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If you find inaccuracies in this list, please send mail to
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gdb-patches@sourceware.cygnus.com. If you would like to work on any
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of these, you should consider sending mail to the same address, to
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find out whether anyone else is working on it.
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Known problems in GDB 5.0
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=========================
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Below is a list of problems identified during the GDB 5.0 release
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cycle. People hope to have these problems fixed in a follow-on
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release.
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(The names in paren indicate people that posted the original problem.)
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GDB doesn't build under IRIX6.4
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Benjamin Gamsa wrote:
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Has anyone successfully built the latest (from cvs) gdb on IRIX6.4 or
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later? The first problem I hit is that proc-api.c includes
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sys/user.h, which no longer exists under IRIX6.4. If I comment out
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that include, the next problem I hit is that PIOCGETPR and PIOCGETU
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are no longer defined in IRIX6.4 (presumably related to the
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disappearance of user.h).
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--
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The BFD directory requires bug-fixed AUTOMAKE et.al.
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AUTOMAKE 1.4 incorrectly set the TEXINPUTS environment variable. It
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contained the full path to texinfo.tex when it should have only
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contained the directory. The bug has been fixed in the current
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AUTOMAKE sources. Automake snapshots can be found in:
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ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/gdb/snapshots
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and ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/binutils
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--
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gdb-cvs fails to build on freebsd-elf
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-04/msg00004.html
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Either the FreeBSD group need to contribute their local GDB changes
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back to the master sources or someone needs to provides a new
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(clean-room) implementation. Since the former involves a fairly
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complicated assignment the latter may be easier. [cagney]
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--
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Generic: lin-thread cannot handle thread exit (Mark Kettenis, Michael
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Snyder) http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00525.html
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The thread_db assisted debugging code doesn't handle exiting threads
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properly, at least in combination with glibc 2.1.3 (the framework is
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there, just not the actual code). There are at least two problems
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that prevent this from working.
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As an additional reference point, the pre thread_db code did not work
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either.
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Java (Anthony Green, David Taylor)
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Anthony Green has a number of Java patches that did not make it into
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the 5.0 release.
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Patch: java tests
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00512.html
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Patch: java booleans
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00515.html
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Patch: handle N_MAIN stab
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00527.html
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Pascal (Pierre Muller, David Taylor)
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Pierre Muller has contributed patches for adding Pascal Language
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support to GDB.
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2 pascal language patches inserted in database
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00521.html
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Indent -gnu ?
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00496.html
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GNU/Linux/x86 and random thread signals (and Solaris/SPARC but not
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Solaris/x86).
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00336.html
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Christopher Blizzard writes:
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So, I've done some more digging into this and it looks like Jim
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Kingdon has reported this problem in the past:
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/bug-gdb/1999-10/msg00058.html
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I can reproduce this problem both with and without Tom's patch. Has
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anyone seen this before? Maybe have a solution for it hanging around?
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:)
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There's a test case for this documented at:
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when debugging threaded applications you get extra SIGTRAPs
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http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9565
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[There should be a GDB testcase - cagney]
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Possible regressions with some devel GCCs.
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00475.html
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gcc-2.95.2 outputs a line note *before* the prologue (and one for the
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closing brace after the epilogue, instead of before it, as it used to
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be). By disabling the RTL-style prologue generating mechanism
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(undocumented GCC option -mno-schedule-prologue), you get back the
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traditional behaviour.
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00510.html
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This should now be fixed.
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RFD: infrun.c: No bpstat_stop_status call after proceed over break?
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(Peter Schauer)
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00665.html
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GDB misses watchpoint triggers after proceeding over a breakpoint on
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x86 targets.
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--
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x86 linux GDB and SIGALRM (???)
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00803.html
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I know there are problems with single stepping through signal
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handlers. These problems were present in 4.18. They were just masked
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because 4.18 failed to recognize signal handlers. Fixing it is not
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easy, and will require changes to handle_inferior_event(), that I
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prefer not to make before the 5.0 release.
