For C/C++/Fortran languages GDB prints same name variable multiple times in
case of variable shadowing and it is confusing for user to identify which
variable belongs to the current scope. So GDB now prints location information
for shadowed variables and add 'shadowed' field also in '-stack-list-locals'
and '-stack-list-variables' mi commands for super-block shadowed variable.
Suppose we have test.c file
1:int x = 3;
2: {
3: int x = 4;
4: int y = 5;
5: x = 99; /* break here */
6: }
The "-stack-list-locals" and "-stack-list-variables" mi commands at the
"break here" line gives the following output:
Before the change:
~~~
(gdb)
-stack-list-locals 0
^done,locals=[name="x",name="y",name="x"]
(gdb)
-stack-list-locals 1
^done,locals=[{name="x",value="4"},{name="y",value="5"},{name="x",value="3"}]
(gdb)
-stack-list-locals 2
^done,locals=[{name="x",type="int",value="4"},{name="y",type="int",value="5"},{name="x",type="int",value="3"}]
(gdb)
-stack-list-variables 0
^done,variables=[{name="x"},{name="y"},{name="x"}]
(gdb)
-stack-list-variables 1
^done,variables=[{name="x",value="4"},{name="y",value="5"},{name="x",value="3"}]
(gdb)
-stack-list-variables 2
^done,variables=[{name="x",type="int",value="4"},{name="y",type="int",value="5"},{name="x",type="int",value="3"}]
~~~
With this patch we obtain:
~~~
(gdb)
-stack-list-locals 0
^done,locals=[name="x",name="y",name="x"]
(gdb)
-stack-list-locals 1
^done,locals=[{name="x",value="4",filename="../test.c",fullname="/home/src/test.c",line="3"},{name="y",value="5"},{name="x",value="3",filename="../test.c",fullname="/home/src/test.c",line="1",shadowed="true"}]
(gdb)
-stack-list-locals 2
^done,locals=[{name="x",type="int",value="4",filename="../test.c",fullname="/home/src/test.c",line="3"},{name="y",type="int",value="5"},{name="x",type="int",value="3",filename="../test.c",fullname="/home/src/test.c",line="1",shadowed="true"}]
(gdb)
-stack-list-variables 0
^done,variables=[{name="x",filename="../test.c",fullname="/home/src/test.c",line="3"},{name="y"},{name="x",filename="../test.c",fullname="/home/src/test.c",line="1",shadowed="true"}]
(gdb)
-stack-list-variables 1
^done,variables=[{name="x",value="4",filename="../test.c",fullname="/home/src/test.c",line="3"},{name="y",value="5"},{name="x",value="3",filename="../test.c",fullname="/home/src/test.c",line="1",shadowed="true"}]
(gdb)
-stack-list-variables 2
^done,variables=[{name="x",type="int",value="4",filename="../test.c",fullname="/home/src/test.c",line="3"},{name="y",type="int",value="5"},{name="x",type="int",value="3",filename="../test.c",fullname="/home/src/test.c",line="1",shadowed="true"}]
~~~
Reviewed-By: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
I came across "get_selected_frame (nullptr)", and realized nullptr is the
default argument, so this can be simplified to "get_selected_frame ()".
Do so using the following script:
...
$ find gdb* -type f -name "*.[ch]" -o -name "*.cc" \
| xargs sed -i 's/get_selected_frame (nullptr)/get_selected_frame ()/'
...
and likewise for "get_selected_frame (NULL)".
Tested on x86_64-linux.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
gdb has some code that looks up argument variables a second time. So
for instance in mi-cmd-stack.c:
if (sym->is_argument ())
sym2 = (lookup_symbol_search_name
(sym->search_name (),
block, SEARCH_VAR_DOMAIN).symbol);
else
sym2 = sym;
I believe this is a leftover artifact of stabs. I'm not really
certain (I never really learned stabs) but I think in stabs a function
argument had two symbols: one for the parameter and a second one that
described the location of the argument after the prologue.
