Tom Tromey [Thu, 17 Apr 2025 20:48:24 +0000 (14:48 -0600)]
Clean up handle_member_location
This removes a redundant check from handle_member_location, and also
changes the complaint -- currently it will issue the "complex
location" complaint, but really what is happening here is an
unrecognized form.
Tom Tromey [Tue, 15 Apr 2025 15:08:52 +0000 (09:08 -0600)]
Handle dynamic field properties
I found a situation where gdb could not properly decode an Ada type.
In this first scenario, the discriminant of a type is a bit-field.
PROP_ADDR_OFFSET does not handle this situation, because it only
allows an offset -- not a bit-size.
My original approach to this just added a bit size as well, but after
some discussion with Eric Botcazou, we found another failing case: a
tagged type can have a second discriminant that appears at a variable
offset.
So, this patch changes this code to accept a general 'struct field'
instead of trying to replicate the field-finding machinery by itself.
This is handled at property-evaluation time by simply using a 'field'
and resolving its dynamic properties. Then the usual field-extraction
function is called to get the value.
Because the baton now just holds a field, I renamed PROP_ADDR_OFFSET
to PROP_FIELD.
The DWARF reader now defers filling in the property baton until the
fields have been attached to the type.
Finally, I noticed that if the discriminant field has a biased
representation, then unpack_field_as_long would not handle this
either. This bug is also fixed here, and the test case checks this.
Tom Tromey [Wed, 16 Apr 2025 20:58:06 +0000 (14:58 -0600)]
Add resolve_dynamic_field
The final patch in this series will change one dynamic property
approach to use a struct field rather than an offset and a field type.
This is convenient because the reference in DWARF is indeed to a field
-- and this approach lets us reuse the field-extraction logic that
already exists in gdb.
However, the field in question may have dynamic properties which must
be resolved before it can be used. This patch prepares for this by
introducing a separate resolve_dynamic_field function.
This patch should cause no visible changes to behavior.
Tom Tromey [Wed, 16 Apr 2025 21:18:43 +0000 (15:18 -0600)]
Constify property_addr_info
This changes most places to use a const property_addr_info. This
seems more correct to me because normally the user of a
property_addr_info should not modify it. Furthermore, some functions
already take a const object, and for a subsequent patch it is
convenient if other functions do as well.
Lancelot SIX [Tue, 6 May 2025 10:39:55 +0000 (11:39 +0100)]
gdb/testsuite: Add require allow_hipcc_tests in gdb.rocm/mi-attach.exp
The gdb.rocm/mi-attach.exp test is missing a proper `require` check to
ensure that the current configuration can run ROCm tests. This issue
has been reported by Baris.
This patch adds the missing `allow_hipcc_tests` requirement, and also
adds `load_lib rocm.exp` to enable this test.
Change-Id: Ie136adfc2d0854268b92af5c4df2dd0334dce259 Reviewed-By: Tankut Baris Aktemur <tankut.baris.aktemur@intel.com> Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Andrew Burgess [Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:12:45 +0000 (14:12 +0000)]
gdb: support zero inode in generate-core-file command
It is possible, when creating a shared memory segment (i.e. with
shmget), that the id of the segment will be zero.
When looking at the segment in /proc/PID/smaps, the inode field of the
entry holds the shared memory segment id.
And so, it can be the case that an entry (in the smaps file) will have
an inode of zero.
When GDB generates a core file, with the generate-core-file (or its
gcore alias) command, the shared memory segment should be written into
the core file.
Fedora GDB has, since 2008, carried a patch that tests this case.
There is no fix for GDB associated with the test, and unfortunately,
the motivation for the test has been lost to the mists of time. This
likely means that a fix was merged upstream without a suitable test,
but I've not been able to find and relevant commit. The test seems to
be checking that the shared memory segment with id zero, is being
written to the core file.
While looking at this test and trying to work out if it should be
posted upstream, I saw that GDB does appear to write the shared memory
segment into the core file (as expected), which is good. However, GDB
still isn't getting this case exactly right.
In gcore_memory_sections (gcore.c) we call back into linux-tdep.c (via
the gdbarch_find_memory_regions call) to correctly write the shared
memory segment into the core file, however, in
linux_make_mappings_corefile_notes, when we use
linux_find_memory_regions_full to create the NT_FILE note, we call
back into linux_make_mappings_callback for each mapping, and in here
we reject any mapping with a zero inode.
The result of this, is that, for a shared memory segment with a
non-zero id, after loading the core file, the shared memory segment
will appear in the 'proc info mappings' output. But, for a shared
memory segment with a zero id, the segment will not appear in the
'proc info mappings' output.
I propose fixing this by not checking the inode in
linux_make_mappings_callback. The inode check was in place since the
code was originally added in commit 451b7c33cb3c9ec6272c36870 (in
2012).
The test for this bug, based on the original Fedora patch, can be
found on the mailing list here:
I have not committed this test into the tree though because the test
was just too unreliable. User space doesn't have any control over the
shared memory id, so all we can do is spam out requests for new shared
memory segments and hope that we eventually get the zero id.
Obviously, this can fail; the zero id might already be in use by some
long running process, or the kernel, for whatever reason, might choose
to never allocate the zero id. The test I posted (see above thread)
did work more than 50% of the time, but it was far closer to a 50%
success rate than 100%, and I really don't like introducing unreliable
tests.
Add a new gcore_cmd_available predicate proc that can be used in a
'requires' line, and make use of it in a few tests.
All of the tests I have modified call gdb_gcore_cmd as one of their
first actions and exit if the gcore command is not available, so it
makes sense (I think) to move the gcore command check into a requires
call.
There should be no change in what is actually run after this commit.
Andrew Burgess [Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:57:06 +0000 (17:57 +0100)]
gdb/python/guile: check if styling is disabled in Color.escape_sequence
I noticed that the gdb.Color.escape_sequence() method would produce an
escape sequence even when styling is disabled.
I think this is the wrong choice. Ideally, when styling is
disabled (e.g. with 'set style enabled off'), GDB should not be
producing styled output.
If a GDB extension is using gdb.Color to apply styling to the output,
then currently, the extension should be checking 'show style enabled'
any time Color.escape_sequence() is used. This means lots of code
duplication, and the possibility that some locations will be missed,
which means disabling styling no longer does what it says.
I propose that Color.escape_sequence() should return the empty string
if styling is disabled. A Python extension can then do:
python
c_none = gdb.Color('none')
c_red = gdb.Color('red')
print(c_red.escape_sequence(True)
+ "Text in red."
+ c_none.escape_sequence(True))
end
If styling is enable this will print some red text. And if styling is
disabled, then it will print text in the terminal's default color.
Alan Modra [Tue, 6 May 2025 05:21:31 +0000 (14:51 +0930)]
gas: input_scrub buffers
This tidies freeing of input_scrub buffers on failure paths, making
input_scrub_end iterate over any input_scrub_push'd files or string
buffers to clean up memory.
* input-scrub.c (input_scrub_free): New function.
(input_scrub_pop): Call it rather than input_scrub_end.
(input_scrub_end): Iterate over next_saved_file freeing
buffers.
(input_scrub_next_buffer): Move sb_kill to input_scrub_free.
Alan Modra [Fri, 2 May 2025 03:12:32 +0000 (12:42 +0930)]
windres_get_* functions
windres_get_32 and similar have a length parameter that in most cases
is just the required length, so it is redundant. The few cases where
a variable length is passed are all in resrc.c. So, get rid of the
length parameter and introduce wrappers in resrc.c to check the
length.
