exception, print_mention_exception)
(print_recreate_exception): Add "catch handler" handling.
(allocate_location_catch_handlers, re_set_catch_handlers)
(check_status_catch_handlers, print_it_catch_handlers)
(print_one_catch_handlers, print_mention_catch_handlers)
(print_recreate_catch_handlers): New function.
(catch_handlers_breakpoint_ops): New variable.
(catch_ada_exception_command_split) <is_catch_handlers_cmd>:
Add parameter. Add "catch handler" handling.
(ada_exception_sym_name, ada_exception_breakpoint_ops):
Add "catch handler" handling.
(ada_exception_catchpoint_cond_string): Add "catch handler"
handling.
(create_ada_exception_catchpoint): Update create_excep_cond_exprs
call.
(catch_ada_handlers_command): New function.
(initialize_ada_catchpoint_ops): Initialize "catch handlers"
operations structure.
(_initialize_ada_language): Add "catch handlers" command entry.
* NEWS: Document "catch handlers" feature.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (Set Catchpoints): Add documentation for new
"catch handlers" action.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.ada/excep_handle.exp: New testcase.
* gdb.ada/excep_handle/foo.adb: New file.
* gdb.ada/excep_handle/pck.ads: New file.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
tdesc_register_in_reggroup_p in now able to handle arbitrary
groups. This is useful when groups are created while the
target descriptor file is received from the remote.
This can be the case of a soft core target processor where
registers/groups can change.
gdb/ChangeLog:
yyyy-mm-dd Franck Jullien <franck.jullien@gmail.com>
Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
* target-descriptions.c (tdesc_register_in_reggroup_p): Support
arbitrary strings.
(tdesc_use_registers): Add logic to register new reggroups.
(tdesc_reg::group): Update comment to indicate we allow
arbitrary strings.
* NEWS (Changes since GDB 8.0): Announce that GDB supports
arbitrary reggroups.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
yyyy-mm-dd Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
* gdb.xml/extra-regs.xml: Add example foo reggroup.
* gdb.xml/tdesc-regs.exp: Add test to check for foo reggroup.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
yyyy-mm-dd Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Target Description Format): Explain that arbitrary
strings are now allowed for register groups.
Until now this feature has existed but was not documented. Adding docs
and tests.
gdb/ChangeLog:
yyyy-mm-dd Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
* infcmd.c (_initialize_infcmd): Add help for info reg $reggroup
and info all-registers $reggroup feature.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
yyyy-mm-dd Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Registers): Document info reg $reggroup feature.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
yyyy-mm-dd Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
* gdb.base/reggroups.c: New file.
* gdb.base/reggroups.exp: New file.
This commit implements the pahole-like '/o' option for 'ptype', which
prints the offsets and sizes of struct fields, reporting whenever
there is a hole found.
The output is heavily based on pahole(1), with a few modifications
here and there to adjust it to our reality. Here's an example:
/* offset | size */ type = struct wer : public tuv {
public:
/* 32 | 24 */ struct tyu {
/* 32:31 | 4 */ int a1 : 1;
/* 32:28 | 4 */ int a2 : 3;
/* 32: 5 | 4 */ int a3 : 23;
/* 35: 3 | 1 */ char a4 : 2;
/* XXX 3-bit hole */
/* XXX 4-byte hole */
/* 40 | 8 */ int64_t a5;
/* 48:27 | 4 */ int a6 : 5;
/* 48:56 | 8 */ int64_t a7 : 3;
/* total size (bytes): 24 */
} a1;
/* total size (bytes): 56 */
}
A big part of this patch handles the formatting logic of 'ptype',
which is a bit messy. The code to handle bitfield offsets, however,
took some time to craft. My thanks to Pedro Alves for figuring things
out and pointing me to the right direction, as well as coming up with
a way to inspect the layout of structs with bitfields (see testcase
for comments).
After many discussions both on IRC and at the mailing list, I tried to
implement printing vtables and inherited classes. Unfortunately the
code grew too complex and there were still a few corner cases failing
so I had to drop the attempt. This should be implemented in a future
patch.
This patch is the start of a long-term work I'll do to flush the local
patches we carry for Fedora GDB. In this specific case, I'm aiming at
upstreaming the feature implemented by the 'pahole.py' script that is
shipped with Fedora GDB:
<https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gdb/blob/master/f/gdb-archer.patch#_311>
This has been regression-tested on the BuildBot. There's a new
testcase for it, along with an update to the documentation. I also
thought it was worth mentioning this feature in the NEWS file.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2017-12-15 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR cli/16224
* NEWS (Changes since GDB 8.0): Mention new '/o' flag.
* c-typeprint.c (OFFSET_SPC_LEN): New define.
(c_type_print_varspec_prefix): New argument 'struct
print_offset_data *'.
(c_type_print_base_1): New function and prototype.
(c_print_type_1): New function, with code from 'c_print_type'.
(c_print_type): Use 'c_print_type_1'.
(c_type_print_varspec_prefix): New argument 'struct
print_offset_data *'. Use it. Call 'c_type_print_base_1'
instead of 'c_print_type_base'.
(print_spaces_filtered_with_print_options): New function.
(output_access_specifier): Take new argument FLAGS. Modify
function to call 'print_spaces_filtered_with_print_options'.
(c_print_type_vtable_offset_marker): New function.
(c_print_type_union_field_offset): New function.
(c_print_type_struct_field_offset): New function.
(c_print_type_no_offsets): New function.
(c_type_print_base_struct_union): New argument 'struct
print_offset_data *'. Print offsets and sizes for
struct/union/class fields.
* typeprint.c (const struct type_print_options
type_print_raw_options): Initialize 'print_offsets'.
(static struct type_print_options default_ptype_flags):
Likewise.
(struct print_offset_data print_offset_default_data): New
variable.
(whatis_exp): Handle '/o' option.
(_initialize_typeprint): Add '/o' flag to ptype's help.
* typeprint.h (struct print_offset_data): New struct.
(struct type_print_options) <print_offsets>: New field.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2017-12-15 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
PR cli/16224
* gdb.base/ptype-offsets.cc: New file.
* gdb.base/ptype-offsets.exp: New file.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2017-12-15 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
PR cli/16224
* gdb.texinfo (ptype): Add documentation for new flag '/o'.
This patch adds the possibility to pass a qualified=True|False parameter
when creating a breakpoint in Python. It is equivalent to using
-qualified in a linespec. The parameter actually accepts any Python
value, and converts it to boolean using Python's standard rules for
that (https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#truth).
Unlike the -source/-line/-function/-label parameters, it is possible to
use -qualified with a "normal" (non-explicit) linespec. Therefore, it
is possible (unlike these other parameters) to use this new parameter
along with the spec parameter.
I updated the py-breakpoint.exp test. To be able to test multiple
locations using a namespace, I had to switch the test case to compile as
C++. If we really wanted to, we could run it as both C and C++, but
omit the C++-specific parts when running it as C.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* location.h (string_to_event_location): Add match_type
parameter.
* location.c (string_to_event_location): Likewise.
* python/py-breakpoint.c (bppy_init): Handle qualified
parameter.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* python.texi (Manipulating breakpoints using Python): Document
qualified parameter to gdb.Breakpoint.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.python/py-breakpoint.c (foo_ns::multiply): New function.
* gdb.python/py-breakpoint.exp: Compile the test case as c++,
call test_bkpt_qualified.
(test_bkpt_qualified): New proc.
I find the documentation of the gdb.Breakpoint constructor hard to read
and not very informative, especially since we have added the new
linespec parameters. There are multiple problems (some are subjective):
- It's not clear that you should use either the spec string or the
explicit arguments, not both.
- It's not clear what combination of parameters you can use.
- The big block of text describing the arguments is hard to read.
- Currently, it seems like the "spec" argument is mandatory, even though
it is not (if you use explicit linespec).
- The square bracket nesting
[arg1 [, arg2[, arg3]]]
makes it seems like if you specify arg3, you must specify arg1 and
arg2 (it's not the case here).
This patch tries to address these problems.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* python.texi (Manipulating breakpoints using Python): Split doc
of Breakpoint.__init__ in two, split text in multiple
paragraphs, don't nest parameter square brackets.
This patch prepares the current GDB port of the OpenRISC processor from
https://github.com/openrisc/binutils-gdb for upstream merging.
Testing has been done with a cgen sim provided in a separate patch. This
has been tested with 2 toolchains. GCC [1] 5.4.0 from the OpenRISC
project with Newlib [2] and GCC 5.4.0 with Musl [3] 1.1.4.
It supports or1knd (no delay slot target).
The default target is or1k (with delay slot).
