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Teach GDB how to dump memory tags for AArch64 when using the gcore command
and how to read memory tag data back from a core file generated by GDB
(via gcore) or by the Linux kernel.
The format is documented in the Linux Kernel documentation [1].
Each tagged memory range (listed in /proc/<pid>/smaps) gets dumped to its
own PT_AARCH64_MEMTAG_MTE segment. A section named ".memtag" is created for each
of those segments when reading the core file back.
To save a little bit of space, given MTE tags only take 4 bits, the memory tags
are stored packed as 2 tags per byte.
When reading the data back, the tags are unpacked.
I've added a new testcase to exercise the feature.
Build-tested with --enable-targets=all and regression tested on aarch64-linux
Ubuntu 20.04.
[1] Documentation/arm64/memory-tagging-extension.rst (Core Dump Support)
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Currently, Python code can use event registries to detect when gdb
loads a new objfile, and when gdb clears the objfile list. However,
there's no way to detect the removal of an objfile, say when the
inferior calls dlclose.
This patch adds a gdb.free_objfile event registry and arranges for an
event to be emitted in this case.
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This adds a 'summary' mode to Value.format_string and to
gdb.print_options. For the former, it lets Python code format values
using this mode. For the latter, it lets a printer potentially detect
if it is being called in a backtrace with 'set print frame-arguments'
set to 'scalars'.
I considered adding a new mode here to let a pretty-printer see
whether it was being called in a 'backtrace' context at all, but I'm
not sure if this is really desirable.
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PR python/17291 asks for access to the current print options. While I
think this need is largely satisfied by the existence of
Value.format_string, it seemed to me that a bit more could be done.
First, while Value.format_string uses the user's settings, it does not
react to temporary settings such as "print/x". This patch changes
this.
Second, there is no good way to examine the current settings (in
particular the temporary ones in effect for just a single "print").
This patch adds this as well.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17291
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Update NEWS and gdb.texinfo to document floating-point support
for LoongArch.
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
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This improves the "set scheduler-locking" documentation in the GDB
manual:
- Use a table to describe the four available modes.
- Describe "step" in terms of "on" and "off".
- Tweak the "replay" mode's description to describe replay first
instead of recording, and also mention how the mode behaves during
normal execution.
- Say what is the default mode.
Change-Id: Ie12140138b37534b7fc1d904da34f0f174aa11ce
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In the description of stop replies, where the "thread" register is
explained, and where the fork and vfork stop reasons are detailed,
there are references to "@var{thread-id}", but such variable does not
actually exist. This commit fixes it.
Change-Id: If679944aaf15f6f64aabe506339a9e7667864cab
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This commit extends GDB to make use of libopcodes styling support
where available, currently this is just i386 based architectures, and
RISC-V.
For architectures that don't support styling using libopcodes GDB will
fall back to using the Python Pygments package, when the package is
available.
The new libopcodes based styling has the disassembler identify parts
of the disassembled instruction, e.g. registers, immediates,
mnemonics, etc, and can style these components differently.
Additionally, as the styling is now done in GDB we can add settings to
allow the user to configure which colours are used right from the GDB
CLI.
There's some new maintenance commands:
maintenance set libopcodes-styling enabled on|off
maintenance show libopcodes-styling
These can be used to manually disable use of libopcodes styling. This
is a maintenance command as it's not anticipated that a user should
need to do this. But, this could be useful for testing, or, in some
rare cases, a user might want to override the Python hook used for
disassembler styling, and then disable libopcode styling so that GDB
falls back to using Python. Right now I would consider this second
use case a rare situation, which is why I think a maintenance command
is appropriate.
When libopcodes is being used for styling then the user can make use
of the following new styles:
set/show style disassembler comment
set/show style disassembler immediate
set/show style disassembler mnemonic
set/show style disassembler register
The disassembler also makes use of the 'address' and 'function'
styles to style some parts of the disassembler output. I have also
added the following aliases though:
set/show style disassembler address
set/show style disassembler symbol
these are aliases for:
set/show style address
set/show style function
respectively, and exist to make it easier for users to discover
disassembler related style settings. The 'address' style is used to
style numeric addresses in the disassembler output, while the 'symbol'
or 'function' style is used to style the names of symbols in
disassembler output.
