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author | John Gilmore <gnu@cygnus> | 1991-11-18 23:52:12 +0000 |
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committer | John Gilmore <gnu@cygnus> | 1991-11-18 23:52:12 +0000 |
commit | e140f1dab1e9517aa3523e52a92f954dfbabaf4a (patch) | |
tree | a06e3112e68bec966ec031bc6ee19b6655b547cf /gdb/blockframe.c | |
parent | d08a5233d9e40a97789243cd563c5090b1736721 (diff) | |
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Remove tdesc stuff. Remove FRAME_CHAIN_COMBINE from all tm-*.h files,
since it was always defined exactly the same in all of them.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/blockframe.c')
-rw-r--r-- | gdb/blockframe.c | 91 |
1 files changed, 84 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/blockframe.c b/gdb/blockframe.c index 7efe141..ee42d7c 100644 --- a/gdb/blockframe.c +++ b/gdb/blockframe.c @@ -27,10 +27,6 @@ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ #include "value.h" /* for read_register */ #include "target.h" /* for target_has_stack */ -/* Required by INIT_EXTRA_FRAME_INFO on 88k. */ -#include <setjmp.h> -#include <obstack.h> - CORE_ADDR read_pc (); /* In infcmd.c */ /* Start and end of object file containing the entry point. @@ -56,6 +52,79 @@ outside_startup_file (addr) return !(addr >= startup_file_start && addr < startup_file_end); } +/* Support an alternate method to avoid running off the bottom of + the stack (or top, depending upon your stack orientation). + + There are two frames that are "special", the frame for the function + containing the process entry point, since it has no predecessor frame, + and the frame for the function containing the user code entry point + (the main() function), since all the predecessor frames are for the + process startup code. Since we have no guarantee that the linked + in startup modules have any debugging information that gdb can use, + we need to avoid following frame pointers back into frames that might + have been built in the startup code, as we might get hopelessly + confused. However, we almost always have debugging information + available for main(). + + These variables are used to save the range of PC values which are valid + within the main() function and within the function containing the process + entry point. If we always consider the frame for main() as the outermost + frame when debugging user code, and the frame for the process entry + point function as the outermost frame when debugging startup code, then + all we have to do is have FRAME_CHAIN_VALID return false whenever a + frame's current PC is within the range specified by these variables. + In essence, we set "blocks" in the frame chain beyond which we will + not proceed when following the frame chain. + + A nice side effect is that we can still debug startup code without + running off the end of the frame chain, assuming that we have usable + debugging information in the startup modules, and if we choose to not + use the block at main, or can't find it for some reason, everything + still works as before. And if we have no startup code debugging + information but we do have usable information for main(), backtraces + from user code don't go wandering off into the startup code. + + To use this method, define your FRAME_CHAIN_VALID macro like: + + #define FRAME_CHAIN_VALID(chain, thisframe) \ + (chain != 0 \ + && !(inside_main_scope ((thisframe)->pc)) \ + && !(inside_entry_scope ((thisframe)->pc))) + + and add initializations of the four scope controlling variables inside + the object file / debugging information processing modules. */ + +CORE_ADDR entry_scope_lowpc; +CORE_ADDR entry_scope_highpc; +CORE_ADDR main_scope_lowpc; +CORE_ADDR main_scope_highpc; + +/* Test a specified PC value to see if it is in the range of addresses + that correspond to the main() function. See comments above for why + we might want to do this. + + Typically called from FRAME_CHAIN_VALID. */ + +int +inside_main_scope (pc) +CORE_ADDR pc; +{ + return (main_scope_lowpc <= pc && pc < main_scope_highpc); +} + +/* Test a specified PC value to see if it is in the range of addresses + that correspond to the process entry point function. See comments above + for why we might want to do this. + + Typically called from FRAME_CHAIN_VALID. */ + +int +inside_entry_scope (pc) +CORE_ADDR pc; +{ + return (entry_scope_lowpc <= pc && pc < entry_scope_highpc); +} + /* Address of innermost stack frame (contents of FP register) */ static FRAME current_frame; @@ -104,7 +173,7 @@ create_new_frame (addr, pc) fci->pc = pc; #ifdef INIT_EXTRA_FRAME_INFO - INIT_EXTRA_FRAME_INFO (fci); + INIT_EXTRA_FRAME_INFO (0, fci); #endif return fci; @@ -208,12 +277,18 @@ frameless_look_for_prologue (frame) return 0; } +/* Default a few macros that people seldom redefine. */ + #if !defined (INIT_FRAME_PC) #define INIT_FRAME_PC(fromleaf, prev) \ prev->pc = (fromleaf ? SAVED_PC_AFTER_CALL (prev->next) : \ prev->next ? FRAME_SAVED_PC (prev->next) : read_pc ()); #endif +#ifndef FRAME_CHAIN_COMBINE +#define FRAME_CHAIN_COMBINE(chain, thisframe) (chain) +#endif + /* Return a structure containing various interesting information about the frame that called NEXT_FRAME. Returns NULL if there is no such frame. */ @@ -281,6 +356,8 @@ get_prev_frame_info (next_frame) return 0; address = FRAME_CHAIN_COMBINE (address, next_frame); } + if (address == 0) + return 0; prev = (struct frame_info *) obstack_alloc (&frame_cache_obstack, @@ -294,12 +371,12 @@ get_prev_frame_info (next_frame) prev->next_frame = prev->next ? prev->next->frame : 0; #ifdef INIT_EXTRA_FRAME_INFO - INIT_EXTRA_FRAME_INFO(prev); + INIT_EXTRA_FRAME_INFO(fromleaf, prev); #endif /* This entry is in the frame queue now, which is good since FRAME_SAVED_PC may use that queue to figure out it's value - (see m-sparc.h). We want the pc saved in the inferior frame. */ + (see tm-sparc.h). We want the pc saved in the inferior frame. */ INIT_FRAME_PC(fromleaf, prev); return prev; |