You can change the target arch with:
(gdb) set architecture or1knd
The target architecture is assumed to be or1knd
[1] https://github.com/openrisc/or1k-gcc
[2] https://github.com/openrisc/newlib
[3] https://github.com/openrisc/musl-cross
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2017-12-12 Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Stefan Wallentowitz <stefan@wallentowitz.de>
Franck Jullien <franck.jullien@gmail.com>
Jeremy Bennett <jeremy.bennett@embecosm.com>
* gdb.texinfo: Add OpenRISC documentation.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2017-12-12 Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Stefan Wallentowitz <stefan@wallentowitz.de>
Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
Franck Jullien <franck.jullien@gmail.com>
Jeremy Bennett <jeremy.bennett@embecosm.com>
* configure.tgt: Add targets for or1k and or1knd.
* or1k-tdep.c: New file.
* or1k-tdep.h: New file.
* features/Makefile: Add or1k.xml to build.
* features/or1k.xml: New file.
* features/or1k-core.xml: New file.
* features/or1k.c: Generated.
This adds a new "-dwarf-5" switch to "save gdb-index" that makes it
generate index files with DWARF-5 .debug_names/.debug_str sections
instead of GDB's own .gdb_index.
We should probably add a command line option to
contrib/gdb-add-index.sh (incl. cc-with-tweaks.sh) for the new
-dwarf-5 GDB option, and a new target board to make it more convenient
to exercise this. To be done later.
gdb/ChangeLog
2017-12-08 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* contrib/gdb-add-index.sh (index): Rename to ...
(index4): ... here.
(index5, debugstr, debugstrmerge, debugstrerr): New variables.
Support also .debug_names and .debug_str.
* dwarf2read.c: Include cmath, set, list.
(INDEX_SUFFIX): Rename to ...
(INDEX4_SUFFIX): ... here.
(INDEX5_SUFFIX, DEBUG_STR_SUFFIX): New.
(file_write(FILE *, const void *, size_t)): New.
(file_write(FILE *, const std::vector<Elem, Alloc> &)): New.
(data_buf::append_unsigned_leb128, data_buf::empty): New.
(data_buf::file_write): Use ::file_write.
(data_buf::c_str, dwarf5_djb_hash, debug_names)
(check_dwarf64_offsets): New.
(psyms_seen_size, write_gdbindex): New from
write_psymtabs_to_index code.
(dwarf5_gdb_augmentation, write_debug_names, assert_file_size)
(enum dw_index_kind): New.
(write_psymtabs_to_index): New parameter index_kind. Support
filename_str and out_file_str. Move code to write_gdbindex,
possibly call write_debug_names.
(save_gdb_index_command): New parameter -dwarf-5.
(_initialize_dwarf2_read): Document the new parameter -dwarf-5.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2017-12-08 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Index Files): Document .debug_names and -dwarf-5.
--
gdb/contrib/gdb-add-index.sh | 53 ++
gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 24 +
gdb/dwarf2read.c | 919 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
3 files changed, 935 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)
GDB currently does not track types defined in classes. Consider:
class A
{
public:
class B
{
public:
class C { };
};
};
(gdb) ptype A
type = class A {
<no data fields>
}
This patch changes this behavior so that GDB records these nested types
and displays them to the user when he has set the (new) "print type"
option "nested-type-limit."
Example:
(gdb) set print type nested-type-limit 1
(gdb) ptype A
type = class A {
<no data fields>
class A::B {
<no data fields>
};
}
(gdb) set print type nested-type-limit 2
type = class A {
<no data fields>
class A::B {
<no data fields>
class A::B::C {
<no data fields>
};
};
}
By default, the code maintains the status quo, that is, it will not print
any nested type definitions at all.
Testing is carried out via cp_ptype_class which required quite a bit of
modification to permit recursive calling (for the nested types). This
was most easily facilitated by turning the ptype command output into a
queue. Upshot: the test suite now has stack and queue data structures that
may be used by test writers.
gdb/ChangeLog
* NEWS (New commands): Mention set/show print type nested-type-limit.
* c-typeprint.c (c_type_print_base): Print out nested types.
* dwarf2read.c (struct typedef_field_list): Rename to ...
(struct decl_field_list): ... this. Change all uses.
(struct field_info) <nested_types_list, nested_types_list_count>:
New fields.
(add_partial_symbol): Look for nested type definitions in C++, too.
(dwarf2_add_typedef): Rename to ...
(dwarf2_add_type_defn): ... this.
(type_can_define_types): New function.
Update assertion to use type_can_define_types.
Permit NULL for a field's name.
(process_structure_scope): Handle child DIEs of types that can
define types.
Copy the list of nested types into the type struct.
* gdbtypes.h (struct typedef_field): Rename to ...
(struct decl_field): ... this. Change all uses.
[is_protected, is_private]: New fields.
(struct cplus_struct_type) <nested_types, nested_types_count>: New
fields.
(TYPE_NESTED_TYPES_ARRAY, TYPE_NESTED_TYPES_FIELD)
(TYPE_NESTED_TYPES_FIELD_NAME, TYPE_NESTED_TYPES_FIELD_TYPE)
(TYPE_NESTED_TYPES_COUNT, TYPE_NESTED_TYPES_FIELD_PROTECTED)
(TYPE_NESTED_TYPES_FIELD_PRIVATE): New macros.
* typeprint.c (type_print_raw_options, default_ptype_flags): Add
default value for print_nested_type_limit.
(print_nested_type_limit): New static variable.
(set_print_type_nested_types, show_print_type_nested_types): New
functions.
(_initialize_typeprint): Register new commands for set/show
`print-nested-type-limit'.
* typeprint.h (struct type_print_options) [print_nested_type_limit]:
New field.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
* gdb.cp/nested-types.cc: New file.
* gdb.cp/nested-types.exp: New file.
* lib/cp-support.exp: Load data-structures.exp library.
(debug_cp_test_ptype_class): New global.
(cp_ptype_class_verbose, next_line): New procedures.
(cp_test_ptype_class): Add and document new parameter `recursive_qid'.
Add and document new return value.
Switch the list of lines to a queue.
Add support for new `type' key for nested type definitions.
Add debugging/troubleshooting messages.
* lib/data-structures.exp: New file.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
* gdb.texinfo (Symbols): Document "set print type nested-type-limit"
and "show print type nested-type-limit".
This introduces several new keywords to the bppy_init constructor.
The spec parameter is now optional but mutually exclusive to the
explicit keywords source, label, function and line.
gdb/ChangeLog
2017-12-07 Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
* python/py-breakpoint.c (bppy_init): Use string_to_event_location
over basic location code. Implement explicit location keywords.
(bppy_init_validate_args): New function.
* NEWS: Document Python explicit breakpoint locations.
doc/ChangeLog
2017-12-07 Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
* python.texi (Breakpoints In Python): Add text relating
to allowed explicit locations and keywords in gdb.Breakpoints.
testsuite/ChangeLog
2017-12-07 Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
* gdb.python/py-breakpoint.exp (test_bkpt_explicit_loc): Add new
tests for explicit locations.
I realized today that a recent change to the Rust support required an
update to the manual; and so I updated NEWS as well.
2017-12-04 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* NEWS: Mention Rust trait object inspection.
2017-12-04 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Rust): Update trait object status
The purpose of this concept is to turn the load of debugging
information off, either globally (via the '--readnever' option), or
objfile-specific. The implementation proposed here is an extension of
the patch distributed with Fedora GDB; looking at the Fedora patch
itself and the history, one can see some reasons why it was never
resubmitted:
- The patch appears to have been introduced as a workaround, at
least initially;
- The patch is far from perfect, as it simply shunts the load of
DWARF debugging information, without really worrying about the
other debug format.
- Who really does non-symbolic debugging anyways?
One use of this feature is when a user simply wants to do the
following sequence: attach, dump core, detach. Loading the debugging
information in this case is an unnecessary cause of delay.
This patch expands the version shipped with Fedora GDB in order to
make the feature available for all the debuginfo backends, not only
for DWARF. It also implements a per-objfile flag which can be
activated by using the "-readnever" command when using the
'add-symbol-file' or 'symbol-file' commands.
It's also worth mentioning that this patch tests whether GDB correctly
fails to initialize if both '--readnow' and '--readnever' options are
passed.
Tested on the BuildBot.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2017-12-01 Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>
Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* NEWS (Changes since GDB 8.0: Mention new '--readnever'
feature.
* coffread.c (coff_symfile_read): Do not map over sections with
'coff_locate_sections' if readnever is on.
* dwarf2read.c (dwarf2_has_info): Return 0 if
readnever is on.
* elfread.c (elf_symfile_read): Do not map over sections with
'elf_locate_sections' if readnever is on.
* main.c (validate_readnow_readnever): New function.
(captured_main_1): Add support for --readnever.
(print_gdb_help): Document --readnever.
* objfile-flags.h (enum objfile_flag) <OBJF_READNEVER>: New
flag.
* symfile.c (readnever_symbol_files): New global.
(symbol_file_add_with_addrs): Set 'OBJF_READNEVER' when
'READNEVER_SYMBOL_FILES' is set.
(validate_readnow_readnever): New function.
(symbol_file_command): Handle '-readnever' option.
Call 'validate_readnow_readnever'.
(add_symbol_file_command): Handle '-readnever' option.
Call 'validate_readnow_readnever'.