As not every architecture supports libopcodes styling, the maintenance
setting 'libopcodes-styling enabled' has an "auto-off" type behaviour.
Consider this GDB session:
(gdb) show architecture
The target architecture is set to "auto" (currently "i386:x86-64").
(gdb) maintenance show libopcodes-styling enabled
Use of libopcodes styling support is "on".
the setting defaults to "on" for architectures that support libopcodes
based styling.
(gdb) set architecture sparc
The target architecture is set to "sparc".
(gdb) maintenance show libopcodes-styling enabled
Use of libopcodes styling support is "off" (not supported on architecture "sparc")
the setting will show as "off" if the user switches to an architecture
that doesn't support libopcodes styling. The underlying setting is
still "on" at this point though, if the user switches back to
i386:x86-64 then the setting would go back to being "on".
(gdb) maintenance set libopcodes-styling enabled off
(gdb) maintenance show libopcodes-styling enabled
Use of libopcodes styling support is "off".
now the setting is "off" for everyone, even if the user switches back
to i386:x86-64 the setting will still show as "off".
(gdb) maintenance set libopcodes-styling enabled on
Use of libopcodes styling not supported on architecture "sparc".
(gdb) maintenance show libopcodes-styling enabled
Use of libopcodes styling support is "off".
attempting to switch the setting "on" for an unsupported architecture
will give an error, and the setting will remain "off".
(gdb) set architecture auto
The target architecture is set to "auto" (currently "i386:x86-64").
(gdb) maintenance show libopcodes-styling enabled
Use of libopcodes styling support is "off".
(gdb) maintenance set libopcodes-styling enabled on
(gdb) maintenance show libopcodes-styling enabled
Use of libopcodes styling support is "on".
the user will need to switch back to a supported architecture before
they can one again turn this setting "on".
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Sometimes an objfile comes from memory and not from a file. It can be
useful to be able to check this from Python, so this patch adds a new
"is_file" attribute.
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Remove indentation from the text of the manual after the example here:
" Completion will in some cases guide you with a suggestion of what
kind of argument an option expects. For example:
(gdb) print -elements <TAB><TAB>
NUMBER unlimited
Here, the option expects a number (e.g., '100'), not literal
'NUMBER'. Such metasyntactical arguments are always presented in
uppercase."
as this is a continuation of the same paragraph.
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Completion results are usually different when the operation is applied
to a word that is or is not followed by a space. In some cases they are
equivalent, however a space would not be produced if completion was used
earlier on in the word processed.
However in the manual we have completion examples given using a space
that actually prevents the example from working. E.g.:
(gdb) info bre <TAB>
(nothing) and:
(gdb) info bre <TAB><TAB>
Display all 200 possibilities? (y or n)
as it now goes on to propose the entire symbol table, while:
(gdb) info bre<TAB>
(gdb) info breakpoints
does the right thing, but is not what is shown in the manual.
In other cases an extraneous space is used that does not correspond to
the actual completion pattern shown, which gives an impression of
sloppiness.
Remove extraneous spaces then from completion examples as appropriate.
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Fix a completion consistency issue with `set' commands accepting integer
values and the special `unlimited' keyword:
(gdb) complete print -elements
print -elements NUMBER
print -elements unlimited
(gdb)
vs:
(gdb) complete set print elements
set print elements unlimited
(gdb)
(there is a space entered at the end of both commands, not shown here)
which also means if you strike <Tab> with `set print elements ' input,
it will, annoyingly, complete to `set print elements unlimited' right
away rather than showing a choice between `NUMBER' and `unlimited'.
Add `NUMBER' then as an available completion for such `set' commands:
(gdb) complete set print elements
set print elements NUMBER
set print elements unlimited
(gdb)
Adjust the testsuite accordingly. Also document the feature in the
Completion section of the manual in addition to the Command Options
section already there.
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In passing I noticed that the column headings for the table of MI
compatibility and breaking changes, were overlapping, at least when
the PDF is generated on my machine.
I propose giving slightly more space to the two version number
columns, this prevents the headers overlapping for me.
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Extend the description of the MI command --data-disassemble.
