The other day while debugging something related to random signals, I
got confused with "set debug infrun 1" output, for it said:
infrun: TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED
infrun: stop_pc = 0x323d4e8b94
infrun: random signal 20
On GNU/Linux, 20 is SIGTSTP. For some reason, it took me a few
minutes to realize that 20 is actually a GDB signal number, not a
target signal number (duh!). In any case, I propose making GDB's
output clearer here:
One way would be to use gdb_signal_to_name, like already used
elsewhere:
infrun: TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED
infrun: stop_pc = 0x323d4e8b94
infrun: random signal SIGCHLD (20)
but I think that might confuse someone too ("20? Why does GDB believe
SIGCHLD is 20?"). So I thought of printing the enum string instead:
infrun: TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED
infrun: stop_pc = 0x323d4e8b94
infrun: random signal GDB_SIGNAL_CHLD (20)
Looking at a more complete infrun debug log, we had actually printed
the (POSIX) signal name name a bit before:
infrun: target_wait (-1, status) =
infrun: 9300 [Thread 0x7ffff7fcb740 (LWP 9300)],
infrun: status->kind = stopped, signal = SIGCHLD
...
infrun: TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED
infrun: stop_pc = 0x323d4e8b94
infrun: random signal 20
So I'm now thinking that it'd be even better to make infrun output
consistently use the enum symbol string, like so:
infrun: clear_proceed_status_thread (Thread 0x7ffff7fca700 (LWP 25663))
infrun: clear_proceed_status_thread (Thread 0x7ffff7fcb740 (LWP 25659))
- infrun: proceed (addr=0xffffffffffffffff, signal=144, step=1)
+ infrun: proceed (addr=0xffffffffffffffff, signal=GDB_SIGNAL_DEFAULT, step=1)
- infrun: resume (step=1, signal=0), trap_expected=0, current thread [Thread 0x7ffff7fcb740 (LWP 25659)] at 0x400700
+ infrun: resume (step=1, signal=GDB_SIGNAL_0), trap_expected=0, current thread [Thread 0x7ffff7fcb740 (LWP 25659)] at 0x400700
infrun: wait_for_inferior ()
infrun: target_wait (-1, status) =
infrun: 25659 [Thread 0x7ffff7fcb740 (LWP 25659)],
- infrun: status->kind = stopped, signal = SIGCHLD
+ infrun: status->kind = stopped, signal = GDB_SIGNAL_CHLD
infrun: infwait_normal_state
infrun: TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED
infrun: stop_pc = 0x400700
- infrun: random signal 20
+ infrun: random signal (GDB_SIGNAL_CHLD)
infrun: random signal, keep going
- infrun: resume (step=1, signal=20), trap_expected=0, current thread [Thread 0x7ffff7fcb740 (LWP 25659)] at 0x400700
+ infrun: resume (step=1, signal=GDB_SIGNAL_CHLD), trap_expected=0, current thread [Thread 0x7ffff7fcb740 (LWP 25659)] at 0x400700
infrun: prepare_to_wait
infrun: target_wait (-1, status) =
infrun: 25659 [Thread 0x7ffff7fcb740 (LWP 25659)],
- infrun: status->kind = stopped, signal = SIGTRAP
+ infrun: status->kind = stopped, signal = GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP
infrun: infwait_normal_state
infrun: TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED
infrun: stop_pc = 0x400704
infrun: stepi/nexti
infrun: stop_stepping
GDB's signal numbers are public and hardcoded (see
include/gdb/signals.h), so there's really no need to clutter the
output with numeric values in some places while others not. Replacing
the magic "144" with GDB_SIGNAL_DEFAULT in "proceed"'s debug output
(see above) I think is quite nice.
I posit that all this makes it clearer to newcomers that GDB has its
own signal numbering (and that there must be some mapping going on).
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 17.
gdb/
2013-10-23 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* common/gdb_signals.h (gdb_signal_to_symbol_string): Declare.
* common/signals.c: Include "gdb_assert.h".
(signals): New field 'symbol'.
(SET): Use the 'symbol' parameter.
(gdb_signal_to_symbol_string): New function.
* infrun.c (handle_inferior_event) <random signal>: In debug
output, print the random signal enum as string in addition to its
number.
* target/waitstatus.c (target_waitstatus_to_string): Print the
signal's enum value as string instead of the (POSIX) signal name.
Two modifications:
1. The addition of 2013 to the copyright year range for every file;
2. The use of a single year range, instead of potentially multiple
year ranges, as approved by the FSF.
Joel Brobecker