This commit adds multi-target support to GDB. What this means is that
with this commit, GDB can now be connected to different targets at the
same time. E.g., you can debug a live native process and a core dump
at the same time, connect to multiple gdbservers, etc.
Actually, the word "target" is overloaded in gdb. We already have a
target stack, with pushes several target_ops instances on top of one
another. We also have "info target" already, which means something
completely different to what this patch does.
So from here on, I'll be using the "target connections" term, to mean
an open process_stratum target, pushed on a target stack. This patch
makes gdb have multiple target stacks, and multiple process_stratum
targets open simultaneously. The user-visible changes / commands will
also use this terminology, but of course it's all open to debate.
User-interface-wise, not that much changes. The main difference is
that each inferior may have its own target connection.
A target connection (e.g., a target extended-remote connection) may
support debugging multiple processes, just as before.
Say you're debugging against gdbserver in extended-remote mode, and
you do "add-inferior" to prepare to spawn a new process, like:
(gdb) target extended-remote :9999
...
(gdb) start
...
(gdb) add-inferior
Added inferior 2
(gdb) inferior 2
[Switching to inferior 2 [<null>] (<noexec>)]
(gdb) file a.out
...
(gdb) start
...
At this point, you have two inferiors connected to the same gdbserver.
With this commit, GDB will maintain a target stack per inferior,
instead of a global target stack.
To preserve the behavior above, by default, "add-inferior" makes the
new inferior inherit a copy of the target stack of the current
inferior. Same across a fork - the child inherits a copy of the
target stack of the parent. While the target stacks are copied, the
targets themselves are not. Instead, target_ops is made a
refcounted_object, which means that target_ops instances are
refcounted, which each inferior counting for a reference.
What if you want to create an inferior and connect it to some _other_
target? For that, this commit introduces a new "add-inferior
-no-connection" option that makes the new inferior not share the
current inferior's target. So you could do:
(gdb) target extended-remote :9999
Remote debugging using :9999
...
(gdb) add-inferior -no-connection
[New inferior 2]
Added inferior 2
(gdb) inferior 2
[Switching to inferior 2 [<null>] (<noexec>)]
(gdb) info inferiors
Num Description Executable
1 process 18401 target:/home/pedro/tmp/main
* 2 <null>
(gdb) tar extended-remote :10000
Remote debugging using :10000
...
(gdb) info inferiors
Num Description Executable
1 process 18401 target:/home/pedro/tmp/main
* 2 process 18450 target:/home/pedro/tmp/main
(gdb)
A following patch will extended "info inferiors" to include a column
indicating which connection an inferior is bound to, along with a
couple other UI tweaks.
Other than that, debugging is the same as before. Users interact with
inferiors and threads as before. The only difference is that
inferiors may be bound to processes running in different machines.
That's pretty much all there is to it in terms of noticeable UI
changes.
On to implementation.
Since we can be connected to different systems at the same time, a
ptid_t is no longer a unique identifier. Instead a thread can be
identified by a pair of ptid_t and 'process_stratum_target *', the
later being the instance of the process_stratum target that owns the
process/thread. Note that process_stratum_target inherits from
target_ops, and all process_stratum targets inherit from
process_stratum_target. In earlier patches, many places in gdb were
converted to refer to threads by thread_info pointer instead of
ptid_t, but there are still places in gdb where we start with a
pid/tid and need to find the corresponding inferior or thread_info
objects. So you'll see in the patch many places adding a
process_stratum_target parameter to functions that used to take only a
ptid_t.
Since each inferior has its own target stack now, we can always find
the process_stratum target for an inferior. That is done via a
inf->process_target() convenience method.
Since each inferior has its own target stack, we need to handle the
"beneath" calls when servicing target calls. The solution I settled
with is just to make sure to switch the current inferior to the
inferior you want before making a target call. Not relying on global
context is just not feasible in current GDB. Fortunately, there
aren't that many places that need to do that, because generally most
code that calls target methods already has the current context
pointing to the right inferior/thread. Note, to emphasize -- there's
no method to "switch to this target stack". Instead, you switch the
current inferior, and that implicitly switches the target stack.
In some spots, we need to iterate over all inferiors so that we reach
all target stacks.
Native targets are still singletons. There's always only a single
instance of such targets.
Remote targets however, we'll have one instance per remote connection.
The exec target is still a singleton. There's only one instance. I
did not see the point of instanciating more than one exec_target
object.
After vfork, we need to make sure to push the exec target on the new
inferior. See exec_on_vfork.
For type safety, functions that need a {target, ptid} pair to identify
a thread, take a process_stratum_target pointer for target parameter
instead of target_ops *. Some shared code in gdb/nat/ also need to
gain a target pointer parameter. This poses an issue, since gdbserver
doesn't have process_stratum_target, only target_ops. To fix this,
this commit renames gdbserver's target_ops to process_stratum_target.
I think this makes sense. There's no concept of target stack in
gdbserver, and gdbserver's target_ops really implements a
process_stratum-like target.
The thread and inferior iterator functions also gain
process_stratum_target parameters. These are used to be able to
iterate over threads and inferiors of a given target. Following usual
conventions, if the target pointer is null, then we iterate over
threads and inferiors of all targets.
I tried converting "add-inferior" to the gdb::option framework, as a
preparatory patch, but that stumbled on the fact that gdb::option does
not support file options yet, for "add-inferior -exec". I have a WIP
patchset that adds that, but it's not a trivial patch, mainly due to
need to integrate readline's filename completion, so I deferred that
to some other time.
In infrun.c/infcmd.c, the main change is that we need to poll events
out of all targets. See do_target_wait. Right after collecting an
event, we switch the current inferior to an inferior bound to the
target that reported the event, so that target methods can be used
while handling the event. This makes most of the code transparent to
multi-targets. See fetch_inferior_event.
infrun.c:stop_all_threads is interesting -- in this function we need
to stop all threads of all targets. What the function does is send an
asynchronous stop request to all threads, and then synchronously waits
for events, with target_wait, rinse repeat, until all it finds are
stopped threads. Now that we have multiple targets, it's not
efficient to synchronously block in target_wait waiting for events out
of one target. Instead, we implement a mini event loop, with
interruptible_select, select'ing on one file descriptor per target.
For this to work, we need to be able to ask the target for a waitable
file descriptor. Such file descriptors already exist, they are the
descriptors registered in the main event loop with add_file_handler,
inside the target_async implementations. This commit adds a new
target_async_wait_fd target method that just returns the file
descriptor in question. See wait_one / stop_all_threads in infrun.c.
