From a5ee536be2c16fcbe223490358dbe4d1914f0e1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 19:29:01 +0000
Subject: language-specific read_var_value for Ada renamings

The purpose of this patch is to better support renamings in the
"info locals" command. Consider ...

    procedure Foo is
       GV : Integer renames Pck.Global_Variable;
    begin
       Increment (GV); -- STOP
    end Foo;

... Pck.Global_Variable is just an integer. After having stopped at
the "STOP" line, "info locals" yields:

    (gdb) info locals
    gv = <error reading variable gv (Cannot access memory at address 0xffffffffffffffff)>

In reality, two things are happening:

   (1) Variable "GV" does not exist, which is normal, since there is
       "GV" the renaming of another variable;

   (2) But to allow the user access to that renaming the same way
       the code has, the compiler produces an artificial variable
       whose name encodes the renaming:

        gv___XR_pck__global_variable___XE

       For practical reasons, the artificial variable itself is given
       irrelevant types and addresses.

But the "info locals" command does not act as if it was a short-cut
of "foreach VAR in locals, print VAR". Instead it gets the value of
each VAR directly, which does not work in this case, since the variable
is artificial and needs to be decoded first.

This patch makes the "read_var_value" routine language-specific.
The old implementation of "read_var_value" gets renamed to
"default_read_var_value" and all languages now use it (unchanged
behavior), except for Ada. In Ada, the new function ada_read_var_value
checks if we have a renaming, and if so, evaluates its value, or else
defers to default_read_var_value.

gdb/ChangeLog:

        * language.h (struct language_defn): New "method" la_read_var_value.
        * findvar.c: #include "language.h".
        (default_read_var_value): Renames read_var_value.  Rewrite
        function description.
        (read_var_value): New function.
        * value.h (default_read_var_value): Add prototype.
        * ada-lang.c (ada_read_renaming_var_value, ada_read_var_value):
        New functions.
        (ada_language_defn): Add entry for la_read_var_value.
        * c-lang.c, d-lang.c, f-lang.c, jv-lang.c, language.c,
        * m2-lang.c, objc-lang.c, opencl-lang.c, p-lang.c: Update
        language_defn structures to add entry for new la_read_var_value
        field.
---
 gdb/value.h | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'gdb/value.h')

diff --git a/gdb/value.h b/gdb/value.h
index f0fdb4c..3ce0f88 100644
--- a/gdb/value.h
+++ b/gdb/value.h
@@ -536,6 +536,9 @@ extern int symbol_read_needs_frame (struct symbol *);
 extern struct value *read_var_value (struct symbol *var,
 				     struct frame_info *frame);
 
+extern struct value *default_read_var_value (struct symbol *var,
+					     struct frame_info *frame);
+
 extern struct value *allocate_value (struct type *type);
 extern struct value *allocate_value_lazy (struct type *type);
 extern void allocate_value_contents (struct value *value);
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