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Mark pointed out that a recent patch of mine caused the buildbot to
complain about the formatting of some Python test code. This patch
re-runs 'black' to fix the problem.
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On aarch64-linux with a gdb build without libexpat, I run into:
...
(gdb) PASS: gdb.base/catch-syscall.exp: determine pipe syscall: \
catch syscall 59
continue
Continuing.
Catchpoint 5 (call to syscall 59), 0x0000fffff7e04578 in pipe () from \
/lib64/libc.so.6
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.base/catch-syscall.exp: determine pipe syscall: continue
...
In the test-case, this pattern handles either the syscall name or number for
the pipe syscall:
...
-re -wrap "Catchpoint $decimal \\(call to syscall (pipe|$SYS_pipe)\\).*" {
...
but the pattern for the pipe2 syscall mistakenly uses SYS_pipe instead of
SYS_pipe2:
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-re -wrap "Catchpoint $decimal \\(call to syscall (pipe2|$SYS_pipe)\\).*" {
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and consequently doesn't handle the pipe2 syscall number.
Fix the typo by using SYS_pipe2 instead.
Tested on aarch64-linux.
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The gdb docs promise that methods with more than two or more arguments
will accept keywords. However, I found that TuiWindow.write didn't
allow them. This patch adds the missing support.
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When running test-case gdb.base/gdb-index-err.exp in a container as root user,
I run into:
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FAIL: gdb.base/gdb-index-err.exp: flag=: \
try to write index to a non-writable directory
FAIL: gdb.base/gdb-index-err.exp: flag=-dwarf-5: \
try to write index to a non-writable directory
...
The test-case creates a directory without write permissions:
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$ ls -ald private
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29 06:26 private/
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but apparently the root user is still able to write in it.
Fix this by making the test unsupported for the root user.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
Reviewed-By: Lancelot SIX <lancelot.six@amd.com>
PR testsuite/31197
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31197
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Fortran provides additional entry points for subroutines and functions.
These entry points may use only a subset (or a different set) of the
parameters of the original subroutine. The entry points may be described
via the DWARF tag DW_TAG_entry_point.
This commit adds support for parsing the DW_TAG_entry_point DWARF tag.
Currently, between ifx/ifort/gfortran, only ifort is actually emitting
this tag. Both, ifx and gfortran use the DW_TAG_subprogram tag as
workaround/alternative. Thus, this patch really only adds more ifort
support. Even so, some of the attached tests still fail for ifort, due
to some wrong line info generated for the entry points in ifort.
After this patch it is possible to set a breakpoint in gdb with the
ifort compiled example at the entry points 'foo' and 'foobar', which was not
possible before.
As gcc and ifx do not emit the tag I also added a test to gdb.dwarf2
which uses some underlying c compiled code and adds some Fortran style DWARF
to it emitting the DW_TAG_entry_point. Before this patch it was not
possible to actually define breakpoint at the entry point tags.
For gfortran there actually exists a bug on bugzilla, asking for the use
of DW_TAG_entry_point over DW_TAG_subprogram:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37134
This patch was originally posted here
https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/gdb-patches/2017-07/msg00317.html
but its review/pinging got lost after a while. I reworked it to fit the
current GDB.
Co-authored-by: Bernhard Heckel <bernhard.heckel@intel.com>
Co-authored-by: Tim Wiederhake <tim.wiederhake@intel.com>
Approved-by: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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This changes the test suite to look for rogue DAP exceptions in the
log file, and issue a "fail" if one is found.
Reviewed-By: Kévin Le Gouguec <legouguec@adacore.com>
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In many cases, it's not possible for gdb to discover the executable
when a DAP 'attach' request is used. This patch lets the IDE supply
this information.
Reviewed-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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This commit makes the following improvements to
gdb.threads/step-over-thread-exit.exp:
- Add a third axis to stepping over the breakpoint with displaced vs
inline stepping -- also test with no breakpoint at all.
- Check that when GDB reports "Command aborted, thread exited.", the
selected thread is the thread that exited. This is always true
currently on GNU/Linux by coincidence, but a similar testcase on AMD
GPU exposed a problem here. Better make the testcase catch any
potential regression.
- Fixes a race that Simon ran into with GDBserver testing.
(gdb) next
[New Thread 2143071.2143438]
Thread 3 "step-over-threa" hit Breakpoint 2, 0x000055555555524e in my_exit_syscall () at .../testsuite/lib/my-syscalls.S:74
74 SYSCALL (my_exit, __NR_exit)
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.threads/step-over-thread-exit.exp: displaced-stepping=auto: non-stop=on: target-non-stop=on: schedlock=off: cmd=next: ns_stop_all=0: command aborts when thread exits
I was not able to reproduce it, but I believe that what happens is
the following:
Once we continue, the thread 2 exits, and the main thread thus
unblocks from its pthread_join, and spawns a new thread. That new
thread may hit the breakpoint at my_exit_syscall very quickly. GDB
could then see/process that breakpoint event before the thread exit
event for the thread we care about, which would result in the
failure seen above.
The fix here is to not loop and start a new thread at all in the
scenario where the race can happen. We only need to loop and spawn
new threads when testing with "cmd=continue" and schedlock off, in
which case GDB doesn't abort the command when the thread exits.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Change-Id: I90c95c32f00630a3f682b1541c23aff52451f9b6
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gdbarches usually register functions to check when a frame is destroyed
which is used with software watchpoints, since the expression of the
watchpoint is no longer vlaid at this point. On amd64, this wasn't done
anymore because GCC started using CFA for variable locations instead.
However, clang doesn't use the CFA and instead relies on specifying when
an epilogue has started, meaning software watchpoints get a spurious hit
when a frame is destroyed. This patch re-adds the code to register the
function that detects when a frame is destroyed, but only uses this when
the producer is LLVM, so gcc code isn't affected. The logic that
identifies the epilogue has been factored out into the new function
amd64_stack_frame_destroyed_p_1, so the frame sniffer can call it
directly, and its behavior isn't changed.