The 'threads_executing' global is made a per-target variable. Since
it is only relevant to process_stratum_target targets, this is where
it is put, instead of in target_ops.
You'll notice that remote.c includes some FIXME notes. These refer to
the fact that the global arrays that hold data for the remote packets
supported are still globals. For example, if we connect to two
different servers/stubs, then each might support different remote
protocol features. They might even be different architectures, like
e.g., one ARM baremetal stub, and a x86 gdbserver, to debug a
host/controller scenario as a single program. That isn't going to
work correctly today, because of said globals. I'm leaving fixing
that for another pass, since it does not appear to be trivial, and I'd
rather land the base work first. It's already useful to be able to
debug multiple instances of the same server (e.g., a distributed
cluster, where you have full control over the servers installed), so I
think as is it's already reasonable incremental progress.
Current limitations:
- You can only resume more that one target at the same time if all
targets support asynchronous debugging, and support non-stop mode.
It should be possible to support mixed all-stop + non-stop
backends, but that is left for another time. This means that
currently in order to do multi-target with gdbserver you need to
issue "maint set target-non-stop on". I would like to make that
mode be the default, but we're not there yet. Note that I'm
talking about how the target backend works, only. User-visible
all-stop mode works just fine.
- As explained above, connecting to different remote servers at the
same time is likely to produce bad results if they don't support the
exact set of RSP features.
FreeBSD updates courtesy of John Baldwin.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2020-01-10 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
* aarch64-linux-nat.c
(aarch64_linux_nat_target::thread_architecture): Adjust.
* ada-tasks.c (print_ada_task_info): Adjust find_thread_ptid call.
(task_command_1): Likewise.
* aix-thread.c (sync_threadlists, aix_thread_target::resume)
(aix_thread_target::wait, aix_thread_target::fetch_registers)
(aix_thread_target::store_registers)
(aix_thread_target::thread_alive): Adjust.
* amd64-fbsd-tdep.c: Include "inferior.h".
(amd64fbsd_get_thread_local_address): Pass down target.
* amd64-linux-nat.c (ps_get_thread_area): Use ps_prochandle
thread's gdbarch instead of target_gdbarch.
* break-catch-sig.c (signal_catchpoint_print_it): Adjust call to
get_last_target_status.
* break-catch-syscall.c (print_it_catch_syscall): Likewise.
* breakpoint.c (breakpoints_should_be_inserted_now): Consider all
inferiors.
(update_inserted_breakpoint_locations): Skip if inferiors with no
execution.
(update_global_location_list): When handling moribund locations,
find representative inferior for location's pspace, and use thread
count of its process_stratum target.
* bsd-kvm.c (bsd_kvm_target_open): Pass target down.
* bsd-uthread.c (bsd_uthread_target::wait): Use
as_process_stratum_target and adjust thread_change_ptid and
add_thread calls.
(bsd_uthread_target::update_thread_list): Use
as_process_stratum_target and adjust find_thread_ptid,
thread_change_ptid and add_thread calls.
* btrace.c (maint_btrace_packet_history_cmd): Adjust
find_thread_ptid call.
* corelow.c (add_to_thread_list): Adjust add_thread call.
(core_target_open): Adjust add_thread_silent and thread_count
calls.
(core_target::pid_to_str): Adjust find_inferior_ptid call.
* ctf.c (ctf_target_open): Adjust add_thread_silent call.
* event-top.c (async_disconnect): Pop targets from all inferiors.
* exec.c (add_target_sections): Push exec target on all inferiors
sharing the program space.
(remove_target_sections): Remove the exec target from all
inferiors sharing the program space.
(exec_on_vfork): New.
* exec.h (exec_on_vfork): Declare.
* fbsd-nat.c (fbsd_add_threads): Add fbsd_nat_target parameter.
Pass it down.
(fbsd_nat_target::update_thread_list): Adjust.
(fbsd_nat_target::resume): Adjust.
(fbsd_handle_debug_trap): Add fbsd_nat_target parameter. Pass it
down.
(fbsd_nat_target::wait, fbsd_nat_target::post_attach): Adjust.
* fbsd-tdep.c (fbsd_corefile_thread): Adjust
get_thread_arch_regcache call.
* fork-child.c (gdb_startup_inferior): Pass target down to
startup_inferior and set_executing.
* gdbthread.h (struct process_stratum_target): Forward declare.
(add_thread, add_thread_silent, add_thread_with_info)
(in_thread_list): Add process_stratum_target parameter.
(find_thread_ptid(inferior*, ptid_t)): New overload.
(find_thread_ptid, thread_change_ptid): Add process_stratum_target
parameter.
(all_threads()): Delete overload.
(all_threads, all_non_exited_threads): Add process_stratum_target
parameter.
(all_threads_safe): Use brace initialization.
(thread_count): Add process_stratum_target parameter.
(set_resumed, set_running, set_stop_requested, set_executing)
(threads_are_executing, finish_thread_state): Add
process_stratum_target parameter.
(switch_to_thread): Use is_current_thread.
* i386-fbsd-tdep.c: Include "inferior.h".
(i386fbsd_get_thread_local_address): Pass down target.
* i386-linux-nat.c (i386_linux_nat_target::low_resume): Adjust.
* inf-child.c (inf_child_target::maybe_unpush_target): Remove
have_inferiors check.
* inf-ptrace.c (inf_ptrace_target::create_inferior)
(inf_ptrace_target::attach): Adjust.
* infcall.c (run_inferior_call): Adjust.
* infcmd.c (run_command_1): Pass target to
scoped_finish_thread_state.
(proceed_thread_callback): Skip inferiors with no execution.
(continue_command): Rename 'all_threads' local to avoid hiding
'all_threads' function. Adjust get_last_target_status call.
(prepare_one_step): Adjust set_running call.
(signal_command): Use user_visible_resume_target. Compare thread
pointers instead of inferior_ptid.
(info_program_command): Adjust to pass down target.
(attach_command): Mark target's 'thread_executing' flag.
(stop_current_target_threads_ns): New, factored out from ...
(interrupt_target_1): ... this. Switch inferior before making
target calls.
* inferior-iter.h
(struct all_inferiors_iterator, struct all_inferiors_range)
(struct all_inferiors_safe_range)
(struct all_non_exited_inferiors_range): Filter on
process_stratum_target too. Remove explicit.
* inferior.c (inferior::inferior): Push dummy target on target
stack.
(find_inferior_pid, find_inferior_ptid, number_of_live_inferiors):
Add process_stratum_target parameter, and pass it down.
(have_live_inferiors): Adjust.
(switch_to_inferior_and_push_target): New.