DWARF doesn't do this, and there's no need to keep this code around
any more.
This patch removes these vestiges. In the Ada code, removing the
special argument handling also left the "found_sym" code unused,
leading to more deletions.
For block_lookup_symbol, while the comment there explains that the
"best symbol" hack isn't needed in this situation, it seemed to me
that (1) it might in fact be (because I think a function block could
very well have locals and types as well), and (2) making this function
simpler and removing the argument hack is the better approach anyway.
Regression tested on x86-64 Fedora 43.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34037
This updates the copyright headers to include 2026. I did this by
running gdb/copyright.py and then manually modifying a few files as
noted by the script.
I noticed my IDE (VSCode) starting to automatically trim trailing
whitespaces on save, despite the setting for it being disabled. I
realized that this is because the .editorconfig file now has
trim_trailing_whitespace = true
for many file types. If we have this EditorConfig setting forcing
editors to trim trailing whitespaces, I think it would make sense to
clean up trailing whitespaces from our files. Otherwise, people will
always get spurious whitespace changes when editing these files.
I did a mass cleanup using this command:
$ find gdb gdbserver gdbsupport -type f \( \
-name "*.c" -o \
-name "*.h" -o \
-name "*.cc" -o \
-name "*.texi" -o \
-name "*.exp" -o \
-name "*.tcl" -o \
-name "*.py" -o \
-name "*.s" -o \
-name "*.S" -o \
-name "*.asm" -o \
-name "*.awk" -o \
-name "*.ac" -o \
-name "Makefile*" -o \
-name "*.sh" -o \
-name "*.adb" -o \
-name "*.ads" -o \
-name "*.d" -o \
-name "*.go" -o \
-name "*.F90" -o \
-name "*.f90" \
\) -exec sed -ri 's/[ \t]+$//' {} +
I then did an autotools regen, because we don't actually want to change
the Makefile and Makefile.in files that are generated.
Change-Id: I6f91b83e3b8c4dc7d5d51a2ebf60706120efe691
PR ada/33217 points out that gdb incorrectly calls the <ctype.h>
functions. In particular, gdb feels free to pass a 'char' like:
char *str = ...;
... isdigit (*str)
This is incorrect as isdigit only accepts EOF and values that can be
represented as 'unsigned char' -- that is, a cast is needed here to
avoid undefined behavior when 'char' is signed and a character in the
string might be sign-extended. (As an aside, I think this API seems
obviously bad, but unfortunately this is what the standard says, and
some systems check this.)
Rather than adding casts everywhere, this changes all the code in gdb
that uses any <ctype.h> API to instead call the corresponding c-ctype
function.
Now, c-ctype has some limitations compared to <ctype.h>. It works as
if the C locale is in effect, so in theory some non-ASCII characters
may be misclassified. This would only affect a subset of character
sets, though, and in most places I think ASCII is sufficient -- for
example the many places in gdb that check for whitespace.
Furthermore, in practice most users are using UTF-8-based locales,
where these functions aren't really informative for non-ASCII
characters anyway; see the existing workarounds in gdb/c-support.h.
Note that safe-ctype.h cannot be used because it causes conflicts with
readline.h. And, we canot poison the <ctype.h> identifiers as this
provokes errors from some libstdc++ headers.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33217
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
This changes gdb and related programs to use the gnulib c-ctype code
rather than safe-ctype.h. The gdb-safe-ctype.h header is removed.
This changes common-defs.h to include the c-ctype header, making it
available everywhere in gdb.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33217
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
The enum address_class and related fields and methods seem misnamed to
me. Generalize it to "location_class". The enumerators in
address_class are already prefixed with LOC, so the new name seems
logical to me. Rename related fields and methods as well.
Plus, address_class could easily be mistaken for other unrelated things
named "address class" in GDB or DWARF.
Tested by rebuilding.