Tom Tromey [Fri, 2 May 2025 17:03:07 +0000 (11:03 -0600)]
Fix sign of Ada rational constants
My earlier patch commit 0c03db90 ("Use correct sign in get_mpz") was
(very) incorrect. It changed get_mpz to check for a strict sign when
examining part of an Ada rational constant. However, in Ada the
"delta" for a fixed-point type must be positive, and so the components
of the rational representation will be positive.
This patch corrects the error. It also renames the get_mpz function,
in case anyone is tempted to reuse this code for another purpose.
Finally, this pulls over the test from the internal AdaCore test suite
that found this issue.
class Reloc is not used after commit 13f614be23a gprofng: Refactor readSymSec for using BFD's asymbol struct
Many common macros were defined in different sources.
Sometimes a macro was used, sometimes a macros value was used.
Removed unused macros and include files.
gprofng/ChangeLog
2025-05-03 Vladimir Mezentsev <vladimir.mezentsev@oracle.com>
* common/gp-experiment.h: Define variables that are passed to
libcollector. Remove unused macros.
* libcollector/collector.c: Cleanup macros.
* libcollector/descendants.h: Likewise.
* libcollector/envmgmt.c: Likewise.
* libcollector/linetrace.c: Likewise.
* src/collect.h: Likewise.
* src/envsets.cc: Likewise.
* src/gp-collect-app.cc: Likewise.
* src/Stabs.cc: Remove class Reloc.
* src/Stabs.h: Likewise.
* src/ipcio.cc: Remove unused include files.
On x86_64-cygwin, with test-case gdb.tui/tui-layout-asm.exp I run into:
...
WARNING: The following failure is probably due to the TUI window
width. See the comments in the test script for more
details.
FAIL: $exp: scroll to end of assembler (scroll failed)
...
The problem is as follows.
On the TUI screen, we have:
1 | 0x1004010ff <__gdb_set_unbuffered_output+95> nop |
2 | 0x100401100 <__cxa_atexit> jmp *0x6fc2(%rip) # 0x10040 |
...
We send the down key, which should have the effect of scrolling up. So, we
expect that the second line moves to the first line.
That seems to be the case indeed:
...
1 | 0x100401100 <__cxa_atexit> jmp *0x6fc2(%rip) # 0x1004080c8 <__imp___cxa_ |
...
but the line has changed somewhat, so the matching fails.
We could increase the width of the screen, as suggested in the test-case, but
I think that approach is fragile.
Instead, fix this by relaxing the matching: just check that the line before
scrolling is fully contained in the line after scrolling, or the other way
around.
Doing so gets us the next failure:
...
FAIL: $exp: scroll to end of assembler (too much assembler)
...
The test-case states:
...
if { $down_count > 250 } {
# Maybe we should accept this as a pass in case a target
# really does have loads of assembler to scroll through.
fail "$testname (too much assembler)"
...
and I agree, so fix this by issuing a pass.
This results in the test-case taking ~20 seconds, so reduce the maximum number
of scrolls from 250 to 25, bringing that down to ~10 seconds.
Tom de Vries [Fri, 2 May 2025 20:21:36 +0000 (22:21 +0200)]
[gdb/symtab] Throw DWARF error on out-of-bounds DW_FORM_strx
With the test-case contained in the patch, and gdb build with
-fsanitize=address we get:
...
==23678==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow ...^M
READ of size 1 at 0x6020000c30dc thread T3^[[1m^[[0m^M
ptype global_var^M
#0 0x2c6a40b in bfd_getl32 bfd/libbfd.c:846^M
#1 0x168f96c in read_str_index gdb/dwarf2/read.c:15349^M
...
The executable contains an out-of-bounds DW_FORM_strx attribute:
...
$ readelf -wi $exec
<2eb> DW_AT_name :readelf: Warning: string index of 1 converts to \
an offset of 0xc which is too big for section .debug_str
(indexed string: 0x1): <string index too big>
...
and read_str_index doesn't check for this:
...
info_ptr = (str_offsets_section->buffer
+ str_offsets_base
+ str_index * offset_size);
if (offset_size == 4)
str_offset = bfd_get_32 (abfd, info_ptr);
...
and consequently reads out-of-bounds.
Fix this in read_str_index by checking for the out-of-bounds condition and
throwing a DWARF error:
...
(gdb) ptype global_var
DWARF Error: Offset from DW_FORM_GNU_str_index or DW_FORM_strx pointing \
outside of .debug_str_offsets section in CU at offset 0x2d7 \
[in module dw-form-strx-out-of-bounds]
No symbol "global_var" in current context.
(gdb)
...
Tom de Vries [Fri, 2 May 2025 20:10:53 +0000 (22:10 +0200)]
[gdbsupport] Reimplement phex and phex_nz as templates
Gdbsupport functions phex and phex_nz have a parameter sizeof_l:
...
extern const char *phex (ULONGEST l, int sizeof_l);
extern const char *phex_nz (ULONGEST l, int sizeof_l);
...
and a lot of calls use:
...
phex (l, sizeof (l))
...
Make this easier by reimplementing the functions as a template, allowing us to
simply write:
...
phex (l)
...
Simplify existing code using:
...
$ find gdb* -type f \
| xargs sed -i 's/phex (\([^,]*\), sizeof (\1))/phex (\1)/'
$ find gdb* -type f \
| xargs sed -i 's/phex_nz (\([^,]*\), sizeof (\1))/phex_nz (\1)/'
...
and manually review:
...
$ find gdb* -type f | xargs grep "phex (.*, sizeof.*)"
$ find gdb* -type f | xargs grep "phex_nz (.*, sizeof.*)"
...
Tom Tromey [Fri, 20 Dec 2024 21:00:39 +0000 (14:00 -0700)]
Use emoji to indicate errors and warnings
This patch adds, at long last, some emoji output to gdb. In
particular, warnings are indicated with the U+26A0 (WARNING SIGN), and
errors with U+274C (CROSS MARK).
There is a new setting to control whether emoji output can be used.
It defaults to "auto", which means emoji will be used if the host
charset is UTF-8. Note that disabling styling will also disable
emoji, handy for traditionalists.
I've refactored mingw console output a little, so that emoji will not
be printed to the console. Note the previous code here was a bit
strange in that it assumed that the first use of gdb_console_fputs
would be to stdout.
This version lets the user control the prefixes directly, so different
emoji can be chosen if desired.
Reviewed-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> Reviewed-By: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com> Reviewed-By: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>
Chris Packham [Wed, 30 Apr 2025 04:49:44 +0000 (16:49 +1200)]
readline/tcap.h: Update definitions for C23
C23 changes how function definitions like int `int tputs ()` are
interpreted. In older standards this meant that the function arguments
are unknown. In C23 this is interpreted as `int tputs (void)` so now
when we compile with GCC15 (which defaults to -std=gnu23) we get an
error such as
readline/display.c:2839:17: error: too many arguments to function 'tputs'; expected 0, have 3
Add the function arguments for tgetent(), tgetflag(), tgetnum(),
tgetstr(), tputs() and tgoto().
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
After building gdb with "-O0 -g -fsanitize=thread" on aarch64-linux, with
test-case gdb.reverse/time-reverse.exp I run into:
...
(gdb) continue^M
Continuing.^M
FAIL: $exp: mode=c: continue to breakpoint: marker2 (timeout)
...
