gdb was cloned from the buggy version of kvm_uread() in libkvm and
had the same bugs. It looped endlessly on EOF and checked errno
without setting it in the lseek() error check. The first bug caused
gdb to loop endlessly for reads from addresses between the end of
the user area and the start of the kernel text. kvm_uread() should
not be used for addresses beyond the end of the user area, but is
due to bugs elsewhere.
the previous frame is in the usual place even for traps, interrupts
and syscalls in the kernel, because the assembly language stubs
don't change the frame pointer. The previous frame is just not for
the calling function. We may as well depend on this as on magic to
determine the trap frame address. The magic is in FRAME_SAVED_PC()
which elides the correct number of stubs (1) to go back to a pc that
matches the previous frame.
Removing fbsd_kern_frame_chain() fixes bugs in it. Xsyscall was
misspelled as _Xsyscall (gdb removes one leading underscore), so
the tf_syscall frame type was never found. This was harmless
because tf_normal works in all cases in fbsd_kern_frame_chain()
and Xsyscall is spelled correctly in fbsd_kern_frame_saved_pc()
where it matters. There were style bugs on almost every line,
starting with a primary indent of 7.
following "panic:" or "Fatal trap". `panicstr' is still printed,
although it is redundant if there is a valid message buffer and
incomplete if it contains `%'s. I think the awk command belongs
here and not in a script since a standard format with complete
messages is good for bug reports.
Implemented reading of %fs and %gs from core files.
Print weird floating point values better. We have to convert long
doubles to doubles here because of limitations and bugs in printf()
and floatformat_to_double() (long doubles aren't really supported
and naive converion to double causes exceptions). Conversion loses
information about weird formats (everything becomes a quiet NaN),
and printf() doesn't know about different types of NaNs anyway.
reference to the programming manual. Use this near-copy of the version
of hsuser.texinfo in contrib/libreadline instead of the stale near-copy
in contrib/gdb.
because 2 references to _initialize_kcorelow (the other one
from kvm-fbsd.c) resulted. This prevented gdb from working correectly.
delete kcorelow.c from XSRCS in the Makefile.
punning the pcb to an array of ints and using magic indices to
access values in it. This should prevent silent breakage from
changes in the pcb.
Supply 0 for unavailable registers instead of punning the tss to
an array of ints and using magic indices to access garbage values
in it. (The registers are in the pcb; there is nothing interesting
in the tss. This should change someday. At least for dumps, all
the registers should be saved, and common_tss is a good place to
put them.)
Removed ancient wrong (disabled) method for reading eip.
UPAGES layout.. it was entirely too comfortable with reading and writing
the U area before. I've changed it to use PT_GETREGS/PT_PUTREGS
ptrace ops instead of READ_U etc. The code to read the registers from
core dumps is a bandaid at best. It seems to have problems reading
core dumps from dynamic linked executables still, but at least static
dumps work.
I desperately need help from a gdb/bfd expert. :-) HELP!!
"%%" in format strings and tends to dump core for "%%st". I needed
"%%st" to fix the new gdb ...
Don't use the private version of strerror() either.
Use INTERNALLIB and INTERNALSTATICLIB instead of a private install
rules NOPROFILE and NOPIC. This is only slightly cleaner.
INTERNALLIB was previously only used in compatibility libraries
(libgnumalloc etc.) and INTERNALSTATICLIB was previously unused.
INTERNAL*LIB probably should be replaced by something like NOSTATICO
together with NO{STATICO,PROFILE,PIC}INSTALL.
by the -DNO_MMALLOC flag in gdb/Makefile.
The one thing we lose by doing this, AFAIK, is the possibility of using
mmap. Does anyone use that feature at all ?
2.2 candidate ?
files using the texi sources in /usr/src/contrib/gdb/gdb/doc.
I put a pointer to /usr/src/contrib/libreadline/doc into
Makefile.inc in the hope that the appropriate files would be
picked up.
This is based on /usr/ports/devel/gdb.
2.2 candidate ?
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
