[gdb/exp] Redo cast handling for indirection

In commit ed8fd0a342 ("[gdb/exp] Fix cast handling for indirection"), I
introduced the behaviour that even though we have:
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(gdb) p *a_loc ()
'a_loc' has unknown return type; cast the call to its declared return type
...
we get:
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(gdb) p (char)*a_loc ()
$1 = 97 'a'
...

In other words, the unknown return type of a_loc is inferred from the cast,
effectually evaluating:
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(gdb) p (char)*(char *)a_loc ()
...

This is convient for the case that errno is defined as:
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 #define errno (*__errno_location ())
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and the return type of __errno_location is unknown but the macro definition is
known, such that we can use:
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(gdb) p (int)errno
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instead of
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(gdb) p *(int *)__errno_location ()
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However, as Pedro has pointed out in post-commit review [1], this makes it
harder to reason about the semantics of an expression.

For instance, this:
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(gdb) p (long long)*a_loc ()"
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would be evaluated without debug info as:
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(gdb) p (long long)*(long long *)a_loc ()"
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but with debug info as:
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(gdb) p (long long)*(char *)a_loc ()"
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Fix this by instead simply erroring out for this case:
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(gdb) p (char)*a_loc ()
'a_loc' has unknown return type; cast the call to its declared return type
...

Tested on x86_64-linux.

Approved-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>

[1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2024-May/208821.html
This commit is contained in:
Tom de Vries 2024-05-06 14:23:25 +02:00
parent c8866e3ec5
commit 5edbb6ed92
2 changed files with 4 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -1513,11 +1513,8 @@ class unop_ind_base_operation
struct expression *exp,
enum noside noside) override
{
struct type *pointer_to_expect_type = (expect_type != nullptr
? lookup_pointer_type (expect_type)
: nullptr);
value *val
= std::get<0> (m_storage)->evaluate (pointer_to_expect_type, exp, noside);
= std::get<0> (m_storage)->evaluate (nullptr, exp, noside);
return eval_op_ind (expect_type, exp, noside, val);
}

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@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
# Check that "p (char)*a_loc ()" is handled as "p (char)*(char *)a_loc ()".
# Check that "p (char)*a_loc ()" is handled correctly.
standard_testfile
@ -37,4 +37,5 @@ gdb_test "p *(char *)a_loc ()" " = 97 'a'"
gdb_test "p (char)*(char *)a_loc ()" " = 97 'a'"
# Regression test for PR31693.
gdb_test "p (char)*a_loc ()" " = 97 'a'"
gdb_test "p (char)*a_loc ()" \
"'a_loc' has unknown return type; cast the call to its declared return type"