(_initialize_symfile): Document new '-readnever' option for
both 'symbol-file' and 'add-symbol-file' commands.
* top.h (readnever_symbol_files): New extern global.
* xcoffread.c (xcoff_initial_scan): Do not read debug
information if readnever is on.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2017-12-01 Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>
Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (File Options): Document --readnever.
(Commands to Specify Files): Likewise, for 'symbol-file' and
'add-symbol-file'.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2017-12-01 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.base/readnever.c, gdb.base/readnever.exp: New files.
The purpose of this concept is to turn the load of debugging
information off, either globally (via the '--readnever' option), or
objfile-specific. The implementation proposed here is an extension of
the patch distributed with Fedora GDB; looking at the Fedora patch
itself and the history, one can see some reasons why it was never
resubmitted:
- The patch appears to have been introduced as a workaround, at
least initially;
- The patch is far from perfect, as it simply shunts the load of
DWARF debugging information, without really worrying about the
other debug format.
- Who really does non-symbolic debugging anyways?
One use of this feature is when a user simply wants to do the
following sequence: attach, dump core, detach. Loading the debugging
information in this case is an unnecessary cause of delay.
This patch expands the version shipped with Fedora GDB in order to
make the feature available for all the debuginfo backends, not only
for DWARF. It also implements a per-objfile flag which can be
activated by using the "-readnever" command when using the
'add-symbol-file' or 'symbol-file' commands.
It's also worth mentioning that this patch tests whether GDB correctly
fails to initialize if both '--readnow' and '--readnever' options are
passed.
Tested on the BuildBot.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2017-12-01 Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>
Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* NEWS (Changes since GDB 8.0: Mention new '--readnever'
feature.
* coffread.c (coff_symfile_read): Do not map over sections with
'coff_locate_sections' if readnever is on.
* dwarf2read.c (dwarf2_has_info): Return 0 if
readnever is on.
* elfread.c (elf_symfile_read): Do not map over sections with
'elf_locate_sections' if readnever is on.
* main.c (validate_readnow_readnever): New function.
(captured_main_1): Add support for --readnever.
(print_gdb_help): Document --readnever.
* objfile-flags.h (enum objfile_flag) <OBJF_READNEVER>: New
flag.
* symfile.c (readnever_symbol_files): New global.
(symbol_file_add_with_addrs): Set 'OBJF_READNEVER' when
'READNEVER_SYMBOL_FILES' is set.
(validate_readnow_readnever): New function.
(symbol_file_command): Handle '-readnever' option.
Call 'validate_readnow_readnever'.
(add_symbol_file_command): Handle '-readnever' option.
Call 'validate_readnow_readnever'.
(_initialize_symfile): Document new '-readnever' option for
both 'symbol-file' and 'add-symbol-file' commands.
* top.h (readnever_symbol_files): New extern global.
* xcoffread.c (xcoff_initial_scan): Do not read debug
information if readnever is on.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2017-12-01 Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>
Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (File Options): Document --readnever.
(Commands to Specify Files): Likewise, for 'symbol-file' and
'add-symbol-file'.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2017-12-01 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.base/readnever.c, gdb.base/readnever.exp: New files.
Trying to set a breakpoint in a function with an ABI tag does not work
currently. E.g., debugging gdb itself, we see this with the
"string_printf" function:
(top-gdb) b string_print [TAB]
(top-gdb) b string_printf[abi:cxx11](char const*, ...) [RET]
No source file named string_printf[abi.
Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n])
Quoting doesn't help:
(top-gdb) b 'string_printf[abi:cxx11]'(char const*, ...)
malformed linespec error: unexpected string, "(char const*, ...)"
(top-gdb) b 'string_printf[abi:cxx11](char const*, ...)'
No source file named string_printf[abi.
Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n]) n
This patch fixes this, and takes it a bit further.
The actual symbol name as demangled by libiberty's demangler is really
string_printf[abi:cxx11](char const*, ...)
however, this patch makes it possible to set the breakpoint with
string_printf(char const*, ...)
too. I.e., ignoring the ABI tag.
And to match, it teaches the completer to complete the symbol name
without the ABI tag, i.e.,
"string_pri<TAB>" -> "string_printf(char const*, ...)"
If however, you really want to break on a symbol with the tag, then
you simply start writing the tag, and GDB will preserve it, like:
"string_printf[a<TAB>" -> "string_printf[abi:cxx11](char const*, ...)"
Grows the gdb.linespec/ tests like this:
-# of expected passes 8977
+# of expected passes 9176
gdb/ChangeLog:
2017-11-29 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR c++/19436
* NEWS: Mention setting breakpoints on functions with C++ ABI
tags.
* completer.h (completion_match_for_lcd) <match,
mark_ignored_range>: New methods.
<finish>: Consider ignored ranges.
<clear>: Clear ignored ranges.
<m_ignored_ranges, m_finished_storage>: New fields.
* cp-support.c (cp_search_name_hash): Ignore ABI tags.
(cp_symbol_name_matches_1, cp_fq_symbol_name_matches): Pass the
completion_match_for_lcd pointer to strncmp_iw_with_mode.
(test_cp_symbol_name_cmp): Add [abi:...] tags unit tests.
* language.c (default_symbol_name_matcher): Pass the
completion_match_for_lcd pointer to strncmp_iw_with_mode.
* linespec.c (linespec_lexer_lex_string): Don't tokenize ABI tags.
* utils.c (skip_abi_tag): New function.
(strncmp_iw_with_mode): Add completion_match_for_lcd parameter.
Handle ABI tags.
* utils.h (strncmp_iw_with_mode): Add completion_match_for_lcd
parameter.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2017-11-29 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR c++/19436
* gdb.linespec/cpls-abi-tag.cc: New file.
* gdb.linespec/cpls-abi-tag.exp: New file.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2017-11-29 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR c++/19436
* gdb.texinfo (Debugging C Plus Plus): Document setting
breakpoints in functions with ABI tags.
This patch teaches GDB about setting breakpoints in all scopes
(namespaces and classes) by default.
Here's a contrived example:
(gdb) b func<tab>
(anonymous namespace)::A::function() Bn::(anonymous namespace)::B::function() function(int, int)
(anonymous namespace)::B::function() Bn::(anonymous namespace)::function() gdb::(anonymous namespace)::A::function()
(anonymous namespace)::B::function() const Bn::(anonymous namespace)::function(int, int) gdb::(anonymous namespace)::function()
(anonymous namespace)::function() Bn::B::func() gdb::(anonymous namespace)::function(int, int)
(anonymous namespace)::function(int, int) Bn::B::function() gdb::A::func()
A::func() Bn::func() gdb::A::function()
A::function() Bn::function() gdb::func()
B::func() Bn::function(int, int) gdb::function()
B::function() Bn::function(long) gdb::function(int, int)
B::function() const func() gdb::function(long)
B::function_const() const function()
(gdb) b function
Breakpoint 1 at 0x4005ce: function. (26 locations)
(gdb) b B::function<tab>
(anonymous namespace)::B::function() B::function() const Bn::B::function()
(anonymous namespace)::B::function() const B::function_const() const
B::function() Bn::(anonymous namespace)::B::function()
(gdb) b B::function
Breakpoint 1 at 0x40072c: B::function. (6 locations)
To get back the original behavior of interpreting the function name as
a fully-qualified name, you can use the new "-qualified" (or "-q")
option/flag (added by this commit). For example:
(gdb) b B::function
(anonymous namespace)::B::function() B::function() const Bn::B::function()
(anonymous namespace)::B::function() const B::function_const() const
B::function() Bn::(anonymous namespace)::B::function()
vs:
(gdb) b -qualified B::function
B::function() B::function() const B::function_const() const
I've chosen "-qualified" / "-q" because "-f" (for "full" or
"fully-qualified") is already taken for "-function".
Note: the "-qualified" option works with both linespecs and explicit
locations. I.e., these are equivalent:
(gdb) b -q func
(gdb) b -q -f func
and so are these:
(gdb) b -q filename.cc:func
(gdb) b -q -s filename.cc -f func
(gdb) b -s filename.cc -q -f func
(gdb) b -s filename.cc -f func -q
To better understand why I consider wild matching the better default,
consider what happens when we get to the point when _all_ of GDB is
wrapped under "namespace gdb {}". I have a patch series that does
that, and when I started debugging that GDB, I immediately became
frustrated. You'd have to write "b gdb::internal_error", "b
gdb::foo", "b gdb::bar", etc. etc., which gets annoying pretty
quickly. OTOH, consider how this makes it very easy to set
breakpoints in classes wrapped in anonymous namespaces. You just
don't think of them, GDB finds the symbols for you automatically.
(At the Cauldron a couple months ago, several people told me that they
run into a similar issue when debugging other C++ projects. One
example was when debugging LLVM, which puts all its code under the
"llvm" namespace.)
Implementation-wise, what the patch does is:
- makes C++ symbol name hashing only consider the last component of
a symbol name. (so that we can look up symbol names by
last-component name only).