This can also remove the XFAIL added to gdb.python/pq-watchpoint tests
that handled this exact flaw in clang.
Co-Authored-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
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The gdb.threads/thread-specific-bp.exp test has been a little
problematic, see commits:
commit 89702edd933a5595557bcd9cc4a0dcc3262226d4
Date: Thu Mar 9 12:31:26 2023 +0100
[gdb/testsuite] Fix gdb.threads/thread-specific-bp.exp on native-gdbserver
and
commit 2e5843d87c4050bf1109921481fb29e1c470827f
Date: Fri Nov 19 14:33:39 2021 +0100
[gdb/testsuite] Fix gdb.threads/thread-specific-bp.exp
But I recently saw a test failure for that test, which looked like
this:
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(gdb) PASS: gdb.threads/thread-specific-bp.exp: non_stop=on: thread 1 selected
continue -a
Continuing.
Thread 1 "thread-specific" hit Breakpoint 4, end () at /tmp/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/../../../src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.threads/thread-specific-bp.c:29
29 }
(gdb) [Thread 0x7ffff7c5c700 (LWP 1552086) exited]
Thread-specific breakpoint 3 deleted - thread 2 no longer in the thread list.
FAIL: gdb.threads/thread-specific-bp.exp: non_stop=on: continue to end (timeout)
...
This only crops up (for me) when running on a loaded machine, and
still only occurs sometimes. I've had to leave the test running in a
loop for 10+ minutes sometimes in order to see the failure.
The problem is that we use gdb_test_multiple to try and match two
patterns:
(1) The 'Thread-specific breakpoint 3 deleted ....' message, and
(2) The GDB prompt.
As written in the test, we understand that these patterns can occur in
any order, and we have a flag for each pattern. Once both patterns
have been seen then we PASS the test.
The problem is that once expect has matched a pattern, everything up
to, and including the matched text is discarded from the input
buffer. Thus, if the input buffer contains:
<PATTERN 2><PATTERN 1>
Then expect will first try to match <PATTERN 1>, which succeeds, and
then expect discards the entire input buffer up to the end of the
<PATTERN 1>. As a result, we will never spot <PATTERN 2>.
Obviously we can't just reorder the patterns within the
gdb_test_multiple, as the output can legitimately (and most often
does) occur in the other order, in which case the test would mostly
fail, and only occasionally pass!
I think the easiest solution here is just to have the
gdb_test_multiple contain two patterns, each pattern consists of the
two parts, but in the alternative orders, thus, for a particular
output configuration, only one regexp will match. With this change in
place, I no longer see the intermittent failure.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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PR28987 notes that optimized code sometimes shows the wrong
value of variables at the entry point of a function, if some
code was optimized away and the variable has multiple values
stored in the debug info for this location.
In this example:
```
void foo()
{
int l_3 = 5, i = 0;
for (; i < 8; i++)
;
test(l_3, i);
}
```
When compiled with optimization, the entry point of foo is at
the test() function call, since everything else is optimized
away.
The debug info of i looks like this:
```
(gdb) info address i
Symbol "i" is multi-location:
Base address 0x140001600 Range 0x13fd41600-0x13fd41600: the constant 0
Range 0x13fd41600-0x13fd41600: the constant 1
Range 0x13fd41600-0x13fd41600: the constant 2
Range 0x13fd41600-0x13fd41600: the constant 3
Range 0x13fd41600-0x13fd41600: the constant 4
Range 0x13fd41600-0x13fd41600: the constant 5
Range 0x13fd41600-0x13fd41600: the constant 6
Range 0x13fd41600-0x13fd41600: the constant 7
Range 0x13fd41600-0x13fd4160f: the constant 8
(gdb) p i
$1 = 0
```
Currently, when at the entry point of a function, it will
always show the initial value (here 0), while the user would
expect the last value (here 8).
This logic was introduced for showing the entry-values of
function arguments if they are available, but for some
reason this was added for non-entry-values as well.
One of the tests of amd64-entry-value.exp shows the same
problem for function arguments, if you "break stacktest"
in the following example, you stop at this line:
```
124 static void __attribute__((noinline, noclone))
125 stacktest (int r1, int r2, int r3, int r4, int r5, int r6, int s1, int s2,
126 double d1, double d2, double d3, double d4, double d5, double d6,
127 double d7, double d8, double d9, double da)
128 {
129 s1 = 3;
130 s2 = 4;
131 d9 = 3.5;
132 da = 4.5;
133 -> e (v, v);
134 asm ("breakhere_stacktest:");
135 e (v, v);
136 }
```
But `bt` still shows the entry values:
```
s1=s1@entry=11, s2=s2@entry=12, ..., d9=d9@entry=11.5, da=da@entry=12.5
```
I've fixed this by only using the initial values when
explicitely looking for entry values.
Now the local variable of the first example is as expected:
```
(gdb) p i
$1 = 8
```
And the test of amd64-entry-value.exp shows the expected
current and entry values of the function arguments:
```
s1=3, s1@entry=11, s2=4, s2@entry=12, ..., d9=3.5, d9@entry=11.5, da=4.5, da@entry=12.5
```
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28987
Tested-By: Guinevere Larsen <blarsen@redhat.com>
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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When starting gdb in CLI mode, running to main and switching into the TUI regs
layout:
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$ gdb -q a.out -ex start -ex "layout regs"
...
we get:
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+---------------------------------+
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+---------------------------------+
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Fix this by handling this case in tui_data_window::rerender.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
PR tui/28600
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28600
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Currently, the overload handling in Ada assumes that any two array
types are compatible. However, this is obviously untrue, and a user
reported an oddity where comparing two Ada strings resulted in a call
to the "=" function for packed boolean arrays.
This patch improves the situation somewhat, by requiring that the two
arrays have the same arity and compatible base element types. This is
still over-broad, but it seems safe and is better than the status quo.
