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Re: [PATCH] Fix PPC non-CFI + CFI unwinding (incomplete in HEAD)
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 10:34:14PM +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:40:28 +0100, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> ...
> > I was thinking of this:
> > http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2004-12/msg00249.html
> > http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2005-06/msg00242.html
> >
> > I think someone needs to combine Joel's and Jan's patches. Joel's is
> > nicer in that it uses branch_dest and the right mask for blrl; Jan's
> > is nicer in that it checks whether lr was saved or is now lost.
>
> Attached for:
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2004-12/msg00249.html
> and it does not handle in any way
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2005-06/msg00242.html
> as it would be IMO more appropriate to base it on the called code content but
> "I do not have that Darwin code".
I tried combining them myself. Could you let me know if this patch
still fixes your bug?
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
2007-01-14 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>
Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
* rs6000-tdep.c (bl_to_blrl_insn_p): New function.
(skip_prologue): Allow bl->blrl used by PIC code.
Index: rs6000-tdep.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/rs6000-tdep.c,v
retrieving revision 1.260
diff -u -p -r1.260 rs6000-tdep.c
--- rs6000-tdep.c 9 Jan 2007 17:58:57 -0000 1.260
+++ rs6000-tdep.c 20 Jan 2007 19:55:58 -0000
@@ -902,6 +902,30 @@ store_param_on_stack_p (unsigned long op
return 0;
}
+/* Assuming that INSN is a "bl" instruction located at PC, return
+ nonzero if the destination of the branch is a "blrl" instruction.
+
+ This sequence is sometimes found in certain function prologues.
+ It allows the function to load the LR register with a value that
+ they can use to access PIC data using PC-relative offsets. */
+
+static int
+bl_to_blrl_insn_p (CORE_ADDR pc, int insn)
+{
+ const int opcode = 18;
+ const CORE_ADDR dest = branch_dest (opcode, insn, pc, -1);
+ int dest_insn;
+
+ if (dest == -1)
+ return 0; /* Should never happen, but just return zero to be safe. */
+
+ dest_insn = read_memory_integer (dest, 4);
+ if ((dest_insn & 0xfc00ffff) == 0x4c000021) /* blrl */
+ return 1;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
static CORE_ADDR
skip_prologue (CORE_ADDR pc, CORE_ADDR lim_pc, struct rs6000_framedata *fdata)
{
@@ -1133,6 +1157,12 @@ skip_prologue (CORE_ADDR pc, CORE_ADDR l
to save fprs??? */
fdata->frameless = 0;
+
+ /* If the return address has already been saved, we can skip
+ calls to blrl (for PIC). */
+ if (lr_reg != -1 && bl_to_blrl_insn_p (pc, op))
+ continue;
+
/* Don't skip over the subroutine call if it is not within
the first three instructions of the prologue and either
we have no line table information or the line info tells