Specifically, expand the description of the 'opcodes' field to explain
how the bytes are formatted.
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GDB's documentation of the 'file' command says:
If you do not specify a directory and the file is not found in the
GDB working directory, GDB uses the environment variable PATH as a
list of directories to search, just as the shell does when looking
for a program to run.
The same is true for files specified via commandline options -s, -e,
and -se.
This commit adds a cross reference to the file command for these options.
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This patch makes it possible to allow Value.format_string() to return
nibbles output.
When we set the parameter of nibbles to True, we can achieve the
displaying binary values in groups of every four bits.
Here's an example:
(gdb) py print (gdb.Value (1230).format_string (format='t', nibbles=True))
0100 1100 1110
(gdb)
Note that the parameter nibbles is only useful if format='t' is also used.
This patch also includes update to the relevant testcase and
documentation.
Tested on x86_64 openSUSE Tumbleweed.
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Document the new command "print nibbles" and add a NEWS entry.
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PR python/28533 points out that the Python 'dont_repeat' documentation
is a bit ambiguous about when the method ought to be called. This
patch spells it out.
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This commit extends the Python API to include disassembler support.
The motivation for this commit was to provide an API by which the user
could write Python scripts that would augment the output of the
disassembler.
To achieve this I have followed the model of the existing libopcodes
disassembler, that is, instructions are disassembled one by one. This
does restrict the type of things that it is possible to do from a
Python script, i.e. all additional output has to fit on a single line,
but this was all I needed, and creating something more complex would,
I think, require greater changes to how GDB's internal disassembler
operates.
The disassembler API is contained in the new gdb.disassembler module,
which defines the following classes:
DisassembleInfo
Similar to libopcodes disassemble_info structure, has read-only
properties: address, architecture, and progspace. And has methods:
__init__, read_memory, and is_valid.
Each time GDB wants an instruction disassembled, an instance of
this class is passed to a user written disassembler function, by
reading the properties, and calling the methods (and other support
methods in the gdb.disassembler module) the user can perform and
return the disassembly.
Disassembler
This is a base-class which user written disassemblers should
inherit from. This base class provides base implementations of
__init__ and __call__ which the user written disassembler should
override.
DisassemblerResult
This class can be used to hold the result of a call to the
disassembler, it's really just a wrapper around a string (the text
of the disassembled instruction) and a length (in bytes). The user
can return an instance of this class from Disassembler.__call__ to
represent the newly disassembled instruction.
The gdb.disassembler module also provides the following functions:
register_disassembler
This function registers an instance of a Disassembler sub-class
as a disassembler, either for one specific architecture, or, as a
global disassembler for all architectures.
builtin_disassemble
This provides access to GDB's builtin disassembler. A common
use case that I see is augmenting the existing disassembler output.
The user code can call this function to have GDB disassemble the
instruction in the normal way. The user gets back a
DisassemblerResult object, which they can then read in order to
augment the disassembler output in any way they wish.
This function also provides a mechanism to intercept the
disassemblers reads of memory, thus the user can adjust what GDB
sees when it is disassembling.
The included documentation provides a more detailed description of the
API.
There is also a new CLI command added:
maint info python-disassemblers
This command is defined in the Python gdb.disassemblers module, and
can be used to list the currently registered Python disassemblers.
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I noticed that the Python event documentation referred to the event's
"breakpoint" field as a function, whereas it is actually an attribute.
This patch fixes the error.
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PR mi/14270 points out that mi-break.exp has some tests for an
unimplemented "-r" switch for "-break-insert". This switch was never
implemented, and is not documented -- though it is mentioned in a
comment in the documentation. This patch removes the test and the doc
comment.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14270
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This rearranges and changes the wording of the "Location
Specification" section of the GDB manual in minor ways.
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This adds the gdb.current_language function, which can be used to find
the current language without (1) ever having the value "auto" or (2)
having to parse the output of "show language".
It also adds the gdb.Frame.language, which can be used to find the
language of a given frame. This is normally preferable if one has a
Frame object handy.
