This patch splits the TRY_CATCH macro into three, so that we go from
this:
~~~
volatile gdb_exception ex;
TRY_CATCH (ex, RETURN_MASK_ERROR)
{
}
if (ex.reason < 0)
{
}
~~~
to this:
~~~
TRY
{
}
CATCH (ex, RETURN_MASK_ERROR)
{
}
END_CATCH
~~~
Thus, we'll be getting rid of the local volatile exception object, and
declaring the caught exception in the catch block.
This allows reimplementing TRY/CATCH in terms of C++ exceptions when
building in C++ mode, while still allowing to build GDB in C mode
(using setjmp/longjmp), as a transition step.
TBC, after this patch, is it _not_ valid to have code between the TRY
and the CATCH blocks, like:
TRY
{
}
// some code here.
CATCH (ex, RETURN_MASK_ERROR)
{
}
END_CATCH
Just like it isn't valid to do that with C++'s native try/catch.
By switching to creating the exception object inside the CATCH block
scope, we can get rid of all the explicitly allocated volatile
exception objects all over the tree, and map the CATCH block more
directly to C++'s catch blocks.
The majority of the TRY_CATCH -> TRY+CATCH+END_CATCH conversion was
done with a script, rerun from scratch at every rebase, no manual
editing involved. After the mechanical conversion, a few places
needed manual intervention, to fix preexisting cases where we were
using the exception object outside of the TRY_CATCH block, and cases
where we were using "else" after a 'if (ex.reason) < 0)' [a CATCH
after this patch]. The result was folded into this patch so that GDB
still builds at each incremental step.
END_CATCH is necessary for two reasons:
First, because we name the exception object in the CATCH block, which
requires creating a scope, which in turn must be closed somewhere.
Declaring the exception variable in the initializer field of a for
block, like:
#define CATCH(EXCEPTION, mask) \
for (struct gdb_exception EXCEPTION; \
exceptions_state_mc_catch (&EXCEPTION, MASK); \
EXCEPTION = exception_none)
would avoid needing END_CATCH, but alas, in C mode, we build with C90,
which doesn't allow mixed declarations and code.
Second, because when TRY/CATCH are wired to real C++ try/catch, as
long as we need to handle cleanup chains, even if there's no CATCH
block that wants to catch the exception, we need for stop at every
frame in the unwind chain and run cleanups, then rethrow. That will
be done in END_CATCH.
After we require C++, we'll still need TRY/CATCH/END_CATCH until
cleanups are completely phased out -- TRY/CATCH in C++ mode will
save/restore the current cleanup chain, like in C mode, and END_CATCH
catches otherwise uncaugh exceptions, runs cleanups and rethrows, so
that C++ cleanups and exceptions can coexist.
IMO, this still makes the TRY/CATCH code look a bit more like a
newcomer would expect, so IMO worth it even if we weren't considering
C++.
gdb/ChangeLog.
2015-03-07 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* common/common-exceptions.c (struct catcher) <exception>: No
longer a pointer to volatile exception. Now an exception value.
<mask>: Delete field.
(exceptions_state_mc_init): Remove all parameters. Adjust.
(exceptions_state_mc): No longer pop the catcher here.
(exceptions_state_mc_catch): New function.
(throw_exception): Adjust.
* common/common-exceptions.h (exceptions_state_mc_init): Remove
all parameters.
(exceptions_state_mc_catch): Declare.
(TRY_CATCH): Rename to ...
(TRY): ... this. Remove EXCEPTION and MASK parameters.
(CATCH, END_CATCH): New.
All callers adjusted.
gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog:
2015-03-07 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Adjust all callers of TRY_CATCH to use TRY/CATCH/END_CATCH
instead.
To make it clear that some functions should not modify the variable
object, this patch adds the const qualifier where it makes sense to some
struct varobj * parameters. Most getters should take a const pointer to
guarantee they don't modify the object.
