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authorKevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>2019-07-13 15:59:44 -0700
committerKevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>2019-07-27 13:43:10 -0700
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Fix stepping bug associated with non-contiguous blocks
I recently noticed the following behavior while debugging dw2-ranges-func-low-cold. This is one of the test programs associated with the test gdb.dwarf2/dw2-ranges-func.exp. (gdb) b 70 Breakpoint 1 at 0x401129: file dw2-ranges-func-lo-cold.c, line 70. (gdb) run Starting program: dw2-ranges-func-lo-cold Breakpoint 1, foo () at dw2-ranges-func-lo-cold.c:70 70 if (e) foo_cold (); /* foo foo_cold call */ (gdb) set var e=1 (gdb) step [Inferior 1 (process 12545) exited normally] This is incorrect. When stepping, we expect a step to occur. We do not expect the program to exit. Instead, we should see the following behavior: ... (gdb) set var e=1 (gdb) step foo () at dw2-ranges-func-lo-cold.c:54 54 baz (); /* foo_cold baz call */ (Note that I've shortened the paths in the above sessions to improve readability.) The bug is in fill_in_stop_func() in infrun.c. While working on non-contiguous address range improvements in 2018, I replaced the call to find_pc_partial_function() with a call to find_function_entry_range_from_pc(). Although this seemed like the right thing to do at the time, I now think that calling find_pc_partial_function (along with some other tweaks) is the right thing to do. For blocks with a single contiguous range, these functions do pretty much the same thing: when the function succeeds, the function name, start address, and end address are all filled in. Additionally, find_pc_partial_function contains an additional output parameter which is set to the block containing that PC. For blocks with non-contiguous ranges, find_pc_partial_function sets the start and end addresses to the start and end addresses of the range containing the pc. find_function_entry_range_from_pc does what it says; it sets the start and end addresses to those of the range containing the entry pc. The reason that I had thought that using the entry pc range was correct is due to the fact that fill_in_stop_func() contains some code for advancing past the function start and entry point. To do this, we'd need the range that contains the entry pc. However, when stepping, we actually want the range that contains the stop pc. If that range also contains the entry pc, we should then attempt to advance stop_func_start past the start offset and entry point. (I haven't thought very hard about the reason for advancing the stop_func_start in this manner. Since it's been there for quite a while, I'm assuming that it's still a good idea.) Back when I wrote the test case, I had included a test for doing the step shown in the example above. I had problems with it, however. At the time, I thought it was due to differing compiler versions, so I disabled that portion of the test. I have now reenabled those tests, but have left in place the logic which may be used to disable it. The changes to dw2-ranges-func.exp depend on my other recent changes to the file which have not been pushed yet. Finally, I'll note that the only caller of find_function_entry_range_from_pc() is/was fill_in_stop_func(). Once this commit goes in, it'll be dead code. I considered removing it, but I think that it ought to be used (instead of find_pc_partial_function) for determining the correct range to scan for prologue analysis, so I'm going to leave it in place for now. gdb/ChangeLog: * infrun.c (fill_in_stop_func): Use find_pc_partial_function instead of find_function_entry_range_from_pc. testsuite/ChangeLog: * gdb.dwarf2/dw2-ranges-func.exp (enable_foo_cold_stepping): Enable tests associated with this flag. Adjust regex referencing "foo_low" to now refer to "foo_cold" instead.
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