2013-10-03 Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
* gdb.base/sigall.exp (test_one_sig): gdb identifies SIGLOST as a
SIGPWR in sparc64.
* gdb.base/sigall.c (main): In some targets SIGLOST and SIGPWR
have the same signal number. Handle this situation.
Consider the following code:
type Ptr is access all Integer;
IP : Ptr := new Integer'(123);
IP is the Ada exception of a pointer to an integer. To dereference
the pointer and get its value, the user uses the reserved word "all"
as follow:
(gdb) p ip.all
$1 = 123
Ada being a case-insensitive language, the casing should not matter.
Unfortunately, for the reserved word "all", things don't work. For
instance:
(gdb) p ip.ALL
Type integer is not a structure or union type
This patch fixes the problem.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* ada-lex.l (find_dot_all): Use strncasecmp instead of strncmp.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.ada/dot_all: New testcase.
... when trying to execute an undefined GDB/MI command. When trying
to execute a GDB/MI command which does not exist, the current error
result record looks like this:
-unsupported
^error,msg="Undefined MI command: unsupported"
The only indication that the command does not exist is the error
message. It would be a little fragile for a consumer to rely solely
on the contents of the error message in order to determine whether
a command exists or not.
This patch improves the situation by adding concept of error
code, starting with one well-defined error code ("undefined-command")
identifying errors due to a non-existant command. Here is the new
output:
-unsupported
^error,msg="Undefined MI command: unsupported",code="undefined-command"
This error code is only displayed when the corresponding error
condition is met. Otherwise, the error record remains unchanged.
For instance:
-symbol-list-lines foo.adb
^error,msg="-symbol-list-lines: Unknown source file name."
For frontends to be able to know whether they can rely on this
variable, a new entry "undefined-command-error-code" has been
added to the "-list-features" command. Another option would be
to always generate an error="..." variable (for the default case,
we could decide for instance that the error code is the empty string).
But it seems more efficient to provide that info in "-list-features"
and then only add the error code when meaningful.
gdb/ChangeLog:
(from Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>)
(from Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>)
* exceptions.h (enum_errors) <UNDEFINED_COMMAND_ERROR>: New enum.
* mi/mi-parse.c (mi_parse): Throw UNDEFINED_COMMAND_ERROR instead
of a regular error when the GDB/MI command does not exist.
* mi/mi-main.c (mi_cmd_list_features): Add
"undefined-command-error-code".
(mi_print_exception): Print an "undefined-command"
error code if EXCEPTION.ERROR is UNDEFINED_COMMAND_ERROR.
* NEWS: Add entry documenting the new "code" variable in
"^error" result records.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (GDB/MI Result Records): Fix the syntax of the
"^error" result record concerning the error message. Document
the error code that may also be part of that result record.
(GDB/MI Miscellaneous Commands): Document the
"undefined-command-error-code" element in the output of
the "-list-features" GDB/MI command.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.mi/mi-undefined-cmd.exp: New testcase.
This patch adds a new GDB/MI command meant for graphical frontends
trying to determine whether a given GDB/MI command exists or not.
Examples:
-info-gdb-mi-command unsupported-command
^done,command={exists="false"}
(gdb)
-info-gdb-mi-command symbol-list-lines
^done,command={exists="true"}
(gdb)
At the moment, this is the only piece of information that this
command returns.
Eventually, and if needed, we can extend it to provide
command-specific pieces of information, such as updates to
the command's syntax since inception. This could become,
for instance:
-info-gdb-mi-command symbol-list-lines
^done,command={exists="true",features=[]}
(gdb)
-info-gdb-mi-command catch-assert
^done,command={exists="true",features=["conditions"]}
In the first case, it would mean that no extra features,
while in the second, it announces that the -catch-assert
command in this version of the debugger supports a feature
called "condition" - exact semantics to be documented with
combined with the rest of the queried command's documentation.
But for now, we start small, and only worry about existance.
And to bootstrap the process, I have added an entry in the
output of the -list-features command as well ("info-gdb-mi-command"),
allowing the graphical frontends to go through the following process:
1. Send -list-features, collect info from there as before;
2. Check if the output contains "info-gdb-mi-command".
If it does, then support for various commands can be
queried though -info-gdb-mi-command. Newer commands
will be expected to always be checked via this new
-info-gdb-mi-command.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* mi/mi-cmds.h (mi_cmd_info_gdb_mi_command): Declare.