The problem is that instruction stepping gets stuck in a loop with this call
stack: time -> __GI___clock_gettime -> __kernel_clock_gettime ->
__cvdso_clock_gettime.
This is not specific to fsanitize=thread, it just makes gdb slow, which makes
instruction stepping slow, which results in the application getting stuck.
I ran into this as well with a regular gdb build on a 32-bit i686 laptop with
1GB of memory, an inherently slow setup. In that instance, I was able to
observe that the loop we're stuck in is the outer loop in do_coarse in linux
kernel source lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c.
Fix this by setting "record full insn-number-max" to 2000, and handling
running into the limit.
Initially I tried the approach of using "stepi 2000" instead of continue, but
that made the issue more likely to show up (for instance, I observed it after
building gdb with -O0 on aarch64-linux).
Tom de Vries [Fri, 2 May 2025 14:48:14 +0000 (16:48 +0200)]
[gdb/testsuite] Make gdb.reverse/time-reverse.exp more robust
I noticed that test-case gdb.reverse/time-reverse.exp contains:
...
if [supports_process_record] {
# Activate process record/replay
gdb_test_no_output "record" "turn on process record"
...
So I tried out forcing supports_process_record to 0, and got:
...
FAIL: gdb.reverse/time-reverse.exp: mode=syscall: info record
FAIL: gdb.reverse/time-reverse.exp: mode=syscall: reverse to marker1
FAIL: gdb.reverse/time-reverse.exp: mode=syscall: check time record
FAIL: gdb.reverse/time-reverse.exp: mode=c: info record
FAIL: gdb.reverse/time-reverse.exp: mode=c: reverse to marker1
FAIL: gdb.reverse/time-reverse.exp: mode=c: check time record
...
Fix this by requiring supports_process_record alongside supports_reverse.
I also noticed when running make-check-all.sh that there were a lot of failures
with target board dwarf5-fission-debug-types.
Fix this by not ignoring the result of "runto marker1".
Then I noticed that $srcfile is used as a regexp. Fix this by applying
string_to_regexp.
Tom de Vries [Fri, 2 May 2025 08:28:13 +0000 (10:28 +0200)]
[gdb/testsuite] Make gdb.threads/inf-thr-count.exp more readable
While investigating a timeout in gdb.threads/inf-thr-count.exp I noticed that
it uses quite some escaping, resulting in hard-to-parse regexps like
"\\\$$::decimal".
Fix this by reducing the escaping using:
- quoting strings using {} instead of "", and
- string_to_regexp.
Also use multi_line to split up long multi-line regexps.
Tom de Vries [Fri, 2 May 2025 08:28:13 +0000 (10:28 +0200)]
[gdb/testsuite] Fix timeout in gdb.threads/inf-thr-count.exp
With test-case gdb.threads/inf-thr-count.exp, check-readmore and
READMORE_SLEEP=1000 I run into:
...
(gdb) set variable spin = 0^M
(gdb) ^M
Thread 1 "inf-thr-count" hit Breakpoint 2, breakpt () at /data/vries/gdb/src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.threads/inf-thr-count.c:49^M
49 }^M
FAIL: gdb.threads/inf-thr-count.exp: set 'spin' flag to allow main thread to exit (timeout)
PASS: gdb.threads/inf-thr-count.exp: wait for main thread to stop
...
Jan Beulich [Fri, 2 May 2025 08:08:19 +0000 (10:08 +0200)]
COFF: correct function auxiliary symbol data clearing
It's unclear why the array part of the union was used there, when we're
dealing with a function. Originally, when 32-bit hosts and targets were
prevailing, the memset() in question ended up clearing the entire x_fcn,
while for 64-bit hosts/targets only x_lnnoptr would have been cleared.
Then a2c7ca15a560 ("Use stdint types in coff internal_auxent") made
things consistent, but imo in the wrong direction (and likely
unintentionally). Go back to what apparently was meant originally, using
the correct part of the union now.
Jan Beulich [Fri, 2 May 2025 08:07:53 +0000 (10:07 +0200)]
COFF: function auxiliary symbols
For one at least x86 gcc emits .def/.endef for functions, but no 2nd
pair to designate their ends (sizes). While we can't recover the sizes,
we can at least properly establish the chain of function symbols, which
of course requires to emit auxiliary symbols for every function symbol
even when there's no C_EFCN: We simply shouldn't be making their
insertion conditional upon there not being a function processing of
which is "in progress".
In fact it was wrong to assign dual purpose to {,next_}set_end:
Functions don't have "ends" set, but links to the next one. The same
symbol table entry can serve both as an end marker and be a part of the
chain of (defined) functions; this can't be expressed by a single static
variable. Use what (again) becomes last_functionP for this purpose,
along with tracking what symbol C_EFCN should apply to.
This then allows to undo exposing of the respective (supposedly static)
tracking variable, which PPC's XCOFF handling had introduced. Also
rename it back to what it was before its exposure.
For now the new testcases are XFAIL for Arm64 since there, unlike for
Arm32, mapping symbols are emitted for COFF, too.
H.J. Lu [Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:37:08 +0000 (08:37 +0800)]
dwarf: Properly check holes in .debug_ranges/debug_rnglists
Don't warn if the offset of the first entry in .debug_rnglists starts
right after the header. Warn holes in .debug_ranges and debug_rnglists
sections only if the last end pointer isn't the same as the current
start pointer.
PR binutils/32927
* dwarf.c (display_debug_ranges_list): Return the pointer to the
end.
(display_debug_ranges): Don't warn if the offset of the first
entry in .debug_rnglists starts right after the header. Warn a
hole only if the last end pointer is the same as the next pointer.
* testsuite/binutils-all/x86-64/dwarf4.s: New file.
* testsuite/binutils-all/x86-64/dwarf5.s: Likewise.
* testsuite/binutils-all/x86-64/pr32927-1.d: Likewise.
* testsuite/binutils-all/x86-64/pr32927-2.d: Likewise.
Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
A recent static analyzer run flagged that program_space::exec_close
could be using a pointer after it has been freed. This is not true, as
the pointer is never dereferenced, the address is used for comparisons.
However, to avoid false positives from static analyzers (or bogus
security bugs), this commit makes the code stop looking like a UAF by
moving the unique_ptr into a local unique_ptr, so that there is no way
someone would think memory could be used after being freed.
Tom de Vries [Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:56:19 +0000 (13:56 +0200)]
[gdb/testsuite] Don't compile read1.so with -fsanitize
After building gdb with:
...
CFLAGS= -O0 -g -fstack-protector-all -fsanitize=thread -fno-exceptions
CXXFLAGS= -O0 -g -fstack-protector-all -fsanitize=thread
...
when doing:
...
$ cd build/gdb
$ make check-read1 RUNTESTFLAGS=gdb.threads/clone-attach-detach.exp
...
I run into:
...
Running /data/vries/gdb/src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.threads/clone-attach-detach.exp ...
ThreadSanitizer:DEADLYSIGNAL
==4799==ERROR: ThreadSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address 0x000000000000 \
(pc 0x7f636029a947 bp 0x7f635dfbf090 sp 0x7f635dfbf028 T4824)
==4799==The signal is caused by a READ memory access.
==4799==Hint: address points to the zero page.
ThreadSanitizer:DEADLYSIGNAL
ThreadSanitizer: nested bug in the same thread, aborting.
...
This doesn't happen when doing the same from build/gdb/testsuite, because
CFLAGS doesn't get propagated from build/gdb.