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Mark
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Revised UDP support (was: Re: [Fwd: [patch] UDP transport support])
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-04/msg00000.html
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(Broken) support for GDB's remote protocol across UDP is to be
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included in the follow-on release.
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--
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Can't build IRIX -> arm GDB.
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-04/msg00356.html
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David Whedon writes:
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> Now I'm building for an embedded arm target. If there is a way of turning
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> remote-rdi off, I couldn't find it. It looks like it gets built by default
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> in gdb/configure.tgt(line 58) Anyway, the build dies in
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> gdb/rdi-share/unixcomm.c. SERPORT1 et. al. never get defined because we
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> aren't one of the architectures supported.
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Problem with weak functions
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-05/msg00060.html
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Dan Nicolaescu writes:
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> It seems that gdb-4.95.1 does not display correctly the function when
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> stoping in weak functions.
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>
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> It stops in a function that is defined as weak, not in the function
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> that is actualy run...
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--
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GDB5 TOT on unixware 7
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-04/msg00119.html
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Robert Lipe writes:
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> I just spun the top of tree of the GDB5 branch on UnixWare 7. As a
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> practical matter, the current thread support is somewhat more annoying
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> than when GDB was thread-unaware.
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Code Cleanups
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=============
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The following are small cleanups that will hopefully be completed by
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the follow on to 5.0.
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ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED
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The need for this as almost been eliminated. The next version of GCC
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(assuming cagney gets the relevant patch committed) will be able to
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supress unused parameter warnings.
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Eliminate more compiler warnings.
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Of course there also needs to be the usual debate over which warnings
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are valid and how to best go about this.
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One method: choose a single option; get agreement that it is
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reasonable; try it out to see if there isn't anything silly about it
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(-Wunused-parameters is an example of that) then incrementally hack
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away.
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The other method is to enable all warnings and eliminate them from one
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file at a time.
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--
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Delete macro TARGET_BYTE_ORDER_SELECTABLE.
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Patches in the database.
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--
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Updated readline
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Readline 4.? is out. A merge wouldn't hurt.
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--
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Purge PARAMS
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Eliminate all uses of PARAMS in GDB's source code.
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Elimination of make_cleanup_func. (Andrew Cagney)
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make_cleanup_func elimination
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00791.html
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00814.html
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Re: Various C++ things
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value_headof/value_from_vtable_info are worthless, and should be removed.
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The one place in printcmd.c that uses it should use the RTTI functions.
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RTTI for g++ should be using the typeinfo functions rather than the vtables.
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The typeinfo functions are always at offset 4 from the beginning of the vtable,
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and are always right. The vtables will have weird names like E::VB sometimes.
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The typeinfo function will always be "E type_info function", or somesuch.
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value_virtual_fn_field needs to be fixed so there are no failures for virtual
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functions for C++ using g++.
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Testsuite cases are the major priority right now for C++ support, since i have
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to make a lot of changes that could potentially break each other.
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Fix ``set architecture <tab>''
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This command should expand to a list of all supported architectures.
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At present ``info architecture'' needs to be used. That is simply
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wrong. It involves the use of add_set_enum_cmd().
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GDBARCH cleanup (Andrew Cagney)
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The non-generated parts of gdbarch.{sh,h,c} should be separated out
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into arch-utils.[hc].
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Document that gdbarch_init_ftype could easily fail because it didn't
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identify an architecture.
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Migrate qfThreadInfo packet -> qThreadInfo. (Andrew Cagney)
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Add support for packet enable/disable commands with these thread
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packets. General cleanup.
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[PATCH] Document the ThreadInfo remote protocol queries
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00832.html
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[PATCH] "info threads" queries for remote.c
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00831.html
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General Cleanups / Fixes
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========================
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The following are more general cleanups and fixes. They are not tied
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to any specific release.
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--
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Nuke USG define.
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--
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Eliminate gdb/tui/Makefile.in.