(add_inferior_command, clone_inferior_command): Handle
"-no-connection" parameter. Use
switch_to_inferior_and_push_target.
(_initialize_inferior): Mention "-no-connection" option in
the help of "add-inferior" and "clone-inferior" commands.
* inferior.h: Include "process-stratum-target.h".
(interrupt_target_1): Use bool.
(struct inferior) <push_target, unpush_target, target_is_pushed,
find_target_beneath, top_target, process_target, target_at,
m_stack>: New.
(discard_all_inferiors): Delete.
(find_inferior_pid, find_inferior_ptid, number_of_live_inferiors)
(all_inferiors, all_non_exited_inferiors): Add
process_stratum_target parameter.
* infrun.c: Include "gdb_select.h" and <unordered_map>.
(target_last_proc_target): New global.
(follow_fork_inferior): Push target on new inferior. Pass target
to add_thread_silent. Call exec_on_vfork. Handle target's
reference count.
(follow_fork): Adjust get_last_target_status call. Also consider
target.
(follow_exec): Push target on new inferior.
(struct execution_control_state) <target>: New field.
(user_visible_resume_target): New.
(do_target_resume): Call target_async.
(resume_1): Set target's threads_executing flag. Consider resume
target.
(commit_resume_all_targets): New.
(proceed): Also consider resume target. Skip threads of inferiors
with no execution. Commit resumtion in all targets.
(start_remote): Pass current inferior to wait_for_inferior.
(infrun_thread_stop_requested): Consider target as well. Pass
thread_info pointer to clear_inline_frame_state instead of ptid.
(infrun_thread_thread_exit): Consider target as well.
(random_pending_event_thread): New inferior parameter. Use it.
(do_target_wait): Rename to ...
(do_target_wait_1): ... this. Add inferior parameter, and pass it
down.
(threads_are_resumed_pending_p, do_target_wait): New.
(prepare_for_detach): Adjust calls.
(wait_for_inferior): New inferior parameter. Handle it. Use
do_target_wait_1 instead of do_target_wait.
(fetch_inferior_event): Adjust. Switch to representative
inferior. Pass target down.
(set_last_target_status): Add process_stratum_target parameter.
Save target in global.
(get_last_target_status): Add process_stratum_target parameter and
handle it.
(nullify_last_target_wait_ptid): Clear 'target_last_proc_target'.
(context_switch): Check inferior_ptid == null_ptid before calling
inferior_thread().
(get_inferior_stop_soon): Pass down target.
(wait_one): Rename to ...
(poll_one_curr_target): ... this.
(struct wait_one_event): New.
(wait_one): New.
(stop_all_threads): Adjust.
(handle_no_resumed, handle_inferior_event): Adjust to consider the
event's target.
(switch_back_to_stepped_thread): Also consider target.
(print_stop_event): Update.
(normal_stop): Update. Also consider the resume target.
* infrun.h (wait_for_inferior): Remove declaration.
(user_visible_resume_target): New declaration.
(get_last_target_status, set_last_target_status): New
process_stratum_target parameter.
* inline-frame.c (clear_inline_frame_state(ptid_t)): Add
process_stratum_target parameter, and use it.
(clear_inline_frame_state (thread_info*)): New.
* inline-frame.c (clear_inline_frame_state(ptid_t)): Add
process_stratum_target parameter.
(clear_inline_frame_state (thread_info*)): Declare.
* linux-fork.c (delete_checkpoint_command): Pass target down to
find_thread_ptid.
(checkpoint_command): Adjust.
* linux-nat.c (linux_nat_target::follow_fork): Switch to thread
instead of just tweaking inferior_ptid.
(linux_nat_switch_fork): Pass target down to thread_change_ptid.
(exit_lwp): Pass target down to find_thread_ptid.
(attach_proc_task_lwp_callback): Pass target down to
add_thread/set_running/set_executing.
(linux_nat_target::attach): Pass target down to
thread_change_ptid.
(get_detach_signal): Pass target down to find_thread_ptid.
Consider last target status's target.
(linux_resume_one_lwp_throw, resume_lwp)
(linux_handle_syscall_trap, linux_handle_extended_wait, wait_lwp)
(stop_wait_callback, save_stop_reason, linux_nat_filter_event)
(linux_nat_wait_1, resume_stopped_resumed_lwps): Pass target down.
(linux_nat_target::async_wait_fd): New.
(linux_nat_stop_lwp, linux_nat_target::thread_address_space): Pass
target down.
* linux-nat.h (linux_nat_target::async_wait_fd): Declare.
* linux-tdep.c (get_thread_arch_regcache): Pass target down.
* linux-thread-db.c (struct thread_db_info::process_target): New
field.
(add_thread_db_info): Save target.
(get_thread_db_info): New process_stratum_target parameter. Also
match target.
(delete_thread_db_info): New process_stratum_target parameter.
Also match target.
(thread_from_lwp): Adjust to pass down target.
(thread_db_notice_clone): Pass down target.
(check_thread_db_callback): Pass down target.
(try_thread_db_load_1): Always push the thread_db target.
(try_thread_db_load, record_thread): Pass target down.
(thread_db_target::detach): Pass target down. Always unpush the
thread_db target.
(thread_db_target::wait, thread_db_target::mourn_inferior): Pass
target down. Always unpush the thread_db target.
(find_new_threads_callback, thread_db_find_new_threads_2)
(thread_db_target::update_thread_list): Pass target down.
(thread_db_target::pid_to_str): Pass current inferior down.
(thread_db_target::get_thread_local_address): Pass target down.
(thread_db_target::resume, maintenance_check_libthread_db): Pass
target down.
* nto-procfs.c (nto_procfs_target::update_thread_list): Adjust.
* procfs.c (procfs_target::procfs_init_inferior): Declare.
(proc_set_current_signal, do_attach, procfs_target::wait): Adjust.
(procfs_init_inferior): Rename to ...
(procfs_target::procfs_init_inferior): ... this and adjust.
(procfs_target::create_inferior, procfs_notice_thread)
(procfs_do_thread_registers): Adjust.
* ppc-fbsd-tdep.c: Include "inferior.h".
(ppcfbsd_get_thread_local_address): Pass down target.
* proc-service.c (ps_xfer_memory): Switch current inferior and
program space as well.
(get_ps_regcache): Pass target down.
* process-stratum-target.c
(process_stratum_target::thread_address_space)
(process_stratum_target::thread_architecture): Pass target down.
* process-stratum-target.h
(process_stratum_target::threads_executing): New field.
(as_process_stratum_target): New.
* ravenscar-thread.c
(ravenscar_thread_target::update_inferior_ptid): Pass target down.