I'm not sure what is the root cause here, but when building with
-fsanitize, I'm interested in running the sanitizer on gdb, not on testsuite
utility libraries that are used with expect.
Fix this by skipping -fsanitize when compiling read1.so and readmore.so.
Tested on x86_64-linux, by rebuilding read1.so and running the test-case.
Tom de Vries [Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:41:20 +0000 (13:41 +0200)]
[gdb/testsuite] Handle asm frame in gdb.python/py-missing-objfile.exp
On arm-linux, with test-case gdb.python/py-missing-objfile.exp I get:
...
(gdb) whatis global_exec_var^M
type = volatile exec_type^M
(gdb) FAIL: $exp: initial sanity check: whatis global_exec_var
...
instead of the expected "type = volatile struct exec_type".
The problem is that the current language is ASM instead of C, because the
inner frame at the point of the core dump has language ASM:
...
#0 __libc_do_syscall () at libc-do-syscall.S:47
#1 0xf7882920 in __pthread_kill_implementation () at pthread_kill.c:43
#2 0xf784df22 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at raise.c:26
#3 0xf783f03e in __GI_abort () at abort.c:73
#4 0x009b0538 in dump_core () at py-missing-objfile.c:34
#5 0x009b0598 in main () at py-missing-objfile.c:46
...
Tom de Vries [Wed, 30 Apr 2025 07:49:58 +0000 (09:49 +0200)]
[gdb/build] Fix Wformat errors in gdb/riscv-tdep.c
When building gdb with --enable-targets=all on arm-linux, I run into:
...
gdb/riscv-tdep.c: In function ‘bool try_read(regcache*, int, ULONGEST&)’:
gdb/riscv-tdep.c:4887:18: error: format ‘%lx’ expects argument of type \
‘long unsigned int’, but argument 2 has type ‘ULONGEST’ \
{aka ‘long long unsigned int’} [-Werror=format=]
4887 | warning (_("Can not read at address %lx"), addr);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
...
and a few more Wformat errors, due to commit b9c7eed0c24 ("This commit adds
record full support for rv64gc instruction set").
Kito Cheng [Tue, 29 Apr 2025 03:40:15 +0000 (11:40 +0800)]
RISC-V: Mark fgt.*/fge.* as instruction alias
They are instruction alias, but not mark correctly, and seems like we
don't have a good way to verify that since the disassembler doesn't
disassemble instruction into alias.
Simon Marchi [Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:57:49 +0000 (15:57 -0400)]
gdb/dwarf: change a bunch of functions to be methods of cooked_index_worker_debug_info
Move a few functions exclusively used to process units to become methods
of cooked_index_worker_debug_info. Rename them to a more consistent
name scheme, which gets rid of outdated naming. The comments were also
quite outdated.
Change-Id: I2e7dcc2e4ff372007dcb4f6c3d34187c9cc2da05 Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Simon Marchi [Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:43:58 +0000 (16:43 -0400)]
gdb/dwarf: move cooked_index_worker_debug_info up
The next patch moves some functions to be methods of
cooked_index_worker_debug_info. Move cooked_index_worker_debug_info
above those functions, to make that easier (methods can't be defined
before the class declaration).
Change-Id: I7723cb42efadb2cc86f2227b3c2fb275e2d620f9 Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Simon Marchi [Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:01:47 +0000 (16:01 -0400)]
gdb/dwarf: clean up some cutu_reader::is_dummy() calls
This patch tries to standardize the places where we check if units are
dummy. When checking if a unit is dummy, it is not necessary to check
for some other conditions.
- cutu_reader::is_dummy() is a superset of cutu_reader::cu() returning
nullptr, so it's not necessary to check if the cu method return
nullptr if also checking if the unit is dummy.
- cutu_reader::is_dummy() is a superset of cutu_reader::top_level_die()
returning nullptr, so same deal.
Remove some spots that check for these conditions in addition to
cutu_reader::is_dummy().
In addition, also remove the checks for:
!new_reader->top_level_die ()->has_children
in cooked_indexer::ensure_cu_exists. IMO, it is not useful to special
case the units having a single DIE. Especially in this function, which
deals with importing things from another unit, a unit with a single DIE
would be an edge case that should not happen with good debug info. I
think it's preferable to have simpler code.
Change-Id: I4529d7b3a0bd2891a60f41671de8cfd3114adb4a Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Simon Marchi [Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:01:46 +0000 (16:01 -0400)]
gdb/dwarf: avoid cutu_reader moves
In process_psymtab_comp_unit and ensure_cu_exists, we create a temporary
cutu_reader on the stack, then move it to a heap allocated cutu_reader
once we confirmed the unit is not dummy. I think it's unnecessary to
create a temporary cutu_reader. The only downside of not doing so is that if it
ends up that the CU is dummy, we made an allocation/deallocation for
nothing. Dummy CUs are a rare thing, it shouldn't change anything.
This allows removing the cutu_reader move constructor.
Change-Id: I44742d471c495055ee46db41c0e7bdfbd2d5c0b7 Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Simon Marchi [Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:36:28 +0000 (13:36 -0400)]
gdb/dwarf: read multiple .debug_info.dwo sections
When building with gcc, with flags -gdwarf-5, -gsplit-dwarf and
-fdebug-types-section, the resulting .dwo files contain multiple
.debug_info.dwo sections. One for each type unit and one for the
compile unit. This is correct, as per DWARF 5, section F.2.3 ("Contents
of the Split DWARF Object Files"):
The split DWARF object files each contain the following sections:
...
.debug_info.dwo (for the compilation unit)
.debug_info.dwo (one COMDAT section for each type unit)
...
GDB currently assumes that there is a single .debug_info.dwo section,
causing unpredictable behavior. For example, sometimes this crash:
==81781==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x508000007a71 at pc 0x58704d32a59c bp 0x7ffc0acc0bb0 sp 0x7ffc0acc0ba0
READ of size 1 at 0x508000007a71 thread T0
#0 0x58704d32a59b in bfd_getl32 /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/bfd/libbfd.c:846
#1 0x58704ae62dce in read_initial_length(bfd*, unsigned char const*, unsigned int*, bool) /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/dwarf2/leb.c:92
#2 0x58704aaf76bf in read_comp_unit_head(comp_unit_head*, unsigned char const*, dwarf2_section_info*, rcuh_kind) /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/dwarf2/comp-unit-head.c:47
#3 0x58704aaf8f97 in read_and_check_comp_unit_head(dwarf2_per_objfile*, comp_unit_head*, dwarf2_section_info*, dwarf2_section_info*, unsigned char const*, rcuh_kind) /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/dwarf2/comp-unit-head.c:193
#4 0x58704b022908 in create_dwo_unit_hash_tables /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/dwarf2/read.c:6233
#5 0x58704b0334a5 in open_and_init_dwo_file /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/dwarf2/read.c:7588
#6 0x58704b03965a in lookup_dwo_cutu /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/dwarf2/read.c:7935
#7 0x58704b03a5b1 in lookup_dwo_comp_unit /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/dwarf2/read.c:8009
#8 0x58704aff5b70 in lookup_dwo_unit /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/dwarf2/read.c:2802
The first time that locate_dwo_sections gets called for a
.debug_info.dwo section, dwo_sections::info gets initialized properly.
The second time it gets called for a .debug_info.dwo section, the size
field in dwo_sections::info gets overwritten with the size of the second
section. But the buffer remains pointing to the contents of the first
section, because the section is already "read in". So the size does not
match the buffer. And even if it did, we would only keep the
information about one .debug_info.dwo, out of the many.