Change-Id: I0dca3738df412b350715286c608041b08e9b4d82
Approved-by: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
This updates the copyright headers to include 2025. I did this by
running gdb/copyright.py and then manually modifying a few files as
noted by the script.
Approved-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Move some declarations related to the "quit" machinery from defs.h to
event-top.h. Most of the definitions associated to these declarations
are in event-top.c. The exceptions are `quit()` and `maybe_quit()`,
that are defined in utils.c. For consistency, move these two
definitions to event-top.c.
Include "event-top.h" in many files that use these things.
Change-Id: I6594f6df9047a9a480e7b9934275d186afb14378
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Now that defs.h, server.h and common-defs.h are included via the
`-include` option, it is no longer necessary for source files to include
them. Remove all the inclusions of these files I could find. Update
the generation scripts where relevant.
Change-Id: Ia026cff269c1b7ae7386dd3619bc9bb6a5332837
Approved-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
We currently pass frames to function by value, as `frame_info_ptr`.
This is somewhat expensive:
- the size of `frame_info_ptr` is 64 bytes, which is a bit big to pass
by value
- the constructors and destructor link/unlink the object in the global
`frame_info_ptr::frame_list` list. This is an `intrusive_list`, so
it's not so bad: it's just assigning a few points, there's no memory
allocation as if it was `std::list`, but still it's useless to do
that over and over.
As suggested by Tom Tromey, change many function signatures to accept
`const frame_info_ptr &` instead of `frame_info_ptr`.
Some functions reassign their `frame_info_ptr` parameter, like:
void
the_func (frame_info_ptr frame)
{
for (; frame != nullptr; frame = get_prev_frame (frame))
{
...
}
}
I wondered what to do about them, do I leave them as-is or change them
(and need to introduce a separate local variable that can be
re-assigned). I opted for the later for consistency. It might not be
clear why some functions take `const frame_info_ptr &` while others take
`frame_info_ptr`. Also, if a function took a `frame_info_ptr` because
it did re-assign its parameter, I doubt that we would think to change it
to `const frame_info_ptr &` should the implementation change such that
it doesn't need to take `frame_info_ptr` anymore. It seems better to
have a simple rule and apply it everywhere.
Change-Id: I59d10addef687d157f82ccf4d54f5dde9a963fd0
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Currently, if frame-filters are active, raw-values is used instead of
raw-frame-arguments to decide if a pretty-printer should be invoked for
frame arguments in a backtrace.
In this example, "super struct" is the output of the pretty-printer:
(gdb) disable frame-filter global BasicFrameFilter
(gdb) bt
#0 foo (x=42, ss=super struct = {...}) at C:/src/repos/gdb-testsuite/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-frame-args.c:47
#1 0x004016aa in main () at C:/src/repos/gdb-testsuite/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-frame-args.c:57
If no frame-filter is active, then the raw-values print option does not
affect the backtrace output:
(gdb) set print raw-values on
(gdb) bt
#0 foo (x=42, ss=super struct = {...}) at C:/src/repos/gdb-testsuite/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-frame-args.c:47
#1 0x004016aa in main () at C:/src/repos/gdb-testsuite/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-frame-args.c:57
(gdb) set print raw-values off
Instead, the raw-frame-arguments option disables the pretty-printer in the
backtrace:
(gdb) bt -raw-frame-arguments on
#0 foo (x=42, ss=...) at C:/src/repos/gdb-testsuite/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-frame-args.c:47
#1 0x004016aa in main () at C:/src/repos/gdb-testsuite/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-frame-args.c:57
But if a frame-filter is active, the same rules don't apply.