* mi/mi-cmd-info.c (mi_cmd_info_gdb_mi_command): New function.
* mi/mi-cmds.c (mi_cmds): Add -info-gdb-mi-command command.
* mi/mi-main.c (mi_cmd_list_features): Add "info-gdb-mi-command"
field to output of "-list-features".
* NEWS: Add entry for new -info-gdb-mi-command.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (GDB/MI Miscellaneous Commands): Document
the new -info-gdb-mi-command GDB/MI command. Document
the meaning of "-info-gdb-mi-command" in the output of
-list-features.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.mi/mi-i-cmd.exp: New file.
gdb/
2013-12-02 Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
* objfiles.c (allocate_objfile): Save original_name as an absolute
path.
* objfiles.h (struct objfile): Expand comment on original_name.
* source.c (openp): Call gdb_abspath.
* utils.c (gdb_abspath): New function.
* utils.h (gdb_abspath): Declare.
gdb/testsuite/
2013-12-02 Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
* gdb.dwarf/dwp-symlink.c: Fake out gdb to not load debug info
at start.
* gdb.dwarf/dwp-symlink.exp: Test trying to load dwp when the binary
has been specified with a relative path and we have chdir'd before
accessing the debug info.
When printing an entirely optimized out structure/class/union, we
print a single <optimized out> instead of printing <optimized out> for
each field.
This patch makes an entirely unavailable structure/class/union be
likewise displayed with a single "<unavailable>" rather than the whole
object with all fields <unavailable>.
This seems good because this way the user can quickly tell whether the
whole value is unavailable, rather than having to skim all fields.
Consistency with optimized out values also seems to be a good thing to
have.
A few updates to gdb.trace/unavailable.exp where required.
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 17, native gdbserver.
gdb/
2013-11-28 Andrew Burgess <aburgess@broadcom.com>
Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* valprint.c (value_check_printable): If the value is entirely
unavailable, print a single "<unavailable>" instead of printing
all subfields.
gdb/testsuite/
2013-11-28 Andrew Burgess <aburgess@broadcom.com>
* gdb.trace/unavailable.exp (gdb_collect_args_test): Update
expected results.
(gdb_collect_locals_test): Likewise.
(gdb_collect_globals_test): Likewise.
This patch adds a test case to test the performance of GDB doing
disassembly.
gdb/testsuite/
2013-11-28 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
* lib/gdb.exp (with_gdb_prompt): New proc.
* gdb.perf/disassemble.exp: New.
* gdb.perf/disassemble.py: New.
This reverts da2b2fdf57 and some
follow-up patches. They were incorrect.
2013-11-26 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
* dwarf2-frame.c (dwarf2_frame_cache): Revert patch from
2013-11-22.
2013-11-26 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
* gdb.dwarf2/dw2-unspecified-ret-addr.S: Remove.
* gdb.dwarf2/dw2-unspecified-ret-addr.c: Remove.
* gdb.dwarf2/dw2-unspecified-ret-addr.exp: Remove.
* gdb.python/py-value.exp (test_lazy_strings): Tweak test names.
(test_subscript_regression): Ditto.
(top level): Run test_subscript_regression for c++ with "c++" prefix.
Pedro asked me to add a comment to dw2-bad-cfi.S explaining the nature
of the badness.
I'm checking this in.
2013-11-22 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
* gdb.dwarf2/dw2-bad-cfi.S: Update comment.
Debugging PR 16155 further, I found that the DWARF unwinder found the
function in question, but thought it had no registers saved
(fs->regs.num_regs == 0).
It seems to me that if a frame does not specify the return address
column, or if the return address column is explicitly marked as
DWARF2_FRAME_REG_UNSPECIFIED, then we should set the
"undefined_retaddr" flag and let the DWARF unwinder gracefully stop.
This patch implements that idea.
With this patch the backtrace works properly:
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0000007fb7ed485c in nanosleep () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1 0x0000007fb7ed4508 in sleep () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#2 0x00000000004008bc in thread_function (arg=0x4) at threadapply.c:73
#3 0x0000007fb7fad950 in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
#4 0x0000007fb7f0956c in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6
2013-11-22 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
PR backtrace/16155:
* dwarf2-frame.c (dwarf2_frame_cache): Set undefined_retaddr if
the return address column is unspecified.
