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2023-01-01Update copyright year range in header of all files managed by GDBJoel Brobecker1-1/+1
This commit is the result of running the gdb/copyright.py script, which automated the update of the copyright year range for all source files managed by the GDB project to be updated to include year 2023.
2022-01-01Automatic Copyright Year update after running gdb/copyright.pyJoel Brobecker1-1/+1
This commit brings all the changes made by running gdb/copyright.py as per GDB's Start of New Year Procedure. For the avoidance of doubt, all changes in this commits were performed by the script.
2021-01-01Update copyright year range in all GDB filesJoel Brobecker1-1/+1
This commits the result of running gdb/copyright.py as per our Start of New Year procedure... gdb/ChangeLog Update copyright year range in copyright header of all GDB files.
2020-01-01Update copyright year range in all GDB files.Joel Brobecker1-1/+1
gdb/ChangeLog: Update copyright year range in all GDB files.
2019-10-07gdb: CTF supportWeimin Pan1-0/+25
This patch adds the CTF (Compact Ansi-C Type Format) support in gdb. Two submissions on which this gdb work depends were posted earlier in May: * On the binutils mailing list - adding libctf which creates, updates, reads, and manipulates the CTF data. * On the gcc mailing list - expanding gcc to directly emit the CFT data with a new command line option -gt. CTF is a reduced form of debugging information whose main purpose is to describe the type of C entities such as structures, unions, typedefs and function arguments at the global scope only. It does not contain debug information about source lines, location expressions, or local variables. For more information on CTF, see the documentation in the libdtrace-ctf source tree, available here: <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oracle/libdtrace-ctf/master/doc/ctf-format>. This patch expands struct elfinfo by adding the .ctf section, which contains CTF debugging info, and modifies elf_symfile_read() to read it. If both DWARF and CTF exist in a program, only DWARF will be read. CTF data will be read only when there is no DWARF. The two-stage symbolic reading and setting strategy, partial and full, was used. File ctfread.c contains functions to transform CTF data into gdb's internal symbol table structures by iterately reading entries from CTF sections of "data objects", "function info", "variable info", and "data types" when setting up either partial or full symbol table. If the ELF symbol table is available, e.g. not stripped, the CTF reader will associate the found type information with these symbol entries. Due to the proximity between DWARF and CTF (CTF being a much simplified subset of DWARF), some DWARF implementation was reused to support CTF. Test cases ctf-constvars.exp, ctf-cvexpr.exp, ctf-ptype.exp, and ctf-whatis.exp have been added to verify the correctness of this support. This patch has missing features and limitations which we will add and address in the future patches. gdb/ChangeLog +2019-10-07 Weimin Pan <weimin.pan@oracle.com> + + * gdb/ctfread.c: New file. + * gdb/ctfread.h: New file. + * gdb/elfread.c: Include ctfread.h. + (struct elfinfo text_p): New member ctfsect. + (elf_locate_sections): Mark CTF section. + (elf_symfile_read): Call elfctf_build_psymtabs. + * gdb/Makefile.in (LIBCTF): Add. + (CLIBS): Use it. + (CDEPS): Likewise. + (DIST): Add ctfread.c. + * Makefile.def (dependencies): Add all-libctf to all-gdb + * Makefile.in: Add "all-gdb: maybe-all-libctf" + gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog +2019-10-07 Weimin Pan <weimin.pan@oracle.com> + + * gdb.base/ctf-whatis.exp: New file. + * gdb.base/ctf-whatis.c: New file. + * gdb.base/ctf-ptype.exp: New file. + * gdb.base/ctf-ptype.c: New file. + * gdb.base/ctf-constvars.exp: New file. + * gdb.base/ctf-constvars.c: New file. + * gdb.base/ctf-cvexpr.exp: New file. +