- adds a C++ symbol name matcher for symbol_name_match_type::WILD,
which ignores missing leading specifiers / components.
- adjusts a few preexisting testsuite tests to use "-qualified" when
they mean it.
- adds new testsuite tests.
- adds unit tests.
Grows the gdb.linespec/ tests like this:
-# of expected passes 7823
+# of expected passes 8977
gdb/ChangeLog:
2017-11-29 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* NEWS: Mention that breakpoints on C++ functions are now set on
on all namespaces/classes by default, and mention "break
-qualified".
* ax-gdb.c (agent_command_1): Adjust to pass a
symbol_name_match_type to new_linespec_location.
* breakpoint.c (parse_breakpoint_sals): Adjust to
get_linespec_location's return type change.
(strace_marker_create_sals_from_location): Adjust to pass a
symbol_name_match_type to new_linespec_location.
(strace_marker_decode_location): Adjust to get_linespec_location's
return type change.
(strace_command): Adjust to pass a symbol_name_match_type to
new_linespec_location.
(LOCATION_HELP_STRING): Add paragraph about wildmatching, and
mention "-qualified".
* c-lang.c (cplus_language_defn): Install cp_search_name_hash.
* completer.c (explicit_location_match_type::MATCH_QUALIFIED): New
enumerator.
(complete_address_and_linespec_locations): New parameter
'match_type'. Pass it down.
(explicit_options): Add "-qualified".
(collect_explicit_location_matches): Pass the requested match type
to the linespec completers. Handle MATCH_QUALIFIED.
(location_completer): Handle "-qualified" combined with linespecs.
* cp-support.c (cp_search_name_hash): New.
(cp_symbol_name_matches_1): Implement wild matching for C++.
(cp_fq_symbol_name_matches): Reimplement.
(cp_get_symbol_name_matcher): Return different matchers depending
on the lookup name's match type.
(selftests::test_cp_symbol_name_matches): Add wild matching tests.
* cp-support.h (cp_search_name_hash): New declaration.
* dwarf2read.c
(selftests::dw2_expand_symtabs_matching::test_symbols): Add
symbols.
(test_dw2_expand_symtabs_matching_symbol): Add wild matching
tests.
* guile/scm-breakpoint.c (gdbscm_register_breakpoint_x): Adjust to
pass a symbol_name_match_type to new_linespec_location.
* linespec.c (linespec_parse_basic): Lookup function symbols using
the parser's symbol name match type.
(convert_explicit_location_to_linespec): New
symbol_name_match_type parameter. Pass it down to
find_linespec_symbols.
(convert_explicit_location_to_sals): Pass the location's name
match type to convert_explicit_location_to_linespec.
(parse_linespec): New match_type parameter. Save it in the
parser.
(linespec_parser_new): Default to symbol_name_match_type::WILD.
(linespec_complete_function): New symbol_name_match_type
parameter. Use it.
(complete_linespec_component): Pass down the parser's recorded
name match type.
(linespec_complete_label): New symbol_name_match_type parameter.
Use it.
(linespec_complete): New symbol_name_match_type parameter. Save
it in the parser and pass it down. Adjust to
get_linespec_location's prototype change.
(find_function_symbols, find_linespec_symbols): New
symbol_name_match_type parameter. Pass it down instead of
assuming symbol_name_match_type::WILD.
* linespec.h (linespec_complete, linespec_complete_function)
(linespec_complete_label): New symbol_name_match_type parameter.
* location.c (event_location::linespec_location): Now a struct
linespec_location.
(EL_LINESPEC): Adjust.
(initialize_explicit_location): Default to
symbol_name_match_type::WILD.
(new_linespec_location): New symbol_name_match_type parameter.
Record it in the location.
(get_linespec_location): Now returns a struct linespec_location.
(new_explicit_location): Also copy func_name_match_type.
(explicit_to_string_internal)
(string_to_explicit_location): Handle "-qualified".
(copy_event_location): Adjust to LINESPEC_LOCATION type change.
Copy symbol_name_match_type fields.
(event_location_deleter::operator()): Adjust to LINESPEC_LOCATION
type change.
(event_location_to_string): Adjust to LINESPEC_LOCATION type
change. Handle "-qualfied".
(string_to_explicit_location): Handle "-qualified".
(string_to_event_location_basic): New symbol_name_match_type
parameter. Pass it down.
(string_to_event_location): Handle "-qualified".
* location.h (struct linespec_location): New.
(explicit_location::func_name_match_type): New field.
(new_linespec_location): Now returns a const linespec_location *.
(string_to_event_location_basic): New symbol_name_match_type
parameter.
(explicit_completion_info::saw_explicit_location_option): New
field.
* mi/mi-cmd-break.c (mi_cmd_break_insert_1): Adjust to pass a
symbol_name_match_type to new_linespec_location.
* python/py-breakpoint.c (bppy_init): Likewise.
* python/python.c (gdbpy_decode_line): Likewise.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2017-11-29 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.base/langs.exp: Use -qualified.
* gdb.cp/meth-typedefs.exp: Use -qualified, and add tests without
it.
* gdb.cp/namespace.exp: Use -qualified.
* gdb.linespec/cpcompletion.exp (overload-2, fqn, fqn-2)
(overload-3, template-overload, template-ret-type, const-overload)
(const-overload-quoted, anon-ns, ambiguous-prefix): New
procedures.
(test_driver): Call them.
* gdb.cp/save-bp-qualified.cc: New.
* gdb.cp/save-bp-qualified.exp: New.
* gdb.linespec/explicit.exp: Test -qualified.
* lib/completion-support.exp (completion::explicit_opts_list): Add
"-qualified".
* lib/gdb.exp (gdb_breakpoint): Handle "qualified".
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2017-11-29 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Linespec Locations): Document how "function" is
interpreted in C++ and Ada. Document "-qualified".
(Explicit Locations): Document how "-function" is interpreted in
C++ and Ada. Document "-qualified".
This patch updates the `find` command help and docs description to show
how to search for not null terminated strings when current language's
strings includes it.
gdb/ChangeLog:
PR gdb/21945
* findcmd.c (_initialize_mem_search): Update find command help
text.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
PR gdb/21945
* gdb.texinfo (Search Memory): Update description and example
about how to search a string without NULL terminator.
This patch enhances the debugger to print the exception message, when
available, as part of an exception catchpoint hit notification (both
GDB/CLI and GDB/MI). For instance, with the following code...
procedure A is
begin
raise Constraint_Error with "hello world";
end A;
... instead of printing...
Catchpoint 1, CONSTRAINT_ERROR at 0x000000000040245c in a () at a.adb:3
... it now prints:
Catchpoint 1, CONSTRAINT_ERROR (hello world) at 0x000000000040245c in a ()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This enhancement requires runtime support. If not present, the debugger
just behaves as before.
In GDB/MI mode, if the exception message is available, it is provided
as an extra field named "exception-message" in the catchpoint notification:
*stopped,bkptno="1",[...],exception-name="CONSTRAINT_ERROR",
exception-message="hello world",[...]
gdb/ChangeLog:
* ada-lang.c (ada_exception_message_1, ada_exception_message):
New functions.
(print_it_exception): If available, display the exception
message as well.
* NEWS: Document new feature.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (GDB/MI Ada Exception Information): Document
new "exception-message" field.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.ada/catch_ex.exp, gdb.ada/mi_catch_ex.exp,
gdb.ada/mi_ex_cond.exp: Accept optional exception message in
when hitting an exception catchpoint.
While writing a unit test for parse_memory_map, I tried to validate my
test input against gdb-memory-map.dtd, and found a few problems with it.
This doesn't influence how gdb parses it (AFAIK it doesn't use the
linked dtd), but if you edit the xml file in an editor that supports
dtds, you'll get plenty of errors.
- The <memory-map> element accepts exactly one <memory> OR <property>
as a child. This is a problem because you can't have multiple
<memory> elements and you shouldn't be able to have <property> elements
as direct children of <memory-map>.
- The <memory> element wants exactly one <property> child. This is
wrong, since you could have zero or more (even though we only
support one kind of property currently).
- I have no idea wht the device attribute of <memory> is, GDB doesn't
read that. I searched back in time a bit but couldn't find a trace
of it.
I took the opportunity to tighten what is accepted as a value of the
memory type and property name attributes. We currently accept any
string, but we can restrict them to the values GDB really accepts (and
which are documented).
AFAIK, this "file" only exists in the documentation, in gdb.texinfo, so
this is what I modified. However, it's also available at
http://sourceware.org/gdb/gdb-memory-map.dtd. This one should be
updated too, but I don't know how that should be done.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (Memory Map Format): Update gdb-memory-map.dtd.
This second patch introduces mfpr_float_ops, an new implementation
of target_float_ops. This implements precise emulation of target
floating-point formats using the MPFR library. This is then used
to perform operations on types that do not match any host type.
