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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Subject: [PATCH 6/7] Avoid crash with "NSString" literals
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2025 18:27:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251117012752.2657208-7-tom@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251117012752.2657208-1-tom@tromey.com>

Evaluating an Objective-C "NSString" literal will cause gdb to crash.
This patch fixes the crash.

I think the result here still isn't correct -- I see a warning from
the runtime ("autorelease called without pool for object") with the
new code.

However, not crashing is an improvement on its own.

Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20501
---
 gdb/c-exp.y                      | 10 +++++-----
 gdb/objc-lang.c                  |  3 ++-
 gdb/testsuite/gdb.objc/print.exp |  4 ++++
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/c-exp.y b/gdb/c-exp.y
index 6dd2b0800dd..fadd735c517 100644
--- a/gdb/c-exp.y
+++ b/gdb/c-exp.y
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ static void c_print_token (FILE *file, int type, YYSTYPE value);
    nonterminal "name", which matches either NAME or TYPENAME.  */
 
 %token <tsval> STRING
-%token <sval> NSSTRING		/* ObjC Foundation "NSString" literal */
+%token <tsval> NSSTRING		/* ObjC Foundation "NSString" literal */
 %token SELECTOR			/* ObjC "@selector" pseudo-operator   */
 %token <tsval> CHAR
 %token <ssym> NAME /* BLOCKNAME defined below to give it higher precedence. */
@@ -1030,12 +1030,12 @@ exp	:	string_exp
 			}
 	;
 
-exp     :	NSSTRING	/* ObjC NextStep NSString constant
-				 * of the form '@' '"' string '"'.
-				 */
+exp     :	NSSTRING
 			{
+			  /* ObjC NextStep NSString constant of the
+			     form '@' '"' string '"'.  */
 			  pstate->push_new<objc_nsstring_operation>
-			    (copy_name ($1));
+			    (std::string ($1.ptr, $1.length));
 			}
 	;
 
diff --git a/gdb/objc-lang.c b/gdb/objc-lang.c
index a6abcd60089..9804f2c3963 100644
--- a/gdb/objc-lang.c
+++ b/gdb/objc-lang.c
@@ -169,7 +169,8 @@ objc_nsstring_operation::evaluate (struct type *expect_type,
   struct type *type;
 
   if (!target_has_execution ())
-    return 0;		/* Can't call into inferior to create NSString.  */
+    error (_("evaluation of this expression "
+	     "requires the target program to be active"));
 
   stringValue[2] = value_string (str.c_str (), str.size () + 1, char_type);
   stringValue[2] = value_coerce_array (stringValue[2]);
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.objc/print.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.objc/print.exp
index e3f4177d997..2e9fee3b869 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.objc/print.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.objc/print.exp
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ clean_restart
 if { [set_lang_objc] } {
     test_float_accepted
     test_float_rejected
+
+    gdb_test {print @"hi"} \
+	"evaluation of this expression requires the target program to be active" \
+	"simple nsstring"
 } else {
     warning "Objective-c print tests suppressed"
 }
-- 
2.49.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-11-17  1:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-17  1:26 [PATCH 0/7] Objective-C fixes Tom Tromey
2025-11-17  1:27 ` [PATCH 1/7] Reformat gdb.objc tests Tom Tromey
2025-11-17  1:27 ` [PATCH 2/7] Make the gdb.objc tests compile Tom Tromey
2025-11-17 10:09   ` Matt Rice
2025-11-18  0:51     ` Tom Tromey
2025-11-18  1:12       ` Matt Rice
2025-12-02 16:20         ` Tom Tromey
2025-12-03 15:24           ` Matt Rice
2025-11-17  1:27 ` [PATCH 3/7] Minor fixes to make gdb.objc tests pass Tom Tromey
2025-11-17  1:27 ` [PATCH 4/7] Rename lookup_struct_typedef Tom Tromey
2025-11-17  1:27 ` [PATCH 5/7] Remove a couple Objective-C expression helpers Tom Tromey
2025-11-17  1:27 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2025-11-17  1:27 ` [PATCH 7/7] Rewrite the @selector code Tom Tromey

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