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Cleanup configury support for optional sub-directories.
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Check how GCC handles multiple front ends for an example of how things
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could work. A tentative first step is to rationalize things so that
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all sub directories are handled in a fashion similar to gdb/mi.
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--
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[PATCH/5] src/intl/Makefile.in:distclean additions
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-04/msg00363.html
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Do not forget to merge the patch back into the trunk.
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Update ALPHA so that it uses ``struct frame_extra_info'' instead of
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EXTRA_FRAME_INFO.
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This is a barrier to replacing mips_extra_func_info with something
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that works with multi-arch.
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Multi-arch mips_extra_func_info.
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This first needs the alpha to be updated so that it uses ``struct
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frame_extra_info''.
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--
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Send normal output to gdb_stdout.
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Send error messages to gdb_stderror.
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Send debug and log output log gdb_stdlog.
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GDB still contains many cases where (f)printf or printf_filtered () is
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used when it should be sending the messages to gdb_stderror or
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gdb_stdlog.
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--
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Rationalize the host-endian code (grep for HOST_BYTE_ORDER).
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At preent defs.h includes <endian.h> (which is linux specific) yet
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almost nothing depends on it. Suggest "gdb_endian.h" which can also
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handle <machine/endian.h> and only include that where it is really
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needed.
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Replace asprintf() calls with xasprintf() calls.
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As with things like strdup() most calls to asprintf() don't check the
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return value.
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--
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Rationaize savestring(), msavestring() and mstrsave().
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In general libiberty's xstrdup () can be used.
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--
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Eliminate mmalloc() from GDB.
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Also eliminate it from defs.h.
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--
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Check/cleanup MI documentation.
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The list of commands specified in the documentation needs to be
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checked against the mi-cmds.c table in a mechanical way (so that they
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two can be kept up-to-date).
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Eliminate error_begin().
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With ui_file, there is no need for the statefull error_begin ()
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function.
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--
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Add built-by, build-date, tm, xm, nm and anything else into gdb binary
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so that you can see how the GDB was created.
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Some of these (*m.h) would be added to the generated config.h. That
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in turn would fix a long standing bug where by the build process many
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not notice a changed tm.h file. Since everything depends on config.h,
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a change to *m.h forces a change to config.h and, consequently forces
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a rebuild.
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--
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Replace gdb_stdtarg with gdb_targout (and possibly gdb_targerr).
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gdb_stdtarg is easily confused with gdb_stdarg.
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--
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Remote protocol doco feedback.
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Too much feedback to mention needs to be merged in (901660). Search
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for the word ``remote''.
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--
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set/show remote X-packet ...
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``(gdb) help set remote X-packet'' doesn't list the applicable
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responses. The help message needs to be expanded.
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--
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Extra ui_file methods - dump.
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These are for debugging / testing. An aside is to set up a whitebox
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testsuite for key internals such as ui_file.
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--
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Add an "info bfd" command that displays supported object formats,
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similarly to objdump -i.
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Is there a command already?
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--
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Eliminate PTR. ISO-C allows ``void *''.
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--
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Eliminate abort ().
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GDB should never abort. GDB should either throw ``error ()'' or
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``internal_error ()''. Better still GDB should naturally unwind with
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an error status.
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--
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Architectural Changes
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=====================
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These are harder than simple cleanups / fixes and, consequently
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involve more work. Typically an Architectural Change will be broken
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down into a more digestible set of cleanups and fixes.
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Replace READ_FP() with FRAME_HANDLE().
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READ_FP() is a hangover from the days of the vax when the ABI really
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did have a frame pointer register. Modern architectures typically
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construct a virtual frame-handle from the stack pointer and various
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other bits of string.
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Unfortunatly GDB still treats this synthetic FP register as though it
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is real. That in turn really confuses users (arm and ``print $fp'' VS
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``info registers fp''). The synthetic FP should be separated out of
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the true register set presented to the user.