Note that use of MPFR is still not required. The patch adds
a configure option --with-mpfr similar to --with-expat. If use of
MPFR is disabled via the option or MPFR is not available, code will
fall back to current behavior. This means that operations on types
that do not match any host type will be implemented on the host
long double type instead.
A new test case verifies that we can correctly print the largest
__float128 value now.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2017-11-22 Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
* NEWS: Document use of GNU MPFR.
* README: Likewise.
* Makefile.in (LIBMPFR): Add define.
(CLIBS): Add $(LIBMPFR).
* configure.ac: Add --with-mpfr configure option.
* configure: Regenerate.
* config.in: Regenerate.
* target-float.c [HAVE_LIBMPFR]: Include <mpfr.h>.
(class mpfr_float_ops): New type.
(mpfr_float_ops::from_target): Two new overloaded functions.
(mpfr_float_ops::to_target): Likewise.
(mpfr_float_ops::to_string): New function.
(mpfr_float_ops::from_string): Likewise.
(mpfr_float_ops::to_longest): Likewise.
(mpfr_float_ops::from_longest): Likewise.
(mpfr_float_ops::from_ulongest): Likewise.
(mpfr_float_ops::to_host_double): Likewise.
(mpfr_float_ops::from_host_double): Likewise.
(mpfr_float_ops::convert): Likewise.
(mpfr_float_ops::binop): Likewise.
(mpfr_float_ops::compare): Likewise.
(get_target_float_ops): Use mpfr_float_ops if available.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2017-11-22 Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Requirements): Document use of GNU MPFR.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2017-11-22 Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
* gdb.base/float128.c (large128): New variable.
* gdb.base/float128.exp: Add test to print largest __float128 value.
When a breakpoint has multiple locations, like e.g.:
Num Type Disp Enb Address What
1 breakpoint keep y <MULTIPLE>
1.1 y 0x080486a2 in void foo<int>()...
1.2 y 0x080486ca in void foo<double>()...
[....]
1.5 y 0x080487fa in void foo<long>()...
it's possible to enable/disable the individual locations using the
'<breakpoint_number>.<location_number>' syntax, like e.g.:
(gdb) disable 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5
That's inconvenient when you have a long list of locations to disable,
however.
This patch adds shorthand for the above, by making it possible to
specify a range of locations with the following syntax (similar to
thread id ranges):
<breakpoint_number>.<first_location_number>-<last_location_number>
For example, the command above can now be simplified to:
(gdb) disable 1.2-5
gdb/ChangeLog:
2017-11-07 Xavier Roirand <roirand@adacore.com>
Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* breakpoint.c (map_breakpoint_number_range): New, factored out
from ...
(map_breakpoint_numbers): ... here.
(find_location_by_number): Change parameters from string to
breakpoint number and location.
(extract_bp_number_and_location): New function.
(enable_disable_bp_num_loc)
(enable_disable_breakpoint_location_range)
(enable_disable_command): New functions, factored out ...
(enable_command, disable_command): ... these functions, and
adjusted to support ranges.
* NEWS: Document enable/disable breakpoint location range feature.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2017-11-07 Xavier Roirand <roirand@adacore.com>
Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Set Breaks): Document support for breakpoint
location ranges in the enable/disable commands.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2017-11-07 Xavier Roirand <roirand@adacore.com>
Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.base/ena-dis-br.exp: Add reference to
gdb.cp/ena-dis-br-range.exp.
* gdb.cp/ena-dis-br-range.exp: New file.
* gdb.cp/ena-dis-br-range.cc: New file.
This is the "natural" extension necessary for the "set cwd" command
(and the whole "set the inferior's cwd" logic) to work on gdbserver.
The idea here is to have a new remote packet, QSetWorkingDir (name
adopted from LLDB's extension to the RSP, as can be seen at
<https://raw.githubusercontent.com/llvm-mirror/lldb/master/docs/lldb-gdb-remote.txt>),
which sends an hex-encoded string representing the working directory
that the remote inferior will use. There is a slight difference from
the packet proposed by LLDB: GDB's version will accept empty
arguments, meaning that the user wants to clear the previously set
working directory for the inferior (i.e., "set cwd" without arguments
on GDB).
For UNIX-like targets this feature is already implemented on
nat/fork-inferior.c, and all gdbserver has to do is to basically
implement "set_inferior_cwd" and call it whenever such packet arrives.
For other targets, like Windows, it is possible to use the existing
"get_inferior_cwd" function and do the necessary steps to make sure
that the inferior will use the specified working directory.
Aside from that, the patch consists basically of updates to the
testcase (making it available on remote targets) and the
documentation.
No regressions found.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2017-10-04 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* NEWS (Changes since GDB 8.0): Add entry about new
'set-cwd-on-gdbserver' feature.
(New remote packets): Add entry for QSetWorkingDir.
* common/common-inferior.h (set_inferior_cwd): New prototype.
* infcmd.c (set_inferior_cwd): Remove "static".
(show_cwd_command): Expand text to include remote debugging.
* remote.c: Add PACKET_QSetWorkingDir.
(remote_protocol_features) <QSetWorkingDir>: New entry for
PACKET_QSetWorkingDir.
(extended_remote_set_inferior_cwd): New function.
(extended_remote_create_inferior): Call
"extended_remote_set_inferior_cwd".
(_initialize_remote): Call "add_packet_config_cmd" for
QSetWorkingDir.
gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog:
2017-10-04 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* inferiors.c (set_inferior_cwd): New function.
* server.c (handle_general_set): Handle QSetWorkingDir packet.
(handle_query): Inform that QSetWorkingDir is supported.
* win32-low.c (create_process): Pass the inferior's cwd to
CreateProcess.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2017-10-04 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* gdb.base/set-cwd.exp: Make it available on
native-extended-gdbserver.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2017-10-04 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Starting your Program) <The working directory.>:
Mention remote debugging.
(Working Directory) <Your Program's Working Directory>:
Likewise.
(Connecting) <Remote Packet>: Add "set-working-dir"
and "QSetWorkingDir" to the table.
(Remote Protocol) <QSetWorkingDir>: New item, explaining the
packet.
This commit adds new "set/show cwd" commands, which are used to
set/show the current working directory of the inferior that will be
started.
The idea here is that "set cwd" will become the de facto way of
setting the inferior's cwd. Currently, the user can use "cd" for
that, but there are side effects: with "cd", GDB also switches to
another directory, and that can impact the loading of scripts and
other files. With "set cwd", we separate the logic into a new
command.
To maintain backward compatibility, if the user issues a "cd" command
but doesn't use "set cwd", then the inferior's cwd will still be
changed according to what the user specified. However, "set cwd" has
precedence over "cd", so it can always be used to override it.
"set cwd" works in the following way:
- If the user sets the inferior's cwd by using "set cwd", then this
directory is saved into current_inferior ()->cwd and is used when
the inferior is started (see below).
- If the user doesn't set the inferior's cwd by using "set cwd", but
rather use the "cd" command as before, then this directory is
inherited by the inferior because GDB will have chdir'd into it.
On Unix-like hosts, the way the directory is changed before the
inferior execution is by expanding the user set directory before the
fork, and then "chdir" after the call to fork/vfork on
"fork_inferior", but before the actual execution. On Windows, the
inferior cwd set by the user is passed directly to the CreateProcess
call, which takes care of the actual chdir for us.
This way, we'll make sure that GDB's cwd is not affected by the user
set cwd.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2017-10-04 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* NEWS (New commands): Mention "set/show cwd".
* cli/cli-cmds.c (_initialize_cli_cmds): Mention "set cwd" on
"cd" command's help text.
* common/common-inferior.h (get_inferior_cwd): New prototype.
* infcmd.c (inferior_cwd_scratch): New global variable.
(set_inferior_cwd): New function.
(get_inferior_cwd): Likewise.
(set_cwd_command): Likewise.
(show_cwd_command): Likewise.
(_initialize_infcmd): Add "set/show cwd" commands.
* inferior.h (class inferior) <cwd>: New field.
* nat/fork-inferior.c: Include "gdb_tilde_expand.h".
(fork_inferior): Change inferior's cwd before its execution.
* windows-nat.c (windows_create_inferior): Pass inferior's cwd
to CreateProcess.
gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog:
2017-10-04 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* inferiors.c (current_inferior_cwd): New global variable.
(get_inferior_cwd): New function.
* inferiors.h (struct process_info) <cwd>: New field.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2017-10-04 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Starting your Program) <The working directory.>:
Mention new "set cwd" command.
(Working Directory) <Your Program's Working Directory>:
Rephrase to explain that "set cwd" exists and is the default
way to change the inferior's cwd.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2017-10-04 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* gdb.base/set-cwd.c: New file.
* gdb.base/set-cwd.exp: Likewise.
This documents the newly added support for guarded-storage registers on
IBM z.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* NEWS: Advertise support for guarded-storage registers on IBM z.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (S/390 and System z Features): Document the new
features org.gnu.gdb.s390.gs and org.gnu.gdb.s390.gsbc.
This works like 'start' but it stops at the first instruction rather
than the first line in main(). This is useful if one wants to single
step through runtime linker startup.