The option raw-frame-arguments is ignored, but raw-values decides if the
pretty-printer is used:
(gdb) enable frame-filter global BasicFrameFilter
(gdb) bt
#0 foo (x=42, ss=super struct = {...}) at C:/src/repos/gdb-testsuite/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-frame-args.c:47
#1 0x004016aa in main () at C:/src/repos/gdb-testsuite/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-frame-args.c:57
(gdb) set print raw-values on
(gdb) bt
#0 foo (x=42, ss=...) at C:/src/repos/gdb-testsuite/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-frame-args.c:47
#1 0x004016aa in main () at C:/src/repos/gdb-testsuite/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-frame-args.c:57
(gdb) set print raw-values off
(gdb) bt -raw-frame-arguments on
#0 foo (x=42, ss=super struct = {...}) at C:/src/repos/gdb-testsuite/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-frame-args.c:47
#1 0x004016aa in main () at C:/src/repos/gdb-testsuite/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-frame-args.c:57
So this adds the PRINT_RAW_FRAME_ARGUMENTS flag to frame_filter_flag, which
is then used in the frame-filter to override the raw flag in enumerate_args.
Then the output is the same if a frame-filter is active, the pretty-printer
for backtraces is only disabled with the raw-frame-arguments option:
(gdb) enable frame-filter global BasicFrameFilter
(gdb) bt
#0 foo (x=42, ss=super struct = {...}) at C:/src/repos/gdb-testsuite/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-frame-args.c:47
#1 0x004016aa in main () at C:/src/repos/gdb-testsuite/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-frame-args.c:57
(gdb) set print raw-values on
(gdb) bt
#0 foo (x=42, ss=super struct = {...}) at C:/src/repos/gdb-testsuite/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-frame-args.c:47
#1 0x004016aa in main () at C:/src/repos/gdb-testsuite/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-frame-args.c:57
(gdb) set print raw-values off
(gdb) bt -raw-frame-arguments on
#0 foo (x=42, ss=...) at C:/src/repos/gdb-testsuite/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-frame-args.c:47
#1 0x004016aa in main () at C:/src/repos/gdb-testsuite/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-frame-args.c:57
Co-Authored-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
This changes lookup_symbol and associated APIs to accept
domain_search_flags rather than a domain_enum.
Note that this introduces some new constants to Python and Guile. I
chose to break out the documentation patch for this, because the
internals here do not change until a later patch, and it seemed
simpler to patch the docs just once, rather than twice.
This commit is the result of the following actions:
- Running gdb/copyright.py to update all of the copyright headers to
include 2024,
- Manually updating a few files the copyright.py script told me to
update, these files had copyright headers embedded within the
file,
- Regenerating gdbsupport/Makefile.in to refresh it's copyright
date,
- Using grep to find other files that still mentioned 2023. If
these files were updated last year from 2022 to 2023 then I've
updated them this year to 2024.
I'm sure I've probably missed some dates. Feel free to fix them up as
you spot them.
This changes gdb to use the C++17 [[fallthrough]] attribute rather
than special comments.
This was mostly done by script, but I neglected a few spellings and so
also fixed it up by hand.
I suspect this fixes the bug mentioned below, by switching to a
standard approach that, presumably, clang supports.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23159
Approved-By: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Approved-By: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
Approved-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
Since GDB now requires C++17, we don't need the internally maintained
gdb::optional implementation. This patch does the following replacing:
- gdb::optional -> std::optional
- gdb::in_place -> std::in_place
- #include "gdbsupport/gdb_optional.h" -> #include <optional>
This change has mostly been done automatically. One exception is
gdbsupport/thread-pool.* which did not use the gdb:: prefix as it
already lives in the gdb namespace.
Change-Id: I19a92fa03e89637bab136c72e34fd351524f65e9
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Approved-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
I've had this patch for a while now and figured I'd update it and send
it. It changes MI commands to use a "const char * const" for their
argv parameter.
Regression tested on x86-64 Fedora 36.
Acked-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
SUMMARY
The '--simple-values' argument to '-stack-list-arguments' and similar
GDB/MI commands does not take reference types into account, so that
references to arbitrarily large structures are considered "simple" and
printed. This means that the '--simple-values' argument cannot be used
by IDEs when tracing the stack due to the time taken to print large
structures passed by reference.