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--
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MI's input does not use buffering.
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At present the MI interface reads raw characters of from an unbuffered
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FD. This is to avoid several nasty buffer/race conditions. That code
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should be changed so that it registers its self with the event loop
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(on the input FD) and then push commands up to MI as they arrive.
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The serial code already does this.
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--
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Register Cache Cleanup (below from Andrew Cagney)
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I would depict the current register architecture as something like:
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High GDB --> Low GDB
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\|/ \|/
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--- REG NR -----
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register + REGISTER_BYTE(reg_nr)
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\|/
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| extern register[] |
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-------------------------
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where neither the high (valops.c et.al.) or low gdb (*-tdep.c) are
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really clear on what mechanisms they should be using to manipulate that
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buffer. Further, much code assumes, dangerously, that registers are
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contigious. Having got mips-tdep.c to support multiple ABIs, believe
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me, that is a bad assumption. Finally, that register cache layout is
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determined by the current remote/local target and _not_ the less
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specific target ISA. In fact, in many cases it is determined by the
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somewhat arbitrary layout of the [gG] packets!
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How I would like the register file to work is more like:
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High GDB
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\|/
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pseudo reg-nr
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map pseudo <->
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random cache
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bytes
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\|/
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------------
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| register |
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| cache |
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------------
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/|\
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map random cache
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bytes to target
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dependant i-face
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/|\
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target dependant
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such as [gG] packet
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or ptrace buffer
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The main objectives being:
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o a clear separation between the low
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level target and the high level GDB
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o a mechanism that solves the general
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problem of register aliases, overlaps
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etc instead of treating them as optional
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extras that can be wedged in as an after
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thought (that is a reasonable description
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of the current code).
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Identify then solve the hard case and the
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rest just falls out. GDB solved the easy
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case and then tried to ignore the real
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world :-)
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o a removal of the assumption that the
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mapping between the register cache
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and virtual registers is largely static.
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If you flip the USR/SSR stack register
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select bit in the status-register then
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the corresponding stack registers should
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reflect the change.
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o a mechanism that clearly separates the
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gdb internal register cache from any
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target (not architecture) dependant
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specifics such as [gG] packets.
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|
|
|
Of course, like anything, it sounds good in theory. In reality, it
|
|
would have to contend with many<->many relationships at both the
|
|
virt<->cache and cache<->target level. For instance:
|
|
|
|
virt<->cache
|
|
Modifying an mmx register may involve
|
|
scattering values across both FP and
|
|
mmpx specific parts of a buffer
|
|
|
|
cache<->target
|
|
When writing back a SP it may need to
|
|
both be written to both SP and USP.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hmm,
|
|
|
|
Rather than let this like the last time it was discussed, just slip, I'm
|
|
first going to add this e-mail (+ references) to TODO. I'd then like to
|
|
sketch out a broad strategy I think could get us there.
|
|
|
|
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|
First thing I'd suggest is separating out the ``extern registers[]''
|
|
code so that we can at least identify what is using it. At present
|
|
things are scattered across many files. That way we can at least
|
|
pretend that there is a cache instead of a global array :-)
|
|
|
|
I'd then suggest someone putting up a proposal for the pseudo-reg /
|
|
high-level side interface so that code can be adopted to it. For old
|
|
code, initially a blanket rename of write_register_bytes() to
|
|
deprecated_write_register_bytes() would help.
|
|
|
|
Following that would, finaly be the corresponding changes to the target.
|
|
|
|
--
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|
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|
Fix ``I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that.'' from symfile.c.
|
|
|
|
This requires internationalization.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Check that GDB can handle all BFD architectures (Andrew Cagney)
|
|
|
|
There should be a test that checks that BFD/GDB are in sync with
|
|
regard to architecture changes. Something like a test that first
|
|
queries GDB for all supported architectures and then feeds each back
|
|
to GDB.. Anyone interested in learning how to write tests? :-)
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Add support for Modula3
|
|
|
|
Get DEC/Compaq to contribute their Modula-3 support.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Convert ALL architectures to MULTI-ARCH.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Convert GDB build process to AUTOMAKE.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Restructure gdb directory tree so that it avoids any 8.3 and 14
|
|
filename problems.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Can the xdep files be replaced by autoconf?