2013-11-22 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
* gdb.dwarf2/dw2-bad-cfi.c: New file.
* gdb.dwarf2/dw2-bad-cfi.exp: New file.
* gdb.dwarf2/dw2-bad-cfi.S: New file.
The UNWIND_SAME_ID check is done between THIS_FRAME and the next frame
when we go try to unwind the previous frame. But at this point, it's
already too late -- we ended up with two frames with the same ID in
the frame chain. Each frame having its own ID is an invariant assumed
throughout GDB. This patch applies the UNWIND_SAME_ID detection
earlier, right after the previous frame is unwound, discarding the dup
frame if a cycle is detected.
The patch includes a new test that fails before the change. Before
the patch, the test causes an infinite loop in GDB, after the patch,
the UNWIND_SAME_ID logic kicks in and makes the backtrace stop with:
Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
The test uses dwarf CFI to emulate a corrupted stack with a cycle. It
has a function with registers marked DW_CFA_same_value (most
importantly RSP/RIP), so that GDB computes the same ID for that frame
and its caller. IOW, something like this:
#0 - frame_id_1
#1 - frame_id_2
#2 - frame_id_3
#3 - frame_id_4
#4 - frame_id_4 <<<< outermost (UNWIND_SAME_ID).
(The test's code is just a copy of dw2-reg-undefined.S /
dw2-reg-undefined.c, adjusted to use DW_CFA_same_value instead of
DW_CFA_undefined, and to mark a different set of registers.)
The infinite loop is here, in value_fetch_lazy:
while (VALUE_LVAL (new_val) == lval_register && value_lazy (new_val))
{
frame = frame_find_by_id (VALUE_FRAME_ID (new_val));
...
new_val = get_frame_register_value (frame, regnum);
}
get_frame_register_value can return a lazy register value pointing to
the next frame. This means that the register wasn't clobbered by
FRAME; the debugger should therefore retrieve its value from the next
frame.
To be clear, get_frame_register_value unwinds the value in question
from the next frame:
struct value *
get_frame_register_value (struct frame_info *frame, int regnum)
{
return frame_unwind_register_value (frame->next, regnum);
^^^^^^^^^^^
}
In other words, if we get a lazy lval_register, it should have the
frame ID of the _next_ frame, never of FRAME.
At this point in value_fetch_lazy, the whole relevant chunk of the
stack up to frame #4 has already been unwound. The loop always
"unlazies" lval_registers in the "next/innermost" direction, not in
the "prev/unwind further/outermost" direction.
So say we're looking at frame #4. get_frame_register_value in frame
#4 can return a lazy register value of frame #3. So the next
iteration, frame_find_by_id tries to read the register from frame #3.
But, since frame #4 happens to have same id as frame #3,
frame_find_by_id returns frame #4 instead. Rinse, repeat, and we have
an infinite loop.
This is an old latent problem, exposed by the recent addition of the
frame stash. Before we had a stash, frame_find_by_id(frame_id_4)
would walk over all frames starting at the current frame, and would
always find #3 first. The stash happens to return #4 instead:
struct frame_info *
frame_find_by_id (struct frame_id id)
{
struct frame_info *frame, *prev_frame;
...
/* Try using the frame stash first. Finding it there removes the need
to perform the search by looping over all frames, which can be very
CPU-intensive if the number of frames is very high (the loop is O(n)
and get_prev_frame performs a series of checks that are relatively
expensive). This optimization is particularly useful when this function
is called from another function (such as value_fetch_lazy, case
VALUE_LVAL (val) == lval_register) which already loops over all frames,
making the overall behavior O(n^2). */
frame = frame_stash_find (id);
if (frame)
return frame;
for (frame = get_current_frame (); ; frame = prev_frame)
{
gdb/
2013-11-22 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR 16155
* frame.c (get_prev_frame_1): Do the UNWIND_SAME_ID check between
this frame and the new previous frame, not between this frame and
the next frame.
gdb/testsuite/
2013-11-22 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR 16155
* gdb.dwarf2/dw2-dup-frame.S: New file.
* gdb.dwarf2/dw2-dup-frame.c: New file.
* gdb.dwarf2/dw2-dup-frame.exp: New file.