While here, introduce a RUN_ARGS_HELP macro for shared help text
between run, start, and starti. This includes expanding the help for
start and starti to include details from run's help text.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* NEWS (Changes since GDB 8.0): Add starti.
* infcmd.c (enum run_break): New.
(run_command_1): Queue pending event for RUN_STOP_AT_FIRST_INSN
case.
(run_command): Use enum run_how.
(start_command): Likewise.
(starti_command): New function.
(RUN_ARGS_HELP): New macro.
(_initialize_infcmd): Use RUN_ARGS_HELP for run and start
commands. Add starti command.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (Starting your Program): Add description of
starti command. Mention starti command as an alternative for
debugging the elaboration phase.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.base/starti.c: New file.
* gdb.base/starti.exp: New file.
* lib/gdb.exp (gdb_starti_cmd): New procedure.
With the growing number of selftests, I think it would be useful to be
able to run only a subset of the tests. This patch associates a name to
each registered selftest. It then allows doing something like:
(gdb) maintenance selftest aarch64
Running self-tests.
Running selftest aarch64-analyze-prologue.
Running selftest aarch64-process-record.
Ran 2 unit tests, 0 failed
or with gdbserver:
./gdbserver --selftest=aarch64
In both cases, only the tests that contain "aarch64" in their name are
ran. To help validate that the tests you want to run were actually ran,
it also prints a message with the test name before running each test.
Right now, all the arch-dependent tests are registered as a single test
of the selftests. To be able to filter those too, I made them
"first-class citizen" selftests. The selftest type is an interface,
with different implementations for "simple selftests" and "arch
selftests". The run_tests function simply iterates on that an invokes
operator() on each test.
I changed the tests data structure from a vector to a map, because
- it allows iterating in a stable (alphabetical) order
- it allows to easily verify if a test with a given name has been
registered, to avoid duplicates
There's also a new command "maintenance info selftests" that lists the
registered selftests.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* common/selftest.h (selftest): New struct/interface.
(register_test): Add name parameter, add new overload.
(run_tests): Add filter parameter.
(for_each_selftest_ftype): New typedef.
(for_each_selftest): New declaration.
* common/selftest.c (tests): Change type to
map<string, unique_ptr<selftest>>.
(simple_selftest): New struct.
(register_test): New function.
(register_test): Add name parameter and use it.
(run_tests): Add filter parameter and use it. Add prints.
Adjust to vector -> map change.
* aarch64-tdep.c (_initialize_aarch64_tdep): Add names when
registering selftests.
* arm-tdep.c (_initialize_arm_tdep): Likewise.
* disasm-selftests.c (_initialize_disasm_selftests): Likewise.
* dwarf2-frame.c (_initialize_dwarf2_frame): Likewise.
* dwarf2loc.c (_initialize_dwarf2loc): Likewise.
* findvar.c (_initialize_findvar): Likewise.
* gdbarch-selftests.c (_initialize_gdbarch_selftests): Likewise.
* maint.c (maintenance_selftest): Update call to run_tests.
(maintenance_info_selftests): New function.
(_initialize_maint_cmds): Register "maintenance info selftests"
command. Update "maintenance selftest" doc.
* regcache.c (_initialize_regcache): Add names when registering
selftests.
* rust-exp.y (_initialize_rust_exp): Likewise.
* selftest-arch.c (gdbarch_selftest): New struct.
(gdbarch_tests): Remove.
(register_test_foreach_arch): Add name parameter. Call
register_test.
(tests_with_arch): Remove, move most content to
gdbarch_selftest::operator().
(_initialize_selftests_foreach_arch): Remove.
* selftest-arch.h (register_test_foreach_arch): Add name
parameter.
(run_tests_with_arch): New declaration.
* utils-selftests.c (_initialize_utils_selftests): Add names
when registering selftests.
* utils.c (_initialize_utils): Likewise.
* unittests/array-view-selftests.c
(_initialize_array_view_selftests): Likewise.
* unittests/environ-selftests.c (_initialize_environ_selftests):
Likewise.
* unittests/function-view-selftests.c
(_initialize_function_view_selftests): Likewise.
* unittests/offset-type-selftests.c
(_initialize_offset_type_selftests): Likewise.
* unittests/optional-selftests.c
(_initialize_optional_selftests): Likewise.
* unittests/scoped_restore-selftests.c
(_initialize_scoped_restore_selftests): Likewise.
* NEWS: Document "maintenance selftest" and "maint info
selftests".
gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog:
* server.c (captured_main): Accept argument for --selftest.
Update run_tests call.
* linux-x86-tdesc-selftest.c (initialize_low_tdesc): Add names
when registering selftests.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (Maintenance Commands): Document filter parameter
of "maint selftest". Document "maint info selftests" command.
This adds a few new events to gdb's Python layer: new_inferior,
inferior_deleted, and new_thread. I wanted to be able to add a
combined inferior/thread display window to my GUI, and I needed a few
events to make this work. This is PR python/15622.
ChangeLog
2017-09-11 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
PR python/15622:
* NEWS: Add entry.
* python/python.c (do_start_initialization): Initialize new event
types.
* python/python-internal.h (gdbpy_initialize_new_inferior_event)
(gdbpy_initialize_inferior_deleted_event)
(gdbpy_initialize_new_thread_event): Declare.
* python/py-threadevent.c (create_thread_event_object): Add option
"thread" parameter.
* python/py-inferior.c (new_thread_event_object_type)
(new_inferior_event_object_type)
(inferior_deleted_event_object_type): Declare.
(python_new_inferior, python_inferior_deleted): New functions.
(add_thread_object): Emit new_thread event.
(gdbpy_initialize_inferior): Attach new functions to corresponding
observers.
(new_thread, new_inferior, inferior_deleted): Define new event
types.
* python/py-evts.c (gdbpy_initialize_py_events): Add new
registries.
* python/py-events.h (events_object) <new_inferior,
inferior_deleted, new_thread>: New fields.
* python/py-event.h (create_thread_event_breakpoint): Add optional
"thread" parameter.
doc/ChangeLog
2017-09-11 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* python.texi (Events In Python): Document new events.
testsuite/ChangeLog
2017-09-11 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* gdb.python/py-infthread.exp: Add tests for new_thread event.
* gdb.python/py-inferior.exp: Add tests for new inferior events.
Here's the documentation bits for all the improvements done in
previous commits.
Note that the original "weak alias functions" paragraph ends up
disappearing, because this patch, which I'm considering kind of part
of this series, makes the alias case Just Work:
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-07/msg00018.html
gdb/ChangeLog:
2017-09-04 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* NEWS (Safer support for debugging with no debug info): New.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2017-09-04 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Variables) <Program Variables>: Document inspecting
no-debug-info variables.
(Symbols) <Examining the Symbol Table>: Document inspecting
no-debug-info types.
(Calling) <Calling functions with no debug info>: New subsection,
documenting calling no-debug-info functions.
(Non-debug DLL Symbols) <Working with Minimal Symbols>: Update.
This patch implements the ability to set/unset environment variables
on the remote target, mimicking what GDB already offers to the user.
There are two features present here: user-set and user-unset
environment variables.
User-set environment variables are only the variables that are
explicitly set by the user, using the 'set environment' command. This
means that variables that were already present in the environment when
starting GDB/GDBserver are not transmitted/considered by this feature.
User-unset environment variables are variables that are explicitly
unset by the user, using the 'unset environment' command.
The idea behind this patch is to store user-set and user-unset
environment variables in two separate sets, both part of gdb_environ.
Then, when extended_remote_create_inferior is preparing to start the
inferior, it will iterate over the two sets and set/unset variables
accordingly. Three new packets are introduced:
- QEnvironmentHexEncoded, which is used to set environment variables,
and contains an hex-encoded string in the format "VAR=VALUE" (VALUE
can be empty if the user set a variable with a null value, by doing
'set environment VAR=').
- QEnvironmentUnset, which is used to unset environment variables, and
contains an hex-encoded string in the format "VAR".
- QEnvironmentReset, which is always the first packet to be
transmitted, and is used to reset the environment, i.e., discard any
changes made by the user on previous runs.
The QEnvironmentHexEncoded packet is inspired on LLDB's extensions to
the RSP. Details about it can be seen here:
<https://raw.githubusercontent.com/llvm-mirror/lldb/master/docs/lldb-gdb-remote.txt>
I decided not to implement the QEnvironment packet because it is
considered deprecated by LLDB. This packet, on LLDB, serves the same
purpose of QEnvironmentHexEncoded, but sends the information using a
plain text, non-hex-encoded string.
The other two packets are new.
This patch also includes updates to the documentation, testsuite, and
unit tests, without introducing regressions.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2017-08-31 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* NEWS (Changes since GDB 8.0): Add entry mentioning new support
for setting/unsetting environment variables on the remote target.
(New remote packets): Add entries for QEnvironmentHexEncoded,
QEnvironmentUnset and QEnvironmentReset.