First, add an assert in locate_dwo_sections to make sure we don't
try to fill in a dwo section info twice. Add the assert to other
functions with the same pattern, while at it.
Then, change dwo_sections::info to be a vector of sections (just like we
do for type sections). Update locate_dwo_sections to append to that
vector when seeing a new .debug_info.dwo section. Update
open_and_init_dwo_file to read the units from each section.
The problem can be observed by running some tests with the
dwarf5-fission-debug-types target board. For example,
gdb.base/condbreak.exp crashes (with the ASan failure shown above)
before the patch and passes after).
Simon Marchi [Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:31:45 +0000 (15:31 -0400)]
gdb/dwarf: scan .debug_info.dwo just once
When building -gsplit-dwarf and -fdebug-types-section in DWARF 5, the
resulting .dwo files will typically have a .debug_info.dwo section with
multiple type units followed by one compile unit:
$ llvm-dwarfdump -F -color a-test.dwo | grep ' Unit'
0x00000000: Type Unit: length = 0x000008a0, format = DWARF32, version = 0x0005, unit_type = DW_UT_split_type, abbr_offset = 0x0000, addr_size = 0x08, name = 'vector<int, std::allocator<int> >', type_signature = 0xb499dcf29e2928c4, type_offset = 0x0023 (next unit at 0x000008a4)
0x000008a4: Type Unit: length = 0x00000099, format = DWARF32, version = 0x0005, unit_type = DW_UT_split_type, abbr_offset = 0x0000, addr_size = 0x08, name = 'allocator<int>', type_signature = 0x496a8791a842701b, type_offset = 0x0023 (next unit at 0x00000941)
...
0x000015c1: Compile Unit: length = 0x00000f58, format = DWARF32, version = 0x0005, unit_type = DW_UT_split_compile, abbr_offset = 0x0000, addr_size = 0x08, DWO_id = 0xe8e359820d1c5803 (next unit at 0x0000251d)
In open_and_init_dwo_file, we call create_dwo_cus_hash_table, which
scans the section, looking for compile units, then call
create_dwo_debug_types_hash_table, which scans the section again,
looking for type units. It would make more sense to scan the section
just once and handle both compile and type units at the same time.
To achieve this, add create_dwo_unit_hash_tables, which knows how to
handle both unit kinds in a single scan. It replaces
create_dwo_cus_hash_table and create_dwo_debug_type_hash_table. Change
open_and_init_dwo_file to call it.
Note that I removed the DWARF version check in open_and_init_dwo_file
when processing .debug_type.dwo sections: in DWARF 5, the
.debug_type.dwo sections will just not exist, so the
`dwo_file->sections.types` vector will be empty.
Change-Id: I6e51d0ca06c258e0bf0e59927d62ae2df314a162 Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Simon Marchi [Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:36:26 +0000 (13:36 -0400)]
gdb/dwarf: scan DWARF 5 DWO CUs by just reading the header
create_dwo_cus_hash_table is implemented by creating a cutu_reader
(which is somewhat heavy) for all units in a .dwo file. The purpose of
this cutu_reader is to be able to get the DWO ID, if it is specified by
a DW_AT_GNU_dwo_id attribute.
In DWARF 5, however, the DWO ID is available in the CU header. We can
access it without accessing the DIEs, by just reading the header, which
is more lightweight. Add a new code path to create_dwo_cus_hash_table
that does that. The logic is copied from
create_dwo_debug_type_hash_table, which does this already.
This change helps circumvent a performance problem I want to fix (the
same I was trying to fix in this patch [1]) when loading a file built
with -gdwarf-5, -gsplit-dwarf and -fdebug-types-section. In this
configuration, the produced .dwo files contain one compile unit and many
type units each. All units in a given .dwo share the same abbrev table.
Creating a cutu_reader for each unit meant re-reading the same abbrev
table over and over. What's particularly bad is that this is done with
the dwo_lock held, preventing other indexing threads from making
progress.
To give a rough idea, here's the time take by each worker to index units
before this patch (on a rather large program):
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 18.627, user 0.885, sys 0.042, user+sys 0.927, 5.0 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 18.888, user 0.862, sys 0.042, user+sys 0.904, 4.8 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 19.172, user 1.848, sys 0.069, user+sys 1.917, 10.0 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 19.297, user 1.544, sys 0.051, user+sys 1.595, 8.3 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 19.545, user 3.408, sys 0.084, user+sys 3.492, 17.9 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 19.759, user 4.221, sys 0.117, user+sys 4.338, 22.0 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 19.789, user 4.187, sys 0.105, user+sys 4.292, 21.7 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 19.825, user 4.933, sys 0.135, user+sys 5.068, 25.6 % CPU
And the times with this patch:
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 0.163, user 0.089, sys 0.029, user+sys 0.118, 72.4 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 0.176, user 0.096, sys 0.041, user+sys 0.137, 77.8 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 0.265, user 0.167, sys 0.054, user+sys 0.221, 83.4 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 0.353, user 0.257, sys 0.060, user+sys 0.317, 89.8 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 0.524, user 0.399, sys 0.088, user+sys 0.487, 92.9 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 0.648, user 0.517, sys 0.107, user+sys 0.624, 96.3 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 0.657, user 0.523, sys 0.107, user+sys 0.630, 95.9 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 0.753, user 0.612, sys 0.120, user+sys 0.732, 97.2 % CPU
Simon Marchi [Wed, 16 Apr 2025 04:09:06 +0000 (00:09 -0400)]
gdb/dwarf: replace some "compile unit" terminology with "unit"
In DWARF 5 (and even previous versions, with type units), compile units
are just one type of units. In many places, we still use "compile
units" when in reality it would be better to talk about "units" (unless
we specifically want to talk about compile units).
Rename comp-unit-head.{c.h} to unit-head.{c,h}, and do a big pass of
renames in it to remove the specific mentions of compile units, where in
fact we want to talk about units in general.
Change-Id: Ia06c90ccb25756c366f269a12620f2f7c8378adb Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Simon Marchi [Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:23:54 +0000 (15:23 -0400)]
gdb: add some scoped_time_its to profile startup time
I'm investigating some issues where GDB takes a lot of time to start
up (read: for the DWARF index to be ready to do anything useful).
Adding those scoped_time_it instances helped me gain some insights about
where GDB spends time. I think they would be useful to have upstream,
to make investigating future problems easier. It would also be useful
to be able to give some numbers in the commit messages.
