# Copyright 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . # This file is part of the gdb testsuite # Looking up methods by name, in programs with multiple compilation units. # ====== PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN CHANGING THIS TEST. ===== # # The bug we're testing for (circa October 2002) is very sensitive to # various conditions that are hard to control directly in the test # suite. If you change the test, please revert this change, and make # sure the test still fails: # # 2002-08-29 Jim Blandy # # * symtab.c (lookup_symbol_aux): In the cases where we find a # minimal symbol of an appropriate name and use its address to # select a symtab to read and search, use `name' (as passed to us) # as the demangled name when searching the symtab's global and # static blocks, not the minsym's name. # # The original bug was that you'd try to set a breakpoint on a method # (e.g., `break s::method1'), and you'd get an error, but if you # repeated the command, it would work the second time: # # (gdb) break s::method1 # the class s does not have any method named method1 # Hint: try 's::method1 or 's::method1 # (Note leading single quote.) # (gdb) break s::method1 # Breakpoint 1 at 0x804841b: file psmang1.cc, line 13. # (gdb) # # We observed this bug first using Stabs, and then using Dwarf 2. # # The problem was in lookup_symbol_aux: when looking up s::method1, it # would fail to find it in any symtabs, find the minsym with the # corresponding mangled name (say, `_ZN1S7method1Ev'), pass the # minsym's address to find_pc_sect_symtab to look up the symtab # (causing the compilation unit's full symbols to be read in), and # then look up the symbol in that symtab's global block. All that is # correct. However, it would pass the minsym's name as the NAME # argument to lookup_block_symbol; a minsym's name is mangled, whereas # lookup_block_symbol's NAME argument should be demangled. # # This is a pretty simple bug, but it turns out to be a bear to # construct a test for. That's why this test case is so delicate. If # you can see how to make it less so, please contribute a patch. # # Here are the twists: # # The bug only manifests itself when we call lookup_symbol to look up # a method name (like "s::method1" or "s::method2"), and that method's # definition is in a compilation unit for which we have read partial # symbols, but not full symbols. The partial->full conversion must be # caused by that specific lookup. (If we already have full symbols # for the method's compilation unit, we won't need to look up the # minsym, find the symtab for the minsym's address, and then call # lookup_block_symbol; it's that last call where things go awry.) # # Now, when asked to set a breakpoint at `s::method1', GDB will first # look up `s' to see if that is, in fact, the name of a class, and # then look up 's::method1'. So we have to make sure that looking up # `s' doesn't cause full symbols to be read for the compilation unit # containing the definition of `s::method1'. # # The partial symbol tables for `psmang1.cc' and `psmang2.cc' will # both have entries for `s'; GDB will read full symbols for whichever # compilation unit's partial symbol table appears first in the # objfile's list. The order in which compilation units appear in the # partial symbol table list depends on how the program is linked, and # how the debug info reader does the partial symbol scan. Ideally, # the test shouldn't rely on them appearing in any particular order. # # So, since we don't know which compilation unit's full symbols are # going to get read, we simply try looking up one method from each of # the two compilation units. One of them has to come after the other # in the partial symbol table list, so whichever comes later will # still need its partial symbols read by the time we go to look up # 's::methodX'. # # Second twist: don't move the common definition of `struct s' into a # header file. If the compiler emits identical stabs for the # #inclusion of that header file into psmang1.cc and into psmang2.cc, # then the linker will do stabs compression, and replace one of the # BINCL/EINCL regions with an EXCL stab, pointing to the other # BINCL/EINCL region. GDB will read this, and record that the # compilation unit that got the EXCL depends on the compilation unit # that kept the BINCL/EINCL. Then, when it decides it needs to read # full symbols for the former, it'll also read full symbols for the # latter. Now, if it just so happens that the compilation unit that # got the EXCL is also the first one with a definition of `s' in the # partial symbol table list, then that first probe for `s' will cause # both compilation units' full