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authorCarl Love <cel@us.ibm.com>2022-11-14 16:22:37 -0500
committerCarl Love <cel@us.ibm.com>2022-11-14 16:22:37 -0500
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PowerPC, fix support for printing the function return value for non-trivial values.
Currently, a non-trivial return value from a function cannot currently be reliably determined on PowerPC. This is due to the fact that the PowerPC ABI uses register r3 to store the address of the buffer containing the non-trivial return value when the function is called. The PowerPC ABI does not guarantee the value in register r3 is not modified in the function. Thus the value in r3 cannot be reliably used to obtain the return addreses on exit from the function. This patch adds a new gdbarch method to allow PowerPC to access the value of r3 on entry to a function. On PowerPC, the new gdbarch method attempts to use the DW_OP_entry_value for the DWARF entries, when exiting the function, to determine the value of r3 on entry to the function. This requires the use of the -fvar-tracking compiler option to compile the user application thus generating the DW_OP_entry_value in the binary. The DW_OP_entry_value entries in the binary file allows GDB to resolve the DW_TAG_call_site entries. This new gdbarch method is used to get the return buffer address, in the case of a function returning a nontrivial data type, on exit from the function. The GDB function should_stop checks to see if RETURN_BUF is non-zero. By default, RETURN_BUF will be set to zero by the new gdbarch method call for all architectures except PowerPC. The get_return_value function will be used to obtain the return value on all other architectures as is currently being done if RETURN_BUF is zero. On PowerPC, the new gdbarch method will return a nonzero address in RETURN_BUF if the value can be determined. The value_at function uses the return buffer address to get the return value. This patch fixes five testcase failures in gdb.cp/non-trivial-retval.exp. The correct function return values are now reported. Note this patch is dependent on patch: "PowerPC, function ppc64_sysv_abi_return_value add missing return value convention". This patch has been tested on Power 10 and x86-64 with no regressions.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/dwarf2')
-rw-r--r--gdb/dwarf2/loc.c10
-rw-r--r--gdb/dwarf2/loc.h11
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/dwarf2/loc.c b/gdb/dwarf2/loc.c
index c42359a..8355aa4 100644
--- a/gdb/dwarf2/loc.c
+++ b/gdb/dwarf2/loc.c
@@ -1325,14 +1325,8 @@ static const struct lval_funcs entry_data_value_funcs =
entry_data_value_free_closure
};
-/* Read parameter of TYPE at (callee) FRAME's function entry. KIND and KIND_U
- are used to match DW_AT_location at the caller's
- DW_TAG_call_site_parameter.
-
- Function always returns non-NULL value. It throws NO_ENTRY_VALUE_ERROR if it
- cannot resolve the parameter for any reason. */
-
-static struct value *
+/* See dwarf2/loc.h. */
+struct value *
value_of_dwarf_reg_entry (struct type *type, frame_info_ptr frame,
enum call_site_parameter_kind kind,
union call_site_parameter_u kind_u)
diff --git a/gdb/dwarf2/loc.h b/gdb/dwarf2/loc.h
index d6709f2..9156e1e 100644
--- a/gdb/dwarf2/loc.h
+++ b/gdb/dwarf2/loc.h
@@ -296,4 +296,15 @@ extern struct value *indirect_synthetic_pointer
dwarf2_per_objfile *per_objfile, frame_info_ptr frame,
struct type *type, bool resolve_abstract_p = false);
+/* Read parameter of TYPE at (callee) FRAME's function entry. KIND and KIND_U
+ are used to match DW_AT_location at the caller's
+ DW_TAG_call_site_parameter.
+
+ Function always returns non-NULL value. It throws NO_ENTRY_VALUE_ERROR if
+ it cannot resolve the parameter for any reason. */
+
+extern struct value *value_of_dwarf_reg_entry (struct type *type,
+ struct frame_info_ptr frame,
+ enum call_site_parameter_kind kind,
+ union call_site_parameter_u kind_u);
#endif /* DWARF2LOC_H */