(ravenscar_thread_target::wait, ravenscar_add_thread): Pass target
down.
* record-btrace.c (record_btrace_target::info_record): Adjust.
(record_btrace_target::record_method)
(record_btrace_target::record_is_replaying)
(record_btrace_target::fetch_registers)
(get_thread_current_frame_id, record_btrace_target::resume)
(record_btrace_target::wait, record_btrace_target::stop): Pass
target down.
* record-full.c (record_full_wait_1): Switch to event thread.
Pass target down.
* regcache.c (regcache::regcache)
(get_thread_arch_aspace_regcache, get_thread_arch_regcache): Add
process_stratum_target parameter and handle it.
(current_thread_target): New global.
(get_thread_regcache): Add process_stratum_target parameter and
handle it. Switch inferior before calling target method.
(get_thread_regcache): Pass target down.
(get_thread_regcache_for_ptid): Pass target down.
(registers_changed_ptid): Add process_stratum_target parameter and
handle it.
(registers_changed_thread, registers_changed): Pass target down.
(test_get_thread_arch_aspace_regcache): New.
(current_regcache_test): Define a couple local test_target_ops
instances and use them for testing.
(readwrite_regcache): Pass process_stratum_target parameter.
(cooked_read_test, cooked_write_test): Pass mock_target down.
* regcache.h (get_thread_regcache, get_thread_arch_regcache)
(get_thread_arch_aspace_regcache): Add process_stratum_target
parameter.
(regcache::target): New method.
(regcache::regcache, regcache::get_thread_arch_aspace_regcache)
(regcache::registers_changed_ptid): Add process_stratum_target
parameter.
(regcache::m_target): New field.
(registers_changed_ptid): Add process_stratum_target parameter.
* remote.c (remote_state::supports_vCont_probed): New field.
(remote_target::async_wait_fd): New method.
(remote_unpush_and_throw): Add remote_target parameter.
(get_current_remote_target): Adjust.
(remote_target::remote_add_inferior): Push target.
(remote_target::remote_add_thread)
(remote_target::remote_notice_new_inferior)
(get_remote_thread_info): Pass target down.
(remote_target::update_thread_list): Skip threads of inferiors
bound to other targets. (remote_target::close): Don't discard
inferiors. (remote_target::add_current_inferior_and_thread)
(remote_target::process_initial_stop_replies)
(remote_target::start_remote)
(remote_target::remote_serial_quit_handler): Pass down target.
(remote_target::remote_unpush_target): New remote_target
parameter. Unpush the target from all inferiors.
(remote_target::remote_unpush_and_throw): New remote_target
parameter. Pass it down.
(remote_target::open_1): Check whether the current inferior has
execution instead of checking whether any inferior is live. Pass
target down.
(remote_target::remote_detach_1): Pass down target. Use
remote_unpush_target.
(extended_remote_target::attach): Pass down target.
(remote_target::remote_vcont_probe): Set supports_vCont_probed.
(remote_target::append_resumption): Pass down target.
(remote_target::append_pending_thread_resumptions)
(remote_target::remote_resume_with_hc, remote_target::resume)
(remote_target::commit_resume): Pass down target.
(remote_target::remote_stop_ns): Check supports_vCont_probed.
(remote_target::interrupt_query)
(remote_target::remove_new_fork_children)
(remote_target::check_pending_events_prevent_wildcard_vcont)
(remote_target::remote_parse_stop_reply)
(remote_target::process_stop_reply): Pass down target.
(first_remote_resumed_thread): New remote_target parameter. Pass
it down.
(remote_target::wait_as): Pass down target.
(unpush_and_perror): New remote_target parameter. Pass it down.
(remote_target::readchar, remote_target::remote_serial_write)
(remote_target::getpkt_or_notif_sane_1)
(remote_target::kill_new_fork_children, remote_target::kill): Pass
down target.
(remote_target::mourn_inferior): Pass down target. Use
remote_unpush_target.
(remote_target::core_of_thread)
(remote_target::remote_btrace_maybe_reopen): Pass down target.
(remote_target::pid_to_exec_file)
(remote_target::thread_handle_to_thread_info): Pass down target.
(remote_target::async_wait_fd): New.
* riscv-fbsd-tdep.c: Include "inferior.h".
(riscv_fbsd_get_thread_local_address): Pass down target.
* sol2-tdep.c (sol2_core_pid_to_str): Pass down target.
* sol-thread.c (sol_thread_target::wait, ps_lgetregs, ps_lsetregs)
(ps_lgetfpregs, ps_lsetfpregs, sol_update_thread_list_callback):
Adjust.
* solib-spu.c (spu_skip_standalone_loader): Pass down target.
* solib-svr4.c (enable_break): Pass down target.
* spu-multiarch.c (parse_spufs_run): Pass down target.
* spu-tdep.c (spu2ppu_sniffer): Pass down target.
* target-delegates.c: Regenerate.
* target.c (g_target_stack): Delete.
(current_top_target): Return the current inferior's top target.
(target_has_execution_1): Refer to the passed-in inferior's top
target.
(target_supports_terminal_ours): Check whether the initial
inferior was already created.
(decref_target): New.
(target_stack::push): Incref/decref the target.
(push_target, push_target, unpush_target): Adjust.
(target_stack::unpush): Defref target.
(target_is_pushed): Return bool. Adjust to refer to the current
inferior's target stack.
(dispose_inferior): Delete, and inline parts ...
(target_preopen): ... here. Only dispose of the current inferior.
(target_detach): Hold strong target reference while detaching.
Pass target down.
(target_thread_name): Add assertion.
(target_resume): Pass down target.
(target_ops::beneath, find_target_at): Adjust to refer to the
current inferior's target stack.
(get_dummy_target): New.
(target_pass_ctrlc): Pass the Ctrl-C to the first inferior that
has a thread running.
(initialize_targets): Rename to ...
(_initialize_target): ... this.
* target.h: Include "gdbsupport/refcounted-object.h".
(struct target_ops): Inherit refcounted_object.
(target_ops::shortname, target_ops::longname): Make const.
(target_ops::async_wait_fd): New method.
(decref_target): Declare.
(struct target_ops_ref_policy): New.
(target_ops_ref): New typedef.
(get_dummy_target): Declare function.
(target_is_pushed): Return bool.
* thread-iter.c (all_matching_threads_iterator::m_inf_matches)
(all_matching_threads_iterator::all_matching_threads_iterator):
Handle filter target.
* thread-iter.h (struct all_matching_threads_iterator, struct
all_matching_threads_range, class all_non_exited_threads_range):
Filter by target too. Remove explicit.
