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authorTom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>2019-06-25 12:50:45 -0600
committerTom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>2019-10-02 09:53:17 -0600
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Handle copy relocations
In ELF, if a data symbol is defined in a shared library and used by the main program, it will be subject to a "copy relocation". In this scenario, the main program has a copy of the symbol in question, and a relocation that tells ld.so to copy the data from the shared library. Then the symbol in the main program is used to satisfy all references. This patch changes gdb to handle this scenario. Data symbols coming from ELF shared libraries get a special flag that indicates that the symbol's address may be subject to copy relocation. I looked briefly into handling copy relocations by looking at the actual relocations in the main program, but this seemed difficult to do with BFD. Note that no caching is done here. Perhaps this could be changed if need be; I wanted to avoid possible problems with either objfile lifetimes and changes, or conflicts with the long-term (vapor-ware) objfile splitting project. gdb/ChangeLog 2019-10-02 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com> * symmisc.c (dump_msymbols): Don't use MSYMBOL_VALUE_ADDRESS. * ada-lang.c (lesseq_defined_than): Handle LOC_STATIC. * dwarf2read.c (dwarf2_per_objfile): Add can_copy parameter. (dwarf2_has_info): Likewise. (new_symbol): Set maybe_copied on symbol when appropriate. * dwarf2read.h (dwarf2_per_objfile): Add can_copy parameter. <can_copy>: New member. * elfread.c (record_minimal_symbol): Set maybe_copied on symbol when appropriate. (elf_symfile_read): Update call to dwarf2_has_info. * minsyms.c (lookup_minimal_symbol_linkage): New function. * minsyms.h (lookup_minimal_symbol_linkage): Declare. * symtab.c (get_symbol_address, get_msymbol_address): New functions. * symtab.h (get_symbol_address, get_msymbol_address): Declare. (SYMBOL_VALUE_ADDRESS, MSYMBOL_VALUE_ADDRESS): Handle maybe_copied. (struct symbol, struct minimal_symbol) <maybe_copied>: New member.
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diff --git a/gdb/minsyms.h b/gdb/minsyms.h
index ce4b83d..0a19f0b 100644
--- a/gdb/minsyms.h
+++ b/gdb/minsyms.h
@@ -205,6 +205,17 @@ struct bound_minimal_symbol lookup_bound_minimal_symbol (const char *);
struct bound_minimal_symbol lookup_minimal_symbol_text (const char *,
struct objfile *);
+/* Look through the minimal symbols in OBJF (and its separate debug
+ objfiles) for a global (not file-local) minsym whose linkage name
+ is NAME. This is somewhat similar to lookup_minimal_symbol_text,
+ only data symbols (not text symbols) are considered, and a non-NULL
+ objfile is not accepted. Returns a bound minimal symbol that
+ matches, or an "empty" bound minimal symbol otherwise. */
+
+extern struct bound_minimal_symbol lookup_minimal_symbol_linkage
+ (const char *name, struct objfile *objf)
+ ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL (1) ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL (2);
+
/* Look through all the current minimal symbol tables and find the
first minimal symbol that matches NAME and PC. If OBJF is non-NULL,
limit the search to that objfile. Returns a pointer to the minimal