DETAILS
Various GDB/MI commands ('-stack-list-arguments', '-stack-list-locals',
'-stack-list-variables' and so on) take a PRINT-VALUES argument which
may be '--no-values' (0), '--all-values' (1) or '--simple-values' (2).
In the '--simple-values' case, the command is supposed to print the
name, type, and value of variables with simple types, and print only the
name and type of variables with compound types.
The '--simple-values' argument ought to be suitable for IDEs that need
to update their user interface with the program's call stack every time
the program stops. However, it does not take C++ reference types into
account, and this makes the argument unsuitable for this purpose.
For example, consider the following C++ program:
struct s {
int v[10];
};
int
sum(const struct s &s)
{
int total = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i) total += s.v[i];
return total;
}
int
main(void)
{
struct s s = { { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 } };
return sum(s);
}
If we start GDB in MI mode and continue to 'sum', the behaviour of
'-stack-list-arguments' is as follows:
(gdb)
-stack-list-arguments --simple-values
^done,stack-args=[frame={level="0",args=[{name="s",type="const s &",value="@0x7fffffffe310: {v = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}}"}]},frame={level="1",args=[]}]
Note that the value of the argument 's' was printed, even though 's' is
a reference to a structure, which is not a simple value.
See https://github.com/microsoft/MIEngine/pull/673 for a case where this
behaviour caused Microsoft to avoid the use of '--simple-values' in
their MIEngine debug adapter, because it caused Visual Studio Code to
take too long to refresh the call stack in the user interface.
SOLUTIONS
There are two ways we could fix this problem, depending on whether we
consider the current behaviour to be a bug.
1. If the current behaviour is a bug, then we can update the behaviour
of '--simple-values' so that it takes reference types into account:
that is, a value is simple if it is neither an array, struct, or
union, nor a reference to an array, struct or union.
In this case we must add a feature to the '-list-features' command so
that IDEs can detect that it is safe to use the '--simple-values'
argument when refreshing the call stack.
2. If the current behaviour is not a bug, then we can add a new option
for the PRINT-VALUES argument, for example, '--scalar-values' (3),
that would be suitable for use by IDEs.
In this case we must add a feature to the '-list-features' command
so that IDEs can detect that the '--scalar-values' argument is
available for use when refreshing the call stack.
PATCH
This patch implements solution (1) as I think the current behaviour of
not printing structures, but printing references to structures, is
contrary to reasonable expectation.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29554
Latest libc++[1] causes transitive include to <locale> when
<mutex> or <thread> header is included. This causes
gdb to not build[2] since <locale> defines isupper/islower etc.
functions that are explicitly macroed-out in safe-ctype.h to
prevent their use.
Use the suggestion from libc++ to include <locale> internally when
building in C++ mode to avoid build errors.
Use safe-gdb-ctype.h as the include instead of "safe-ctype.h"
to keep this isolated to gdb since rest of binutils
does not seem to use much C++.
[1]: https://reviews.llvm.org/D144331
[2]: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/277967395
This turns many functions that are related to optimized-out or
availability-checking to be methods of value. The static function
value_entirely_covered_by_range_vector is also converted to be a
private method.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
This changes various offset-related functions to be methods of value.
Much of this patch was written by script.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
I noticed some unusual code in mi-cmd-stack.c. This code is a switch,
where one of the cases appears in the middle of another block. It
seemed cleaner to me to have the earlier case just conditionally fall
through.
This is the second step of making frame_info_ptr automatic, reinflate on
demand whenever trying to obtain the wrapper frame_info pointer, either
through the get method or operator->. Make the reinflate method
private, it is used as a convenience method in those two.
Add an "is_null" method, because it is often needed to know whether the
frame_info_ptr wraps an frame_info or is empty.