Hi,
I find "has_more" is not checked when a dynamic varobj is created in
proc mi_create_dynamic_varobj. This patch adds the check to
"has_more".
gdb/testsuite:
2013-11-22 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
* lib/mi-support.exp (mi_create_dynamic_varobj): Update
comment and add one more argument "has_more".
* gdb.python/py-mi.exp: Callers update.
In gdb.python/py-mi.exp, two varobjs container and nscont are created
when pretty-printing is still not enabled, so they are not dynamic
varobj, IIUC. In this patch, we use mi_create_floating_varobj instead
of mi_create_dynamic_varobj.
gdb/testsuite:
2013-11-22 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
* gdb.python/py-mi.exp: Use mi_create_floating_varobj instead
of mi_create_dynamic_varobj.
2013-11-20 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.base/maint.exp (maint print objfiles): Consume one line at a
time, and run it through all three milestone regexes.
Ensure that certain commands (e.g. whatis/ptype) and sizeof intrinsic
have no side effects (variables cannot be altered).
2013-11-20 Sanimir Agovic <sanimir.agovic@intel.com>
testsuite/
* gdb.base/eval-avoid-side-effects.exp: New test.
Boundary length is simpler implemented by means of a pretty
printer. This simplifies users life when examining a bound register.
Changelog:
2013-11-20 Walfred Tedeschi <walfred.tedeschi@intel.com>
* python/lib/gdb/command/bound_register.py: New file.
* gdb/data-directory/Makefile.in: copy bond_register.py to the right path to
be initialized at gdb startup.
testsuite/
* gdb.python/py-pp-maint.exp: Consider new pretty-print added for registers.
Change-Id: Id4f39845e5ece56c370a1fd4343648909f08b731
Signed-off-by: Walfred Tedeschi <walfred.tedeschi@intel.com>
Conflicts:
gdb/ChangeLog
Bitfields are represented by intervals [start, begin]. It means that for an
interval comprised by only one bit start and end will be equal.
The present condition does not always hold. On the other hand in target-description.c
(tdesc_gdb_type) bitfield is created when "f->type" is null. The routine
maint_print_maint_print_c_tdesc_cmd is modified to follow the same strategy.
2013-11-20 Walfred Tedeschi <walfred.tedeschi@intel.com>
* target-descriptions.c (maint_print_maint_print_c_tdesc_cmd):
Modified logic of creating a bitfield to be in sync with
tdesc_gdb_type.
testsuite/
* gdb.xml/maint_print_struct.xml (bitfield): Added bitfield having
start and end equal 0.
Change-Id: I8c62db049995f0c0c30606d9696b86afe237cbb9
Hi,
In proc mi_child_regexp, \(,thread-id=\"\[0-9\]+\") is appended to
children_exp, while the first '\' is not necessary. This patch
is to remove it. With this patch applied, Emacs can find the right
left paren.
gdb/testsuite:
2013-11-19 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
* lib/mi-support.exp (mi_child_regexp): Remove unnecessary '\'.
There are some format issues in lib/mi-support.exp, such as using
spaces instead of tab and trailing spaces. This patch is to fix them.
gdb/testsuite:
2013-11-19 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
* lib/mi-support.exp: Fix format.
Consider the following variable:
type Small is range -128 .. 127;
SR : Small := 48;
Trying to get its value as an integer within Python code yields:
(gdb) python sr = gdb.parse_and_eval('sr')
(gdb) python print int(sr)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
gdb.error: Cannot convert value to int.
Error while executing Python code.
This is happening because our variable is a range type, and
py-value's is_intlike does not handle TYPE_CODE_RANGE. This
patch fixes this.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* python/py-value.c (is_intlike): Add TYPE_CODE_RANGE handling.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.ada/py_range: New testcase.
In the case where the GNAT runtime was built with full debugging info,
several of the exceptions defined there might have a name contain
the word "global". To make this less likely, this patch renames
the exception name, replacing "Global" by "Global_GDB". It still
keeps the exeption name relatively short, while it is unlikely that
the GNAT runtime has an exception whose name explicitly mentions GDB,
and even less likely that it contains "Global_GDB".
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* info_exc/const.ads (Aint_Global_GDB_E): Renames Aint_Global_E.
* info_exc/foo.adb: Adjust to new exception name.
* info_exc.exp: Adjust after exception renaming in const.ads.
Update "info exception global" test to test "info exceptions
global_gdb" instead.
