If /proc is not mounted, GDB fails an assertion in find_new_threads_once:
Continuing.
.../src/gdb/linux-thread-db.c:1249: internal-error: find_new_threads_once: Assertion `!target_has_execution' failed.
A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
further debugging may prove unreliable.
Quit this debugging session? (y or n)
That was supposed to catch misuses of td_ta_thr_iter, which is unsafe
for live debugging. However, if /proc is not mounted, we still
fallback to using it.
I didn't bother with a warning, because GDB already prints several
others related to failing to open /proc files.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2016-03-15 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR gdb/19676
* linux-thread-db.c (try_thread_db_load_1): Leave
info->td_ta_thr_iter_p NULL iff debugging a live process and we
have /proc access.
(find_new_threads_once): Assert that we have a non-NULL
info->td_ta_thr_iter_p instead of checking whether the target has
execution.
On GNU/Linux archs that support displaced stepping, if /proc is not
mounted, GDB gets stuck not able to step past breakpoints:
(gdb) c
Continuing.
dl_main (phdr=<optimized out>, phnum=<optimized out>, user_entry=<optimized out>, auxv=<optimized out>) at rtld.c:2163
2163 LIBC_PROBE (init_complete, 2, LM_ID_BASE, r);
Cannot find AT_ENTRY auxiliary vector entry.
(gdb) c
Continuing.
dl_main (phdr=<optimized out>, phnum=<optimized out>, user_entry=<optimized out>, auxv=<optimized out>) at rtld.c:2163
2163 LIBC_PROBE (init_complete, 2, LM_ID_BASE, r);
Cannot find AT_ENTRY auxiliary vector entry.
(gdb)
That's because GDB can't figure out where the scratch pad is.
This is a regression introduced by the earlier changes to make the
Linux native target always work in non-stop mode.
This commit makes GDB detect the case and fallback to stepping over
breakpoints in-line.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2016-03-15 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR gdb/19676
* infrun.c (displaced_step_prepare): Also disable displaced
stepping on NOT_SUPPORTED_ERROR.
* linux-tdep.c (linux_displaced_step_location): If reading auxv
fails, throw NOT_SUPPORTED_ERROR instead of generic error.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2016-03-15 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Marcin Kościelnicki <koriakin@0x04.net>
* gdb.texinfo (Tracepoint Actions): Document possible
unreliability of '$_ret'.
When adding the $_as_string convenience function, I missed a new test
failure in default.exp. The tests lists the convenience functions, so
$_as_string should be added to the expected list.
Fixes:
+FAIL: gdb.base/default.exp: show convenience ($_caller_is = <internal function _caller_is> not found)
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.base/default.exp: Add $_as_string to the list of expected
convenience functions.
Add a new command 'maint info line-table' to display the contents of
GDB's internal line table structure. Useful when trying to understand
problems (within gdb) relating to line tables.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* symmisc.c (maintenance_info_line_tables): New function.
(maintenance_print_one_line_table): New function.
(_initialize_symmisc): Register 'maint info line-table' command.
* NEWS: Mention new command.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (Symbols): Document new 'maint info line-table'
command.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.base/maint.exp: New tests for 'maint info line-table'.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* s390-linux-tdep.c (s390_ax_pseudo_register_collect): New function.
(s390_ax_pseudo_register_push_stack): New function.
(s390_gdbarch_init): Fill ax_pseudo_register_collect and
ax_pseudo_register_push_stack hooks.
This patch is a follow-up to "Add printf format specifier for printing
enumerator":
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2016-02/msg00144.html
Instead of having a solution specific to the printf command, Pedro
suggested adding a general purpose function $_as_string() that would
cover this use case and more.
So, in order to print the textual label of an enum, one can use:
(gdb) printf "Visiting node of type %s\n", $_as_string(node)
Visiting node of type NODE_INTEGER
gdb/ChangeLog:
* data-directory/Makefile.in (PYTHON_FILE_LIST): Install
gdb/function/as_string.py.
* python/lib/gdb/function/as_string.py: New file.
* NEWS: Mention the new $_as_string function.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.python/py-as-string.exp: New file.
* gdb.python/py-as-string.c: New file.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (Convenience Functions): Document $_as_string.
These tests should have been adjusted by f303dbd60d (Fix PR
threads/19422 - show which thread caused stop), but clearly I had
missed grepping for potential-fail cases.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
2016-03-09 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.threads/attach-into-signal.exp: Adjust to "Program received
signal" -> "Thread NN received signal" output change.
* gdb.threads/ia64-sigill.exp: Likewise.