Here's an example of what GDB outputs:
Time for "minsyms install worker": wall 0.045, user 0.040, sys 0.004, user+sys 0.044, 97.8 % CPU
Time for "minsyms install worker": wall 0.511, user 0.457, sys 0.048, user+sys 0.505, 98.8 % CPU
Time for "minsyms install worker": wall 1.513, user 1.389, sys 0.111, user+sys 1.500, 99.1 % CPU
Time for "minsyms install worker": wall 1.688, user 1.451, sys 0.102, user+sys 1.553, 92.0 % CPU
Time for "minsyms install worker": wall 1.897, user 1.518, sys 0.089, user+sys 1.607, 84.7 % CPU
Time for "minsyms install worker": wall 2.811, user 2.558, sys 0.231, user+sys 2.789, 99.2 % CPU
Time for "minsyms install worker": wall 3.257, user 3.049, sys 0.188, user+sys 3.237, 99.4 % CPU
Time for "minsyms install worker": wall 3.617, user 3.089, sys 0.211, user+sys 3.300, 91.2 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 19.517, user 0.894, sys 0.075, user+sys 0.969, 5.0 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 19.807, user 0.891, sys 0.086, user+sys 0.977, 4.9 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 20.270, user 1.559, sys 0.119, user+sys 1.678, 8.3 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 20.329, user 1.878, sys 0.147, user+sys 2.025, 10.0 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 20.848, user 3.483, sys 0.224, user+sys 3.707, 17.8 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 21.088, user 4.285, sys 0.295, user+sys 4.580, 21.7 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 21.109, user 4.501, sys 0.274, user+sys 4.775, 22.6 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 21.198, user 5.087, sys 0.319, user+sys 5.406, 25.5 % CPU
Time for "DWARF skeletonless type units": wall 4.024, user 3.858, sys 0.115, user+sys 3.973, 98.7 % CPU
Time for "DWARF add parent map": wall 0.092, user 0.086, sys 0.004, user+sys 0.090, 97.8 % CPU
Time for "DWARF finalize worker": wall 0.278, user 0.241, sys 0.009, user+sys 0.250, 89.9 % CPU
Time for "DWARF finalize worker": wall 0.307, user 0.304, sys 0.000, user+sys 0.304, 99.0 % CPU
Time for "DWARF finalize worker": wall 0.727, user 0.719, sys 0.000, user+sys 0.719, 98.9 % CPU
Time for "DWARF finalize worker": wall 0.913, user 0.901, sys 0.003, user+sys 0.904, 99.0 % CPU
Time for "DWARF finalize worker": wall 0.776, user 0.767, sys 0.004, user+sys 0.771, 99.4 % CPU
Time for "DWARF finalize worker": wall 1.897, user 1.869, sys 0.006, user+sys 1.875, 98.8 % CPU
Time for "DWARF finalize worker": wall 2.534, user 2.512, sys 0.005, user+sys 2.517, 99.3 % CPU
Time for "DWARF finalize worker": wall 2.607, user 2.583, sys 0.006, user+sys 2.589, 99.3 % CPU
Time for "DWARF finalize worker": wall 3.142, user 3.094, sys 0.022, user+sys 3.116, 99.2 % CPU
Change-Id: I9453589b9005c3226499428ae9cab9f4a8c22904 Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Simon Marchi [Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:23:53 +0000 (15:23 -0400)]
gdb: add scoped_time_it
New in v2:
- actually use m_enabled in the constructor and destructor
- output using gdb_stdlog->write_async_safe instead of gdb_printf
scoped_time_it is a small utility that measures and prints how much time
a given thread spent in a given scope. Similar to the time(1) command,
it prints the time spent in user mode, system mode, and the wall clock
time. It also prints the CPU utilization percentage, which is:
(user + sys) / wall
This can help spot cases where the workload is not well balanced between
workers, or the CPU utilization is not optimal (perhaps due to
contention around a lock for example).
To use it, just add it in some scope. For instance, a subsequent patch
adds it here:
On destruction, if enabled, it prints a line showing the time spent by
that thread, similar to what time(1) prints.
The example above prints this (one line for each worker thread):
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 0.173, user 0.120, sys 0.034, user+sys 0.154, 89.0 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 0.211, user 0.144, sys 0.047, user+sys 0.191, 90.5 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 0.368, user 0.295, sys 0.057, user+sys 0.352, 95.7 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 0.445, user 0.361, sys 0.072, user+sys 0.433, 97.3 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 0.592, user 0.459, sys 0.113, user+sys 0.572, 96.6 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 0.739, user 0.608, sys 0.115, user+sys 0.723, 97.8 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 0.831, user 0.677, sys 0.140, user+sys 0.817, 98.3 % CPU
Time for "DWARF indexing worker": wall 0.949, user 0.789, sys 0.144, user+sys 0.933, 98.3 % CPU
The object is only enabled if per_command_time (controlled by "maint set
per-command time") is true at construction time. I wanted to avoid
adding a new command for now, but eventually if there are too many
scoped_time_it around the code base and we want to be able to enabled
them selectively (e.g. just the ones in the DWARF reader, or in the
symbol searching functions, etc), we could have a dedicated command for
that.
I added this functionality to GDB because it relies on gdb_printf and
per_command_time, but if we ever need it in gdbsupport, I'm sure we
could find a way to put it there.
Change-Id: I5416ac1448f960f44d85f8449943d994198a271e Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Tom Tromey [Fri, 25 Apr 2025 14:13:36 +0000 (08:13 -0600)]
Handle base type without DW_AT_byte_size
DWARF says that a base type can have DW_AT_bit_size, without
DW_AT_byte_size. However, gdb does not correctly handle this; in
fact, it crashes, as pointed out in this LLVM merge request:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/137123
This patch reworks the base type size logic a bit to handle this
situation.
Tested-by: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com> Approved-by: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
Keith Seitz [Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:08:38 +0000 (09:08 -0700)]
[gdb/contrib] Add script to license check new files
While reading through gdb-patches backlog after a return
from PTO, I noticed that a newly added file was licensed
with "MIT", and that license was not listed in Fedora's
gdb.spec file. [Fedora no longer supports "effective"
licenses.]
That lead me to this simple script which generates a list
of all the newly added files between two given commits and
scans these files for licenses.
Example usage:
bash$ cd /path/to/binutils-gdb/gdb
bash$ ./contrib/license-check-new-files.sh -s gdb-15-branchpoint gdb-16-branchpoint
Scanning directories gdb*/...
gdb/contrib/common-misspellings.txt: no longer in repo?
gdb/contrib/spellcheck.sh: no longer in repo?
gdbsupport/unordered_dense.h: MIT
I don't think anything in here is Fedora- or RPM-specific,
so I'd like to submit this for consideration for inclusion
in contrib/. I believe other distros may find it useful.
Tom de Vries [Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:30:07 +0000 (17:30 +0200)]
[gdb/testsuite] Fix gdb.python/py-objfile.exp with gcc 15
When running test-case gdb.python/py-objfile.exp with gcc 15, we get:
...
(gdb) p main^M
$2 = {int (void)} 0x40066c <main>^M
(gdb) FAIL: $exp: print main with debug info
...
The source file declares main as "int main ()"
...
and until C23 this meant a non-prototype function declaration and we'd have:
...
(gdb) p main^M
$2 = {int ()} 0x40066c <main>^M
...
However, starting C23 "int main ()" is simply equivalent to "int main (void)".
Fix this by:
- declaring main as "int main (void)" in the test-case, and
- updating the regexp to expect an "int (void)" prototype.
Likewise in gdb.base/jit-bfd-name.exp.
Tested on aarch64-linux.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
PR testsuite/32756
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32756
Tom de Vries [Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:14:46 +0000 (17:14 +0200)]
[gdb/testsuite] Don't use string_to_regexp twice in gdb.base/options.exp
In test-case gdb.base/options.exp, in proc test_completer_recognizes we have:
...
set expected_re [string_to_regexp $input_line]
test_gdb_complete_unique $input_line $expected_re
...
However, the first thing we do in proc test_gdb_complete_unique is to apply
string_to_regexp to the second argument:
...
proc test_gdb_complete_unique {
input_line
complete_line
{append_char " "}
{max_completions false}
{testname ""}
} {
set complete_line_re [string_to_regexp $complete_line]
test_gdb_complete_unique_re \
$input_line \
$complete_line_re \
$append_char \
$max_completions\
$testname
}
...
This happens to not cause any FAILs at the moment, but this should be done
only once.