symbols to be read --- again defeating # the test. # # We could work around this by having three compilation units, or by # ensuring that the header file produces different stabs each time # it's #included, but it seems simplest just to avoid compilation unit # dependencies altogether, drop the header file, and duplicate the # (pretty trivial) struct definition. # # Note that #including any header file at all into both compilation # units --- say, --- could create this sort of dependency. # # This is the aspect of the test which the debug format is most likely # to affect, I think. The different formats create different kinds of # inter-CU dependencies, which could mask the bug. It might be # possible for the test to check that at least one of the partial # symtabs remains unread, and fail otherwise --- the failure # indicating that the test itself isn't going to catch the bug it was # meant to, not that GDB is misbehaving. # # Third twist: given the way lookup_block_symbol is written, it's # possible to find the symbol even when it gets passed a mangled name # for its NAME parameter. There are three ways lookup_block_symbol # might search a block, depending on how it was constructed: # # linear search. In this case, this bug will never manifest itself, # since we check every symbol against NAME using SYMBOL_MATCHES_NAME. # Since that macro checks its second argument (NAME) against both the # mangled and demangled names of the symbol, this will always find the # symbol successfully, so, no bug. # # hash table. If both the mangled and demangled names hash to the # same bucket, then you'll again find the symbol "by accident", since # we search the entire bucket using SYMBOL_SOURCE_NAME. Since GDB # chooses the number of buckets based on the number of symbols, small # compilation units may have only one hash bucket; in this case, the # search always succeeds, even though we hashed on the wrong name. # This test works around that by having a lot of dummy variables, # making it less likely that the mangled and demangled names fall in # the same bucket. # # binary search. (GDB 5.2 produced these sorts of blocks, and this # test tries to detect the bug there, but subsequent versions of GDB # almost never build them, and they may soon be removed entirely.) In # this case, the symbols in the block are sorted by their # SYMBOL_SOURCE_NAME (whose behavior depends on the current demangling # setting, so that's wrong, but let's try to stay focussed). # lookup_block_symbol does a binary search comparing NAME with # SYMBOL_SOURCE_NAME until the range has been narrowed down to only a # few symbols; then it starts a linear search forward from the lower # end of that range, until it reaches a symbol whose # SYMBOL_SOURCE_NAME follows NAME in lexicographic order. This means # that, if you're doing a binary search for a mangled name in a block # sorted by SYMBOL_SOURCE_NAME, you might find the symbol `by # accident' if the mangled and demangled names happen to fall near # each other in the ordering. The initial version of this patch used # a class called `S'; all the other symbols in the compilation unit # started with lower-case letters, so the demangled name `S::method1' # sorted at the same place as the mangled name `_ZN1S7method1Ev': at # the very beginning. Using a lower-case 's' as the name ensures that # the demangled name falls after all the dummy symbols introduced for # the hash table, as described above. # # This is all so tortured, someone will probably come up with still # other ways this test could fail to do its job. If you need to make # revisions, please be very careful. if $tracelevel then { strace $tracelevel } # # test running programs # set prms_id 0 set bug_id 0 if { [skip_cplus_tests] } { continue } set testfile "psmang" set binfile ${objdir}/${subdir}/${testfile} if [get_compiler_info ${binfile} "c++"] { return -1; } if { [gdb_compile "${srcdir}/${subdir}/${testfile}1.cc" "${testfile}1.o" object {debug c++}] != "" } { untested psmang.exp return -1 } if { [gdb_compile "${srcdir}/${subdir}/${testfile}2.cc" "${testfile}2.o" object {debug c++}] != "" } { untested psmang.exp return -1 } if { [gdb_compile "${testfile}1.o ${testfile}2.o" ${binfile} executable {debug c++}] != "" } { untested psmang.exp return -1 } gdb_exit gdb_start gdb_reinitialize_dir $srcdir/$subdir gdb_load ${binfile} gdb_test "break s::method1" "Breakpoint .* at .*: file .*psmang1.cc.*" # We have to exit and restart GDB here, to make sure that all the # compilation units are psymtabs again. gdb_exit gdb_start gdb_reinitialize_dir $srcdir/$subdir gdb_load ${binfile} gdb_test "break s::method2" "Breakpoint .* at .*: file .*psmang2.cc.*"