|
|
Can the tm.h and nm.h files be eliminated by multi-arch.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Add a transcript mechanism to GDB.
|
|
|
|
Such a mechanism might log all gdb input and output to a file in a
|
|
form that would allow it to be replayed. It could involve ``gdb
|
|
--transcript=FILE'' or it could involve ``(gdb) transcript file''.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Make MI interface accessable from existing CLI.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Select the initial multi-arch ISA / ABI based on --target or similar.
|
|
|
|
At present the default is based on what ever is first in the BFD
|
|
archures table. It should be determined based on the ``--target=...''
|
|
name.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Truly multi-arch.
|
|
|
|
Enable the code to recognize --enable-targets=.... like BINUTILS does.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Add a breakpoint-edit command to MI.
|
|
|
|
It would be similar to MI's breakpoint create but would apply to an
|
|
existing breakpoint. It saves the need to delete/create breakpoints
|
|
when ever they are changed.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Add directory path to MI breakpoint.
|
|
|
|
That way the GUI's task of finding the file within which the
|
|
breakpoint was set is simplified.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Re-do GDB's output pager.
|
|
|
|
GDB's output pager still relies on people correctly using *_filtered
|
|
for gdb_stdout and *_unfiltered for gdb_stdlog / gdb_stderr.
|
|
Hopefully, with all normal output going to gdb_stdout, the pager can
|
|
just look at the ui_file that the output is on and then use that to
|
|
decide what to do about paging. Sounds good in theory.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Add mechanism to reject expression classes to MI
|
|
|
|
There are situtations where you don't want GDB's expression
|
|
parser/evaluator to perform inferior function calls or variable
|
|
assignments.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Remove sideffects from libgdb breakpoint create function.
|
|
|
|
The user can use the CLI to create a breakpoint with partial
|
|
information - no file (gdb would use the file from the last
|
|
breakpoint).
|
|
|
|
The libgdb interface currently affects that environment which can lead
|
|
to confusion when a user is setting breakpoints via both the MI and
|
|
the CLI.
|
|
|
|
This is also a good example of how getting the CLI ``right'' will be
|
|
hard.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
GDB doesn't recover gracefully from remote protocol errors.
|
|
|
|
GDB wasn't checking for NAKs from the remote target. Instead a NAK is
|
|
ignored and a timeout is required before GDB retries. A pre-cursor to
|
|
fixing this this is making GDB's remote protocol packet more robust.
|
|
|
|
While downloading to a remote protocol target, gdb ignores packet
|
|
errors in so far as it will continue to edownload with chunk N+1 even
|
|
if chunk N was not correctly sent. This causes gdb.base/remote.exp to
|
|
take a painfully long time to run. As a PS that test needs to be
|
|
fixed so that it builds on 16 bit machines.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Move gdb_lasterr to ui_out?
|
|
|
|
The way GDB throws errors and records them needs a re-think. ui_out
|
|
handles the correct output well. It doesn't resolve what to do with
|
|
output / error-messages when things go wrong.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Fix implementation of ``target xxx''.
|
|
|
|
At present when the user specifies ``target xxxx'', the CLI maps that
|
|
directly onto a target open method. It is then assumed that the
|
|
target open method should do all sorts of complicated things as this
|
|
is the only chance it has. Check how the various remote targets
|
|
duplicate the target operations. Check also how the various targets
|
|
behave differently for purely arbitrary reasons.
|
|
|
|
What should happen is that ``target xxxx'' should call a generic
|
|
``target'' function and that should then co-ordinate the opening of
|
|
``xxxx''. This becomes especially important when you're trying to
|
|
open an asynchronous target that may need to perform background tasks
|
|
as part of the ``attach'' phase.