* gdb.threads/linux-dp.exp: Likewise.
* gdb.threads/manythreads.exp: Likewise.
* gdb.threads/pending-step.exp: Likewise.
* gdb.threads/print-threads.exp: Likewise.
* gdb.threads/sigstep-threads.exp: Likewise.
* gdb.threads/staticthreads.exp: Likewise.
* gdb.threads/tls.exp: Likewise.
I didn't manage to usefully split this further into smaller
independent pieces, so:
- Use "struct buffer" more.
- Split out the responsibility of composing a complete command line
from multiple input lines split with backslash
(
E.g.:
(gdb) print \
1 + \
2
$1 = 3
(gdb)
)
to a separate function. Note we don't need the separate
readline_input_state and more_to_come globals at all. They were
just obfuscating the logic.
- Factor out the tricky mostly duplicated code in
command_line_handler and command_line_input.
gdb/ChangeLog
2016-03-09 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* event-top.c (more_to_come): Delete.
(struct readline_input_state): Delete.
(readline_input_state): Delete.
(get_command_line_buffer): New function.
(command_handler): Update comments. Don't handle NULL commands
here. Do not execute commented lines.
(command_line_append_input_line): New function.
(handle_line_of_input): New function, partly based on
command_line_handler and command_line_input.
(command_line_handler): Rewrite.
* event-top.h (command_handler): New declaration.
(command_loop): Defer command execution to command_handler.
(command_line_input): Update comments. Simplify, using struct
buffer and handle_line_of_input.
* top.h (struct buffer): New forward declaration.
(handle_line_of_input): New declaration.
There doesn't seem to be much point in trying to reuse this buffer.
Prefer simplicity instead.
(In case you're wondering whether this fixes an off-by-one: linelength
is misnamed; it's really a size including terminating null char.)
gdb/ChangeLog:
2016-03-09 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* event-top.c (command_line_handler): Use xfree + xstrdup instead
of xrealloc + strcpy.
* main.c (captured_main): Use xstrdup instead of xmalloc plus
manual clear.
* top.c (saved_command_line): Rewrite comment.
(saved_command_line_size): Delete.
(command_line_input): Use xfree + xstrdup instead of xrealloc +
strcpy.
* top.h (saved_command_line_size): Delete declaration.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2016-03-09 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* event-top.c: Include buffer.h.
(gdb_readline_no_editing_callback): Use struct buffer instead
of xrealloc.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2016-03-09 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* common/buffer.h (buffer_grow_char): New function.
* top.c: Include buffer.h.
(gdb_readline_no_editing): Rename 'prompt_arg' parameter to
'prompt'. Use struct buffer instead of xrealloc.
Name this such that it's clearer that this is not a wrapper for the
real readline, but instead a replacement that provides no command line
editing features.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2016-03-09 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* defs.h (gdb_readline): Delete declaration.
* top.c (gdb_readline): Rename to ...
(gdb_readline_no_editing): ... this, and make static.
These comments are out of date -- we no longer call gdb_readline. And
I think that mentioning the event loop is more useful here than
whatever GO32 issue had with gdb_readline, which may even no longer be
an issue.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2016-03-09 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* utils.c (prompt_for_continue): Update comments.
The comments and existence of this global are a bit of misleading
obfuscation, since this is only ever used to print the prompt
annotation, and never changes. Just hardcode "prompt" where
necessary, as done for most other annotations.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2016-03-09 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* event-top.c (async_annotation_suffix): Delete.
(top_level_prompt, command_line_handler): Don't use
'async_annotation_suffix' and simplify.
* event-top.h (async_annotation_suffix): Delete declaration.
(init_main): Remove reference to 'async_annotation_suffix'.
I checked, and Insight doesn't set this.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2016-03-09 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* top.c (window_hook): Delete.
(command_loop): Remove references to window_hook.
I happened to break this locally and the testsuite didn't notice it.
Add some tests.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2016-03-09 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.base/command-line-input.exp: New file.
gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog:
* linux-ppc-low.c (ppc_supports_tracepoints): New function.
(struct linux_target_ops): Wire in the above.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.trace/ftrace.exp: Set arg0exp for ppc.
* gdb.trace/mi-trace-unavailable.exp: Set pcnum for ppc.
* gdb.trace/pending.exp: Accept leading dot before function name.
* gdb.trace/trace-common.h: Add fast tracepoint dummy insn for ppc.
* lib/trace-support.exp: Set registers for ppc.
On powerpc64, "disassemble foo" doesn't work properly on object files
(it can't process the relocations in .opd section) - instead, let's
link it into an executable and load that.