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This patch adds tests to exercise the previous patches' changes.
All three tests:
- aarch64-pseudo-unwind
- amd64-pseudo-unwind
- arm-pseudo-unwind
follow the same pattern, just with different registers.
The other test, arm-pseudo-unwind-legacy, tests the special case where
the unwind information contains an entry for a register considered a
pseudo-register by GDB.
Change-Id: Ic29ac040c5eb087b4a0d79f9d02f65b7979df30f
Reviewed-By: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Reviewed-by: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
Approved-By: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com> (aarch64/arm)
Tested-By: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com> (aarch64/arm)
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Currently, it's not possible to call a variadic C++ function:
```
(gdb) print sum_vararg_int(1, 10)
Cannot resolve function sum_vararg_int to any overloaded instance
(gdb) print sum_vararg_int(2, 20, 30)
Cannot resolve function sum_vararg_int to any overloaded instance
```
It's because all additional arguments get the TOO_FEW_PARAMS_BADNESS
rank by rank_function, which disqualifies the function.
To fix this, I've created the new VARARG_BADNESS rank, which is
used only for additional arguments of variadic functions, allowing
them to be called:
```
(gdb) print sum_vararg_int(1, 10)
$1 = 10
(gdb) print sum_vararg_int(2, 20, 30)
$2 = 50
```
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28589
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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While making recent changes to 'save gdb-index' command I triggered
some errors -- of the kind a user might be expected to trigger if they
do something wrong -- and I didn't find GDB's output as helpful as it
might be.
For example:
$ gdb -q /tmp/hello.x
...
(gdb) save gdb-index /non_existing_dir
Error while writing index for `/tmp/hello': mkstemp: No such file or directory.
That the error message mentions '/tmp/hello', which does exist, but
doesn't mention '/non_existing_dir', which doesn't is, I think,
confusing.
Also, I find the 'mkstemp' in the error message confusing for a user
facing error. A user might not know what mkstemp means, and even if
they do, that it appears in the error message is an internal GDB
detail. The user doesn't care what function failed, but wants to know
what was wrong with their input, and what they should do to fix
things.
Similarly, for a directory that does exist, but can't be written to:
(gdb) save gdb-index /no_access_dir
Error while writing index for `/tmp/hello': mkstemp: Permission denied.
In this case, the 'Permission denied' might make the user thing there
is a permissions issue with '/tmp/hello', which is not the case.
After this patch, the new errors are:
(gdb) save gdb-index /non_existing_dir
Error while writing index for `/tmp/hello': `/non_existing_dir': No such file or directory.
and:
(gdb) save gdb-index /no_access_dir
Error while writing index for `/tmp/hello': `/no_access_dir': Permission denied.
we also have:
(gdb) save gdb-index /tmp/not_a_directory
Error while writing index for `/tmp/hello': `/tmp/not_a_directory': Is not a directory.
I think these do a better job of guiding the user towards fixing the
problem.
I've added a new test that exercises all of these cases, and also
checks the case where a user tries to use an executable that already
contains an index in order to generate an index. As part of the new
test I've factored out some code from ensure_gdb_index (lib/gdb.exp)
into a new proc (get_index_type), which I've then used in the new
test. I've confirmed that all the tests that use ensure_gdb_index
still pass.
During review it was pointed out that the testsuite proc
have_index (lib/gdb.exp) is similar to the new get_index_type proc, so
I've rewritten have_index to also use get_index_type, I've confirmed
that all the tests that use have_index still pass.
Nothing that worked correctly before this patch should give an error
after this patch; I've only changed the output when the user was going
to get an error anyway.
Reviewed-By: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
Reviewed-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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Currently, when creating a gdb.FinishBreakpoint in a function
called from an inline frame, it will never be hit:
```
(gdb) py fb=gdb.FinishBreakpoint()
Temporary breakpoint 1 at 0x13f1917b4: file C:/src/repos/binutils-gdb.git/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-finish-breakpoint.c, line 47.
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Thread-specific breakpoint 1 deleted - thread 1 no longer in the thread list.
[Inferior 1 (process 1208) exited normally]
```
The reason is that the frame_id of a breakpoint has to be the
ID of a real frame, ignoring any inline frames.
With this fixed, it's working correctly:
```
(gdb) py fb=gdb.FinishBreakpoint()
Temporary breakpoint 1 at 0x13f5617b4: file C:/src/repos/binutils-gdb.git/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-finish-breakpoint.c, line 47.
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Breakpoint 1, increase_inlined (a=0x40fa5c) at C:/src/repos/binutils-gdb.git/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-finish-breakpoint.c:47
(gdb) py print(fb.return_value)
-8
```
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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When using $_thread in info threads to showonly the current thread,
you get this error:
```
(gdb) info thread $_thread
Convenience variable must have integer value.
Args must be numbers or '$' variables.
```
It's because $_thread is a dynamically computed convenience
variable, which isn't supported yet by get_internalvar_integer.
Now the output looks like this:
```
(gdb) info threads $_thread
Id Target Id Frame
* 1 Thread 10640.0x2680 main () at C:/src/repos/binutils-gdb.git/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gdbvars.c:21
```
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17600
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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This implements DAP cancellation. A new object is introduced that
handles the details of cancellation. While cancellation is inherently
racy, this code attempts to make it so that gdb doesn't inadvertently
cancel the wrong request.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30472
Approved-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Reviewed-By: Kévin Le Gouguec <legouguec@adacore.com>
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This renames a couple of DAP procs in the testsuite, to clarify that
they are now exported. The cancellation test will need these.
Reviewed-By: Kévin Le Gouguec <legouguec@adacore.com>
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Commit cff71358132 ("gdb/testsuite: tighten up some end-of-line patterns") replaced:
...
set eol "\[\r\n\]+"
...
with the more strict:
...
set eol "\r\n"
...
in a few test-cases, but didn't update all uses of eol accordingly.