|
|
|
|
Unfortunatly, due to limitations in the old/creaking command.h
|
|
interface, that isn't possible. The function being called isn't told
|
|
of the ``xxx'' or any other context information.
|
|
|
|
Consequently a precursor to fixing ``target xxxx'' is to clean up the
|
|
CLI code so that it passes to the callback function (attatched to a
|
|
command) useful information such as the actual command and a context
|
|
for that command. Other changes such as making ``struct command''
|
|
opaque may also help.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Document trace machinery
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Document overlay machinery.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Legacy Wish List
|
|
================
|
|
|
|
This list is not up to date, and opinions vary about the importance or
|
|
even desirability of some of the items. If you do fix something, it
|
|
always pays to check the below.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
@c This does not work (yet if ever). FIXME.
|
|
@c @item --parse=@var{lang} @dots{}
|
|
@c Configure the @value{GDBN} expression parser to parse the listed languages.
|
|
@c @samp{all} configures @value{GDBN} for all supported languages. To get a
|
|
@c list of all supported languages, omit the argument. Without this
|
|
@c option, @value{GDBN} is configured to parse all supported languages.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
START_INFERIOR_TRAPS_EXPECTED need never be defined to 2, since that
|
|
is its default value. Clean this up.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
It should be possible to use symbols from shared libraries before we know
|
|
exactly where the libraries will be loaded. E.g. "b perror" before running
|
|
the program. This could maybe be done as an extension of the "breakpoint
|
|
re-evaluation" after new symbols are loaded.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Make single_step() insert and remove breakpoints in one operation.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Speed up single stepping by avoiding extraneous ptrace calls.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Speed up single stepping by not inserting and removing breakpoints
|
|
each time the inferior starts and stops.
|
|
|
|
Breakpoints should not be inserted and deleted all the time. Only the
|
|
one(s) there should be removed when we have to step over one. Support
|
|
breakpoints that don't have to be removed to step over them.
|
|
|
|
[this has resulted in numerous debates. The issue isn't clear cut]
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Provide "voodoo" debugging of core files. This creates a zombie
|
|
process as a child of the debugger, and loads it up with the data,
|
|
stack, and regs of the core file. This allows you to call functions
|
|
in the executable, to manipulate the data in the core file.
|
|
|
|
[you wish]
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
GDB reopens the source file on every line, as you "next" through it.
|
|
|
|
[still true? I've a memory of this being fixed]
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Perhaps "i source" should take an argument like that of "list".
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Remove "at 0xnnnn" from the "b foo" response, if `print address off' and if
|
|
it matches the source line indicated.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
The prompt at end of screen should accept space as well as CR.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Backtrace should point out what the currently selected frame is, in
|
|
its display, perhaps showing "@3 foo (bar, ...)" or ">3 foo (bar,
|
|
...)" rather than "#3 foo (bar, ...)".
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
"i program" should work for core files, and display more info, like what
|
|
actually caused it to die.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
"x/10i" should shorten the long name, if any, on subsequent lines.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
"next" over a function that longjumps, never stops until next time you happen
|
|
to get to that spot by accident. E.g. "n" over execute_command which has
|
|
an error.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
"set zeroprint off", don't bother printing members of structs which
|
|
are entirely zero. Useful for those big structs with few useful
|
|
members.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
GDB does four ioctl's for every command, probably switching terminal modes
|
|
to/from inferior or for readline or something.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
terminal_ours versus terminal_inferior: cache state. Switch should be a noop
|
|
if the state is the same, too.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
"i frame" shows wrong "arglist at" location, doesn't show where the args
|
|
should be found, only their actual values.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
There should be a way for "set" commands to validate the new setting
|
|
before it takes effect.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
"ena d" is ambiguous, why? "ena delete" seems to think it is a command!
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
i line VAR produces "Line number not known for symbol ``var''.". I
|
|
thought we were stashing that info now!
