aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/gdb/doc
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorJan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>2017-12-08 22:44:10 +0000
committerPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2017-12-08 23:33:27 +0000
commit437afbb81e3a04cbd933fc534a50c686eaa63b19 (patch)
tree9389ec170eff92880790a69075e48eccb3afdccc /gdb/doc
parent6432ec65a8822246db5bcede0c6bd3ed0e464a0b (diff)
downloadgdb-437afbb81e3a04cbd933fc534a50c686eaa63b19.zip
gdb-437afbb81e3a04cbd933fc534a50c686eaa63b19.tar.gz
gdb-437afbb81e3a04cbd933fc534a50c686eaa63b19.tar.bz2
DWARF-5: .debug_names index producer
This adds a new "-dwarf-5" switch to "save gdb-index" that makes it generate index files with DWARF-5 .debug_names/.debug_str sections instead of GDB's own .gdb_index. We should probably add a command line option to contrib/gdb-add-index.sh (incl. cc-with-tweaks.sh) for the new -dwarf-5 GDB option, and a new target board to make it more convenient to exercise this. To be done later. gdb/ChangeLog 2017-12-08 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * contrib/gdb-add-index.sh (index): Rename to ... (index4): ... here. (index5, debugstr, debugstrmerge, debugstrerr): New variables. Support also .debug_names and .debug_str. * dwarf2read.c: Include cmath, set, list. (INDEX_SUFFIX): Rename to ... (INDEX4_SUFFIX): ... here. (INDEX5_SUFFIX, DEBUG_STR_SUFFIX): New. (file_write(FILE *, const void *, size_t)): New. (file_write(FILE *, const std::vector<Elem, Alloc> &)): New. (data_buf::append_unsigned_leb128, data_buf::empty): New. (data_buf::file_write): Use ::file_write. (data_buf::c_str, dwarf5_djb_hash, debug_names) (check_dwarf64_offsets): New. (psyms_seen_size, write_gdbindex): New from write_psymtabs_to_index code. (dwarf5_gdb_augmentation, write_debug_names, assert_file_size) (enum dw_index_kind): New. (write_psymtabs_to_index): New parameter index_kind. Support filename_str and out_file_str. Move code to write_gdbindex, possibly call write_debug_names. (save_gdb_index_command): New parameter -dwarf-5. (_initialize_dwarf2_read): Document the new parameter -dwarf-5. gdb/doc/ChangeLog 2017-12-08 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> * gdb.texinfo (Index Files): Document .debug_names and -dwarf-5. -- gdb/contrib/gdb-add-index.sh | 53 ++ gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 24 + gdb/dwarf2read.c | 919 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 3 files changed, 935 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/doc')
-rw-r--r--gdb/doc/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo24
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index df294d6..7710640 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2017-12-08 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
+
+ * gdb.texinfo (Index Files): Document .debug_names and -dwarf-5.
+
2017-12-07 Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Symbols): Document "set print type nested-type-limit"
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 1e4ef98..062f01d 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -19565,12 +19565,16 @@ using @command{objcopy}.
To create an index file, use the @code{save gdb-index} command:
@table @code
-@item save gdb-index @var{directory}
+@item save gdb-index [-dwarf-5] @var{directory}
@kindex save gdb-index
-Create an index file for each symbol file currently known by
-@value{GDBN}. Each file is named after its corresponding symbol file,
-with @samp{.gdb-index} appended, and is written into the given
-@var{directory}.
+Create index files for all symbol files currently known by
+@value{GDBN}. For each known @var{symbol-file}, this command by
+default creates it produces a single file
+@file{@var{symbol-file}.gdb-index}. If you invoke this command with
+the @option{-dwarf-5} option, it produces 2 files:
+@file{@var{symbol-file}.debug_names} and
+@file{@var{symbol-file}.debug_str}. The files are created in the
+given @var{directory}.
@end table
Once you have created an index file you can merge it into your symbol
@@ -19581,6 +19585,16 @@ $ objcopy --add-section .gdb_index=symfile.gdb-index \
--set-section-flags .gdb_index=readonly symfile symfile
@end smallexample
+Or for @code{-dwarf-5}:
+
+@smallexample
+$ objcopy --dump-section .debug_str=symfile.debug_str.new symfile
+$ cat symfile.debug_str >>symfile.debug_str.new
+$ objcopy --add-section .debug_names=symfile.gdb-index \
+ --set-section-flags .debug_names=readonly \
+ --update-section .debug_str=symfile.debug_str.new symfile symfile
+@end smallexample
+
@value{GDBN} will normally ignore older versions of @file{.gdb_index}
sections that have been deprecated. Usually they are deprecated because
they are missing a new feature or have performance issues.