On openSUSE Tumbleweed ppc64le-linux using gcc 14.3.0, with a gdb 16.3 based
package and test-case gdb.ada/finish-var-size.exp, I run into:
...
(gdb) finish^M
Run till exit from #0 pck.get (value=true) at pck.adb:19^M
0x0000000100004a20 in p () at finish-var-size/p.adb:18^M
18 V : Result_T := Get (True);^M
Value returned is $1 = <error reading variable: \
Cannot access memory at address 0x0>^M
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.ada/finish-var-size.exp: finish
...
Function pck.get returns type Result_T:
...
type Array_Type is array (1 .. 64) of Integer;
type Maybe_Array (Defined : Boolean := False) is
record
Arr : Array_Type;
Arr2 : Array_Type;
end record;
type Result_T (Defined : Boolean := False) is
record
case Defined is
when False =>
Arr : Maybe_Array;
when True =>
Payload : Boolean;
end case;
end record;
...
and uses r3 as address of the return value, which means
RETURN_VALUE_STRUCT_CONVENTION, but while executing finish_command we do:
...
return_value
= gdbarch_return_value_as_value (gdbarch,
read_var_value (sm->function, nullptr,
callee_frame),
val_type, nullptr, nullptr, nullptr);
...
and get:
...
(gdb) p return_value
$1 = RETURN_VALUE_REGISTER_CONVENTION
...
This is caused by this check in ppc64_sysv_abi_return_value:
...
/* In the ELFv2 ABI, aggregate types of up to 16 bytes are
returned in registers r3:r4. */
if (tdep->elf_abi == POWERPC_ELF_V2
&& valtype->length () <= 16
...
which succeeds because valtype->length () == 0.
Fix this by also checking for !TYPE_HAS_DYNAMIC_LENGTH (valtype).
[ I also tested a version of this patch using "!is_dynamic_type (valtype)"
instead, but ran into a regression in test-case gdb.ada/variant-record.exp,
because type T:
...
Length : constant Positive := 8;
subtype Name_T is String (1 .. Length);
type A_Record_T is
record
X1 : Natural;
X2 : Natural;
end record;
type Yes_No_T is (Yes, No);
type T (Well : Yes_No_T := Yes) is
record
case Well is
when Yes =>
Name : Name_T;
when No =>
Unique_Name : A_Record_T;
end case;
end record;
...
while being dynamic, also has a non-zero size, and is small enough to be
returned in registers r3:r4. ]
Fixing this causes the test-case to fail with the familiar:
...
warning: Cannot determine the function return value.
Try compiling with -fvar-tracking.
...
and indeed using -fvar-tracking makes the test-case pass.
Tested on ppc64le-linux.
PR tdep/33000
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33000
/* In the ELFv2 ABI, aggregate types of up to 16 bytes are
returned in registers r3:r4. */
if (tdep->elf_abi == POWERPC_ELF_V2
+ && !TYPE_HAS_DYNAMIC_LENGTH (valtype)
&& valtype->length () <= 16
&& (valtype->code () == TYPE_CODE_STRUCT
|| valtype->code () == TYPE_CODE_UNION
standard_ada_testfile p
-if {[gdb_compile_ada "${srcfile}" "${binfile}" executable debug] != ""} {
+set opts {}
+lappend opts debug
+if { [have_fvar_tracking] } {
+ lappend opts additional_flags=-fvar-tracking
+}
+
+if {[gdb_compile_ada "${srcfile}" "${binfile}" executable $opts] != ""} {
return -1
}