From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Don't lose language determined from the "main" name (fix gdb.ada/minsyms.exp)
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1511280661-14725-3-git-send-email-palves@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1511280661-14725-1-git-send-email-palves@redhat.com>
gdb.ada/minsyms.exp fails like this here:
FAIL: gdb.ada/minsyms.exp: print integer(some_minsym)
FAIL: gdb.ada/minsyms.exp: print /x integer(&some_minsym)
The problem is that if you have debug info for glibc, GDB switches the
current language to C before it reaches the program's entry point, and
then Ada's cast syntax doesn't work when the current language is C:
print integer(some_minsym)
A syntax error in expression, near `some_minsym)'.
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.ada/minsyms.exp: print integer(some_minsym)
I first thought of doing "set language ada" in the testcase, but
looking deeper, I realized that before running to main, GDB knows the
program is Ada, determined by reading __gnat_ada_main_program_name,
via set_initial_language->main_language->find_main_name->
ada_main_name, and loses that when it is handling a shared library
event. That looks like a bug to me.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2017-11-21 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* solib-svr4.c: Save/restore language around evaluating a probe
argument.
---
gdb/solib-svr4.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gdb/solib-svr4.c b/gdb/solib-svr4.c
index 5ec606d..e6f818a 100644
--- a/gdb/solib-svr4.c
+++ b/gdb/solib-svr4.c
@@ -1936,6 +1936,21 @@ svr4_handle_solib_event (void)
usm_chain = make_cleanup (resume_section_map_updates_cleanup,
current_program_space);
+ /* Make sure evaluating probe arguments doesn't cause us to switch
+ the user's current language to the runtime's language.
+ Evaluating probe arguments relies on reading registers off the
+ selected frame. When we're handling a shared library event, this
+ is going to be the first time we fetch the selected frame (as
+ opposed to the current frame), and if there's debug info for the
+ loader (e.g., glibc), this switches to its language (usually C).
+ Usually that ends up masked because we will usually next stop in
+ the main program (e.g., user did "start"), and switch to the
+ right language again then, if the program has debug info.
+ However, if the program does not have debug info, then GDB won't
+ switch, and we'd lose the language that was determined earlier by
+ sniffing the program's main name. */
+ scoped_restore_current_language save_language;
+
TRY
{
val = evaluate_probe_argument (pa->probe, 1, frame);
--
2.5.5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-21 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-21 16:11 [PATCH 0/2] Fix a couple gdb.ada/minsyms.exp problems Pedro Alves
2017-11-21 16:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] gdb.ada/minsyms.exp: Don't hardcode the variable's address Pedro Alves
2017-11-21 16:24 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-21 16:50 ` Joel Brobecker
2017-11-21 17:08 ` Pedro Alves
2017-11-21 16:11 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2017-11-21 16:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] Don't lose language determined from the "main" name (fix gdb.ada/minsyms.exp) Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-21 16:42 ` Pedro Alves
2017-11-21 16:53 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-21 16:56 ` Pedro Alves
2017-11-21 17:05 ` Pedro Alves
2017-11-21 17:15 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-11-21 17:22 ` Pedro Alves
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