Fix this in three gdb.ada test-cases.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
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PR29011 notes that dynamic_cast does not work correctly if
classes with virtual methods are involved, some of the results
wrongly point into the vtable of the derived class:
```
(gdb) p vlr
$1 = (VirtualLeftRight *) 0x162240
(gdb) p vl
$2 = (VirtualLeft *) 0x162240
(gdb) p vr
$3 = (VirtualRight *) 0x162250
(gdb) p dynamic_cast<VirtualLeftRight*>(vlr)
$4 = (VirtualLeftRight *) 0x13fab89b0 <vtable for VirtualLeftRight+16>
(gdb) p dynamic_cast<VirtualLeftRight*>(vl)
$5 = (VirtualLeftRight *) 0x13fab89b0 <vtable for VirtualLeftRight+16>
(gdb) p dynamic_cast<VirtualLeftRight*>(vr)
$6 = (VirtualLeftRight *) 0x13fab89b0 <vtable for VirtualLeftRight+16>
(gdb) p dynamic_cast<VirtualLeft*>(vlr)
$7 = (VirtualLeft *) 0x162240
(gdb) p dynamic_cast<VirtualLeft*>(vl)
$8 = (VirtualLeft *) 0x13fab89b0 <vtable for VirtualLeftRight+16>
(gdb) p dynamic_cast<VirtualLeft*>(vr)
$9 = (VirtualLeft *) 0x162240
(gdb) p dynamic_cast<VirtualRight*>(vlr)
$10 = (VirtualRight *) 0x162250
(gdb) p dynamic_cast<VirtualRight*>(vl)
$11 = (VirtualRight *) 0x162250
(gdb) p dynamic_cast<VirtualRight*>(vr)
$12 = (VirtualRight *) 0x13fab89b0 <vtable for VirtualLeftRight+16>
```
For the cases where the dynamic_cast type is the same as the
original type, it used the ARG value for the result, which in
case of pointer types was already the dereferenced value.
And the TEM value at the value address was created with the
pointer/reference type, not the actual class type.
With these fixed, the dynamic_cast results make more sense:
```
(gdb) p vlr
$1 = (VirtualLeftRight *) 0x692240
(gdb) p vl
$2 = (VirtualLeft *) 0x692240
(gdb) p vr
$3 = (VirtualRight *) 0x692250
(gdb) p dynamic_cast<VirtualLeftRight*>(vlr)
$4 = (VirtualLeftRight *) 0x692240
(gdb) p dynamic_cast<VirtualLeftRight*>(vl)
$5 = (VirtualLeftRight *) 0x692240
(gdb) p dynamic_cast<VirtualLeftRight*>(vr)
$6 = (VirtualLeftRight *) 0x692240
(gdb) p dynamic_cast<VirtualLeft*>(vlr)
$7 = (VirtualLeft *) 0x692240
(gdb) p dynamic_cast<VirtualLeft*>(vl)
$8 = (VirtualLeft *) 0x692240
(gdb) p dynamic_cast<VirtualLeft*>(vr)
$9 = (VirtualLeft *) 0x692240
(gdb) p dynamic_cast<VirtualRight*>(vlr)
$10 = (VirtualRight *) 0x692250
(gdb) p dynamic_cast<VirtualRight*>(vl)
$11 = (VirtualRight *) 0x692250
(gdb) p dynamic_cast<VirtualRight*>(vr)
$12 = (VirtualRight *) 0x692250
```
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29011
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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The focused window is highlighted by using active-border-kind instead of
border-kind.
But if the focused window is the cmd window (which is an unboxed window), then
no highlighting is done, and it's not obvious from looking at the screen which
window has the focus. Instead, you have to notice the absence of highlighting
on boxed windows, and then infer that the focus is on the unboxed window.
That approach stops working if there are multiple unboxed windows.
Likewise if highlighting is switched off by setting active-border-kind to the
same value as border-kind.
Make it more explicit which window has the focus by mentioning it in the status
window, like so:
...
native process 8282 (src) In: main L7 PC: 0x400525
...
Tested on x86_64-linux and ppc64le-linux.
Tested-By: Alexandra Petlanova Hajkova <ahajkova@redhat.com>
Reviewed-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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Since 3c45e9f915ae4aeab7312d6fc55a947859057572 gdb crashes when trying
to print a global variable stub without a running inferior, because of
a missing nullptr-check (the block_scope function took care of that
check before it was converted to a method).
With this check it works again:
```
(gdb) print s
$1 = <incomplete type>
```
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31128
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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Following on from the previous commit, I searched the testsuite for
places where we did:
set eol "<some pattern>"
in most cases the <some pattern> could be replaced with "\r\n" though
in the stabs test I've switched to using the multi_line proc as that
seemed like a better choice.
In gdb.ada/info_types.exp I did need to add an extra use of $eol as
the previous pattern would match multiple newlines, and in this one
place we were actually expecting to match multiple newlines. The
tighter pattern only matches a single newline, so we now need to be
explicit when multiple newlines are expected -- I think this is a good
thing.
All the tests are still passing for me after these changes.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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While reviewing another patch I spotted a timeout in
gdb.ada/complete.exp when testing in READ1 mode, e.g.:
$ make check-read1 TESTS="gdb.ada/complete.exp"
...
FAIL: gdb.ada/complete.exp: complete break ada (timeout)
...
The problem is an attempt to match the entire output from GDB within a
single gdb_test_multiple pattern, for a completion command that
returns a large number of completions.
This commit changes the gdb_test_multiple to process the output line
by line. I don't use the gdb_test_multiple -lbl option, as I've
always found that option backward -- it checks for the \r\n at the
start of each line rather than the end, I think it's much clearer to
use '^' at the start of each pattern, and '\r\n' at the end, so that's
what I've done here.
.... Or I would, if this test didn't already define $eol as the end of
line regexp ... except that $eol was set to '[\r\n]*', which isn't
that helpful, so I've updated $eol to be just '\r\n' the actual end of
line regexp.