Unfortunately, I couldn't add it to some callbacks (such as name_of_child).
In the C implementation, they call c_describe_child, which calls
varobj_get_path_expr. varobj_get_path_expr needs to modify the object in
order to cache the computed value. It therefore can't take a const
pointer, and it affects the whole call chain. I suppose that's where you
would use a "mutable" in C++.
I did that to make sure there was no other cases like the one fixed in
the previous patch. I don't think it can hurt.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* ada-varobj.c (ada_number_of_children): Constify struct varobj *
parameter.
(ada_name_of_variable): Same.
(ada_path_expr_of_child): Same.
(ada_value_of_variable): Same.
(ada_value_is_changeable_p): Same.
(ada_value_has_mutated): Same.
* c-varobj.c (varobj_is_anonymous_child): Same.
(c_is_path_expr_parent): Same.
(c_number_of_children): Same.
(c_name_of_variable): Same.
(c_path_expr_of_child): Same.
(get_type): Same.
(c_value_of_variable): Same.
(cplus_number_of_children): Same.
(cplus_name_of_variable): Same.
(cplus_path_expr_of_child): Same.
(cplus_value_of_variable): Same.
* jv-varobj.c (java_number_of_children): Same.
(java_name_of_variable): Same.
(java_path_expr_of_child): Same.
(java_value_of_variable): Same.
* varobj.c (number_of_children): Same.
(name_of_variable): Same.
(is_root_p): Same.
(varobj_ensure_python_env): Same.
(varobj_get_objname): Same.
(varobj_get_expression): Same.
(varobj_get_display_format): Same.
(varobj_get_display_hint): Same.
(varobj_has_more): Same.
(varobj_get_thread_id): Same.
(varobj_get_frozen): Same.
(dynamic_varobj_has_child_method): Same.
(varobj_get_gdb_type): Same.
(is_path_expr_parent): Same.
(varobj_default_is_path_expr_parent): Same.
(varobj_get_language): Same.
(varobj_get_attributes): Same.
(varobj_is_dynamic_p): Same.
(varobj_get_child_range): Same.
(varobj_value_has_mutated): Same.
(varobj_get_value_type): Same.
(number_of_children): Same.
(name_of_variable): Same.
(check_scope): Same.
(varobj_editable_p): Same.
(varobj_value_is_changeable_p): Same.
(varobj_floating_p): Same.
(varobj_default_value_is_changeable_p): Same.
* varobj.h (struct lang_varobj_ops): Consitfy some struct varobj *
parameters.
(varobj_get_objname): Constify struct varobj * parameter.
(varobj_get_expression): Same.
(varobj_get_thread_id): Same.
(varobj_get_frozen): Same.
(varobj_get_child_range): Same.
(varobj_get_display_hint): Same.
(varobj_get_gdb_type): Same.
(varobj_get_language): Same.
(varobj_get_attributes): Same.
(varobj_editable_p): Same.
(varobj_floating_p): Same.
(varobj_has_more): Same.
(varobj_is_dynamic_p): Same.
(varobj_ensure_python_env): Same.
(varobj_default_value_is_changeable_p): Same.
(varobj_value_is_changeable_p): Same.
(varobj_get_value_type): Same.
(varobj_is_anonymous_child): Same.
(varobj_value_get_print_value): Same.
(varobj_default_is_path_expr_parent): Same.
It seems like different languages are doing this differently (e.g.
C and Ada). For C, var->path_expr is set inside c_path_expr_of_child.
The next time the value is requested, is it therefore not recomputed.
Ada does not set this field, but just returns the value. Since the field
is never set, the value is recomputed every time it is requested.
This patch makes it so that path_expr_of_child's only job is to compute
the path expression, not save/cache the value. The field is set by the
varobj common code.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* varobj.c (varobj_get_path_expr): Set var->path_expr.
* c-varobj.c (c_path_expr_of_child): Set local var instead of
child->path_expr.
(cplus_path_expr_of_child): Same.