Make m_ptr mutable, so that it's possible to reinflate const
frame_info_ptr objects. Whether m_ptr is nullptr or not does not change
the logical state of the object, because we re-create it on demand. I
believe this is the right use case for mutable.
Change-Id: Icb0552d0035e227f81eb3c121d8a9bb2f9d25794
Reviewed-By: Bruno Larsen <blarsen@redhat.com>
This is the first step of making frame_info_ptr automatic. Remove the
frame_info_ptr::prepare_reinflate method, move that code to the
constructor.
Change-Id: I85cdae3ab1c043c70e2702e7fb38e9a4a8a675d8
Reviewed-By: Bruno Larsen <blarsen@redhat.com>
This commit is the result of running the gdb/copyright.py script,
which automated the update of the copyright year range for all
source files managed by the GDB project to be updated to include
year 2023.
Currently, every internal_error call must be passed __FILE__/__LINE__
explicitly, like:
internal_error (__FILE__, __LINE__, "foo %d", var);
The need to pass in explicit __FILE__/__LINE__ is there probably
because the function predates widespread and portable variadic macros
availability. We can use variadic macros nowadays, and in fact, we
already use them in several places, including the related
gdb_assert_not_reached.
So this patch renames the internal_error function to something else,
and then reimplements internal_error as a variadic macro that expands
__FILE__/__LINE__ itself.
The result is that we now should call internal_error like so:
internal_error ("foo %d", var);
Likewise for internal_warning.
The patch adjusts all calls sites. 99% of the adjustments were done
with a perl/sed script.
The non-mechanical changes are in gdbsupport/errors.h,
gdbsupport/gdb_assert.h, and gdb/gdbarch.py.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Change-Id: Ia6f372c11550ca876829e8fd85048f4502bdcf06
Currently, despite having a smart pointer for frame_infos, GDB may
attempt to use an invalidated frame_info_ptr, which would cause internal
errors to happen. One such example has been documented as PR
python/28856, that happened when printing frame arguments calls an
inferior function.
To avoid failures, the smart wrapper was changed to also cache the frame
id, so the pointer can be reinflated later. For this to work, the
frame-id stuff had to be moved to their own .h file, which is included
by frame-info.h.
Frame_id caching is done explicitly using the prepare_reinflate method.
Caching is done manually so that only the pointers that need to be saved
will be, and reinflating has to be done manually using the reinflate
method because the get method and the -> operator must not change
the internals of the class. Finally, attempting to reinflate when the
pointer is being invalidated causes the following assertion errors:
check_ptrace_stopped_lwp_gone: assertion `lp->stopped` failed.
get_frame_pc: Assertion `frame->next != NULL` failed.
As for performance concerns, my personal testing with `time make
chec-perf GDB_PERFTEST_MODE=run` showed an actual reduction of around
10% of time running.
This commit also adds a testcase that exercises the python/28856 bug with
7 different triggers, run, continue, step, backtrace, finish, up and down.
Some of them can seem to be testing the same thing twice, but since this
test relies on stale pointers, there is always a chance that GDB got lucky
when testing, so better to test extra.
Regression tested on x86_64, using both gcc and clang.
Approved-by: Tom Tomey <tom@tromey.com>
This changes GDB to use frame_info_ptr instead of frame_info *
The substitution was done with multiple sequential `sed` commands:
sed 's/^struct frame_info;/class frame_info_ptr;/'
sed 's/struct frame_info \*/frame_info_ptr /g' - which left some
issues in a few files, that were manually fixed.
sed 's/\<frame_info \*/frame_info_ptr /g'
sed 's/frame_info_ptr $/frame_info_ptr/g' - used to remove whitespace
problems.
The changed files were then manually checked and some 'sed' changes
undone, some constructors and some gets were added, according to what
made sense, and what Tromey originally did
Co-Authored-By: Bruno Larsen <blarsen@redhat.com>
Approved-by: Tom Tomey <tom@tromey.com>
This replaces frame_id_eq with operator== and operator!=. I wrote
this for a version of this series that I later abandoned; but since it
simplifies the code, I left this patch in.