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Co-Authored-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Change-Id: I9440052fd28f795d6f7c93a4576beadd21f28885
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Change-Id: Iac26e1d2e7d8dc8a7d9516e6bdcc5c3fc4af45c8
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Change-Id: I05639ddb3bf620c7297b57ed286adc3aa926b7b6
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The current "Specify Location" section of the GDB manual starts with:
"Several @value{GDBN} commands accept arguments that specify a location
of your program's code."
And then, such commands are documented as taking a "location"
argument. For example, here's a representative subset:
@item break @var{location}
@item clear @var{location}
@item until @var{location}
@item list @var{location}
@item edit @var{location}
@itemx info line @var{location}
@item info macros @var{location}
@item trace @var{location}
@item info scope @var{location}
@item maint agent @r{[}-at @var{location}@r{,}@r{]} @var{expression}
The issue here is that "location" isn't really correct for most of
these commands. Instead, the "location" argument is really a
placeholder that represent an umbrella term for all of the
"linespecs", "explicit location", and "address location" input
formats. GDB parses these and then finds the actual code locations
(plural) in the program that match. For example, a "location"
specified like "-function func" will actually match all the code
locations in the program that correspond to the address/file/lineno of
all the functions named "func" in all the loaded programs and shared
libraries of all the inferiors. A location specified like "-function
func -label lab" matches all the addresses of C labels named "lab" in
all functions named "func". Etc.
This means that several of the commands that claim they accept a
"location", actually end up working with multiple locations, and the
manual doesn't explain that all that well. In some cases, the command
will work with all the resolved locations. In other cases, the
command aborts with an error if the location specification resolves to
multiple locations in the program. In other cases, GDB just
arbitrarily and silently picks whatever is the first resolved code
location (which sounds like should be improved).
To clarify this, I propose we use the term "Location Specification",
with shorthand "locaction spec", when we're talking about the user
input, the argument or arguments that is/are passed to commands to
instruct GDB how to find locations of interest. This is distinct from
the actual code locations in the program, which are what GDB finds
based on the user-specified location spec. Then use "location
specification or the shorter "location spec" thoughout instead of
"location" when we're talking about the user input.
Thus, this commit does the following:
- renames the "Specify Location" section of the manual to "Location
Specifications".
- It then introduces the term "Location Specification", with
corresponding shorthand "location spec", as something distinct from
an actual code location in the program. It explains what a concrete
code location is. It explains that a location specification may be
incomplete, and that may match multiple code locations in the
program, or no code location at all. It gives examples. Some
pre-existing examples were moved from the "Set Breaks" section, and
a few new ones that didn't exist yet were added. I think it is
better to have these centralized in this "Location Specification"
section, since all the other commands that accept a location spec
have an xref that points there.
- Goes through the manual, and where "@var{location}" was used for a
command argument, updated it to say "@var{locspec}" instead. At the
same time, tweaks the description of the affected commands to
describe what happens when the location spec resolves to more than
one location. Most commands just did not say anything about that.
One command -- "maint agent -at @var{location}" -- currently says it
accepts a "location", suggesting it can accept address and explicit
locations too, but that's incorrect. In reality, it only accepts
linespecs, so fix it accordingly.
One MI command -- "-trace-find line" -- currently says it accepts a
"line specification", but it can accept address and explicit
locations too, so fix it accordingly.
Special thanks goes to Eli Zaretskii for reviews and rewording
suggestions.
Change-Id: Ic42ad8565e79ca67bfebb22cbb4794ea816fd08b
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Currently, breakpoint locations that are enabled while their parent
breakpoint is disabled are displayed with "y" in the Enb colum of
"info breakpoints":
(gdb) info breakpoints
Num Type Disp Enb Address What
1 breakpoint keep n <MULTIPLE>
1.1 y 0x00000000000011b6 in ...
1.2 y 0x00000000000011c2 in ...
1.3 n 0x00000000000011ce in ...
Such locations won't trigger a break, so to avoid confusion, show "y-"
instead. For example:
(gdb) info breakpoints
Num Type Disp Enb Address What
1 breakpoint keep n <MULTIPLE>
1.1 y- 0x00000000000011b6 in ...
1.2 y- 0x00000000000011c2 in ...
1.3 n 0x00000000000011ce in ...