And now, the test passes without a timeout when using READ1.
There should be no change in what is tested after this commit.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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Building on the last commit, which added a general --debug=COMPONENT
option to the gdbserver command line, this commit updates the monitor
command to allow for general:
(gdb) monitor set debug COMPONENT off|on
style commands. Just like with the previous commit, the COMPONENT can
be any one of all, threads, remote, event-loop, and correspond to the
same set of global debug flags.
While on the command line it is possible to do:
--debug=remote,event-loop,threads
the components have to be entered one at a time with the monitor
command. I guess there's no reason why we couldn't allow component
grouping within the monitor command, but (to me) what I have here
seemed more in the spirit of GDB's existing 'set debug ...' commands.
If people want it then we can always add component grouping later.
Notice in the above that I use 'off' and 'on' instead of '0' and '1',
which is what the 'monitor set debug' command used to use. The 0/1
can still be used, but I now advertise off/on in all the docs and help
text, again, this feels more inline with GDB's existing boolean
settings.
I have removed the two existing monitor commands:
monitor set remote-debug 0|1
monitor set event-loop-debug 0|1
These are replaced by:
monitor set debug remote off|on
monitor set debug event-loop off|on
respectively.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Reviewed-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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PR29079 shows that pretty printers can be used for an incomplete
type (stub), but only when printing it directly, not if it's
part of another struct:
```
(gdb) p s
$1 = {pp m_i = 5}
(gdb) p s2
$2 = {m_s = <incomplete type>, m_l = 20}
```
The reason is simply that in common_val_print the check for stubs
is before any pretty printer is tried.
It works if the pretty printer is tried before the stub check:
```
(gdb) p s
$1 = {pp m_i = 5}
(gdb) p s2
$2 = {m_s = {pp m_i = 10}, m_l = 20}
```
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29079
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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A TUI src window is displaying either:
- the source for the current frame,
- the source for main, or
- the string "[ No Source Available ]".
Since commit 03893ce67b5 ("[gdb/tui] Fix resizing of terminal to 1 or 2 lines")
we're able to resize the TUI to 1 line without crashing.
I noticed that if TUI is displaying main, and we resize to 1 line (destroying
the src window) and then back to a larger terminal (reconstructing the src
window), the TUI displays "[ No Source Available ]" instead of main.
Fix this by moving the responsibility for showing main from tui_enable to
tui_source_window_base::rerender.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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PR rust/31082 points out that casting a 128-bit integer to a pointer
will fail. This happens because a case in value_cast was not
converted to use GMP.
This patch fixes the problem. I am not really sure that testing
against the negative value here makes sense, but I opted to just
preserve the existing behavior rather than change it.
Regression tested on x86-64 Fedora 38.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31082
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PR rust/31005 points out that dynamic type resolution of a LOC_CONST
or LOC_CONST_BYTES symbol will fail, leading to output like:
from_index=<error reading variable: Cannot access memory at address 0x0>
This patch fixes the problem by using the constant value or bytes when
performing type resolution.
Thanks to tpzker@thepuzzlemaker.info for a first version of this
patch.
I also tested this on a big-endian PPC system (cfarm203).
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31005
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This patch adds support for process recording of the instruction rdtscp in
x86 architecture.
Debugging applications with "record full" fail to record with the error
message "Process record does not support instruction 0xf01f9".
Approved-by: Guinevere Larsen <blarsen@redhat.com>
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The test gdb.base/watchpoint.exp has a proc named 'test_stepping'
which claims to "Test stepping and other mundane operations with
watchpoints enabled". It sets a watchpoint on ival2, performs an
inferior function call (which is not at all mundane), and uses 'next',
'until', and, finally, does a 'step'.
However, that final 'step' command steps to (but not over/through) the
line at which the assignment to ival2 takes place. At no time while
performing these operations is a watchpoint hit.
This commit adds a test to see what happens when stepping over/through
the assignment to ival2. The watchpoint on ival2 should be triggered
during this step. I've added another 'step' to make sure that the
correct statement is reached after performing the watchpoint-hitting
step.
After running the 'test_stepping' proc, gdb.base/watchpoint.exp does
a clean_restart before doing further tests, so nothing depends upon
'test_stepping' to stop at the particular statement at which it had
been stopping.
I've examined all tests which set watchpoints and step. I haven't
been able to identify a(nother) test case which tests what happens
when stepping over/through a statement which triggers a watchpoint.
Therefore, adding these new 'step' tests is testing something which
hasn't being tested elsewhere.
Reviewed-By: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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I noticed that the DWARF assembler starts abbrevs at 2.
I think 1 should be preferred.
Co-Authored-By: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
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Changes introduced by commit 9e8915c6cee5c37637521b424d723e990e06d597
caused a regression that meant hardware watchpoint stops would not
trigger in reverse execution or replay mode. This was documented in
PR breakpoints/21969.
The problem is that record_check_stopped_by_breakpoint always overwrites
record_full_stop_reason, thus loosing the TARGET_STOPPED_BY_WATCHPOINT
value which would be checked afterwards.
This commit fixes that by not overwriting the stop-reason in
record_full_stop_reason if we're not stopped at a breakpoint.
And the test for hw watchpoints in gdb.reverse/watch-reverse.exp actually
tested sw watchpoints again, since "set can-use-hw-watchpoints 1"
doesn't convert enabled watchpoints to use hardware.
This is fixed by disabling said watchpoint while enabling hw watchpoints.
The same is not done for gdb.reverse/watch-precsave.exp, since it's not
possible to use hw watchpoints in restored recordings anyways.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21969
Approved-by: Guinevere Larsen <blarsen@redhat.com>
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This reverts commit 1c04f72368c ("[gdb/symtab] Fix assert in set_length"), due
to a regression reported in PR29572, and implements a different fix for PR29453.