Approved-by: Tom Tomey <tom@tromey.com>
GDB notifies users about user selected thread changes somewhat
inconsistently as mentioned on gdb-patches mailing list here:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2022-February/185989.html
Consider GDB debugging a multi-threaded inferior with both CLI and GDB/MI
interfaces connected to separate terminals.
Assuming inferior is stopped and thread 1 is selected, when a thread
2 is selected using '-thread-select 2' command on GDB/MI terminal:
-thread-select 2
^done,new-thread-id="2",frame={level="0",addr="0x00005555555551cd",func="child_sub_function",args=[],file="/home/jv/Projects/gdb/users_jv_patches/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/user-selected-context-sync.c",fullname="/home/uuu/gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/user-selected-context-sync.c",line="30",arch="i386:x86-64"}
(gdb)
and on CLI terminal we get the notification (as expected):
[Switching to thread 2 (Thread 0x7ffff7daa640 (LWP 389659))]
#0 child_sub_function () at /home/uuu/gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/user-selected-context-sync.c:30
30 volatile int dummy = 0;
However, now that thread 2 is selected, if thread 1 is selected
using 'thread-select --thread 1 1' command on GDB/MI terminal
terminal:
-thread-select --thread 1 1
^done,new-thread-id="1",frame={level="0",addr="0x0000555555555294",func="main",args=[],file="/home/jv/Projects/gdb/users_jv_patches/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/user-selected-context-sync.c",fullname="/home/jv/Projects/gdb/users_jv_patches/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/user-selected-context-sync.c",line="66",arch="i386:x86-64"}
(gdb)
but no notification is printed on CLI terminal, despite the fact
that user selected thread has changed.
The problem is that when `-thread-select --thread 1 1` is executed
then thread is switched to thread 1 before mi_cmd_thread_select () is
called, therefore the condition "inferior_ptid != previous_ptid"
there does not hold.
To address this problem, we have to move notification logic up to
mi_cmd_execute () where --thread option is processed and notify
user selected contents observers there if context changes.
However, this in itself breaks GDB/MI because it would cause context
notification to be sent on MI channel. This is because by the time
we notify, MI notification suppression is already restored (done in
mi_command::invoke(). Therefore we had to lift notification suppression
logic also up to mi_cmd_execute (). This change in made distinction
between mi_command::invoke() and mi_command::do_invoke() unnecessary
as all mi_command::invoke() did (after the change) was to call
do_invoke(). So this patches removes do_invoke() and moves the command
execution logic directly to invoke().
With this change, all gdb.mi tests pass, tested on x86_64-linux.
Co-authored-by: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20631
Fix for PR gdb/20684. When invoking MI commands with --thread and/or
--frame, the user selected thread and frame was not preserved:
(gdb)
info thread
&"info thread\n"
~" Id Target Id Frame \n"
~"* 1 Thread 0x7ffff7c30740 (LWP 19302) \"user-selected-c\" main () at /home/uuu/gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/user-selected-context-sync.c:60\n"
~" 2 Thread 0x7ffff7c2f700 (LWP 19306) \"user-selected-c\" child_sub_function () at /home/uuu/gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/user-selected-context-sync.c:30\n"
~" 3 Thread 0x7ffff742e700 (LWP 19307) \"user-selected-c\" child_sub_function () at /home/uuu/gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/user-selected-context-sync.c:30\n"
^done
(gdb)
info frame
&"info frame\n"
~"Stack level 0, frame at 0x7fffffffdf90:\n"
~" rip = 0x555555555207 in main (/home/uuu/gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/user-selected-context-sync.c:60); saved rip = 0x7ffff7c5709b\n"
~" source language c.\n"
~" Arglist at 0x7fffffffdf80, args: \n"