The "-" sign is inspired on how the TUI represents breakpoints on the
left side of the source window, with "b-" for a disabled breakpoint.
Change-Id: I9952313743c51bf21b4b380c72360ef7d4396a09
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The documentation says that -enable-pretty-printing is experimental in
7.0 and may change -- that's long enough ago that I think we can say
that this text is no longer correct or useful.
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Update the 'info pretty-printer' example in the manual to make use of
@value{GDBP} instead of hard-coding '(gdb)'.
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The 'info pretty-printers' example is pretty long and consists of many
commands and their output.
Currently, when the pdf manual is generated this example spans a
page-break, with the page-break falling part way through some example
output from GDB.
This commit breaks up the example using @group .... @end group, within
each group is a single GDB command and all its output.
Now, when the pdf manual is created, the page-break is placed after
the output of one GDB command, and before the subsequent command, this
looks much nicer.
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The example for 'info pretty-printer' in the manual passes an
object-regexp in some cases, but presents output as though no
object-regexp was passed.
This commit fixes the two mistakes, in one case, fixing the output to
filter based on object-regexp, and in the other, to remove the
object-regexp from the command and leave all the output.
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The 'metadata' styling was never documented in the GDB manual.
This fills that gap.
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unwind-secure-frames command
This patch makes use of the support for several stack pointers
introduced by the previous patch to switch between them as needed
during unwinding.
It introduces a new 'unwind-secure-frames' arm command to enable/disable
mode switching during unwinding. It is enabled by default.
It has been tested using an STM32L5 board (with cortex-m33) and the
sample applications shipped with the STM32Cube development
environment: GTZC_TZSC_MPCBB_TrustZone in
STM32CubeL5/Projects/NUCLEO-L552ZE-Q/Examples/GTZC.
The test consisted in setting breakpoints in various places and check
that the backtrace is correct: SecureFault_Callback (Non-secure mode),
__gnu_cmse_nonsecure_call (before and after the vpush instruction),
SecureFault_Handler (Secure mode).
This implies that we tested only some parts of this patch (only MSP*
were used), but remaining parts seem reasonable.
Signed-off-by: Torbjörn Svensson <torbjorn.svensson@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Lyon <christophe.lyon@foss.st.com>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Lyon <christophe.lyon@arm.com>
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This slightly reorganizes the Python events documentation. It hoists
the "ThreadEvent" text out of the list of events, where it seemed to
be misplaced. It tidies the formatting a little bit (adding some
vertical space for easier reading in info), fixes a typo, adds some
missing commas, and fixes an incorrect reference to NewInferiorEvent.
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A while back, I sent a patch to unify the Ada varsize-limit setting
with the more generic max-value-size:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-September/182004.html
However, it turns out I somehow neglected to send part of the patch.
Internally, I also removed the "Ada Settings" node from the manual, as
it only documents the obsolete setting.
This patch removes this text.
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The earlier version of this document had no sections about the
available Fortran intrinsic functions or the Fortran builtin types.
I added two sections 'Fortran intrinsics' and 'Fortran types' to
document the available Fortran language features. The subsection
'Fortran Defaults' has been integrated into the Fortran subsection.
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This set of changes enable support for the ARMv8.1-m PACBTI extensions [1].
The goal of the PACBTI extensions is similar in scope to that of a-profile
PAC/BTI (aarch64 only), but the underlying implementation is different.
One important difference is that the pointer authentication code is stored
in a separate register, thus we don't need to mask/unmask the return address
from a function in order to produce a correct backtrace.
The patch introduces the following modifications:
- Extend the prologue analyser for 32-bit ARM to handle some instructions
from ARMv8.1-m PACBTI: pac, aut, pacg, autg and bti. Also keep track of
return address signing/authentication instructions.
- Adds code to identify object file attributes that indicate the presence of
ARMv8.1-m PACBTI (Tag_PAC_extension, Tag_BTI_extension, Tag_PACRET_use and
Tag_BTI_use).
- Adds support for DWARF pseudo-register RA_AUTH_CODE, as described in the
aadwarf32 [2].
- Extends the dwarf unwinder to track the value of RA_AUTH_CODE.
- Decorates backtraces with the "[PAC]" identifier when a frame has signed
the return address.