* mi_exc_info/const.ads (Aint_Global_GDB_E): Renames Aint_Global_E.
* mi_exc_info/foo.adb (Adjust to new exception name.
* mi_exc_info.exp: Adjust after exception renaming in const.ads.
Update "-info-ada-exceptions global" test to test
"-info-ada-exceptions global_gdb" instead.
of inferior output for remote and native sessions.
* gdb.mi/mi-console.exp: Remove obsolete comment.
Check for semihosted inferior output pattern.
(semihosted_string): New function.
If the runtime has full debug info, then the non-standard exceptions
declared in the GNAT runtime will appear in the list of exceptions
printed by GDB ("info exceptions" or "-info-ada-exceptions").
This is valid output, so this patch allows for it.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.ada/info_exc.exp: Allow other global exceptions to be
listed in the output of "info exceptions".
* gdb.ada/mi_exc_info.exp: Allow other global exceptions to be
listed in the output of "-info-ada-exceptions".
This patch fixes some spurious failures when the inferior is linked
against the shared version of libgnat by default, as appears to be
the case on many GNU/Linux distributions. When that happens, we have
to start the program in order to ensure that the GNAT runtime is
mapped to memory, in order for us to find the standard exceptions
(defined within the runtime). Otherwise, they will not be shown,
as expected, by the debugger.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.ada/info_exc.exp: Start inferior before starting
the "info exceptions" tests.
* gdb.ada/mi_exc_info.exp: Start inferior before starting
the "-info-ada-exceptions" tests.
This patch fixes PR c++/16117.
gdb has an extension so that users can use expressions like FILE::NAME
to choose a variable of the given name from the given file. The bug
is that this extension takes precedence over ordinary C++ expressions
of the same form. You might think this is merely hypothetical, but
now that C++ headers commonly do not use an extension, it is more
common.
This patch fixes the bug by making two related changes. First, it
changes gdb to prefer the ordinary C++ meaning of a symbol over the
extended meaning. Second, it arranges for single-quoting of the
symbol to indicate a preference for the extension.
Built and regtested on x86-64 Fedora 18.
New test case included.
2013-11-15 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
PR c++/16117:
* c-exp.y (lex_one_token): Add "is_quoted_name" argument.
(classify_name): Likewise. Prefer a field of "this" over a
filename.
(classify_inner_name, yylex): Update.
2013-11-15 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Variables): Note gdb rules for ambiguous cases.
Add example.
2013-11-15 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
* gdb.cp/includefile: New file.
* gdb.cp/filename.exp: New file.
* gdb.cp/filename.cc: New file.
Consider the following code, compiled at -O2 on ppc-linux:
procedure Increment (Val : in out Float; Msg : String);
The implementation does not really matter in this case). In our example,
this function is being called from a function with Param_1 set to 99.0.
Trying to break inside that function, and running until reaching that
breakpoint yields:
(gdb) b increment
Breakpoint 1 at 0x100014b4: file callee.adb, line 6.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /[...]/foo
Breakpoint 1, callee.increment (val=99.0, val@entry=0.0, msg=...)
at callee.adb:6
6 if Val > 200.0 then
The @entry value for parameter "val" is incorrect, it should be 99.0.
The associated call-site parameter DIE looks like this:
.uleb128 0xc # (DIE (0x115) DW_TAG_GNU_call_site_parameter)
.byte 0x2 # DW_AT_location
.byte 0x90 # DW_OP_regx
.uleb128 0x21
.byte 0x3 # DW_AT_GNU_call_site_value
.byte 0xf5 # DW_OP_GNU_regval_type
.uleb128 0x3f
.uleb128 0x25
The DW_AT_GNU_call_site_value uses a DW_OP_GNU_regval_type
operation, referencing register 0x3f=63, which is $f31,
an 8-byte floating register. In that register, the value is
stored using the usual 8-byte float format:
(gdb) info float
f31 99.0 (raw 0x4058c00000000000)
The current code evaluating DW_OP_GNU_regval_type operations
currently is (dwarf2expr.c:execute_stack_op):
result = (ctx->funcs->read_reg) (ctx->baton, reg);
result_val = value_from_ulongest (address_type, result);
result_val = value_from_contents (type,
value_contents_all (result_val));
What the ctx->funcs->read_reg function does is read the contents
of the register as if it contained an address. The rest of the code
continues that assumption, thinking it's OK to then use that to
create an address/ulongest struct value, which we then re-type
to the type specified by DW_OP_GNU_regval_type.
