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authorPeeter Joot <peeter.joot@lzlabs.com>2017-10-06 16:13:04 -0400
committerTom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>2019-11-21 11:48:59 -0700
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Adjust byte order variable display/change if DW_AT_endianity is present.
- Rationale: It is possible for compilers to indicate the desired byte order interpretation of scalar variables using the DWARF attribute: DW_AT_endianity A type flagged with this variable would typically use one of: DW_END_big DW_END_little which instructs the debugger what the desired byte order interpretation of the variable should be. The GCC compiler (as of V6) has a mechanism for setting the desired byte ordering of the fields within a structure or union. For, example, on a little endian target, a structure declared as: struct big { int v; short a[4]; } __attribute__( ( scalar_storage_order( "big-endian" ) ) ); could be used to ensure all the structure members have a big-endian interpretation (the compiler would automatically insert byte swap instructions before and after respective store and load instructions). - To reproduce GCC V8 is required to correctly emit DW_AT_endianity DWARF attributes in all situations when the scalar_storage_order attribute is used. A fix for (dwarf endianity instrumentation) for GCC V6-V7 can be found in the URL field of the following PR: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82509 - Test-case: A new test case (testsuite/gdb.base/endianity.*) is included with this patch. Manual testing for mixed endianity code has also been done with GCC V8. See: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82509#c4 - Observed vs. expected: Without this change, using scalar_storage_order that doesn't match the target, such as struct otherendian { int v; } __attribute__( ( scalar_storage_order( "big-endian" ) ) ); would behave like the following on a little endian target: Breakpoint 1 at 0x401135: file endianity.c, line 41. (gdb) run Starting program: /home/pjoot/freeware/t/a.out Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install glibc-2.17-292.el7.x86_64 Breakpoint 1, main () at endianity.c:41 41 struct otherendian o = {3}; (gdb) n 43 do_nothing (&o); /* START */ (gdb) p o $1 = {v = 50331648} (gdb) p /x $2 = {v = 0x3000000} whereas with this gdb enhancement we can access the variable with the user specified endianity: Breakpoint 1, main () at endianity.c:41 41 struct otherendian o = {3}; (gdb) p o $1 = {v = 0} (gdb) n 43 do_nothing (&o); /* START */ (gdb) p o $2 = {v = 3} (gdb) p o.v = 4 $3 = 4 (gdb) p o.v $4 = 4 (gdb) x/4xb &o.v 0x7fffffffd90c: 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x04 (observe that the 4 byte int variable has a big endian representation in the hex dump.) gdb/ChangeLog 2019-11-21 Peeter Joot <peeter.joot@lzlabs.com> Byte reverse display of variables with DW_END_big, DW_END_little (DW_AT_endianity) dwarf attributes if different than the native byte order. * ada-lang.c (ada_value_binop): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * ada-valprint.c (printstr): (ada_val_print_string): * ada-lang.c (value_pointer): (ada_value_binop): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * c-lang.c (c_get_string): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * c-valprint.c (c_val_print_array): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * cp-valprint.c (cp_print_class_member): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * dwarf2loc.c (rw_pieced_value): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * dwarf2read.c (read_base_type): Handle DW_END_big, DW_END_little * f-lang.c (f_get_encoding): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * findvar.c (default_read_var_value): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * gdbtypes.c (check_types_equal): Require matching TYPE_ENDIANITY_NOT_DEFAULT if set. (recursive_dump_type): Print TYPE_ENDIANITY_BIG, and TYPE_ENDIANITY_LITTLE if set. (type_byte_order): new function. * gdbtypes.h (TYPE_ENDIANITY_NOT_DEFAULT): New macro. (struct main_type) <flag_endianity_not_default>: New field. (type_byte_order): New function. * infcmd.c (default_print_one_register_info): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * p-lang.c (pascal_printstr): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * p-valprint.c (pascal_val_print): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * printcmd.c (print_scalar_formatted): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * solib-darwin.c (darwin_current_sos): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * solib-svr4.c (solib_svr4_r_ldsomap): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * stap-probe.c (stap_modify_semaphore): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * target-float.c (target_float_same_format_p): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * valarith.c (scalar_binop): (value_bit_index): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * valops.c (value_cast): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * valprint.c (generic_emit_char): (generic_printstr): (val_print_string): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * value.c (unpack_long): (unpack_bits_as_long): (unpack_value_bitfield): (modify_field): (pack_long): (pack_unsigned_long): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * findvar.c (unsigned_pointer_to_address): (signed_pointer_to_address): (unsigned_address_to_pointer): (address_to_signed_pointer): (default_read_var_value): (default_value_from_register): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * gnu-v3-abi.c (gnuv3_make_method_ptr): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. * riscv-tdep.c (riscv_print_one_register_info): Use type_byte_order instead of gdbarch_byte_order. gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog 2019-11-21 Peeter Joot <peeter.joot@lzlabs.com> * gdb.base/endianity.c: New test. * gdb.base/endianity.exp: New file. Change-Id: I4bd98c1b4508c2d7c5a5dbb15d7b7b1cb4e667e2
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/valops.c')
-rw-r--r--gdb/valops.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/valops.c b/gdb/valops.c
index bfdd781..4597e99 100644
--- a/gdb/valops.c
+++ b/gdb/valops.c
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ value_cast (struct type *type, struct value *arg2)
if (code2 == TYPE_CODE_PTR)
longest = extract_unsigned_integer
(value_contents (arg2), TYPE_LENGTH (type2),
- gdbarch_byte_order (get_type_arch (type2)));
+ type_byte_order (type2));
else
longest = value_as_long (arg2);
return value_from_longest (to_type, convert_to_boolean ?