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
We should be able to write to random files at hex offsets like adb.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Make "target xxx" command interruptible.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
[elena - delete this]
|
|
|
|
Handle add_file with separate text, data, and bss addresses. Maybe
|
|
handle separate addresses for each segment in the object file?
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
[Jimb/Elena delete this one]
|
|
|
|
Handle free_named_symtab to cope with multiply-loaded object files
|
|
in a dynamic linking environment. Should remember the last copy loaded,
|
|
but not get too snowed if it finds references to the older copy.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
[elena delete this also]
|
|
|
|
Remove all references to:
|
|
text_offset
|
|
data_offset
|
|
text_data_start
|
|
text_end
|
|
exec_data_offset
|
|
...
|
|
now that we have BFD. All remaining are in machine dependent files.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Re-organize help categories into things that tend to fit on a screen
|
|
and hang together.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Add in commands like ADB's for searching for patterns, etc. We should
|
|
be able to examine and patch raw unsymboled binaries as well in gdb as
|
|
we can in adb. (E.g. increase the timeout in /bin/login without source).
|
|
|
|
[actually, add ADB interface :-]
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
When doing "step" or "next", if a few lines of source are skipped between
|
|
the previous line and the current one, print those lines, not just the
|
|
last line of a multiline statement.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Handling of "&" address-of operator needs some serious overhaul
|
|
for ANSI C and consistency on arrays and functions.
|
|
For "float point[15];":
|
|
ptype &point[4] ==> Attempt to take address of non-lvalue.
|
|
For "char *malloc();":
|
|
ptype malloc ==> "char *()"; should be same as
|
|
ptype &malloc ==> "char *(*)()"
|
|
call printf ("%x\n", malloc) ==> weird value, should be same as
|
|
call printf ("%x\n", &malloc) ==> correct value
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Fix dbxread.c symbol reading in the presence of interrupts. It
|
|
currently leaves a cleanup to blow away the entire symbol table when a
|
|
QUIT occurs. (What's wrong with that? -kingdon, 28 Oct 1993).
|
|
|
|
[I suspect that the grype was that, on a slow system, you might want
|
|
to cntrl-c and get just half the symbols and then load the rest later
|
|
- scary to be honest]
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Mipsread.c reads include files depth-first, because the dependencies
|
|
in the psymtabs are way too inclusive (it seems to me). Figure out what
|
|
really depends on what, to avoid recursing 20 or 30 times while reading
|
|
real symtabs.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
value_add() should be subtracting the lower bound of arrays, if known,
|
|
and possibly checking against the upper bound for error reporting.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
When listing source lines, check for a preceding \n, to verify that
|
|
the file hasn't changed out from under us.
|
|
|
|
[fixed by some other means I think. That hack wouldn't actually work
|
|
reliably - the file might move such that another \n appears. ]
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Get all the remote systems (where the protocol allows it) to be able to
|
|
stop the remote system when the GDB user types ^C (like remote.c
|
|
does). For ebmon, use ^Ak.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Possible feature: A version of the "disassemble" command which shows
|
|
both source and assembly code ("set symbol-filename on" is a partial
|
|
solution).
|
|
|
|
[has this been done? It was certainly done for MI and GDBtk]
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
investigate "x/s 0" (right now stops early) (I think maybe GDB is
|
|
using a 0 address for bad purposes internally).
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Make "info path" and path_command work again (but independent of the
|
|
environment either of gdb or that we'll pass to the inferior).