~" Locals at 0x7fffffffdf80, Previous frame's sp is 0x7fffffffdf90\n"
~" Saved registers:\n "
~" rbp at 0x7fffffffdf80, rip at 0x7fffffffdf88\n"
^done
(gdb)
-stack-info-depth --thread 3
^done,depth="4"
(gdb)
info thread
&"info thread\n"
~" Id Target Id Frame \n"
~" 1 Thread 0x7ffff7c30740 (LWP 19302) \"user-selected-c\" main () at /home/uuu/gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/user-selected-context-sync.c:60\n"
~" 2 Thread 0x7ffff7c2f700 (LWP 19306) \"user-selected-c\" child_sub_function () at /home/uuu/gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/user-selected-context-sync.c:30\n"
~"* 3 Thread 0x7ffff742e700 (LWP 19307) \"user-selected-c\" child_sub_function () at /home/uuu/gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/user-selected-context-sync.c:30\n"
^done
(gdb)
info frame
&"info frame\n"
~"Stack level 0, frame at 0x7ffff742dee0:\n"
~" rip = 0x555555555169 in child_sub_function (/home/uuu/gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/user-selected-context-sync.c:30); saved rip = 0x555555555188\n"
~" called by frame at 0x7ffff742df00\n"
~" source language c.\n"
~" Arglist at 0x7ffff742ded0, args: \n"
~" Locals at 0x7ffff742ded0, Previous frame's sp is 0x7ffff742dee0\n"
~" Saved registers:\n "
~" rbp at 0x7ffff742ded0, rip at 0x7ffff742ded8\n"
^done
(gdb)
This caused problems for frontends that provide access to CLI because UI
may silently change the context for CLI commands (as demonstrated above).
This commit fixes the problem by restoring thread and frame in
mi_cmd_execute (). With this change, there are only two GDB/MI commands
that can change user selected context: -thread-select and -stack-select-frame.
This allows us to remove all and rather complicated logic of notifying
about user selected context change from mi_execute_command (), leaving it
to these two commands themselves to notify.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20684
Add a getter and a setter for a symbol's type. Remove the corresponding
macro and adjust all callers.
Change-Id: Ie1a137744c5bfe1df4d4f9ae5541c5299577c8de
Add a getter and a setter for whether a symbol is an argument. Remove
the corresponding macro and adjust all callers.
Change-Id: I71b4f0465f3dfd2ed8b9e140bd3f7d5eb8d9ee81
This commit brings all the changes made by running gdb/copyright.py
as per GDB's Start of New Year Procedure.
For the avoidance of doubt, all changes in this commits were
performed by the script.
This commits the result of running gdb/copyright.py as per our Start
of New Year procedure...
gdb/ChangeLog
Update copyright year range in copyright header of all GDB files.
-stack-list-arguments will crash when stopped in an Ada procedure that
has an argument with a certain name ("_objectO" -- which can only be
generated by the compiler). The bug occurs because lookup_symbol will
fail in this case.
This patch changes -stack-list-arguments to mirror what is done with
arguments elsewhere. (As an aside, I don't understand why this lookup
is even needed, but I assume it is some stabs thing?)
In the longer term I think it would be good to share this code between
MI and the CLI. However, due to the upcoming release, I preferred a
more local fix.
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-07-22 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
* mi/mi-cmd-stack.c (list_args_or_locals): Use
lookup_symbol_search_name.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
2020-07-22 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
* gdb.ada/mi_prot.exp: New file.
* gdb.ada/mi_prot/pkg.adb: New file.
* gdb.ada/mi_prot/pkg.ads: New file.
* gdb.ada/mi_prot/prot.adb: New file.
Remove TYPE_CODE, changing all the call sites to use type::code
directly. This is quite a big diff, but this was mostly done using sed
and coccinelle. A few call sites were done by hand.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* gdbtypes.h (TYPE_CODE): Remove. Change all call sites to use
type::code instead.