Fix this not using string_to_regexp in proc test_completer_recognizes.
This is a bug, please report it. For instructions, see:
<https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$ q
...
Fix this in gdbpy_flush by checking for nullptr gdb_stdout/gdb_stderr (and
likewise in ioscm_flush) such that we get instead:
...
$ gdb
(gdb) <q>error detected on stdin
$ q
...
Tested on x86_64-linux.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Tom de Vries [Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:01:55 +0000 (17:01 +0200)]
[gdb] Fix sig_write for null gdb_stderr
When running test-case gdb.tui/tui-layout-asm.exp with target board
dwarf5-fission-debug-types, the test-case fails and I get a core dump:
...
# of unexpected core files 1
...
Looking at the backtrace of the core file, what seems to be happening is that:
- gdbpy_flush attempts to flush gdb_stdout, which is nullptr
- that causes a segfault
- gdb intercepts this and starts to handle it using handle_fatal_signal
- handle_fatal_signal calls sig_write, which attempts to write to gdb_stderr,
which is nullptr,
- that causes another segfault
- gdb exits
I managed to reproduce the problem by the following trigger patch in
stdin_event_handler:
...
- if (error)
+ if (1 || error)
{
current_ui = main_ui;
ui->unregister_file_handler ();
- if (main_ui == ui)
+ if (1 || main_ui == ui)
{
gdb_printf (gdb_stderr, _("error detected on stdin\n"));
+ gdb_stderr = nullptr;
+ gdb_stdout = nullptr;
+ gdb_stdlog = nullptr;
quit_command ((char *) 0, 0);
}
...
which gives us:
...
$ gdb
(gdb) <q>error detected on stdin
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$ q
...
Fix sig_write to handle the case that gdb_stderr == nullptr, such that we get
instead:
...
$ gdb
(gdb) <q>error detected on stdin
Fatal signal: Segmentation fault
----- Backtrace -----
...
---------------------
A fatal error internal to GDB has been detected, further
debugging is not possible. GDB will now terminate.
This is a bug, please report it. For instructions, see:
<https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$ q
...
Tested on x86_64-linux.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Tom de Vries [Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:01:55 +0000 (17:01 +0200)]
[gdb] Factor out sig_write
Lambda function sig_write:
...
const auto sig_write = [] (const char *msg) -> void
{
gdb_stderr->write_async_safe (msg, strlen (msg));
}
...
is defined a few times.
Factor this out into a regular function.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
H.J. Lu [Sun, 27 Apr 2025 23:12:48 +0000 (07:12 +0800)]
elf: Properly set sh_offset for .tbss sections
Set sh_offset for .tbss sections to their nominal offset after aligning.
They are not loaded from disk so the value doesn't really matter, except
when the .tbss section is the first one in a PT_TLS segment. In that
case, it sets the p_offset for the PT_TLS segment, which according to
the ELF gABI ought to satisfy p_offset % p_align == p_vaddr % p_align.
bfd/
PR ld/32896
* elf.c (assign_file_positions_for_load_sections): Properly set
sh_offset for .tbss sections.
ld/
PR ld/32896
* testsuite/ld-elf/tbss4.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-elf/tbss4.s: Likewise.
Fixed as specified in the DWARF standard:
The first type of reference can identify any debugging information entry
within the containing unit. This type of reference is an offset from the first
byte of the compilation header for the compilation unit containing
the reference. There are five forms for this type of reference.
There are fixed length forms for one, two, four and eight byte offsets
(respectively, DW_FORM_ref1, DW_FORM_ref2, DW_FORM_ref4, and DW_FORM_ref8).
There is also an unsigned variable length offset encoded form that uses
unsigned LEB128 numbers (DW_FORM_ref_udata).
gprofng/ChangeLog
2025-04-27 Vladimir Mezentsev <vladimir.mezentsev@oracle.com>
H.J. Lu [Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:16:34 +0000 (13:16 -0700)]
dwarf: Dump .debug_loclists only for DWARF-5
.debug_loclists section is loaded into debug_information as DWARF-5 debug
info and .debug_loc section is loaded into debug_information as pre-DWARF-5
debug info. When dumping .debug_loc section, we should only process
pre-DWARF-5 debug info in debug_information. When dumping .debug_loclists
section, we should only process DWARF-5 info in debug_information.
binutils/
PR binutils/32809
* dwarf.c (display_debug_loc): Dump .debug_loclists only for
DWARF-5.
ld/
PR binutils/32809
* testsuite/ld-x86-64/dwarf4.s: New file.
* testsuite/ld-x86-64/dwarf5a.s: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-x86-64/dwarf5b.s: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-x86-64/pr32809.d: Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-x86-64/x86-64.exp: Run pr32809.
Tom Tromey [Fri, 25 Apr 2025 23:32:33 +0000 (17:32 -0600)]
Fix "set debug parser"
While debugging my longer series, I discovered that I broken "set
debug parser" a couple years ago. This patch fixes it and adds a
minimal test case so that it, hopefully, will not break again.
This patch also adds parser debugging to the C++ name canonicalizer.
We have a discrepancy with 64-bit BFD handling across our component
subdirectories leading to link failures such as:
ld: ../opcodes/.libs/libopcodes.a(disassemble.o): in function `disassembler': disassemble.c:(.text+0x65): undefined reference to `print_insn_alpha'
ld: disassemble.c:(.text+0x105): undefined reference to `print_insn_ia64'
ld: disassemble.c:(.text+0x11d): undefined reference to `print_insn_loongarch'
ld: disassemble.c:(.text+0x1a1): undefined reference to `print_insn_big_mips'
[...]
with some configurations having a 32-bit host and 64-bit BFD, such as:
`--host=i386-linux-gnu --target=riscv64-linux-gnu --enable-targets=all'.
This is ultimately due to how 64-bit BFD is enabled for bfd/ itself and
other subdirectorses and has been a regression from commit 1d5269c994bf
("unify 64-bit bfd checks").
For bfd/ the BFD_64_BIT autoconf macro from config/bfd64.m4 is used
combined with this logic in bfd/configure.ac:
case ${host64}-${target64}-${want64} in
*true*)
wordsize=64
bfd64_libs='$(BFD64_LIBS)'
all_backends='$(BFD64_BACKENDS) $(BFD32_BACKENDS)'
[...]
;;
false-false-false)
wordsize=32
all_backends='$(BFD32_BACKENDS)'
;;
esac
where the value of ${wordsize} switches between 32-bit and 64-bit BFD
via these pieces:
#define BFD_ARCH_SIZE @wordsize@
and:
#if BFD_ARCH_SIZE >= 64
#define BFD64
#endif
in bfd/bfd-in.h, which ultimately becomes a part of "bfd.h".
Then ${host64} is determined in bfd/configure.ac from the host's word
size, via the host's pointer size:
if test "x${ac_cv_sizeof_void_p}" = "x8"; then
host64=true
fi
And ${target64} is determined in bfd/configure.ac from the target's word
size:
if test ${target_size} = 64; then
target64=true
fi
Where multiple targets have been requested with `--enable-targets=all'
the presence of any 64-bit target will set "true" here.
Finally ${want64} is set according to `--enable-64-bit-bfd' user option
with an arrangement involving BFD_64_BIT:
BFD_64_BIT
if test $enable_64_bit_bfd = yes ; then
want64=true
else
want64=false
fi
which also, redundantly, checks and sets its result upon the host's word
size. Lastly ${want64} is also selectively set by target fragments in
bfd/config.bfd, which mostly if not completely overlaps with ${target64}
setting as described above.