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Make GDB understand the GCC feature for putting octal constants in
|
|
enums. Make it so overflow on an enum constant does not error_type
|
|
the whole type. Allow arbitrarily large enums with type attributes.
|
|
Put all this stuff in the testsuite.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Make TYPE_CODE_ERROR with a non-zero TYPE_LENGTH more useful (print
|
|
the value in hex; process type attributes). Add this to the
|
|
testsuite. This way future compilers can add new types and old
|
|
versions of GDB can do something halfway reasonable.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Fix mdebugread.c:parse_type to do fundamental types right (see
|
|
rs6000_builtin_type in stabsread.c for what "right" is--the point is
|
|
that the debug format fixes the sizes of these things and it shouldn't
|
|
depend on stuff like TARGET_PTR_BIT and so on. For mdebug, there seem
|
|
to be separate bt* codes for 64 bit and 32 bit things, and GDB should
|
|
be aware of that). Also use a switch statement for clarity and speed.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Investigate adding symbols in target_load--some targets do, some
|
|
don't.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Put dirname in psymtabs and change lookup*symtab to use dirname (so
|
|
/foo/bar.c works whether compiled by cc /foo/bar.c, or cd /foo; cc
|
|
bar.c).
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Merge xcoffread.c and coffread.c. Use breakpoint_re_set instead of
|
|
fixup_breakpoints.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Make a watchpoint which contains a function call an error (it is
|
|
broken now, making it work is probably not worth the effort).
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
New test case based on weird.exp but in which type numbers are not
|
|
renumbered (thus multiply defining a type). This currently causes an
|
|
infinite loop on "p v_comb".
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
[Hey! Hint Hint Delete Delete!!!]
|
|
|
|
Fix 386 floating point so that floating point registers are real
|
|
registers (but code can deal at run-time if they are missing, like
|
|
mips and 68k). This would clean up "info float" and related stuff.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
gcc -g -c enummask.c then gdb enummask.o, then "p v". GDB complains
|
|
about not being able to access memory location 0.
|
|
|
|
-------------------- enummask.c
|
|
enum mask
|
|
{
|
|
ANIMAL = 0,
|
|
VEGETABLE = 1,
|
|
MINERAL = 2,
|
|
BASIC_CATEGORY = 3,
|
|
|
|
WHITE = 0,
|
|
BLUE = 4,
|
|
GREEN = 8,
|
|
BLACK = 0xc,
|
|
COLOR = 0xc,
|
|
|
|
ALIVE = 0x10,
|
|
|
|
LARGE = 0x20
|
|
} v;
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
If try to modify value in file with "set write off" should give
|
|
appropriate error not "cannot access memory at address 0x65e0".
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Allow core file without exec file on RS/6000.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Make sure "shell" with no arguments works right on DOS.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Make gdb.ini (as well as .gdbinit) be checked on all platforms, so
|
|
the same directory can be NFS-mounted on unix or DOS, and work the
|
|
same way.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
[Is this another delete???]
|
|
|
|
Get SECT_OFF_TEXT stuff out of objfile_relocate (might be needed to
|
|
get RS/6000 to work right, might not be immediately relevant).
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Work out some kind of way to allow running the inferior to be done as
|
|
a sub-execution of, eg. breakpoint command lists. Currently running
|
|
the inferior interupts any command list execution. This would require
|
|
some rewriting of wait_for_inferior & friends, and hence should
|
|
probably be done in concert with the above.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Add function arguments to gdb user defined functions.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Add convenience variables that refer to exec file, symbol file,
|
|
selected frame source file, selected frame function, selected frame
|
|
line number, etc.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
Add a "suspend" subcommand of the "continue" command to suspend gdb
|
|
while continuing execution of the subprocess. Useful when you are
|
|
debugging servers and you want to dodge out and initiate a connection
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to a server running under gdb.
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[hey async!!]
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Modify the handling of symbols grouped through BINCL/EINCL stabs to
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allocate a partial symtab for each BINCL/EINCL grouping. This will
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seriously decrease the size of inter-psymtab dependencies and hence
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lessen the amount that needs to be read in when a new source file is
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accessed.
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[Comming...]
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Modify gdb to work correctly with Pascal.
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Add a command for searching memory, a la adb. It specifies size,
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mask, value, start address. ADB searches until it finds it or hits
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an error (or is interrupted).
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Remove the range and type checking code and documentation, if not
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going to implement.
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