Also, backtrace displays .main, not main. Accept both.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.trace/entry-values.exp: Link ${binfile}1.o to ${binfile}1 and
use it for disassembly; accept .main in addition to main in backtrace.
tfind.exp sets a breakpoint on *gdb_recursion_test, which is the global
entry point on ppc64le, and won't be hit, since the call uses
the local entry. Fix by calling the function via a pointer in a global
variable, forcing use of the global entry.
This patch is a slightly modified hunk extracted from
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-07/msg00353.html
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2016-03-09 Wei-cheng Wang <cole945@gmail.com>
Marcin Kościelnicki <koriakin@0x04.net>
* gdb.trace/actions.c (gdb_recursion_test_fp): New typedef.
(gdb_recursion_test_ptr): New global variable.
(gdb_recursion_test): Call gdb_recursion_test_ptr instead of
gdb_recursion_test.
(gdb_c_test): Ditto.
powerpc (32-bit) loads shared libraries below the main executable, so
the PENDING location is the first one, which the current regex doesn't
match. Split it into two tests instead, one looking for the pending
tracepoint location, and the other for two installed locations.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.trace/change-loc.exp: Don't depend on tracepoint location
ordering.
On powerpc64, foo/bar point to a function descriptor, not to function code.
Since there are no global labels pointing at the actual function code,
let's make our own.
Regression-tested on x86_64.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.trace/unavailable-dwarf-piece.c (foo): Add foo_start_lbl label.
(bar): Add bar_start_lbl label.
* gdb.trace/unavailable-dwarf-piece.exp: Use foo/bar_start_lbl instead
of foo/bar for emitting DWARF and tracing.
Previously, backchain was read as a signed quantity, resulting in
addresses like 0xfffffffffffeded0 instead of 0xfffeded0 returned by
unwinder on 32-bit powerpc. While normally such addresses are masked
off, this causes problems for tracepoints, since 0xfffffffffffeded0
is considered unavailable.
Fixes a test failure in gdb.trace/entry-values.exp.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* corefile.c (safe_read_memory_unsigned_integer): New function.
* gdbcore.h (safe_read_memory_unsigned_integer): New prototype.
* rs6000-tdep.c (rs6000_frame_cache): Read backchain as unsigned.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* rs6000-tdep.c: Add "ax.h" and "ax-gdb.h" includes.
(rs6000_gen_return_address): New function.
(rs6000_gdbarch_init): Wire in the above.
G++ in GCC 4.2 silently ignores
---
__attribute__ ((section(".rodata.v1_a2")))
const short rodata_item1 = 101;
---
which leads to plugin_layout_with_alignment test failure with
Expected 12 sections, found 8 sections
since 4 .rodata sections are missing. As a workaround, this patch
changes plugin_layout_with_alignment test from C++ to C.
* testsuite/plugin_layout_with_alignment.cc: Renamed to ..
* testsuite/plugin_layout_with_alignment.c: This.
* testsuite/Makefile.am (plugin_layout_with_alignment.o): Updated.
(plugin_layout_with_alignment): Likewise.
* testsuite/Makefile.in: Regenerated.
Functions compiled with the gcc option `-mhotpatch' may start with a
branch-never BRCL instruction as a 6-byte NOP. And functions compiled
with `-mstack-size' contain a BRC instruction in their prologue that is
actually a conditional trap. Both of these special jumps cause the
prologue parser to stop and yield bad unwinding results.
This change makes the prologue analyzer recognize such special jumps and
ignore them.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* s390-linux-tdep.c (s390_analyze_prologue): Ignore BRC and BRCL
instructions that do nothing or are conditional traps.
When determining the frame ID of an inline frame, GDB currently asserts
that a valid ID of the underlying real frame is found, and that it does
not match outer_frame_id. From inline_frame_this_id():
/* For now, require we don't match outer_frame_id either (see
comment above). */
gdb_assert (!frame_id_eq (*this_id, outer_frame_id));
However, this assertion may fail when the real frame's unwinder can not
determine the frame ID. This happened on an s390x target with a binary
that lacked call frame information and also confused the prologue
analyzer, because then s390_frame_this_id() left the frame ID at its
default.
To fix this, this change enhances s390_frame_this_id such that an
unavailable-stack frame ID is built if no frame base can be determined
but the function address is available.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* s390-linux-tdep.c (s390_prologue_frame_unwind_cache): Store
frame func's PC in info->func before any other failure can occur.