The fix is to not use the CU table in a .debug_names section to construct
all_units, but instead use create_all_units, and then verify the CU
table from .debug_names. This also fixes PR25969, so remove the KFAIL.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29572
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25969
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Commit 33ae45434d0 updated the text reported by GDB when showing the
number of worker threads. However, it neglected to update the assertions
using this text, which caused index-file.exp to fail. This commit
corrects this omission.
Tested index-file.exp is fixed on my local machine.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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In the commit:
commit 4793f551a5aa68522fd5fbbb7e8f621148f410cd
Date: Mon Nov 27 13:33:17 2023 +0000
gdb: allow use of ~ in 'save gdb-index' command
I added a test which has a directory name within the GDB command,
which then appears in the test name as I failed to give the test a
better name.
Fixed in this commit.
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This commit enables the early initialization commands (92e4e97a9f5) to
modify the number of threads used by gdb's thread pool.
The motivation here is to prevent gdb from spawning a detrimental number
of threads on many-core systems under environments with restrictive
ulimits.
With gdb before this commit, the thread pool takes the following sizes:
1. Thread pool size is initialized to 0.
2. After the maintenance commands are defined, the thread pool size is
set to the number of system cores (if it has not already been set).
3. Using early initialization commands, the thread pool size can be
changed using "maint set worker-threads".
4. After the first prompt, the thread pool size can be changed as in the
previous step.
Therefore after step 2. gdb has potentially launched hundreds of threads
on a many-core system.
After this change, step 2 and 3 are reversed so there is an opportunity
to set the required number of threads without needing to default to the
number of system cores first.
There does exist a configure option (added in 261b07488b9) to disable
multithreading, but this does not allow for an already deployed gdb to
be configured.
Additionally, the default number of worker threads is clamped at eight
to control the number of worker threads spawned on many-core systems.
This value was chosen as testing recorded on bugzilla issue 29959
indicates that parallel efficiency drops past this point.
GDB built with GCC 13.
No test suite regressions detected. Compilers: GCC, ACfL, Intel, Intel
LLVM, NVHPC; Platforms: x86_64, aarch64.
The scenario that interests me the most involves preventing GDB from
spawning any worker threads at all. This was tested by counting the
number of clones observed by strace:
strace -e clone,clone3 gdb/gdb -q \
--early-init-eval-command="maint set worker-threads 0" \
-ex q ./gdb/gdb |& grep --count clone
The new test relies on "gdb: install CLI uiout while processing early
init files" developed by Andrew Burgess. This patch will need pushing
prior to this change.
The clamping was tested on machines with both 16 cores and a single
core. "maint show worker-threads" correctly reported eight and one
respectively.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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I noticed that after resizing to a narrow window, I got:
...
┌────────────────┐
│ │
│[ No Source Avail
able ] │
│ │
└────────────────┘
...
Fix this by adding two new functions:
- tui_win_info::display_string (int y, int x, const char *str)
- tui_win_info::display_string (const char *str)
that make sure that borders are not overwritten, which get us instead:
...
┌────────────────┐
│ │
│[ No Source Avai│
│ │
│ │
└────────────────┘
...
Tested on x86_64-linux.
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When using GDB on native linux, it can happen that, while attempting
to detach an inferior, the inferior may have been exited or have been
killed, yet still be in the list of lwps. Should that happen, the
assert in x86_linux_update_debug_registers in
gdb/nat/x86-linux-dregs.c will trigger. The line in question looks
like this:
gdb_assert (lwp_is_stopped (lwp));
For this case, the lwp isn't stopped - it's dead.
The bug which brought this problem to my attention is one in which the
pwntools library uses GDB to to debug a process; as the script is
shutting things down, it kills the process that GDB is debugging and
also sends GDB a SIGTERM signal, which causes GDB to detach all
inferiors prior to exiting. Here's a link to the bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2192169
The following shell command mimics part of what the pwntools
reproducer script does (with regard to shutting things down), but
reproduces the bug much less reliably. I have found it necessary to
run the command a bunch of times before seeing the bug. (I usually
see it within 5-10 repetitions.) If you choose to try this command,
make sure that you have no running "cat" or "gdb" processes first!
cat </dev/zero >/dev/null & \
(sleep 5; (kill -KILL `pgrep cat` & kill -TERM `pgrep gdb`)) & \
sleep 1 ; \
gdb -q -iex 'set debuginfod enabled off' -ex 'set height 0' \
-ex c /usr/bin/cat `pgrep cat`
So, basically, the idea here is to kill both gdb and cat at roughly
the same time. If we happen to attempt the detach before the process
lwp has been deleted from GDB's (linux native) LWP data structures,
then the assert will trigger. The relevant part of the backtrace
looks like this:
#8 0x00000000008a83ae in x86_linux_update_debug_registers (lwp=0x1873280)
at gdb/nat/x86-linux-dregs.c:146
#9 0x00000000008a862f in x86_linux_prepare_to_resume (lwp=0x1873280)
at gdb/nat/x86-linux.c:81
#10 0x000000000048ea42 in x86_linux_nat_target::low_prepare_to_resume (
this=0x121eee0 <the_amd64_linux_nat_target>, lwp=0x1873280)
at gdb/x86-linux-nat.h:70
#11 0x000000000081a452 in detach_one_lwp (lp=0x1873280, signo_p=0x7fff8ca3441c)
at gdb/linux-nat.c:1374
#12 0x000000000081a85f in linux_nat_target::detach (
this=0x121eee0 <the_amd64_linux_nat_target>, inf=0x16e8f70, from_tty=0)
at gdb/linux-nat.c:1450
#13 0x000000000083a23b in thread_db_target::detach (
this=0x1206ae0 <the_thread_db_target>, inf=0x16e8f70, from_tty=0)
at gdb/linux-thread-db.c:1385
#14 0x0000000000a66722 in target_detach (inf=0x16e8f70, from_tty=0)
at gdb/target.c:2526
#15 0x0000000000a8f0ad in kill_or_detach (inf=0x16e8f70, from_tty=0)
at gdb/top.c:1659
#16 0x0000000000a8f4fa in quit_force (exit_arg=0x0, from_tty=0)
at gdb/top.c:1762
#17 0x000000000070829c in async_sigterm_handler (arg=0x0)
at gdb/event-top.c:1141
My colleague, Andrew Burgess, has done some recent work on other
problems with detach. Upon hearing of this problem, he came up a test
case which reliably reproduces the problem and tests for a few other
problems as well. In addition to testing detach when the inferior has
terminated due to a signal, it also tests detach when the inferior has
exited normally. Andrew observed that the linux-native-only
"checkpoint" command would be affected too, so the test also tests
those cases when there's an active checkpoint.