- Makes GDB aware of a new XML feature "org.gnu.gdb.arm.m-profile-pacbti". This
feature is not included as an XML file on GDB's side because it is only
supported for bare metal targets.
- Additional documentation.
[1] https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/architectures-and-processors-blog/posts/armv8-1-m-pointer-authentication-and-branch-target-identification-extension
[2] https://github.com/ARM-software/abi-aa/blob/main/aadwarf32/aadwarf32.rst
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Someone at IRC spotted a bug in qRcmd handling. This looks like an oversight
or it is that way for historical reasons.
The code in gdb/remote.c:remote_target::rcmd uses isdigit instead of
isxdigit. One could argue that we are expecting decimal numbers, but further
below we use fromhex ().
Update the function to use isxdigit instead and also update the documentation.
I see there are lots of other cases of undocumented number format for error
messages, mostly described as NN instead of nn. For now I'll just update
this particular function.
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The previous patch added support for the DWARF prologue-end flag in line
table. This flag can be used by DWARF producers to indicate where to
place breakpoints past a function prologue. However, this takes
precedence over prologue analyzers. So if we have to debug a program
with erroneous debug information, the overall debugging experience will
be degraded.
This commit proposes to add a maintenance command to instruct GDB to
ignore the prologue_end flag.
Tested on x86_64-gnu-linux.
Change-Id: Idda6d1b96ba887f4af555b43d9923261b9cc6f82
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Add support for DW_LNS_set_prologue_end when building line-tables. This
attribute can be set by the compiler to indicate that an instruction is
an adequate place to set a breakpoint just after the prologue of a
function.
The compiler might set multiple prologue_end, but considering how
current skip_prologue_using_sal works, this commit modifies it to accept
the first instruction with this marker (if any) to be the place where a
breakpoint should be placed to be at the end of the prologue.
The need for this support came from a problematic usecase generated by
hipcc (i.e. clang). The problem is as follows: There's a function
(lets call it foo) which covers PC from 0xa800 to 0xa950. The body of
foo begins with a call to an inlined function, covering from 0xa800 to
0xa94c. The issue is that when placing a breakpoint at 'foo', GDB
inserts the breakpoint at 0xa818. The 0x18 offset is what GDB thinks is
foo's first address past the prologue.
Later, when hitting the breakpoint, GDB reports the stop within the
inlined function because the PC falls in its range while the user
expects to stop in FOO.
Looking at the line-table for this location, we have:
INDEX LINE ADDRESS IS-STMT
[...]
14 293 0x000000000000a66c Y
15 END 0x000000000000a6e0 Y
16 287 0x000000000000a800 Y
17 END 0x000000000000a818 Y
18 287 0x000000000000a824 Y
[...]
For comparison, let's look at llvm-dwarfdump's output for this CU:
Address Line Column File ISA Discriminator Flags
------------------ ------ ------ ------ --- ------------- -------------
[...]
0x000000000000a66c 293 12 2 0 0 is_stmt
0x000000000000a6e0 96 43 82 0 0 is_stmt
0x000000000000a6f8 102 18 82 0 0 is_stmt
0x000000000000a70c 102 24 82 0 0
0x000000000000a710 102 18 82 0 0
0x000000000000a72c 101 16 82 0 0 is_stmt
0x000000000000a73c 2915 50 83 0 0 is_stmt
0x000000000000a74c 110 1 1 0 0 is_stmt
0x000000000000a750 110 1 1 0 0 is_stmt end_sequence
0x000000000000a800 107 0 1 0 0 is_stmt
0x000000000000a800 287 12 2 0 0 is_stmt prologue_end
0x000000000000a818 114 59 81 0 0 is_stmt
0x000000000000a824 287 12 2 0 0 is_stmt
0x000000000000a828 100 58 82 0 0 is_stmt
[...]
The main difference we are interested in here is that llvm-dwarfdump's
output tells us that 0xa800 is an adequate place to place a breakpoint
past a function prologue. Since we know that foo covers from 0xa800 to
0xa94c, 0xa800 is the address at which the breakpoint should be placed
if the user wants to break in foo.
This commit proposes to add support for the prologue_end flag in the
line-program processing.
