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From: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
Cc: Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>,
	 	"gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFA] Patch to fix reverse-debug recursion function tail bug
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 07:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <daef60380905060023j6ea70448wf93cd9c114954d94@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <daef60380903210152m3c0f5470o39b5d5246f245781@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi Michael,

Like the prev patch I send to you, this issue still affect cvs-head
and the patch can fix it.
Please help me review it.

The attachment is the new patch follow cvs-head.

2009-05-06  Hui Zhu  <teawater@gmail.com>

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

Thanks,
Hui

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 16:52, Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
@@ -3421,7 +3421,10 @@ 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:[~2009-05-06  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-21  9:17 Hui Zhu
2009-05-06  7:24 ` Hui Zhu [this message]
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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