For the LWP exit / termination case with no checkpoint, that's handled
via newly added checks of the waitstatus in detach_one_lwp in
linux-nat.c.
For the checkpoint detach problem, I chose to pass the lwp_info
to linux_fork_detach in linux-fork.c. With that in place, suitable
tests were added before attempting a PTRACE_DETACH operation.
I added a few asserts at the beginning of linux_fork_detach and
modified the caller code so that the newly added asserts shouldn't
trigger. (That's what the 'pid == inferior_ptid.pid' check is about
in gdb/linux-nat.c.)
Lastly, I'll note that the checkpoint code needs some work with regard
to background execution. This patch doesn't attempt to fix that
problem, but it doesn't make it any worse. It does slightly improve
the situation with detach because, due to the check noted above,
linux_fork_detach() won't be called for the wrong inferior when there
are multiple inferiors. (There are at least two other problems with
the checkpoint code when there are multiple inferiors. See:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31065)
This commit also adds a new test,
gdb.base/process-dies-while-detaching.exp. Andrew Burgess is the
primary author of this test case. Its design is similar to that of
gdb.threads/main-thread-exit-during-detach.exp, which was also written
by Andrew.
This test checks that GDB correctly handles several cases that can
occur when GDB attempts to detach an inferior process. The process
can exit or be terminated (e.g. via SIGKILL) prior to GDB's event
loop getting a chance to remove it from GDB's internal data
structures. To complicate things even more, detach works differently
when a checkpoint (created via GDB's "checkpoint" command) exists for
the inferior. This test checks all four possibilities: process exit
with no checkpoint, process termination with no checkpoint, process
exit with a checkpoint, and process termination with a checkpoint.
Co-Authored-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
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On Linux, threads are treated much like separate processes by the
kernel. In particular, it's possible to ptrace just a single thread.
If gdb tries to attach to a multi-threaded inferior, where a non-main
thread is already being traced (e.g., by strace), then gdb will get
into an infinite loop attempting to attach.
This patch fixes this problem by having the attach fail if ptrace
fails to attach to any thread of the inferior.
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The commit a3da2e7e550c4fe79128b5e532dbb90df4d4f418 has introduced
regressions when testing using the READ1 mechanism. The reason for that
is the new failure path in proc test_gdb_complete_tab_unique, which
looks for GDB suggesting more than what the test inputted, but not the
correct answer, followed by a white space. Consider the following case:
int foo(int bar, int baz);
Sending the command "break foo<tab>" to GDB will return
break foo(int, int)
which easily fits the buffer in normal testing, so everything works, but
when reading one character at a time, the test will find the partial
"break foo(int, " and assume that there was a mistake, so we get a
spurious FAIL.
That change was added because we wanted to avoid forcing a completion
failure to fail through timeout, which it had to do because there is no
way to verify that the output is done, mostly because when I was trying
to solve a different problem I kept getting reading errors and testing
completion was frustrating.
This commit implements a better way to avoid that frustration, by first
testing gdb's complete command and only if that passes we will test tab
completion. The difference is that when testing with the complete
command, we can tell when the output is over when we receive the GDB
prompt again, so we don't need to rely on timeouts. With this, the
change to test_gdb_complete_tab_unique has been removed as that test
will only be run and fail in the very unlikely scenario that tab
completion is different than command completion.
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
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This commit makes the gdb.Command.complete methods more verbose when
it comes to error handling.
Previous to this commit if any commands implemented in Python
implemented the complete method, and if there were any errors
encountered when calling that complete method, then GDB would silently
hide the error and continue as if there were no completions.
This makes is difficult to debug any errors encountered when writing
completion methods, and encourages the idea that Python extensions can
be broken, and GDB will just silently work around them.
I don't think this is a good idea. GDB should encourage extensions to
be written correctly, and robustly, and one way in which GDB can (I
think) support this, is by pointing out when an extension goes wrong.
In this commit I've gone through the Python command completion code,
and added calls to gdbpy_print_stack() or gdbpy_print_stack_or_quit()
in places where we were either clearing the Python error, or, in some
cases, just not handling the error at all.
One thing I have not changed is in cmdpy_completer (py-cmd.c) where we
process the list of completions returned from the Command.complete
method; this routine includes a call to gdbpy_is_string to check a
possible completion is a string, if not the completion is ignored.
I was tempted to remove this check, attempt to complete each result to
a string, and display an error if the conversion fails. After all,
returning anything but a string is surely a mistake by the extension
author.
However, the docs clearly say that only strings within the returned
list will be considered as completions. Anything else is ignored. As
such, and to avoid (what I think is pretty unlikely) breakage of
existing code, I've retained the gdbpy_is_string check.
After the gdbpy_is_string check we call python_string_to_host_string,
if this call fails then I do now print the error, where before we
ignored the error. I think this is OK; if GDB thinks something is a
string, but still can't convert it to a string, then I think it's OK
to display the error in that case.
Another case which I was a little unsure about was in
cmdpy_completer_helper, and the call to PyObject_CallMethodObjArgs,
which is when we actually call Command.complete. Previously, if this
call resulted in an exception then we would ignore this and just
pretend there were no completions.
