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From: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
To: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>,
	Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>
Subject: [RFA] Patch to fix reverse-debug recursion function tail bug
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <daef60380903210152m3c0f5470o39b5d5246f245781@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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Hi,

This patch is for bug report by Marc in
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2009-03/msg00127.html.

This bug in "handle_inferior_event" deal with recursion function tail
in reverse debug.
infrun: infwait_normal_state
infrun: TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED
infrun: stop_pc = 0x8048457
infrun: stepping inside range [0x8048457-0x804845a]
infrun: stop_stepping
factorial (x=4) at b.cc:5

Inferior already step into another frame. But because this is a
recursion function call, And 0x8048457 is in
ecs->event_thread->step_range_start and
ecs->event_thread->step_range_start.

So gdb run in:

if (stop_pc >= ecs->event_thread->step_range_start
      && stop_pc < ecs->event_thread->step_range_end)
    {

This code is in front of:
  if (!frame_id_eq (get_frame_id (get_current_frame ()),
		    ecs->event_thread->step_frame_id)
      && (frame_id_eq (frame_unwind_id (get_current_frame ()),
		       ecs->event_thread->step_frame_id)
	  || execution_direction == EXEC_REVERSE))

So gdb check range without check frame_id.

So I make a patch to check frame_id when check range in reverse debug mode.

2008-03-21  Hui Zhu  <teawater@gmail.com>

	* infrun.c (handle_inferior_event): Check frame_id when
	check range in reverse debug mode.





Actually, there is another thing, when gdb begin reverse-debug, it's range is:
 8048439:	8b 45 08             	mov    0x8(%ebp),%eax
 804843c:	83 e8 01             	sub    $0x1,%eax
 804843f:	89 04 24             	mov    %eax,(%esp)
 8048442:	e8 dd ff ff ff       	call   8048424 <_Z9factoriali>
 8048447:	0f af 45 08          	imul   0x8(%ebp),%eax
 804844b:	89 45 fc             	mov    %eax,-0x4(%ebp)
Why is changed to infrun: stepping inside range [0x8048457-0x804845a]?
That is because when inferior step at:
 8048458:	c3                   	ret
In this address, $ebp is same with high level function and this
function is factorial too.
So the gdb can't found inferior step into another frame.  It will run to:
  ecs->event_thread->step_range_start = stop_pc_sal.pc;
  ecs->event_thread->step_range_end = stop_pc_sal.end;
  ecs->event_thread->step_frame_id = get_frame_id (get_current_frame ());
  ecs->event_thread->current_line = stop_pc_sal.line;
  ecs->event_thread->current_symtab = stop_pc_sal.symtab;

  if (debug_infrun)
     fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stdlog, "infrun: keep going\n");
  keep_going (ecs);
}
So ecs->event_thread->step_range_start and ecs->event_thread->step_range_end.

I don't find that it affect the reverse debug or something.  So I didn't fix it.




Thanks,
Hui

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---
 infrun.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/infrun.c
+++ b/infrun.c
@@ -3397,7 +3397,10 @@ infrun: BPSTAT_WHAT_SET_LONGJMP_RESUME (
      beyond the step range, and NOT the address of the last instruction
      within it! */
   if (stop_pc >= ecs->event_thread->step_range_start
-      && stop_pc < ecs->event_thread->step_range_end)
+      && stop_pc < ecs->event_thread->step_range_end
+      && (frame_id_eq (get_frame_id (get_current_frame ()),
+		      ecs->event_thread->step_frame_id)
+          || execution_direction != EXEC_REVERSE))
     {
       if (debug_infrun)
 	fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stdlog, "infrun: stepping inside range [0x%s-0x%s]\n",

             reply	other threads:[~2009-03-21  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-21  9:17 Hui Zhu [this message]
2009-05-06  7:24 ` Hui Zhu
2009-05-11  7:07   ` Hui Zhu
2009-06-09  2:18     ` Hui Zhu
2009-06-15  0:55       ` Michael Snyder
2009-06-15  3:37         ` Hui Zhu
2009-06-15 15:06           ` Marc Khouzam
2009-06-15 18:03             ` Michael Snyder
2009-06-18 23:56               ` Michael Snyder

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