We're getting 0.0 above because the read_reg implementations
end up treating the contents of the FP register as an integral,
reading only 4 out of the 8 bytes. Being a big-endian target,
we read the high-order ones, which gives us zero.
This patch fixes the problem by introducing a new callback to
read the contents of a register as a given type, and then adjust
the handling of DW_OP_GNU_regval_type to use that new callback.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* dwarf2expr.h (struct dwarf_expr_context_funcs) <read_reg>:
Extend the documentation a bit.
<get_reg_value>: New field.
* dwarf2loc.c (dwarf_expr_get_reg_value)
(needs_frame_get_reg_value): New functions.
(dwarf_expr_ctx_funcs, needs_frame_ctx_funcs): Add "get_reg_value"
callback.
* dwarf2-frame.c (get_reg_value): New function.
(dwarf2_frame_ctx_funcs): Add "get_reg_value" callback.
* dwarf2expr.c (execute_stack_op) <DW_OP_GNU_regval_type>:
Use new callback to compute result_val.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.ada/O2_float_param: New testcase.
Pedro pointed out that it is handy for "make check" to print a summary
of the results. This happens in the check-single case and also if you
invoke runtest by hand.
This patch implements the same thing for check-parallel.
2013-11-14 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
* Makefile.in (check-parallel): Print summary from gdb.sum.
dw2-case-insensitive.exp: p fuNC_lang fails on arm. The problem occurs
when thumb mode code is generated. On ARM last bit of function pointer
value indicates whether the target function is an ARM (if 0) or Thumb
(if 1) routine. The PC address should refer to actual address in
either case. This patch adds new compile unit and function labels to
code which act as address ranges of compile unit and functions in
debug information. Therefore address ranges will have correct
addresses and not the ones with an incremented least significant bit.
This patch has been tested on x86_64 and arm machines.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2013-11-14 Omair Javaid <Omair.Javaid@linaro.org>
* gdb.dwarf2/dw2-case-insensitive-debug.S: Updated compile unit
and function label names.
* gdb.dwarf2/dw2-case-insensitive.c: Created function and
compile unit labels.
Frontend sometimes need to evaluate expressions that are
language-specific. For instance, Eclipse uses the following
expression to determine the size of an address on the target:
-data-evaluate-expression "sizeof (void*)"
Unfortunately, if the main of the program being debugged is not C,
this may not work. For instance, if the main is in Ada, you get...
-data-evaluate-expression "sizeof (void*)"
^error,msg="No definition of \"sizeof\" in current context."
... and apparently decides to stop the debugging session as a result.
The recommendation sent was to specifically set the language to C
before trying to evaluate the expression. Something such as:
1. save current language
2. set language c
3. -data-evaluate-expression "sizeof (void*)"
4. Restore language
This has the same disadvantages as the ones outlined in the "Context
Management" section of the GDB/MI documentation regarding setting
the current thread or the current frame, thus recommending the use of
general command-line switches such as --frame, or --thread instead.
This patch follows the same steps for the language, adding a similar
new command option: --language LANG. Example of use:
-data-evaluate-expression --language c "sizeof (void*)"
^done,value="4"
gdb/ChangeLog:
* mi/mi-parse.h (struct mi_parse) <language>: New field.
* mi/mi-main.c (mi_cmd_execute): Temporarily set language to
PARSE->LANGUAGE during command execution, if set.
* mi/mi-parse.c: Add "language.h" #include.
(mi_parse): Add parsing of "--language" command option.
* NEWS: Add entry mentioning the new "--language" command option.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.mi/mi-language.exp: New file.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (Show): Add xref anchor for "show language" command.
(Context management): Place current subsection text into its own
subsubsection. Add new subsubsection describing the "--language"
command option.
I noticed today that multi-arch-exec.exp was failing in parallel mode.
The bug is that multi-arch-exec.c assumes the non-parallel directory
layout.
This patch fixes the problem using the same "BASEDIR" approach used in
other tests.
Tested both ways on x86-64 Fedora 18.
I'm checking this in.
2013-11-13 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
* gdb.multi/multi-arch-exec.exp: Define BASEDIR when compiling.
* gdb.multi/multi-arch-exec.c (main): Use BASEDIR.