* thread.c (threads_executing): Delete.
(inferior_thread): Pass down current inferior.
(clear_thread_inferior_resources): Pass down thread pointer
instead of ptid_t.
(add_thread_silent, add_thread_with_info, add_thread): Add
process_stratum_target parameter. Use it for thread and inferior
searches.
(is_current_thread): New.
(thread_info::deletable): Use it.
(find_thread_ptid, thread_count, in_thread_list)
(thread_change_ptid, set_resumed, set_running): New
process_stratum_target parameter. Pass it down.
(set_executing): New process_stratum_target parameter. Pass it
down. Adjust reference to 'threads_executing'.
(threads_are_executing): New process_stratum_target parameter.
Adjust reference to 'threads_executing'.
(set_stop_requested, finish_thread_state): New
process_stratum_target parameter. Pass it down.
(switch_to_thread): Also match inferior.
(switch_to_thread): New process_stratum_target parameter. Pass it
down.
(update_threads_executing): Reimplement.
* top.c (quit_force): Pop targets from all inferior.
(gdb_init): Don't call initialize_targets.
* windows-nat.c (windows_nat_target) <get_windows_debug_event>:
Declare.
(windows_add_thread, windows_delete_thread): Adjust.
(get_windows_debug_event): Rename to ...
(windows_nat_target::get_windows_debug_event): ... this. Adjust.
* tracefile-tfile.c (tfile_target_open): Pass down target.
* gdbsupport/common-gdbthread.h (struct process_stratum_target):
Forward declare.
(switch_to_thread): Add process_stratum_target parameter.
* mi/mi-interp.c (mi_on_resume_1): Add process_stratum_target
parameter. Use it.
(mi_on_resume): Pass target down.
* nat/fork-inferior.c (startup_inferior): Add
process_stratum_target parameter. Pass it down.
* nat/fork-inferior.h (startup_inferior): Add
process_stratum_target parameter.
* python/py-threadevent.c (py_get_event_thread): Pass target down.
gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog:
2020-01-10 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* fork-child.c (post_fork_inferior): Pass target down to
startup_inferior.
* inferiors.c (switch_to_thread): Add process_stratum_target
parameter.
* lynx-low.c (lynx_target_ops): Now a process_stratum_target.
* nto-low.c (nto_target_ops): Now a process_stratum_target.
* linux-low.c (linux_target_ops): Now a process_stratum_target.
* remote-utils.c (prepare_resume_reply): Pass the target to
switch_to_thread.
* target.c (the_target): Now a process_stratum_target.
(done_accessing_memory): Pass the target to switch_to_thread.
(set_target_ops): Ajust to use process_stratum_target.
* target.h (struct target_ops): Rename to ...
(struct process_stratum_target): ... this.
(the_target, set_target_ops): Adjust.
(prepare_to_access_memory): Adjust comment.
* win32-low.c (child_xfer_memory): Adjust to use
process_stratum_target.
(win32_target_ops): Now a process_stratum_target.
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README for GDB release
This is GDB, the GNU source-level debugger.
A summary of new features is in the file `gdb/NEWS'.
Check the GDB home page at http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/ for up to
date release information, mailing list links and archives, etc.
GDB's bug tracking data base can be found at
http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/
Unpacking and Installation -- quick overview
==========================
The release is provided as a gzipped tar file called
'gdb-VERSION.tar.gz', where VERSION is the version of GDB.
The GDB debugger sources, the generic GNU include
files, the BFD ("binary file description") library, the readline
library, and other libraries all have directories of their own
underneath the gdb-VERSION directory. The idea is that a variety of GNU
tools can share a common copy of these things. Be aware of variation
over time--for example don't try to build GDB with a copy of bfd from
a release other than the GDB release (such as a binutils release),
especially if the releases are more than a few weeks apart.
Configuration scripts and makefiles exist to cruise up and down this
directory tree and automatically build all the pieces in the right
order.
When you unpack the gdb-VERSION.tar.gz file, it will create a
source directory called `gdb-VERSION'.
You can build GDB right in the source directory:
cd gdb-VERSION
./configure --prefix=/usr/local (or wherever you want)
make all install
However, we recommend that an empty directory be used instead.
This way you do not clutter your source tree with binary files
and will be able to create different builds with different
configuration options.
You can build GDB in any empty build directory:
mkdir build
cd build
<full path to your sources>/gdb-VERSION/configure [etc...]
make all install
(Building GDB with DJGPP tools for MS-DOS/MS-Windows is slightly
different; see the file gdb-VERSION/gdb/config/djgpp/README for details.)
This will configure and build all the libraries as well as GDB. If
`configure' can't determine your system type, specify one as its
argument, e.g., `./configure sun4' or `./configure decstation'.
Make sure that your 'configure' line ends in 'gdb-VERSION/configure':
/berman/migchain/source/gdb-VERSION/configure # RIGHT
/berman/migchain/source/gdb-VERSION/gdb/configure # WRONG
The GDB package contains several subdirectories, such as 'gdb',
'bfd', and 'readline'. If your 'configure' line ends in
'gdb-VERSION/gdb/configure', then you are configuring only the gdb
subdirectory, not the whole GDB package. This leads to build errors
such as:
make: *** No rule to make target `../bfd/bfd.h', needed by `gdb.o'. Stop.
If you get other compiler errors during this stage, see the `Reporting
Bugs' section below; there are a few known problems.
GDB's `configure' script has many options to enable or disable
different features or dependencies. These options are not generally
known to the top-level `configure', so if you want to see a complete
list of options, invoke the subdirectory `configure', like:
/berman/migchain/source/gdb-VERSION/gdb/configure --help
(Take note of how this differs from the invocation used to actually
configure the build tree.)
GDB requires a C++11 compiler. If you do not have a
C++11 compiler for your system, you may be able to download and install
the GNU CC compiler. It is available via anonymous FTP from the
directory `ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc'. GDB also requires an ISO
C standard library. The GDB remote server, GDBserver, builds with some
non-ISO standard libraries - e.g. for Windows CE.
GDB can optionally be built against various external libraries.
These dependencies are described below in the "`configure options"
section of this README.
GDB can be used as a cross-debugger, running on a machine of one
type while debugging a program running on a machine of another type.
See below.
More Documentation
******************
All the documentation for GDB comes as part of the machine-readable
distribution. The documentation is written in Texinfo format, which
is a documentation system that uses a single source file to produce
both on-line information and a printed manual. You can use one of the
Info formatting commands to create the on-line version of the
documentation and TeX (or `texi2roff') to typeset the printed version.
