[gdb/exp] Redo cast handling for indirection

In commit ed8fd0a342f ("[gdb/exp] Fix cast handling for indirection"), I
introduced the behaviour that even though we have:
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(gdb) p *a_loc ()
'a_loc' has unknown return type; cast the call to its declared return type
...
we get:
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(gdb) p (char)*a_loc ()
$1 = 97 'a'
...

In other words, the unknown return type of a_loc is inferred from the cast,
effectually evaluating:
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(gdb) p (char)*(char *)a_loc ()
...

This is convient for the case that errno is defined as:
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 #define errno (*__errno_location ())
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and the return type of __errno_location is unknown but the macro definition is
known, such that we can use:
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(gdb) p (int)errno
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instead of
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(gdb) p *(int *)__errno_location ()
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However, as Pedro has pointed out in post-commit review [1], this makes it
harder to reason about the semantics of an expression.

For instance, this:
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(gdb) p (long long)*a_loc ()"
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would be evaluated without debug info as:
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(gdb) p (long long)*(long long *)a_loc ()"
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but with debug info as:
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(gdb) p (long long)*(char *)a_loc ()"
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Fix this by instead simply erroring out for this case:
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(gdb) p (char)*a_loc ()
'a_loc' has unknown return type; cast the call to its declared return type
...

Tested on x86_64-linux.

Approved-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>

[1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2024-May/208821.html

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/gdb/expop.h b/gdb/expop.h
index 1967d97..2d46a9d 100644
--- a/gdb/expop.h
+++ b/gdb/expop.h
@@ -1513,11 +1513,8 @@ public:
 		   struct expression *exp,
 		   enum noside noside) override
   {
-    struct type *pointer_to_expect_type = (expect_type != nullptr
-					   ? lookup_pointer_type (expect_type)
-					   : nullptr);
     value *val
-      = std::get<0> (m_storage)->evaluate (pointer_to_expect_type, exp, noside);
+      = std::get<0> (m_storage)->evaluate (nullptr, exp, noside);
     return eval_op_ind (expect_type, exp, noside, val);
   }