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authorPedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>2022-11-17 23:21:04 +0000
committerPedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>2023-02-27 19:12:28 +0000
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Improve "info program"
With gdb.base/catch-follow-exec.exp, we currently see: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (gdb) continue Continuing. process 693251 is executing new program: /usr/bin/ls [New inferior 2] [New process 693251] [Switching to process 693251] Thread 2.1 "ls" hit Catchpoint 2 (exec'd /usr/bin/ls), 0x00007ffff7fd0100 in _start () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (gdb) info prog No selected thread. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Note the "No selected thread" output. That is totally bogus, because there _is_ a selected thread. What GDB really means, is that it can't find the thread that had the latest (user-visible) stop. And that happens because "info program" gets that info from get_last_target_status, and the last target status has been cleared. However, GDB also checks if there is a selected thread, here: if (ptid == null_ptid || ptid == minus_one_ptid) error (_("No selected thread.")); .. the null_ptid part. That is also bogus, because what matters is the thread that last reported a stop, not the current thread: - in all-stop mode, "info program" displays info about the last stop. That may have happened on a thread different from the selected thread. - in non-stop mode, because all threads are controlled individually, "info program" shows info about the last stop of the selected thread. The current code already behaves this way, though in a poor way. This patch reimplements it, such that the all-stop version now finds the thread that last reported an event via the 'previous_thread' strong reference. Being a strong reference means that if that thread has exited since the event was reported, 'previous_thread' will still point to it, so we can say that the thread exited meanwhile. The patch also extends "info program" output a little, to let the user know which thread we are printing info for. For example, for the gdb.base/catch-follow-exec.exp case we shown above, we now get: (gdb) info prog Last stopped for thread 2.1 (process 710867). Using the running image of child process 710867. Program stopped at 0x7ffff7fd0100. It stopped at breakpoint 2. Type "info stack" or "info registers" for more information. (gdb) while in non-stop mode, we get: (gdb) info prog Selected thread 2.1 (process 710867). Using the running image of child process 710867. Program stopped at 0x7ffff7fd0100. It stopped at breakpoint 2. Type "info stack" or "info registers" for more information. (gdb) In both cases, the first line of output is new. The existing code considered these running/exited cases as an error, but I think that that's incorrect, since this is IMO just plain execution info as well. So the patch makes those cases regular prints, not errors. If the thread is running, we get, in non-stop mode: (gdb) info prog Selected thread 2.1 (process 710867). Selected thread is running. ... and in all-stop: (gdb) info prog Last stopped for thread 2.1 (process 710867). Thread is now running. If the thread has exited, we get, in non-stop mode: (gdb) info prog Selected thread 2.1 (process 710867). Selected thread has exited. ... and in all-stop: (gdb) info prog Last stopped for thread 2.1 (process 710867). Thread has since exited. The gdb.base/info-program.exp testcase was much extended to test all-stop/non-stop and single-threaded/multi-threaded. Change-Id: I51d9d445f772d872af3eead3449ad4aa445781b1
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diff --git a/gdb/infrun.h b/gdb/infrun.h
index f4f2216..5219063 100644
--- a/gdb/infrun.h
+++ b/gdb/infrun.h
@@ -121,6 +121,9 @@ extern enum exec_direction_kind execution_direction;
inferior_thread, or at nullptr, if there's no selected thread. */
extern void update_previous_thread ();
+/* Get a weak reference to 'previous_thread'. */
+extern thread_info *get_previous_thread ();
+
extern void start_remote (int from_tty);
/* Clear out all variables saying what to do when inferior is