GDB includes an already formatted copy of the on-line Info version
of this manual in the `gdb/doc' subdirectory. The main Info file is
`gdb-VERSION/gdb/doc/gdb.info', and it refers to subordinate files
matching `gdb.info*' in the same directory. If necessary, you can
print out these files, or read them with any editor; but they are
easier to read using the `info' subsystem in GNU Emacs or the
standalone `info' program, available as part of the GNU Texinfo
distribution.
If you want to format these Info files yourself, you need one of the
Info formatting programs, such as `texinfo-format-buffer' or
`makeinfo'.
If you have `makeinfo' installed, and are in the top level GDB
source directory (`gdb-VERSION'), you can make the Info file by
typing:
cd gdb/doc
make info
If you want to typeset and print copies of this manual, you need
TeX, a program to print its DVI output files, and `texinfo.tex', the
Texinfo definitions file. This file is included in the GDB
distribution, in the directory `gdb-VERSION/texinfo'.
TeX is a typesetting program; it does not print files directly, but
produces output files called DVI files. To print a typeset document,
you need a program to print DVI files. If your system has TeX
installed, chances are it has such a program. The precise command to
use depends on your system; `lpr -d' is common; another (for PostScript
devices) is `dvips'. The DVI print command may require a file name
without any extension or a `.dvi' extension.
TeX also requires a macro definitions file called `texinfo.tex'.
This file tells TeX how to typeset a document written in Texinfo
format. On its own, TeX cannot read, much less typeset a Texinfo file.
`texinfo.tex' is distributed with GDB and is located in the
`gdb-VERSION/texinfo' directory.
If you have TeX and a DVI printer program installed, you can typeset
and print this manual. First switch to the `gdb' subdirectory of
the main source directory (for example, to `gdb-VERSION/gdb') and then type:
make doc/gdb.dvi
If you prefer to have the manual in PDF format, type this from the
`gdb/doc' subdirectory of the main source directory:
make gdb.pdf
For this to work, you will need the PDFTeX package to be installed.
Installing GDB
**************
GDB comes with a `configure' script that automates the process of
preparing GDB for installation; you can then use `make' to build the
`gdb' program.
The GDB distribution includes all the source code you need for GDB in
a single directory. That directory contains:
`gdb-VERSION/{COPYING,COPYING.LIB}'
Standard GNU license files. Please read them.
`gdb-VERSION/bfd'
source for the Binary File Descriptor library
`gdb-VERSION/config*'
script for configuring GDB, along with other support files
`gdb-VERSION/gdb'
the source specific to GDB itself
`gdb-VERSION/include'
GNU include files
`gdb-VERSION/libiberty'
source for the `-liberty' free software library
`gdb-VERSION/opcodes'
source for the library of opcode tables and disassemblers
`gdb-VERSION/readline'
source for the GNU command-line interface
NOTE: The readline library is compiled for use by GDB, but will
not be installed on your system when "make install" is issued.
`gdb-VERSION/sim'
source for some simulators (ARM, D10V, SPARC, M32R, MIPS, PPC, V850, etc)
`gdb-VERSION/texinfo'
The `texinfo.tex' file, which you need in order to make a printed
manual using TeX.
`gdb-VERSION/etc'
Coding standards, useful files for editing GDB, and other
miscellanea.
Note: the following instructions are for building GDB on Unix or
Unix-like systems. Instructions for building with DJGPP for
MS-DOS/MS-Windows are in the file gdb/config/djgpp/README.
The simplest way to configure and build GDB is to run `configure'
from the `gdb-VERSION' directory.
First switch to the `gdb-VERSION' source directory if you are
not already in it; then run `configure'.
For example:
cd gdb-VERSION
./configure
make
Running `configure' followed by `make' builds the `bfd',
`readline', `mmalloc', and `libiberty' libraries, then `gdb' itself.
The configured source files, and the binaries, are left in the
corresponding source directories.
`configure' is a Bourne-shell (`/bin/sh') script; if your system
does not recognize this automatically when you run a different shell,
you may need to run `sh' on it explicitly:
sh configure
If you run `configure' from a directory that contains source
directories for multiple libraries or programs, `configure' creates
configuration files for every directory level underneath (unless
you tell it not to, with the `--norecursion' option).
You can install `gdb' anywhere; it has no hardwired paths. However,
you should make sure that the shell on your path (named by the `SHELL'
environment variable) is publicly readable. Remember that GDB uses the
shell to start your program--some systems refuse to let GDB debug child
processes whose programs are not readable.
Compiling GDB in another directory
==================================
If you want to run GDB versions for several host or target machines,
you need a different `gdb' compiled for each combination of host and
target. `configure' is designed to make this easy by allowing you to
generate each configuration in a separate subdirectory, rather than in
the source directory. If your `make' program handles the `VPATH'
feature correctly (GNU `make' and SunOS 'make' are two that should),
running `make' in each of these directories builds the `gdb' program
specified there.
To build `gdb' in a separate directory, run `configure' with the
`--srcdir' option to specify where to find the source. (You also need
to specify a path to find `configure' itself from your working
directory. If the path to `configure' would be the same as the
argument to `--srcdir', you can leave out the `--srcdir' option; it
will be assumed.)
For example, you can build GDB in a separate
directory for a Sun 4 like this:
cd gdb-VERSION
mkdir ../gdb-sun4
cd ../gdb-sun4
../gdb-VERSION/configure
make
When `configure' builds a configuration using a remote source
directory, it creates a tree for the binaries with the same structure
(and using the same names) as the tree under the source directory. In
the example, you'd find the Sun 4 library `libiberty.a' in the
directory `gdb-sun4/libiberty', and GDB itself in `gdb-sun4/gdb'.
One popular reason to build several GDB configurations in separate
directories is to configure GDB for cross-compiling (where GDB runs on
one machine--the host--while debugging programs that run on another
machine--the target). You specify a cross-debugging target by giving
the `--target=TARGET' option to `configure'.
When you run `make' to build a program or library, you must run it
in a configured directory--whatever directory you were in when you
called `configure' (or one of its subdirectories).
The `Makefile' that `configure' generates in each source directory
also runs recursively. If you type `make' in a source directory such
as `gdb-VERSION' (or in a separate configured directory configured with
`--srcdir=PATH/gdb-VERSION'), you will build all the required libraries,
and then build GDB.
When you have multiple hosts or targets configured in separate
directories, you can run `make' on them in parallel (for example, if
they are NFS-mounted on each of the hosts); they will not interfere
with each other.
