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authorAndrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>2022-08-31 11:40:16 +0100
committerAndrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>2022-10-02 14:21:24 +0100
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gdb: check for duplicate register names in selftest
Building on the previous commit, this commit extends the register_name selftest to check for duplicate register names. If two registers in the cooked register set (real + pseudo registers) have the same name, then this will show up as duplicate registers in the 'info all-registers' output, but the user will only be able to interact with one copy of the register. In this commit I extend the selftest that I added in the previous commit to check for duplicate register names, I didn't include this functionality in the previous commit because one architecture needed fixing, and I wanted to keep those fixes separate from the fixes in the previous commit. The problematic architecture(s) are powerpc:750 and powerpc:604. In both of these cases the 'dabr' register appears twice, there's a definition of dabr in power-oea.xml which is included into both powerpc-604.xml and powerpc-750.xml. Both of these later two xml files also define the dabr register. I'm hopeful that this change shouldn't break anything, but I don't have the ability to actually test this change, however: On the gdbserver side, neither powerpc-604.xml nor powerpc-750.xml are mentioned in gdbserver/configure.srv, which I think means that gdbserver will never use these descriptions, and, Within GDB the problematic descriptions are held in the variables tdesc_powerpc_604 and tdesc_powerpc_750, which are only mentioned in the variants array in rs6000-tdep.c, this is used when looking up a description based on the architecture. For a native Linux target however, this will not be used as ppc_linux_nat_target::read_description exists, which calls ppc_linux_match_description, which I don't believe can return either of the problematic descriptions. This leaves the other native targets, FreeBSD, AIX, etc. These don't appear to override the ::read_description method, so will potentially return the problematic descriptions, but, in each case I think the ::fetch_registers and ::store_registers methods will ignore the dabr register, which will leave the register as <unavailable>. So, my proposed solution is to just remove the duplicate register from each of powerpc-604.xml and powerpc-750.xml, then regenerate the corresponding C++ source file. With this change made, the selftest now passes for all architectures.
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