* common/environ.c (gdb_environ::operator=): Extend method to
handle m_user_set_env_list and m_user_unset_env_list.
(gdb_environ::clear): Likewise.
(match_var_in_string): Change type of first parameter from 'char
*' to 'const char *'.
(gdb_environ::set): Extend method to handle
m_user_set_env_list and m_user_unset_env_list.
(gdb_environ::unset): Likewise.
(gdb_environ::clear_user_set_env): New method.
(gdb_environ::user_set_envp): Likewise.
(gdb_environ::user_unset_envp): Likewise.
* common/environ.h (gdb_environ): Handle m_user_set_env_list and
m_user_unset_env_list on move constructor/assignment.
(unset): Add new default parameter 'update_unset_list = true'.
(clear_user_set_env): New method.
(user_set_envp): Likewise.
(user_unset_envp): Likewise.
(m_user_set_env_list): New std::set.
(m_user_unset_env_list): Likewise.
* common/rsp-low.c (hex2str): New function.
(bin2hex): New overload for bin2hex function.
* common/rsp-low.c (hex2str): New prototype.
(str2hex): New overload prototype.
* remote.c: Include "environ.h". Add QEnvironmentHexEncoded,
QEnvironmentUnset and QEnvironmentReset.
(remote_protocol_features): Add QEnvironmentHexEncoded,
QEnvironmentUnset and QEnvironmentReset packets.
(send_environment_packet): New function.
(extended_remote_environment_support): Likewise.
(extended_remote_create_inferior): Call
extended_remote_environment_support.
(_initialize_remote): Add QEnvironmentHexEncoded,
QEnvironmentUnset and QEnvironmentReset packet configs.
* unittests/environ-selftests.c (gdb_selftest_env_var):
New variable.
(test_vector_initialization): New function.
(test_init_from_host_environ): Likewise.
(test_reinit_from_host_environ): Likewise.
(test_set_A_unset_B_unset_A_cannot_find_A_can_find_B):
Likewise.
(test_unset_set_empty_vector): Likewise.
(test_vector_clear): Likewise.
(test_std_move): Likewise.
(test_move_constructor):
(test_self_move): Likewise.
(test_set_unset_reset): Likewise.
(run_tests): Rewrite in terms of the functions above.
gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog:
2017-08-31 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* server.c (handle_general_set): Handle QEnvironmentHexEncoded,
QEnvironmentUnset and QEnvironmentReset packets.
(handle_query): Inform remote that QEnvironmentHexEncoded,
QEnvironmentUnset and QEnvironmentReset are supported.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2017-08-31 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (set environment): Add @anchor. Explain that
environment variables set by the user are sent to GDBserver.
(unset environment): Likewise, but for unsetting variables.
(Connecting) <Remote Packet>: Add "environment-hex-encoded",
"QEnvironmentHexEncoded", "environment-unset", "QEnvironmentUnset",
"environment-reset" and "QEnvironmentReset" to the table.
(Remote Protocol) <QEnvironmentHexEncoded, QEnvironmentUnset,
QEnvironmentReset>: New item, explaining the packet.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2017-08-31 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* gdb.base/share-env-with-gdbserver.c: New file.
* gdb.base/share-env-with-gdbserver.exp: Likewise.
As discussed in
How to use compile & execute function in GDB
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2015-04/msg00026.html
GDB currently searches for compilers on /usr/bin/ARCH-OS-gcc and
chooses a match from there. However, it is not currently possible for
the user to override which compiler to use. This is what this patch
implements.
It is also a sync between GCC's and GDB's interfaces.
gdb/ChangeLog
2017-08-23 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
* NEWS (Changes since GDB 7.9): Add set compile-gcc and show
compile-gcc.
* compile/compile.c (compile_gcc, show_compile_gcc): New.
(compile_to_object): Implement compile_gcc.
(_initialize_compile): Install "set compile-gcc". Initialize
compile_gcc.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2017-08-23 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Compiling and Injecting Code): Add to subsection
"Compiler search for the compile command" descriptions of set
compile-gcc and show compile-gcc.
include/ChangeLog
2017-08-23 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
* gcc-interface.h (enum gcc_base_api_version): Update comment for
GCC_FE_VERSION_1.
(struct gcc_base_vtable): Rename set_arguments to set_arguments_v0.
Add set_arguments, set_triplet_regexp and set_driver_filename.
The M7 processor supports an Application Data Integrity (ADI) feature
that detects invalid data accesses. When software allocates data, it
chooses a 4-bit version number, sets the version in the upper 4 bits
of the 64-bit pointer to that data, and stores the 4-bit version in
every cacheline of the object. Hardware saves the latter in spare
bits in the cache and memory hierarchy. On each load and store, the
processor compares the upper 4 VA (virtual address) bits to the
cacheline's version. If there is a mismatch, the processor generates a
version mismatch trap which can be either precise or disrupting. The
trap is an error condition which the kernel delivers to the process as
a SIGSEGV signal.
The upper 4 bits of the VA represent a version and are not part of the
true address. The processor clears these bits and sign extends bit 59
to generate the true address.
Note that 32-bit applications cannot use ADI.
This patch adds ADI support in gdb which allows the user to examine
current version tags and assign new version tags in the program. It
also catches and reports precise or disrupting memory corruption
traps.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2017-08-07 Weimin Pan <weimin.pan@oracle.com>
* sparc64-tdep.h: (adi_normalize_address): New export.
* sparc-nat.h: (open_adi_tag_fd): New export.
* sparc64-linux-nat.c: (open_adi_tag_fd): New function.
* sparc64-linux-tdep.c:
(SEGV_ACCADI, SEGV_ADIDERR, SEGV_ADIPERR) New defines.
(sparc64_linux_handle_segmentation_fault): New function.
(sparc64_linux_init_abi): Register
sparc64_linux_handle_segmentation_fault
* sparc64-tdep.c: Include cli-utils.h,gdbcmd.h,auxv.h.
(sparc64_addr_bits_remove): New function.
(sparc64_init_abi): Register sparc64_addr_bits_remove.
(MAX_PROC_NAME_SIZE): New macro.
(AT_ADI_BLKSZ, AT_ADI_NBITS, AT_ADI_UEONADI) New defines.
(sparc64adilist): New variable.
(adi_proc_list): New variable.
(find_adi_info): New function.
(add_adi_info): New function.
(get_adi_info_proc): New function.
(get_adi_info): New function.
(info_adi_command): New function.
(read_maps_entry): New function.
(adi_available): New function.
(adi_normalize_address): New function.
(adi_align_address): New function.
(adi_convert_byte_count): New function.
(adi_tag_fd): New function.
(adi_is_addr_mapped): New function.
(adi_read_versions): New function.
(adi_write_versions): New function.
(adi_print_versions): New function.
(do_examine): New function.
(do_assign): New function.
(adi_examine_command): New function.
(adi_assign_command): New function.
(_initialize_sparc64_adi_tdep): New function.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2017-08-07 Weimin Pan <weimin.pan@oracle.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Architectures): Add new Sparc64 section to document
ADI support.
* NEWS: Add "adi examine" and "adi assign" commands.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2017-08-07 Weimin Pan <weimin.pan@oracle.com>
* gdb.arch/sparc64-adi.exp: New file.
* gdb.arch/sparc64-adi.c: New file.
This patch uses GDB self test in GDBserver. The self tests are run if
GDBserver is started with option --selftest.
gdb:
2017-08-18 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
* NEWS: Mention GDBserver's new option "--selftest".
* Makefile.in (SFILES): Remove selftest.c, add common/selftest.c.
* selftest.c: Move it to common/selftest.c.
* selftest.h: Move it to common/selftest.h.
* selftest-arch.c (reset): New function.
(tests_with_arch): Call reset.
gdb/gdbserver:
2017-08-18 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
* Makefile.in (OBS): Add selftest.o.
* configure.ac: AC_DEFINE GDB_SELF_TEST if $development.
* configure, config.in: Re-generated.
* server.c: Include common/sefltest.h.
(captured_main): Handle option --selftest.
gdb/testsuite:
2017-08-18 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
* gdb.server/unittest.exp: New.
gdb/doc:
2017-08-18 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
* gdb.texinfo (Server): Document "--selftest".
Currently, "layout asm" is not so useful as "layout src" with Single-Key mode:
you have to use multi-key commands like "ni" and "si" to do single-stepping.
This patch adds, in addition to "next" and "step" commands, corresponding
assembly-level ones - "nexti" and "stepi" - to Single-Key mode, with the
shortcuts of "o" (from "step Over") and "i" (from "Step Into") respectively.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* tui/tui.c (tui_commands): Add "nexti" and "stepi" to the Single-Key
mode command list.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (TUI Single Key Mode): Document the new shortcuts in
Single-Key mode.
The documentation was erroneously saying that there is a command named
"show set startup-with-shell", while the correct version is "show
startup-with-shell". This commit fixes obvious mistake.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2017-08-12 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
PR gdb/21925
* gdb.texinfo (Starting) <startup-with-shell>: Fix typo ("show
set...").