Specifying names for hosts and targets
======================================
The specifications used for hosts and targets in the `configure'
script are based on a three-part naming scheme, but some short
predefined aliases are also supported. The full naming scheme encodes
three pieces of information in the following pattern:
ARCHITECTURE-VENDOR-OS
For example, you can use the alias `sun4' as a HOST argument or in a
`--target=TARGET' option. The equivalent full name is
`sparc-sun-sunos4'.
The `configure' script accompanying GDB does not provide any query
facility to list all supported host and target names or aliases.
`configure' calls the Bourne shell script `config.sub' to map
abbreviations to full names; you can read the script, if you wish, or
you can use it to test your guesses on abbreviations--for example:
% sh config.sub sun4
sparc-sun-sunos4.1.1
% sh config.sub sun3
m68k-sun-sunos4.1.1
% sh config.sub decstation
mips-dec-ultrix4.2
% sh config.sub hp300bsd
m68k-hp-bsd
% sh config.sub i386v
i386-pc-sysv
% sh config.sub i786v
Invalid configuration `i786v': machine `i786v' not recognized
`config.sub' is also distributed in the GDB source directory.
`configure' options
===================
Here is a summary of the `configure' options and arguments that are
most often useful for building GDB. `configure' also has several other
options not listed here. There are many options to gdb's `configure'
script, some of which are only useful in special situation.
*note : (autoconf.info)Running configure scripts, for a full
explanation of `configure'.
configure [--help]
[--prefix=DIR]
[--srcdir=PATH]
[--target=TARGET]
[--host=HOST]
[HOST]
You may introduce options with a single `-' rather than `--' if you
prefer; but you may abbreviate option names if you use `--'. Some
more obscure GDB `configure' options are not listed here.
`--help'
Display a quick summary of how to invoke `configure'.
`-prefix=DIR'
Configure the source to install programs and files under directory
`DIR'.
`--srcdir=PATH'
*Warning: using this option requires GNU `make', or another `make'
that compatibly implements the `VPATH' feature.*
Use this option to make configurations in directories separate
from the GDB source directories. Among other things, you can use
this to build (or maintain) several configurations simultaneously,
in separate directories. `configure' writes configuration
specific files in the current directory, but arranges for them to
use the source in the directory PATH. `configure' will create
directories under the working directory in parallel to the source
directories below PATH.
`--host=HOST'
Configure GDB to run on the specified HOST.
There is no convenient way to generate a list of all available
hosts.
`HOST ...'
Same as `--host=HOST'. If you omit this, GDB will guess; it's
quite accurate.
`--target=TARGET'
Configure GDB for cross-debugging programs running on the specified
TARGET. Without this option, GDB is configured to debug programs
that run on the same machine (HOST) as GDB itself.
There is no convenient way to generate a list of all available
targets.
`--enable-targets=TARGET,TARGET,...'
`--enable-targets=all`
Configure GDB for cross-debugging programs running on the
specified list of targets. The special value `all' configures
GDB for debugging programs running on any target it supports.
`--with-gdb-datadir=PATH'
Set the GDB-specific data directory. GDB will look here for
certain supporting files or scripts. This defaults to the `gdb'
subdirectory of `datadir' (which can be set using `--datadir').
`--with-relocated-sources=DIR'
Sets up the default source path substitution rule so that
directory names recorded in debug information will be
automatically adjusted for any directory under DIR. DIR should
be a subdirectory of GDB's configured prefix, the one mentioned
in the `--prefix' or `--exec-prefix' options to configure. This
option is useful if GDB is supposed to be moved to a different
place after it is built.
`--enable-64-bit-bfd'
Enable 64-bit support in BFD on 32-bit hosts.
`--disable-gdbmi'
Build GDB without the GDB/MI machine interface.
`--enable-tui'
Build GDB with the text-mode full-screen user interface (TUI).
Requires a curses library (ncurses and cursesX are also
supported).
`--with-curses'
Use the curses library instead of the termcap library, for
text-mode terminal operations.
`--with-libunwind-ia64'
Use the libunwind library for unwinding function call stack on ia64
target platforms.
See http://www.nongnu.org/libunwind/index.html for details.
`--with-system-readline'
Use the readline library installed on the host, rather than the
library supplied as part of GDB. Readline 7 or newer is required;
this is enforced by the build system.
`--with-system-zlib
Use the zlib library installed on the host, rather than the
library supplied as part of GDB.
`--with-expat'
Build GDB with Expat, a library for XML parsing. (Done by
default if libexpat is installed and found at configure time.)
This library is used to read XML files supplied with GDB. If it
is unavailable, some features, such as remote protocol memory
maps, target descriptions, and shared library lists, that are
based on XML files, will not be available in GDB. If your host
does not have libexpat installed, you can get the latest version
from `http://expat.sourceforge.net'.
`--with-libiconv-prefix[=DIR]'
Build GDB with GNU libiconv, a character set encoding conversion
library. This is not done by default, as on GNU systems the
`iconv' that is built in to the C library is sufficient. If your
host does not have a working `iconv', you can get the latest
version of GNU iconv from `https://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/'.
GDB's build system also supports building GNU libiconv as part of
the overall build. See the GDB manual instructions on how to do
this.
`--with-lzma'
Build GDB with LZMA, a compression library. (Done by default if
liblzma is installed and found at configure time.) LZMA is used
by GDB's "mini debuginfo" feature, which is only useful on
platforms using the ELF object file format. If your host does
not have liblzma installed, you can get the latest version from
`https://tukaani.org/xz/'.
`--with-mpfr'
Build GDB with GNU MPFR, a library for multiple-precision
floating-point computation with correct rounding. (Done by
default if GNU MPFR is installed and found at configure time.)
This library is used to emulate target floating-point arithmetic
during expression evaluation when the target uses different
floating-point formats than the host. If GNU MPFR is not
available, GDB will fall back to using host floating-point
arithmetic. If your host does not have GNU MPFR installed, you
can get the latest version from `http://www.mpfr.org'.
`--with-python[=PYTHON]'
Build GDB with Python scripting support. (Done by default if
libpython is present and found at configure time.) Python makes
GDB scripting much more powerful than the restricted CLI
scripting language. If your host does not have Python installed,
you can find it on `http://www.python.org/download/'. The oldest
version of Python supported by GDB is 2.6. The optional argument
PYTHON is used to find the Python headers and libraries. It can
be either the name of a Python executable, or the name of the
directory in which Python is installed.
`--with-guile[=GUILE]'
Build GDB with GNU Guile scripting support. (Done by default if
libguile is present and found at configure time.) If your host
does not have Guile installed, you can find it at
`https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/'. The optional argument
GUILE can be a version number, which will cause `configure' to
try to use that version of Guile; or the file name of a
`pkg-config' executable, which will be queried to find the
information needed to compile and link against Guile.
