gdbserver: pass osabi to GDB in target description

On a Windows machine I built gdbserver, configured for the target
'x86_64-w64-mingw32', then on a GNU/Linux machine I built GDB with
support for all target (--enable-targets=all).

On the Windows machine I start gdbserver with a small test binary:

  $ gdbserver 192.168.129.25:54321 C:\some\directory\executable.exe

On the GNU/Linux machine I start GDB without the test binary, and
connect to gdbserver.

As I have not given GDB the test binary, my expectation is that GDB
would connect to gdbserver and then download the file over the remote
protocol, but instead I was presented with this message:

  (gdb) target remote 192.168.129.25:54321
  Remote debugging using 192.168.129.25:54321
  warning: C:\some\directory\executable.exe: No such file or directory.
  0x00007ffa3e1e1741 in ?? ()
  (gdb)

What I found is that if I told GDB where to find the binary, like
this:

  (gdb) file target:C:/some/directory/executable.exe
  A program is being debugged already.
  Are you sure you want to change the file? (y or n) y
  Reading C:/some/directory/executable.exe from remote target...
  warning: File transfers from remote targets can be slow. Use "set sysroot" to access files locally instead.
  Reading C:/some/directory/executable.exe from remote target...
  Reading symbols from target:C:/some/directory/executable.exe...
  (gdb)

then GDB would download the executable.

I eventually tracked the problem down to exec_file_find (solib.c).
The remote target was passing an absolute Windows filename (beginning
with "C:/" in this case), but in exec_file_find GDB was failing the
IS_TARGET_ABSOLUTE_PATH call, and so was treating the filename as
relative.

The IS_TARGET_ABSOLUTE_PATH call was failing because GDB thought that
the file system kind was "unix", and as the filename didn't start with
a "/" it assumed the filename was not absolute.

But I'm connecting to a Windows target, my 'target-file-system-kind'
was set to "auto", so should be figuring out that my file-system is
"dos-based".

Looking in effective_target_file_system_kind (filesystem.c), we find
that the logic of "auto" is delegated to the current gdbarch.  However
in windows-tdep.c we see:

  set_gdbarch_has_dos_based_file_system (gdbarch, 1);

So if we are using a Windows gdbarch we should have "dos-based"
filesystems.  What this means is that after connecting to the remote
target GDB has selected the wrong gdbarch.

What's happening is that the target description sent back by the
remote target only includes the x86-64 registers.  There's no
information about which OS we're on.  As a consequence, GDB picks the
first x86-64 gdbarch which can handle the provided register set, which
happens to be a GNU/Linux gdbarch.

And indeed, there doesn't appear to be anywhere in gdbserver that sets
the osabi on the target descriptions, though some target descriptions
do have their osabi set when the description is created, e.g. in:

  gdb/arch/amd64.c	- Sets GNU/Linux osabi when appropriate.
  gdb/arch/i386.c	- Likewise.
  gdb/arch/tic6x.c	- Always set GNU/Linux osabi.

Most target descriptions are created without an osabi, gdbserver does
nothing to fix this, and the description is returned to GDB without an
osabi included.

I propose that we always set the osabi name on the target descriptions
returned from gdbserver.  We could try to do this when the description
is first created, but that would mean passing extra flags into the
tdesc creation code (or just passing the osabi string in), and I don't
think that's really necessary.  If we consider the tdesc creation as
being about figuring out which registers are on the target, then it
makes sense that the osabi information is injected later.

So what I've done is require the osabi name to be passed to the
init_target_desc function.  This is called, I believe, for all
targets, in the gdbserver code.

Now when I connect to the Windows remote the target description
returned includes the osabi name.  With this extra information GDB
selects the correct gdbarch object, which means that GDB understands
the target has a "dos-based" file-system.  With that correct GDB
understands that the filename it was given is absolute, and so fetches
the file from the remote as we'd like.

Approved-By: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>

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