Re: [PATCH 3/9] PR gdb/21226: Take DWARF stack value pieces from LSB end

Simon Marchi
2017-04-14T03:36:26Z

On 2017-04-07 13:38, Andreas Arnez wrote:
> When taking a DW_OP_piece or DW_OP_bit_piece from a DW_OP_stack_value,
> the
> existing logic always takes the piece from the lowest-addressed end,
> which
> is wrong on big-endian targets.

I'd like if you could clarify this (just here not necessarily in the
patch). DWARF locations are computed inside GDB, on the host. So does
it really depend on the target endianness, or it's that of the host, or
both?

Let's consider these cases of remote debugging:

host -> target
x86 -> x86
x86 -> s390
s390 -> x86
s390 -> s390

In which cases is the value found at the high memory address vs low
memory address?

> The DWARF standard states that the
> "DW_OP_bit_piece operation describes a sequence of bits using the least
> significant bits of that value", and this also matches the current
> logic
> in GCC. For instance, the GCC guality test case pr54970.c fails on
> s390x
> because of this.
>
> This fix adjusts the piece accordingly on big-endian targets. It is
> assumed that:
>
> * DW_OP_piece shall take the piece from the LSB end as well;
>
> * pieces reaching outside the stack value bits are considered
> undefined,
> and a zero value can be used instead.
>
> gdb/ChangeLog:
>
> PR gdb/21226
> * dwarf2loc.c (read_pieced_value): Anchor stack value pieces at
> the LSB end, independent of endianness.
>
> gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
>
> PR gdb/21226
> * gdb.dwarf2/nonvar-access.exp: Add checks for verifying that
> stack value pieces are taken from the LSB end.
> ---
> gdb/dwarf2loc.c | 43
> ++++++++++++++++--------------
> gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwarf2/nonvar-access.exp | 21 ++++++++++++---
> 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gdb/dwarf2loc.c b/gdb/dwarf2loc.c
> index 496400a..09938c4 100644
> --- a/gdb/dwarf2loc.c
> +++ b/gdb/dwarf2loc.c
> @@ -1857,6 +1857,10 @@ read_pieced_value (struct value *v)
> if (unavail)
> mark_value_bits_unavailable (v, offset, this_size_bits);
> }
> +
> + copy_bitwise (contents, dest_offset_bits,
> + intermediate_buffer, source_offset_bits % 8,
> + this_size_bits, bits_big_endian);
> }
> break;
>
> @@ -1865,26 +1869,28 @@ read_pieced_value (struct value *v)
> p->v.mem.in_stack_memory,
> p->v.mem.addr + source_offset,
> buffer.data (), this_size);
> + copy_bitwise (contents, dest_offset_bits,
> + intermediate_buffer, source_offset_bits % 8,
> + this_size_bits, bits_big_endian);
> break;
>
> case DWARF_VALUE_STACK:
> {
> - size_t n = this_size;
> + struct objfile *objfile = dwarf2_per_cu_objfile (c->per_cu);
> + struct gdbarch *objfile_gdbarch = get_objfile_arch (objfile);
> + ULONGEST obj_size = 8 * TYPE_LENGTH (value_type (p->v.value));

It would be really nice for the readers if you could put some comment
like this, even though it may seem obvious to you:

/* The size of a DWARF stack value. */
ULONGEST obj_size = 8 * TYPE_LENGTH (value_type (p->v.value));

I found I had to add them to the code to be able to follow.

>
> - if (n > c->addr_size - source_offset)
> - n = (c->addr_size >= source_offset
> - ? c->addr_size - source_offset
> - : 0);
> - if (n == 0)
> - {
> - /* Nothing. */
> - }
> - else
> - {
> - const gdb_byte *val_bytes = value_contents_all (p->v.value);

> + /* Use zeroes if piece reaches beyond stack value. */
> + if (p->size > obj_size)
> + break;

Does this happen, for example, if a DWARF stack value is 32 bits long,
but the piece is 64 bits? I suppose that's not something we'd want a
compiler to emit, and would be considered a bug in the compiler?

How does breaking out of the loop will use zeroes? Is the value buffer
cleared beforehand?

>
> - intermediate_buffer = val_bytes + source_offset;
> - }
> + /* Piece is anchored at least significant bit end. */
> + if (gdbarch_byte_order (objfile_gdbarch) == BFD_ENDIAN_BIG)
> + source_offset_bits += obj_size - p->size;

Just a nit, but I find it more readable when there's an empty line
between the if and the following lines not included in the if (so here,
right where I cut the quote). It reads like two separate sentences:

- If the byte order is big endian, adjust offset in the source.
- Copy bitwise from the source buffer to the destination buffer.

> + copy_bitwise (contents, dest_offset_bits,
> + value_contents_all (p->v.value),
> + source_offset_bits,
> + this_size_bits, bits_big_endian);

Thanks,

Simon