Of all the changes, this is possibly the one with the biggest
potential for breaking existing scripts, but also, is, I think, the
most useful change. If the user code is wrong in some way, such that
an exception is raised, then previously the user would have no obvious
feedback about this breakage. Now GDB will print the exception for
them, making it, I think, much easier to debug their extension. But,
if there is user code in the wild that relies on raising an exception
as a means to indicate there are no completions .... well, that code
is going to break after this commit. I think we can live with this
though, the exceptions means no completions thing was never documented
behaviour.
I also added a new error() call if the PyObject_CallMethodObjArgs call
raises an exception. This causes the completion mechanism within GDB
to stop. Within GDB the completion code is called twice, the first
time to compute the work break characters, and then a second time to
compute the actual completions.
If PyObject_CallMethodObjArgs raises an exception when computing the
word break character, and we print it by calling
gdbpy_print_stack_or_quit(), but then carry on as if
PyObject_CallMethodObjArgs had returns no completions, GDB will
call the Python completion code again, which results in another call
to PyObject_CallMethodObjArgs, which might raise the same exception
again. This results in the Python exception being printed twice.
By throwing a C++ exception after the failed
PyObject_CallMethodObjArgs call, the completion mechanism is aborted,
and no completions are offered. But importantly, the Python exception
is only printed once. I think this gives a much better user
experience.
I've added some tests to cover this case, as I think this is the most
likely case that a user will run into.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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I spotted I made a small mistake in this commit:
commit aff250145af6c7a8ea9332bc1306c1219f4a63db
Date: Fri Nov 24 12:04:36 2023 +0000
gdb: generate gdb-index identically regardless of work thread count
In this commit I added a new proc in testsuite/lib/gdb.exp called
gdb_get_worker_threads. This proc uses gdb_test_multiple with two
possible patterns. One pattern is anchored with '^', while the other
is missing the '^' which it could use.
This commit adds the missing '^'.
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DAP specifies a "process" event that is sent when a process is started
or attached to. gdb was not emitting this (several DAP clients appear
to ignore it entirely), but it looked easy and harmless to implement.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30473
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The make-check-all.sh script (gdb/testsuite/make-check-all.sh) is
great, it makes it super easy to run some test(s) using all the
available board files.
This commit aims to make this script even easier to access by adding a
check-all-boards target to the GDB Makefile. This new target checks
for (and requires) a number of environment variables, so the target
should be used like this:
make check-all-boards GDB_TARGET_USERNAME=remote-target \
GDB_HOST_USERNAME=remote-host \
TESTS="gdb.base/break.exp"
Where GDB_TARGET_USERNAME and GDB_HOST_USERNAME are the user names
that should be passed to the make-check-all.sh --target-user and
--host-user command line options respectively.
My personal intention is to set these variables in my environment, so
all I'll need to do is:
make check-all-boards TESTS="gdb.base/break.exp"
The make rule always passes --keep-results to the make-check-all.sh
script, as I find that the most useful. It's super frustrating to run
the tests and realise you forgot that option and the results have been
discarded.
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I have been making more use of the make-check-all.sh script to run
tests against all boards.
But one thing is pretty annoying. When a test fails on some random
board, I have to run make-check-all.sh with --verbose and --dry-run in
order to see what RUNTESTFLAGS I should be using.
I always run with --keep-results on, so, in this commit, I propose
that, when --keep-results is on the 'make check' command will be
written out to a file within the stored results directory, like:
check-all/BOARD_NAME/make-check.sh
then, if I want to rerun a test, I can just:
sh check-all/BOARD_NAME/make-check.sh
and the test will be re-run for me.
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Similar to the previous commit, this commit ensures that the dwarf-5
index files are generated identically as the number of worker-threads
changes.
Building the dwarf-5 index makes use of a closed hash table, the
bucket_hash local within debug_names::build(). Entries are added to
bucket_hash from m_name_to_value_set, which, in turn, is populated
by calls to debug_names::insert() in write_debug_names. The insert
calls are ordered based on the entries within the cooked_index, and
the ordering within cooked_index depends on the number of worker
threads that GDB is using.
My proposal is to sort each chain within the bucket_hash closed hash
table prior to using this to build the dwarf-5 index.
The buckets within bucket_hash will always have the same ordering (for
a given GDB build with a given executable), and by sorting the chains
within each bucket, we can be sure that GDB will see each entry in a
deterministic order.
I've extended the index creation test to cover this case.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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It was observed that changing the number of worker threads that GDB
uses (maintenance set worker-threads NUM) would have an impact on the
layout of the generated gdb-index.
The cause seems to be how the CU are distributed between threads, and
then symbols that appear in multiple CU can be encountered earlier or
later depending on whether a particular CU moves between threads.
I certainly found this behaviour was reproducible when generating an
index for GDB itself, like:
gdb -q -nx -nh -batch \
-eiex 'maint set worker-threads NUM' \
-ex 'save gdb-index /tmp/'
And then setting different values for NUM will change the generated
index.
Now, the question is: does this matter?
I would like to suggest that yes, this does matter. At Red Hat we
generate a gdb-index as part of the build process, and we would
ideally like to have reproducible builds: for the same source,
compiled with the same tool-chain, we should get the exact same output
binary. And we do .... except for the index.
Now we could simply force GDB to only use a single worker thread when
we build the index, but, I don't think the idea of reproducible builds
is that strange, so I think we should ensure that our generated
indexes are always reproducible.
To achieve this, I propose that we add an extra step when building the
gdb-index file. After constructing the initial symbol hash table
contents, we will pull all the symbols out of the hash, sort them,
then re-insert them in sorted order. This will ensure that the
structure of the generated hash will remain consistent (given the same
set of symbols).
I've extended the existing index-file test to check that the generated
index doesn't change if we adjust the number of worker threads used.
Given that this test is already rather slow, I've only made one change
to the worker-thread count. Maybe this test should be changed to use
a smaller binary, which is quicker to load, and for which we could
then try many different worker thread counts.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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