The processing of this prologue_end flag is made in skip_prologue_sal,
before it calls gdbarch_skip_prologue_noexcept. The intent is that if
the compiler gave information on where the prologue ends, we should use
this information and not try to rely on architecture dependent logic to
guess it.
The testsuite have been executed using this patch on GNU/Linux x86_64.
Testcases have been compiled with both gcc/g++ (verison 9.4.0) and
clang/clang++ (version 10.0.0) since at the time of writing GCC does not
set the prologue_end marker. Tests done with GCC 11.2.0 (not over the
entire testsuite) show that it does not emit this flag either.
No regression have been observed with GCC or Clang. Note that when
using Clang, this patch fixes a failure in
gdb.opt/inline-small-func.exp.
Change-Id: I720449a8a9b2e1fb45b54c6095d3b1e9da9152f8
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This commit adds 'set debug tui on|off' and 'show debug tui'. This
commit adds the control variable, and the printing macros in
tui/tui.h. I've then added some uses of these in tui.c and
tui-layout.c.
To help produce more useful debug output in tui-layout.c, I've added
some helper member functions in the class tui_layout_split, and also
moved the size_info struct out of tui_layout_split::apply into the
tui_layout_split class.
If tui debug is not turned on, then there should be no user visible
changes after this commit.
One thing to note is that, due to the way that the tui terminal is
often cleared, the only way I've found this useful is when I do:
(gdb) tui enable
(gdb) set logging file /path/to/file
(gdb) set logging debugredirect on
(gdb) set logging enable on
Additionally, gdb has some quirks when it comes to setting up logging
redirect and switching interpreters. Thus, the above only really
works if the logging is enabled after the tui is enabled, and disabled
again before the tui is disabled.
Enabling logging and switching interpreters can cause undefined
results, including crashes. This is an existing bug in gdb[1], and
has nothing directly to do with tui debug, but it is worth mentioning
here I think.
[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28948
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This commit adds a new command 'tui window width', and an alias
'winwidth'. This command is equivalent to the old 'winheight'
command (which was recently renamed 'tui window height').
Even though I recently moved the old tui commands under the tui
namespace, and I would strongly encourage all new tui commands to be
added as 'tui ....' only (users can create their own top-level aliases
if they want), I'm breaking that suggestion here, and adding a
'winwidth' alias.
Given that we already have 'winheight' and have done for years, it
just didn't seem right to no have the matching 'winwidth'.
You might notice in the test that the window resizing doesn't quite
work right. I setup a horizontal layout, then grow and shrink the
windows. At the end of the test the windows should be back to their
original size...
... they are not. This isn't my fault, honest! GDB's window resizing
is a little ... temperamental, and is prone to getting things slightly
wrong during resizes, off by 1 type things. This is true for height
resizing, as well as the new width resizing.
Later patches in this series will rework the resizing algorithm, which
should improve things in this area. For now, I'm happy that the width
resizing is as good as the height resizing, given the existing quirks.
For the docs side I include a paragraph that explains how multiple
windows are required before the width can be adjusted. For
completeness, I've added the same paragraph to the winheight
description. With the predefined layouts this extra paragraph is not
really needed for winheight, as there are always multiple windows on
the screen. However, with custom layouts, this might not be true, so
adding the paragraph seems like a good idea.
As for the changes in gdb itself, I've mostly just taken the existing
height adjustment code, changed the name to make it generic 'size'
adjustment, and added a boolean flag to indicate if we are adjusting
the width or the height.
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There are a lot of tui related commands that live in the top-level
command name space, e.g. layout, focus, refresh, winheight.
Having them at the top level means less typing for the user, which is
good, but, I think, makes command discovery harder.
In this commit, I propose moving all of the above mentioned commands
into the tui namespace, so 'layout' becomes 'tui layout', etc. But I
will then add aliases so that the old commands will still work,
e.g. I'll make 'layout' an alias for 'tui layout'.
The benefit I see in this work is that tui related commands can be
more easily discovered by typing 'tui ' and then tab-completing. Also
the "official" command is now a tui-sub-command, this is visible in,
for example, the help output, e.g.:
(gdb) help layout
tui layout, layout
Change the layout of windows.