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-05/msg00383.html
The MI command -var-info-path-expression currently does not handle
non-anonymous structs / unions nested within other structs / unions,
it will skip parts of the expression. Consider this example:
## START EXAMPLE ##
$ cat ex.c
#include <string.h>
int
main ()
{
struct s1
{
int a;
};
struct ss
{
struct s1 x;
};
struct ss an_ss;
memset (&an_ss, 0, sizeof (an_ss));
return 0;
}
$ gcc -g -o ex.x ex.c
$ gdb ex.x
(gdb) break 18
Breakpoint 1 at 0x80483ba: file ex.c, line 18.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/user/ex.x
Breakpoint 1, main () at ex.c:18
18 return 0;
(gdb) interpreter-exec mi "-var-create an_ss * an_ss"
(gdb) interpreter-exec mi "-var-list-children an_ss"
^done,numchild="1",children=[child={name="an_ss.x",exp="x",numchild="1",type="struct s1",thread-id="1"}],has_more="0"
(gdb) interpreter-exec mi "-var-list-children an_ss.x"
^done,numchild="1",children=[child={name="an_ss.x.a",exp="a",numchild="0",type="int",thread-id="1"}],has_more="0"
(gdb) interpreter-exec mi "-var-list-children an_ss.x.a"
^done,numchild="0",has_more="0"
(gdb) interpreter-exec mi "-var-info-path-expression an_ss.x.a"
^done,path_expr="(an_ss).a"
(gdb) print (an_ss).a
There is no member named a.
## END EXAMPLE ##
Notice that the path expression returned is wrong, and as a result
the print command fails.
This patch adds a new method to the varobj_ops structure called
is_path_expr_parent, to allow language specific control over finding
the parent varobj, the current logic becomes the C/C++ version and is
extended to handle the nested cases. No other language currently uses
this code, so all other languages just get a default method.
With this patch, the above example now finishes like this:
## START EXAMPLE ##
$ gdb ex.x
(gdb) break 18
Breakpoint 1 at 0x80483ba: file ex.c, line 18.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/user/ex.x
Breakpoint 1, main () at ex.c:18
18 return 0;
(gdb) interpreter-exec mi "-var-list-children an_ss"
^done,numchild="1",children=[child={name="an_ss.x",exp="x",numchild="1",type="struct s1",thread-id="1"}],has_more="0"
(gdb) interpreter-exec mi "-var-list-children an_ss.x"
^done,numchild="1",children=[child={name="an_ss.x.a",exp="a",numchild="0",type="int",thread-id="1"}],has_more="0"
(gdb) interpreter-exec mi "-var-list-children an_ss.x.a"
^done,numchild="0",has_more="0"
(gdb) interpreter-exec mi "-var-info-path-expression an_ss.x.a"
^done,path_expr="((an_ss).x).a"
(gdb) print ((an_ss).x).a
$1 = 0
## END EXAMPLE ##
Notice that the path expression is now correct, and the print is a
success.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* ada-varobj.c (ada_varobj_ops): Fill in is_path_expr_parent
field.
* c-varobj.c (c_is_path_expr_parent): New function, moved core
from varobj.c, with additional checks.
(c_varobj_ops): Fill in is_path_expr_parent field.
(cplus_varobj_ops): Fill in is_path_expr_parent field.
* jv-varobj.c (java_varobj_ops): Fill in is_path_expr_parent
field.
* varobj.c (is_path_expr_parent): Call is_path_expr_parent varobj
ops method.
(varobj_default_is_path_expr_parent): New function.
* varobj.h (lang_varobj_ops): Add is_path_expr_parent field.
(varobj_default_is_path_expr_parent): Declare new function.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.mi/var-cmd.c (do_nested_struct_union_tests): New function
setting up test structures.
(main): Call new test function.
* gdb.mi/mi2-var-child.exp: Create additional breakpoint in new
test function, continue into test function and walk test
structures.
