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authorAndrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>2025-09-01 16:58:58 +0100
committerAndrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>2025-09-04 22:18:59 +0100
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gdb/python: add gdb.Value.is_unavailable attribute
Add a new gdb.Value.is_unavailable attribute. This is similar to the existing Value.is_optimized_out attribute, but returns True if any part of the value is <unavailable>. The existing Value.is_optimized_out attribute returns true if any part of the value is optimized out, so I thought that Value.is_unavailable should work the same way. There's also a test. Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33345 Reviewed-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> Reviewed-By: Christina Schimpe <christina.schimpe@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--gdb/NEWS4
-rw-r--r--gdb/doc/python.texi21
-rw-r--r--gdb/python/py-value.c27
-rw-r--r--gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-value.c8
-rw-r--r--gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-value.exp34
5 files changed, 93 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 2d410a7..9782847 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -174,6 +174,10 @@ info threads [-gid] [-stopped] [-running] [ID]...
** New gdb.warning() function that takes a string and prints it as a
warning, with GDB's standard 'warning' prefix.
+ ** New attribute gdb.Value.is_unavailable, this checks for
+ unavailability like gdb.Value.is_optimized_out checks for
+ optimized out values.
+
* Guile API
** New type <gdb:color> for dealing with colors.
diff --git a/gdb/doc/python.texi b/gdb/doc/python.texi
index 6fa2285..3763eee 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/python.texi
+++ b/gdb/doc/python.texi
@@ -910,7 +910,26 @@ this attribute holds @code{None}.
@cindex optimized out value in Python
@defvar Value.is_optimized_out
This read-only boolean attribute is true if the compiler optimized out
-this value, thus it is not available for fetching from the inferior.
+this value, or any part of this value, and thus it is not available
+for fetching from the inferior.
+@end defvar
+
+@cindex unavailable values in Python
+@defvar Value.is_unavailable
+This read-only boolean attribute is true if this value, or any part of
+this value, is not available to @value{GDBN}. Where an optimized out
+value has been removed from the program by the compiler, an
+unavailable value does exist in the program, but @value{GDBN} is
+unable to fetch it.
+
+Some reasons why this might occur include, but are not limited to: a
+core file format that @value{GDBN} doesn't fully understand; during
+live debugging if the debug API has no mechanism to access the
+required state, e.g.@: the kernel gives an error when trying to read a
+particular register set; or reading a value from @value{GDBN}'s
+history, when only a partial value was stored, e.g.@: due to the
+@kbd{max-value-size} setting (@pxref{set
+max-value-size,,max-value-size}).
@end defvar
@defvar Value.type
diff --git a/gdb/python/py-value.c b/gdb/python/py-value.c
index 8a2e263..833ce26 100644
--- a/gdb/python/py-value.c
+++ b/gdb/python/py-value.c
@@ -1288,6 +1288,30 @@ valpy_get_is_optimized_out (PyObject *self, void *closure)
Py_RETURN_FALSE;
}
+/* Implements gdb.Value.is_unavailable. Return true if any part of the
+ value is unavailable. */
+
+static PyObject *
+valpy_get_is_unavailable (PyObject *self, void *closure)
+{
+ struct value *value = ((value_object *) self)->value;
+ bool entirely_available = false;
+
+ try
+ {
+ entirely_available = value->entirely_available ();
+ }
+ catch (const gdb_exception &except)
+ {
+ return gdbpy_handle_gdb_exception (nullptr, except);
+ }
+
+ if (!entirely_available)
+ Py_RETURN_TRUE;
+
+ Py_RETURN_FALSE;
+}
+
/* Implements gdb.Value.is_lazy. */
static PyObject *
valpy_get_is_lazy (PyObject *self, void *closure)
@@ -2194,6 +2218,9 @@ static gdb_PyGetSetDef value_object_getset[] = {
"Boolean telling whether the value is optimized "
"out (i.e., not available).",
NULL },
+ { "is_unavailable", valpy_get_is_unavailable, nullptr,
+ "Boolean telling whether the value is unavailable.",
+ nullptr },
{ "type", valpy_get_type, NULL, "Type of the value.", NULL },
{ "dynamic_type", valpy_get_dynamic_type, NULL,
"Dynamic type of the value.", NULL },
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-value.c b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-value.c
index a822346..5052950 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-value.c
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-value.c
@@ -19,6 +19,14 @@
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
+int long_array[] = {
+ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
+ 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,
+ 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29,
+ 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39,
+ 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49
+};
+
struct s
{
int a;
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-value.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-value.exp
index 4857937..ab49f2d 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-value.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-value.exp
@@ -681,6 +681,7 @@ proc_with_prefix test_value_bytes { } {
"python" "" \
"def check_value_bytes(var_name):" "" \
" val = gdb.parse_and_eval(var_name)" "" \
+ " assert not val.is_unavailable" "" \
" addr = val.address" "" \
" len = val.type.sizeof" "" \
" mem = gdb.selected_inferior().read_memory(addr, len)" "" \
@@ -763,6 +764,38 @@ proc test_assign {} {
"cannot assign to integer"
}
+# Test Value.is_unavailable
+proc test_unavailable {} {
+ set elem_size [get_valueof "/d" "sizeof(long_array\[0\])" "UNKNOWN" \
+ "get size of long_array element"]
+ set max [expr $elem_size * 10]
+
+ with_set "print elements" 5 {
+ with_max_value_size $max {
+ gdb_test "p long_array"
+
+ gdb_test_no_output "set print elements 15"
+
+ gdb_test_no_output "python v = gdb.history(0)"
+
+ gdb_test "python print(v.is_unavailable)" "^True" \
+ "overall object shows as unavailable"
+ for { set i 0 } { $i < 10 } { incr i } {
+ gdb_test "python print(v\[$i\].is_unavailable)" "^False" \
+ "array element $i is available"
+ gdb_test "python print(v\[$i\])" "^$i" \
+ "array element $i has correct value"
+ }
+ for { set i 10 } { $i < 15 } { incr i } {
+ gdb_test "python print(v\[$i\].is_unavailable)" "^True" \
+ "array element $i is unavailable"
+ gdb_test "python print(v\[$i\])" "^<unavailable>" \
+ "array element $i shows as unavailable"
+ }
+ }
+ }
+}
+
# Build C version of executable. C++ is built later.
if { [build_inferior "${binfile}" "c"] < 0 } {
return -1
@@ -789,6 +822,7 @@ if {![runto_main]} {
return 0
}
+test_unavailable
test_value_in_inferior
test_value_from_buffer
test_value_sub_classes