Usage: tui layout prev | next | LAYOUT-NAME
List of tui layout subcommands:
tui layout asm -- Apply the "asm" layout.
tui layout next -- Apply the next TUI layout.
tui layout prev -- Apply the previous TUI layout.
tui layout regs -- Apply the TUI register layout.
tui layout split -- Apply the "split" layout.
tui layout src -- Apply the "src" layout.
Which I think is a good thing, it makes it clearer that this is a tui
command.
I've added a NEWS entry and updated the docs to mention the new and
old command names, with the new name being mentioned first.
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I noticed that GDB will display URLs in a few spots. This changes
them to be styled. Originally I thought I'd introduce a new "url"
style, but there aren't many places to use this, so I just reused
filename styling instead. This patch also changes the debuginfod URL
list to be printed one URL per line. I think this is probably a bit
easier to read.
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This patch removes gdb's dbx mode. Regression tested on x86-64 Fedora
34.
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New in this version:
- Add a PY_MAJOR_VERSION check in configure.ac / AC_TRY_LIBPYTHON. If
the user passes --with-python=python2, this will cause a configure
failure saying that GDB only supports Python 3.
Support for Python 2 is a maintenance burden for any patches touching
Python support. Among others, the differences between Python 2 and 3
string and integer types are subtle. It requires a lot of effort and
thinking to get something that behaves correctly on both. And that's if
the author and reviewer of the patch even remember to test with Python
2.
See this thread for an example:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-December/184260.html
So, remove Python 2 support. Update the documentation to state that GDB
can be built against Python 3 (as opposed to Python 2 or 3).
Update all the spots that use:
- sys.version_info
- IS_PY3K
- PY_MAJOR_VERSION
- gdb_py_is_py3k
... to only keep the Python 3 portions and drop the use of some
now-removed compatibility macros.
I did not update the configure script more than just removing the
explicit references to Python 2. We could maybe do more there, like
check the Python version and reject it if that version is not
supported. Otherwise (with this patch), things will only fail at
compile time, so it won't really be clear to the user that they are
trying to use an unsupported Python version. But I'm a bit lost in the
configure code that checks for Python, so I kept that for later.
Change-Id: I75b0f79c148afbe3c07ac664cfa9cade052c0c62
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Add a new function, gdb.format_address, which is a wrapper around
GDB's print_address function.
This method takes an address, and returns a string with the format:
ADDRESS <SYMBOL+OFFSET>
Where, ADDRESS is the original address, formatted as hexadecimal,
SYMBOL is a symbol with an address lower than ADDRESS, and OFFSET is
the offset from SYMBOL to ADDRESS in decimal.
If there's no SYMBOL suitably close to ADDRESS then the
<SYMBOL+OFFSET> part is not included.
This is useful if a user wants to write a Python script that
pretty-prints addresses, the user no longer needs to do manual symbol
lookup, or worry about correctly formatting addresses.
Additionally, there are some settings that effect how GDB picks
SYMBOL, and whether the file name and line number should be included
with the SYMBOL name, the gdb.format_address function ensures that the
users Python script also benefits from these settings.
The gdb.format_address by default selects SYMBOL from the current
inferiors program space, and address is formatted using the
architecture for the current inferior. However, a user can also
explicitly pass a program space and architecture like this:
gdb.format_address(ADDRESS, PROGRAM_SPACE, ARCHITECTURE)
In order to format an address for a different inferior.
Notes on the implementation:
In py-arch.c I extended arch_object_to_gdbarch to add an assertion for
the type of the PyObject being worked on. Prior to this commit all
uses of arch_object_to_gdbarch were guaranteed to pass this function a
gdb.Architecture object, but, with this commit, this might not be the
case.
So, with this commit I've made it a requirement that the PyObject be a
gdb.Architecture, and this is checked with the assert. And in order
that callers from other files can check if they have a
gdb.Architecture object, I've added the new function
gdbpy_is_architecture.
In py-progspace.c I've added two new function, the first
progspace_object_to_program_space, converts a PyObject of type
gdb.Progspace to the associated program_space pointer, and
gdbpy_is_progspace checks if a PyObject is a gdb.Progspace or not.
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