`--enable-source-highlight'
When printing source code, use source highlighting. This requires
libsource-highlight to be installed and is enabled by default
if the library is found.
`--with-xxhash'
Use libxxhash for hashing. This has no user-visible effect but
speeds up various GDB operations such as symbol loading. Enabled
by default if libxxhash is found.
`--without-included-regex'
Don't use the regex library included with GDB (as part of the
libiberty library). This is the default on hosts with version 2
of the GNU C library.
`--with-sysroot=DIR'
Use DIR as the default system root directory for libraries whose
file names begin with `/lib' or `/usr/lib'. (The value of DIR
can be modified at run time by using the "set sysroot" command.)
If DIR is under the GDB configured prefix (set with `--prefix' or
`--exec-prefix' options), the default system root will be
automatically adjusted if and when GDB is moved to a different
location.
`--with-system-gdbinit=FILE'
Configure GDB to automatically load a system-wide init file.
FILE should be an absolute file name. If FILE is in a directory
under the configured prefix, and GDB is moved to another location
after being built, the location of the system-wide init file will
be adjusted accordingly.
`--with-system-gdbinit-dir=DIR'
Configure GDB to automatically load system-wide init files from
a directory. Files with extensions `.gdb', `.py' (if Python
support is enabled) and `.scm' (if Guile support is enabled) are
supported. DIR should be an absolute directory name. If DIR is
in a directory under the configured prefix, and GDB is moved to
another location after being built, the location of the system-
wide init directory will be adjusted accordingly.
`--enable-build-warnings'
When building the GDB sources, ask the compiler to warn about any
code which looks even vaguely suspicious. It passes many
different warning flags, depending on the exact version of the
compiler you are using.
`--enable-werror'
Treat compiler warnings as werrors. It adds the -Werror flag to
the compiler, which will fail the compilation if the compiler
outputs any warning messages.
`--enable-ubsan'
Enable the GCC undefined behavior sanitizer. By default this is
disabled in GDB releases, but enabled when building from git.
The undefined behavior sanitizer checks for C++ undefined
behavior. It has a performance cost, so if you are looking at
GDB's performance, you should disable it.
`--enable-unit-tests[=yes|no]'
Enable (i.e., include) support for unit tests when compiling GDB
and GDBServer. Note that if this option is not passed, GDB will
have selftests if it is a development build, and will *not* have
selftests if it is a non-development build.
`configure' accepts other options, for compatibility with configuring
other GNU tools recursively.
Remote debugging
=================
The files m68k-stub.c, i386-stub.c, and sparc-stub.c are examples
of remote stubs to be used with remote.c. They are designed to run
standalone on an m68k, i386, or SPARC cpu and communicate properly
with the remote.c stub over a serial line.
The directory gdb/gdbserver/ contains `gdbserver', a program that
allows remote debugging for Unix applications. GDBserver is only
supported for some native configurations, including Sun 3, Sun 4, and
Linux.
The file gdb/gdbserver/README includes further notes on GDBserver; in
particular, it explains how to build GDBserver for cross-debugging
(where GDBserver runs on the target machine, which is of a different
architecture than the host machine running GDB).
Reporting Bugs in GDB
=====================
There are several ways of reporting bugs in GDB. The prefered
method is to use the World Wide Web:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/
As an alternative, the bug report can be submitted, via e-mail, to the
address "bug-gdb@gnu.org".
When submitting a bug, please include the GDB version number, and
how you configured it (e.g., "sun4" or "mach386 host,
i586-intel-synopsys target"). Since GDB supports so many
different configurations, it is important that you be precise about
this. The simplest way to do this is to include the output from these
commands:
% gdb --version
% gdb --config
For more information on how/whether to report bugs, see the
Reporting Bugs chapter of the GDB manual (gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo).
Graphical interface to GDB -- X Windows, MS Windows
==========================
Several graphical interfaces to GDB are available. You should
check:
https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDB%20Front%20Ends
for an up-to-date list.
Emacs users will very likely enjoy the Grand Unified Debugger mode;
try typing `M-x gdb RET'.
Writing Code for GDB
=====================
There is information about writing code for GDB in the file
`CONTRIBUTE' and at the website:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/
in particular in the wiki.
If you are pondering writing anything but a short patch, especially
take note of the information about copyrights and copyright assignment.
It can take quite a while to get all the paperwork done, so
we encourage you to start that process as soon as you decide you are
planning to work on something, or at least well ahead of when you
think you will be ready to submit the patches.
GDB Testsuite
=============
Included with the GDB distribution is a DejaGNU based testsuite
that can either be used to test your newly built GDB, or for
regression testing a GDB with local modifications.
Running the testsuite requires the prior installation of DejaGNU,
which is generally available via ftp. The directory
ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/dejagnu/ will contain a recent snapshot.
Once DejaGNU is installed, you can run the tests in one of the
following ways:
(1) cd gdb-VERSION
make check-gdb
or
(2) cd gdb-VERSION/gdb
make check
or
(3) cd gdb-VERSION/gdb/testsuite
make site.exp (builds the site specific file)
runtest -tool gdb GDB=../gdb (or GDB=<somepath> as appropriate)
When using a `make'-based method, you can use the Makefile variable
`RUNTESTFLAGS' to pass flags to `runtest', e.g.:
make RUNTESTFLAGS=--directory=gdb.cp check
If you use GNU make, you can use its `-j' option to run the testsuite
in parallel. This can greatly reduce the amount of time it takes for
the testsuite to run. In this case, if you set `RUNTESTFLAGS' then,
by default, the tests will be run serially even under `-j'. You can
override this and force a parallel run by setting the `make' variable
`FORCE_PARALLEL' to any non-empty value. Note that the parallel `make
check' assumes that you want to run the entire testsuite, so it is not
compatible with some dejagnu options, like `--directory'.
The last method gives you slightly more control in case of problems
with building one or more test executables or if you are using the
testsuite `standalone', without it being part of the GDB source tree.
See the DejaGNU documentation for further details.
Copyright and License Notices
=============================
Most files maintained by the GDB Project contain a copyright notice
as well as a license notice, usually at the start of the file.
To reduce the length of copyright notices, consecutive years in the
copyright notice can be combined into a single range. For instance,
the following list of copyright years...
1986, 1988, 1989, 1991-1993, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
... is abbreviated into:
1986, 1988-1989, 1991-1993, 1999-2000, 2007-2011
Every year of each range, inclusive, is a copyrightable year that
could be listed individually.
(this is for editing this file with GNU emacs)
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