(s390_frame_this_id): Use frame_id_build_unavailable_stack if
info->func has been filled out.
It's not possible today to select some of the osabis by name.
Specifically, those that have spaces in their names and then the first
word is ambiguous...
For example:
(gdb) set osabi <TAB>
[...]
FreeBSD ELF
FreeBSD a.out
[...]
(gdb) set osabi FreeBSD ELF
Ambiguous item "FreeBSD ELF".
In reality, because "set osabi" is an enum command, that was
equivalent to trying "set osabi FreeBSD", which is then obviously
ambiguous, because of "FreeBSD ELF" and "FreeBSD a.out".
Also, even if the first word is not ambiguous, we actually ignore
whatever comes after the first word:
(gdb) set osabi GNU/Linux
(gdb) show osabi
The current OS ABI is "GNU/Linux".
The default OS ABI is "GNU/Linux".
(gdb) set osabi Windows SomeNonsense
^^^^^^^^^^^^
(gdb) show osabi
The current OS ABI is "Windows CE".
The default OS ABI is "GNU/Linux".
(gdb)
Fix this by avoiding spaces in osabi names.
We could instead make "set osabi" have a custom set hook, or
alternatively make the enum set hook (in cli-setshow.c) handle values
with spaces, but OTOH, I have a feeling that could cause trouble.
E.g., in cases where we might want to write more than one enum value
in the same line. We could support quoting as workaround, but, not
sure we want that. "No spaces" seems like a simpler rule.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2016-03-09 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* osabi.c (gdb_osabi_names): Avoid spaces in osabi names.
Even though "set architecture" presents fr300 as option:
(gdb) set architecture fr<TAB>
fr300 fr400 fr450 fr500 fr550 frv
Actually selecting fr300 doesn't work:
(gdb) set architecture fr300
Architecture `fr300' not recognized.
The target architecture is set automatically (currently i386)
(gdb)
This just looks like an obvious oversight. Looking around gcc and
binutils sources, FR300 is basically a FR500 specialized for DSP and
low power.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2016-03-09 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* frv-tdep.c (frv_gdbarch_init): Handle bfd_mach_fr300.
Currently, it's not possible to manually set some of the v850 archs in
gdb:
(gdb) set architecture v850<TAB>
v850 (using old gcc ABI)
v850-rh850
v850e
v850e (using old gcc ABI)
v850e1
[...]
(gdb) set architecture v850 (using old gcc ABI)
Ambiguous item "v850 (using old gcc ABI)".
The problem is that "set architecture" is a GDB "enum command", and
GDB only considers an enum value to be the string up until the first
space. So writing "v850 (using old gcc ABI)" is the same as writing
"v850", and then that's not an unambiguous arch printable name prefix.
v850 is actually the only arch that has spaces in its printable name.
One can conveniently see that with e.g.:
(gdb) set max-completions unlimited
(gdb) complete set architecture
...
Rather than hack GDB into accepting this somehow, make v850 arch
printable names more like the printable names of the other archs, and
put the abi variant in the "machine" part, after a ':'.
We now get:
(gdb) set architecture v850<TAB>
v850:old-gcc-abi
v850:rh850
v850e
v850e1
v850e1:old-gcc-abi
v850e2
v850e2:old-gcc-abi
[...]
And now "set architecture v850:old-gcc-abi" works as expected.
I ran the binutils/gas/ld testsuites, and found no regressions. I
don't have a cross compiler handy, but I ran the gdb tests anyway,
which covers at least some snoke testing.
I think that the OUTPUT_ARCH in ld/scripttempl/v850.sc may have got
broken with the previous 2012 change, since I hacked v850_rh850.sc to
output "v850" and ld failed to grok it. I think it only works if the
old GCC ABI is the configured v850 default ABI. That's now fixed by
changing to use explicit v850:old-gcc-abi.
Also, this actually "fixes" an existing GDB test, which isn't likewise
expecting spaces in arch names, when GDB is configured for
--target=v850:
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.xml/tdesc-arch.exp: read valid architectures
bfd/ChangeLog:
2016-03-09 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* cpu-v850.c (N): Append ":old-gcc-abi" instead of " (using old
gcc ABI)" to printable name.
* cpu-v850_rh850.c (bfd_v850_rh850_arch): Use "v850:rh850" instead
of "v850-rh850" as printable name.
ld/ChangeLog:
2016-03-09 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* scripttempl/v850.sc: Use "v850:old-gcc-abi" as OUTPUT_ARCH.
* scripttempl/v850_rh850.sc: Use "v850:rh850" as OUTPUT_ARCH.