Conversely other subdirectories only rely on BFD_64_BIT, so they fail to
notice that BFD is 64-bit and do not enable their 64-bit handling where
the host requested is 32-bit and 64-bit BFD has been enabled other than
with `--enable-64-bit-bfd'. One consequence is opcodes/disassemble.c
enables calls to its numerous own 64-bit backends by checking the BFD64
macro from "bfd.h", however does not actually enable said backends in
its Makefile. Hence the link errors quoted above.
Address the problem then by moving the `--enable-64-bit-bfd' option back
to bfd/configure.ac and remove the call to BFD_64_BIT from there and
then rewrite the macro in terms of checking for the presence of BFD64
macro in "bfd.h", which is the canonical way of determining whether BFD
is 64-bit or not.
Rather than running `grep' directly on ../bfd/bfd-in3.h as the opcodes/
fragment used to before the problematic commit:
if grep '#define BFD_ARCH_SIZE 64' ../bfd/bfd-in3.h > /dev/null; then
run the preprocessor on "bfd.h", which allows to invoke the macro from
configure.ac files placed in subdirectories located at deeper levels, by
relying on the preprocessor's search path.
This requires however that the invokers rely on `all-bfd' rather than
`configure-bfd' for their `configure' invocation stage, because "bfd.h"
is made by `make all' rather than `configure' in bfd/.
Do not cache the result of this check however, as reconfiguring a tree
such as to flip `--enable-64-bit-bfd' on or to change a secondary target
may affect BFD64 and we have no access to information about secondary
targets in BFD_64_BIT.
Also remove the ENABLE_BFD_64_BIT automake conditional, as it's not used
anywhere.
Last but not least remove the hack from gdb/configure.ac to fail builds
for `mips*-*-*' hosts where `--enable-targets=all' has been requested,
but `--enable-64-bit-bfd' has not as it's no longer needed. Such builds
complete successfully now, having enabled 64-bit BFD implicitly.
Tested-By: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com> Tested-By: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com> Approved-By: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> Approved-By: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
After running test-case gdb.python/py-color-leak.exp in a container where I
don't have PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE set, I get:
...
$ ls src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/__pycache__/
gdb_leak_detector.cpython-313.pyc
...
Fix this by setting sys.dont_write_bytecode to True in the python scripts
importing the module.
Tom Tromey [Tue, 1 Nov 2022 18:48:27 +0000 (12:48 -0600)]
Add "maint canonicalize" command
This adds a new "maint canonicalize" command that can be used to see
the canonical form of a C++ name. I've needed this a few times when
debugging gdb.
Reviewed-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> Reviewed-By: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
It would be useful to tell codespell to ignore blocks of code.
A feature ignore-multiline-regex exists, which can be used to implement this:
...
$ codespell --ignore-multiline-regex \
'codespell:ignore-begin.*codespell:ignore-end'
...
Unfortunately there's a bug in codespell where using -w in
combination with --ignore-multiline-regex drops all newlines in the updated
file.
In absence of a fix, commit this solution disabled, to locally document the
current state of this feature.
Tom de Vries [Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:22:36 +0000 (19:22 +0200)]
[pre-commit] Add codespell-log commit-msg hook
Now that we're using codespell to check spelling in gdb files, can we use
codespell to bring this spelling warning:
...
$ echo usuable | codespell -
1: usuable
usuable ==> usable
...
to:
...
$ git commit -a -m "Usuable stuff"
...
?
When trying the commit, we get:
...
$ echo "/* bla */" >> gdb/gdb.c
$ git commit -a -m "Usuable stuff"
black................................................(no files to check)Skipped
flake8...............................................(no files to check)Skipped
isort................................................(no files to check)Skipped
codespell............................................(no files to check)Skipped
check-include-guards.................................(no files to check)Skipped
black................................................(no files to check)Skipped
flake8...............................................(no files to check)Skipped
codespell............................................(no files to check)Skipped
codespell-commit-msg.....................................................Failed
- hook id: codespell
- duration: 0.06s
- exit code: 65
.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG:1: Usuable ==> Usable
check-include-guards.................................(no files to check)Skipped
$
...
The commit was aborted, but the commit message is still there:
...
$ cat .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG
Usuable stuff
...
We can retry and edit the commit message to clean up the typo:
...
$ git commit -e -F .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG -a
...
but it's a bit cumbersome.
Furthermore, say we fix a typo and want to document this in the commit log, and
do:
...
$ git commit -m "Fixed typo: useable -> usable" -a
...
This commit cannot succeed, unless we add a codespell ignore tag, which feels
like taking it too far.
Both these problems can be addressed by setting things up in such a way that
the commit always succeeds, and codespell output is shown as a hint.
Ideally, we'd tell to pre-commit to implement this using some setting, but
there doesn't seem to be one.
So we use some indirection. Instead of using native codespell, use a local
hook that calls a script gdb/contrib/codespell-log.sh, which calls pre-commit,
which calls codespell.
Using this approach, we get:
...
$ echo "/* bla */" >> gdb/gdb.c
$ git commit -a -m "Usuable stuff"
black................................................(no files to check)Skipped
flake8...............................................(no files to check)Skipped
isort................................................(no files to check)Skipped
codespell............................................(no files to check)Skipped
check-include-guards.................................(no files to check)Skipped
black................................................(no files to check)Skipped
flake8...............................................(no files to check)Skipped
codespell............................................(no files to check)Skipped
check-include-guards.................................(no files to check)Skipped
codespell-log............................................................Passed
- hook id: codespell-log
- duration: 0.18s
The recent commit dbbb9cfd3708a5b09b449c6cbc4d74dfec13904d added a
message using %ld to print an std::vector::size, which is of size_t
type. on 64 bit machines, size_t will be an unsigned long int, making
%ld work just fine, but on 32 bit ones, size_t will be unsigned int,
which causes the build to fail.
This commit fixes that by using %zu instead.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32901 Tested-By: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com> Approved-By: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
Simon Marchi [Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:36:02 +0000 (16:36 -0400)]
gdb/dwarf: add dwarf2_cu::find_die method
I added this small helper method in the series I'm writing, to make
finding a DIE by section offset a bit nicer than using the unordered_set
methods. It doesn't have any dependencies, so I thought I would submit
it on its own.
Change-Id: If7313194ab09d9bd6d6a52c24eb6fd9a9c1b76e0 Approved-by: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
Tom Tromey [Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:52:08 +0000 (09:52 -0600)]
Use correct sign extension for enumeration types
This changes update_enumeration_type_from_children to use the correct
sign-extension method on the attribute. The logic here is a bit
complicated: if the enum has an underlying type, then we use that
type's signed-ness to interpret attributes; otherwise we must assume
attributes are encoded as signed values.
Tom Tromey [Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:47:51 +0000 (07:47 -0600)]
Use correct sign for variant part discriminants
The discriminant value for a variant part may be signed or unsigned,
depending on the type of the variant. This patch changes the DWARF
reader to delay interpretation of the relevant attribute until the
signed-ness is known.
Tom Tromey [Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:04:43 +0000 (14:04 -0600)]
Use correct sign in get_mpz
This changes dwarf2/read.c:get_mpz to use the correct sign-extension
function. Normally a rational constant uses signed values, but a
purely unsigned form also seems fine here. This adds a new
attribute::form_is_strictly_unsigned, which is more precise than
form_is_unsigned (which accepts a lot of forms that aren't really for
ordinary constants).
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