The documentation for the cmd_list field of the Z0 packet refers to its
content as a conditional expression, which seems like a copy-paste error
from the cond_list field.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (Packets): Fix Z0 cmd_list doc referring to
conditional expression.
The rot agent expression bytecode rotates the three items on the top of
the stack. It is not clear which way the rotation is. However, the
documentation currently shows this as the effect of the instructions:
a b c => c b a
which doesn't make sense, since the value b doesn't move. The two
valid possibilities I see are
a b c => b c a
a b c => c a b
depending on which way you rotate.
When looking at the gdbserver code, the top of the stack becomes the
third item, and the next-to-top item becomes the top. So the second
form would be the right one, since in this notation the top of the stack
is the rightmost element:
a b c => c a b
I adjusted the symbolic description and added a bit of text to make it
more obvious.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* agentexpr.texi (rot): Fix symbolic description, improve
textual description.
Now, GDB is able to dynamically create i386-linux target descriptions
from features, instead of using pre-generated target descriptions. These
pre-generated target descriptions are no longer used by GDB (note that
they are still used by GDBserver).
This patch add a new maint command "maint check xml-descriptions" to test
dynamically generated tdesc are identical to these generated from xml files.
gdb:
2017-07-26 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
* cli/cli-cmds.c (maintenancechecklist): New variable.
* gdbcmd.h (maintenancechecklist): Declare it.
* i386-linux-tdep.c (_initialize_i386_linux_tdep) [GDB_SELF_TEST]:
Call i386_linux_read_description with different masks.
* maint.c (maintenance_check_command): New function.
(_initialize_maint_cmds): Call add_prefix_cmd.
* target-descriptions.c (tdesc_reg): override operator != and ==.
(tdesc_type): Likewise.
(tdesc_feature): Likewise.
(target_desc): Likewise.
[GDB_SELF_TEST] (selftests::record_xml_tdesc): New function.
(maintenance_check_xml_descriptions): New function.
(_initialize_target_descriptions) Add command "xml-descriptions".
* target-descriptions.h (selftests::record_xml_tdesc): Declare.
gdb/testsuite:
2017-07-26 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
* gdb.gdb/unittest.exp: Invoke command
"maintenance check xml-descriptions".
gdb/doc:
2017-07-26 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
* gdb.texinfo (Maintenance Commands): Document command
"maint check xml-descriptions".
Nowadays, we need two steps to print c files for xml target description,
that is, 1) read xml target description in, update the current tdesc,
2) visit the current tdesc, print the c file. It is unnecessary to
involve in current tdesc, and some validations in each gdbarch are
performed unnecessarily, which will reject some target descriptions if
they are missing some mandatory feature.
This patch adds an optional argument to "maint print c-tdesc", which
is an XML file target description, so that we can combine the two
steps above into one step, and don't have to involve in global current
tdesc.
gdb:
2017-07-26 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
* NEWS: Mention it.
* features/Makefile (%.c: %.xml): Pass the xml file name to
command "maint print c-tdesc".
* target-descriptions.c (maint_print_c_tdesc_cmd): Get file
name from 'arg'.
gdb/doc:
2017-07-26 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
* gdb.texinfo (Maintenance Commands): Document optional
argument of "maint print c-tdesc".
In my patch extending command "maint print c-tdesc"
(https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-06/msg00286.html), Eli
raised some questions on the existing doc to this command. It is not
very clear, so this patch improves it. Eli approved it.
gdb/doc:
2017-07-18 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
* gdb.texinfo (Maintenance Commands): Improve the doc to
command "maint print c-tdesc".
I helped someone figure out why their separate debug info (debug
link-based) was not found by gdb. It turns out that the debug file was
not named properly. It made me realize that it is quite difficult to
diagnose this kind of problems. This patch adds some debug output to
show where GDB looks for those files, so that it should be (more)
obvious to find what's wrong.
Here's an example of the result, first with an example of unsuccessful lookup,
and then a successful one.
(gdb) set debug separate-debug-file on
(gdb) file /usr/bin/gnome-calculator
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/gnome-calculator...
Looking for separate debug info (build-id) for /usr/bin/gnome-calculator
Trying /usr/local/lib/debug/.build-id/0d/5c5e8c86dbe4f4f95f7a13de04f91d377f3c6a.debug
Looking for separate debug info (debug link) for /usr/bin/gnome-calculator
Trying /usr/bin/5c5e8c86dbe4f4f95f7a13de04f91d377f3c6a.debug
Trying /usr/bin/.debug/5c5e8c86dbe4f4f95f7a13de04f91d377f3c6a.debug
Trying /usr/local/lib/debug//usr/bin/5c5e8c86dbe4f4f95f7a13de04f91d377f3c6a.debug
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) set debug-file-directory /usr/lib/debug
(gdb) file /usr/bin/gnome-calculator
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/gnome-calculator...
Looking for separate debug info by build-id for /usr/bin/gnome-calculator
Trying /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/0d/5c5e8c86dbe4f4f95f7a13de04f91d377f3c6a.debug
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/0d/5c5e8c86dbe4f4f95f7a13de04f91d377f3c6a.debug...done.
done.
Note: here, the debug link happens to be named like the build-id, but it
doesn't have to be this way. It puzzled me for a minute.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* NEWS (Changes since GDB 8.0): Announce {set,show} debug
separate-debug-file commands.
* symfile.h (separate_debug_file_debug): New global.
* symfile.c (separate_debug_file_debug): New global.
(separate_debug_file_exists, find_separate_debug_file): Add
debug output.
(_initialize_symfile): Add "set debug separate-debug-file"
command.
* build-id.c (build_id_to_debug_bfd,
find_separate_debug_file_by_buildid): Add debug output.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (Optional Messages about Internal Happenings):
Document {set,show} debug separate-debug-file commands.
This patch implements the proper support for the "startup-with-shell"
feature on gdbserver. A new packet is added, QStartupWithShell, and
it is sent on initialization. If the host sends a
"QStartupWithShell:1", it means the inferior shall be started using a
shell. If the host sends a "QStartupWithShell:0", it means the
inferior shall be started without using a shell. Any other value is
considered an error.
There is no way to remotely set the shell that will be used by the
target to start the inferior. In order to do that, the user must
start gdbserver while providing a shell via the $SHELL environment
variable. The same is true for the host side.
The "set startup-with-shell" setting from the host side is used to
decide whether to start the remote inferior using a shell. This same
setting is also used to decide whether to use a shell to start the
host inferior; this means that it is not really possible to start the
inferior using different mechanisms on target and host.
A documentation patch is included, along with a new testcase for the
feature.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2017-06-07 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* NEWS (Changes since GDB 8.0): Announce that GDBserver is now
able to start inferiors using a shell.
(New remote packets): Announce new packet "QStartupWithShell".
* remote.c: Add PACKET_QStartupWithShell.
(extended_remote_create_inferior): Handle new
PACKET_QStartupWithShell.
(remote_protocol_features) <QStartupWithShell>: New entry for
PACKET_QStartupWithShell.
(_initialize_remote): Call "add_packet_config_cmd" for
QStartupShell.
gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog:
2017-06-07 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* server.c (handle_general_set): Handle new packet
"QStartupWithShell".
(handle_query): Add "QStartupWithShell" to the list of supported
packets.
(gdbserver_usage): Add help text explaining the
new "--startup-with-shell" and "--no-startup-with-shell" CLI
options.
(captured_main): Recognize and act upon the presence of the new
CLI options.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2017-06-07 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* gdb.base/startup-with-shell.c: New file.
* gdb.base/startup-with-shell.exp: Likewise.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2017-06-07 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Starting) <startup-with-shell>: Add @anchor.
(Connecting) <Remote Packet>: Add "startup-with-shell"
and "QStartupWithShell" to the table.
(Remote Protocol) <QStartupWithShell>: New item, explaining the
packet.
Add mention of the vMustReplyEmpty to the remote serial protocol
documentation. It is important that this packet be treated in the same
fashion as any other unknown 'v' packet, and I have tried to reflect
this in the description of the packet, it is not simply the case that we
_must_ return the empty string for this packet.
As the intention is that we should treat this packet as unknown then an
argument could be made that we should not document it, however, for
someone implementing a gdbserver from scratch, seeing an undocumented
packet arrive from gdb is confusing, and will probably cause them to
have to read the code in order to check how this packet should be
handled, which is not ideal.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (Packets): Document vMustReplyEmpty packet.
Xavier Roirand
Joel Brobecker
Stafford Horne
Sergio Durigan Junior
Simon Marchi
Franck Jullien
Jan Kratochvil
Keith Seitz
Phil Muldoon
Sergio Lopez
Tom Tromey
Pedro Alves
Dominik Czarnota
Ulrich Weigand
Andreas Arnez
Kevin Buettner
John Baldwin
Weimin Pan
Yao Qi
Ruslan Kabatsayev
Andrew Burgess