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authorJoel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>2018-03-27 08:57:16 -0500
committerJoel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>2018-03-27 09:57:16 -0400
commit59cc4834e53565da1de4a7b615ed8890ed55c7da (patch)
tree8a530a567d3dc3f55a723e427f77c42eff56944d /gdb/c-lang.c
parent675015399bf80896706865e3d77d3af7fc925932 (diff)
downloadbinutils-gdb-59cc4834e53565da1de4a7b615ed8890ed55c7da.tar.gz
problem looking up some symbols when they have a linkage name
This patch fixes a known failure in gdb.ada/maint_with_ada.exp (maintenance check-psymtabs). Another way to witness the same issue is by considering the following Ada declarations... type Wrapper is record A : Integer; end record; u00045 : constant Wrapper := (A => 16#060287af#); pragma Export (C, u00045, "symada__cS"); ... which declares a variable name "u00045" but with a linkage name which is "symada__cS". This variable is a record with one component, the Ada equivalent of a struct with one field in C. Trying to print that variable's value currently yields: (gdb) p /x <symada__cS> 'symada(char, signed)' has unknown type; cast it to its declared type This indicates that GDB was only able to find the minimal symbol, but not the full symbol. The expected output is: (gdb) print /x <symada__cS> $1 = (a => 0x60287af) The error message gives a hint about what's happening: We processed the symbol through gdb_demangle, which in the case of this particular symbol name, ends up matching the C++ naming scheme. As a result, the demangler transforms our symbol name into 'symada(char, signed)', thus breaking Ada lookups. This patch fixes the issue by first introducing a new language_defn attribute called la_store_sym_names_in_linkage_form_p, which is a boolean to be set to true for the few languages that do not want their symbols to have their names stored in demangled form, and false otherwise. We then use this language attribute to skip the call to gdb_demangle for all languages whose la_store_sym_names_in_linkage_form_p is true. In terms of the selection of languages for which the new attribute is set to true, the selection errs on the side of preserving the existing behavior, and only changes the behavior for the languages where we are certain storing symbol names in demangling form is not needed. It is conceivable that other languages might be in the same situation, but I not knowing in detail the symbol name enconding strategy, I decided to play it safe and let other language maintainers potentially adjust their language if it makes sense to do so. gdb/ChangeLog: PR gdb/22670 * dwarf2read.c (dwarf2_physname): Do not return the demangled symbol name if the CU's language stores symbol names in linkage format. * language.h (struct language_defn) <la_store_sym_names_in_linkage_form_p>: New field. Adjust all instances of this struct. gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: * gdb.ada/maint_with_ada.exp: Remove PR gdb/22670 setup_kfail. * gdb.ada/notcplusplus: New testcase. * gdb.base/c-linkage-name.c: New file. * gdb.base/c-linkage-name.exp: New testcase. Tested on x86_64-linux. This also passes AdaCore's internal GDB testsuite.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/c-lang.c')
-rw-r--r--gdb/c-lang.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/c-lang.c b/gdb/c-lang.c
index a0b553e7416..658c7f7826a 100644
--- a/gdb/c-lang.c
+++ b/gdb/c-lang.c
@@ -853,6 +853,7 @@ extern const struct language_defn c_language_defn =
default_read_var_value, /* la_read_var_value */
NULL, /* Language specific skip_trampoline */
NULL, /* name_of_this */
+ true, /* la_store_sym_names_in_linkage_form_p */
basic_lookup_symbol_nonlocal, /* lookup_symbol_nonlocal */
basic_lookup_transparent_type,/* lookup_transparent_type */
NULL, /* Language specific symbol demangler */
@@ -998,6 +999,7 @@ extern const struct language_defn cplus_language_defn =
default_read_var_value, /* la_read_var_value */
cplus_skip_trampoline, /* Language specific skip_trampoline */
"this", /* name_of_this */
+ false, /* la_store_sym_names_in_linkage_form_p */
cp_lookup_symbol_nonlocal, /* lookup_symbol_nonlocal */
cp_lookup_transparent_type, /* lookup_transparent_type */
gdb_demangle, /* Language specific symbol demangler */
@@ -1052,6 +1054,7 @@ extern const struct language_defn asm_language_defn =
default_read_var_value, /* la_read_var_value */
NULL, /* Language specific skip_trampoline */
NULL, /* name_of_this */
+ true, /* la_store_sym_names_in_linkage_form_p */
basic_lookup_symbol_nonlocal, /* lookup_symbol_nonlocal */
basic_lookup_transparent_type,/* lookup_transparent_type */
NULL, /* Language specific symbol demangler */
@@ -1106,6 +1109,7 @@ extern const struct language_defn minimal_language_defn =
default_read_var_value, /* la_read_var_value */
NULL, /* Language specific skip_trampoline */
NULL, /* name_of_this */
+ true, /* la_store_sym_names_in_linkage_form_p */
basic_lookup_symbol_nonlocal, /* lookup_symbol_nonlocal */
basic_lookup_transparent_type,/* lookup_transparent_type */
NULL, /* Language specific symbol demangler */