[commit] Warn if missing debug info for Ada exception catchpoints

Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
Sun Dec 11 17:44:00 GMT 2011


This is the second part that takes advantage of the cleanup we just
did.

This patch should help the user understand why the debugger is not
able to insert Ada exception catchpoints when the Ada runtime was
stripped of debugging info, as is often the case on many GNU/Linux
distros:

    (gdb) catch exception
    Your Ada runtime appears to be missing some debugging information.
    Cannot insert Ada exception catchpoint in this configuration.

gdb/ChangeLog:

        * ada-lang.c (ada_has_this_exception_support): Raise an error
        if we could find the Ada exception hook in the Ada runtime,
        but no debugging info for that hook.

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:

        * gdb.ada/catch_ex.exp, gdb.ada/mi_catch_ex.exp: Adjust
        expected output for unsupported case.

Tested on x86_64-linux, with normal and stripped runtime.
Checked in.

---
 gdb/ChangeLog                         |    6 ++++++
 gdb/ada-lang.c                        |   23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog               |    5 +++++
 gdb/testsuite/gdb.ada/catch_ex.exp    |    2 +-
 gdb/testsuite/gdb.ada/mi_catch_ex.exp |    2 +-
 5 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index cbd770b..31397e0 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 2011-12-11  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
 
+	* ada-lang.c (ada_has_this_exception_support): Raise an error
+	if we could find the Ada exception hook in the Ada runtime,
+	but no debugging info for that hook.
+
+2011-12-11  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
+
 	* ada-lang.c (ada_has_this_exception_support): New function,
 	extracted out of ada_exception_sal and ada_exception_sal.
 	(ada_exception_support_info_sniffer): Simplify by using
diff --git a/gdb/ada-lang.c b/gdb/ada-lang.c
index 97558f1..b3c0a24 100644
--- a/gdb/ada-lang.c
+++ b/gdb/ada-lang.c
@@ -10666,7 +10666,28 @@ ada_has_this_exception_support (const struct exception_support_info *einfo)
 
   sym = standard_lookup (einfo->catch_exception_sym, NULL, VAR_DOMAIN);
   if (sym == NULL)
-    return 0;
+    {
+      /* Perhaps we did not find our symbol because the Ada runtime was
+	 compiled without debugging info, or simply stripped of it.
+	 It happens on some GNU/Linux distributions for instance, where
+	 users have to install a separate debug package in order to get
+	 the runtime's debugging info.  In that situation, let the user
+	 know why we cannot insert an Ada exception catchpoint.
+
+	 Note: Just for the purpose of inserting our Ada exception
+	 catchpoint, we could rely purely on the associated minimal symbol.
+	 But we would be operating in degraded mode anyway, since we are
+	 still lacking the debugging info needed later on to extract
+	 the name of the exception being raised (this name is printed in
+	 the catchpoint message, and is also used when trying to catch
+	 a specific exception).  We do not handle this case for now.  */
+      if (lookup_minimal_symbol (einfo->catch_exception_sym, NULL, NULL))
+	error (_("Your Ada runtime appears to be missing some debugging "
+		 "information.\nCannot insert Ada exception catchpoint "
+		 "in this configuration."));
+
+      return 0;
+    }
 
   /* Make sure that the symbol we found corresponds to a function.  */
 
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
index 1a02cf9..f95ac4d 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-12-11  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
+
+	* gdb.ada/catch_ex.exp, gdb.ada/mi_catch_ex.exp: Adjust
+	expected output for unsupported case.
+
 2011-12-10  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
 
 	PR testsuite/12649
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.ada/catch_ex.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.ada/catch_ex.exp
index 0ea3256..0cb8874 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.ada/catch_ex.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.ada/catch_ex.exp
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ gdb_test_multiple "catch exception" $msg {
     -re "Catchpoint $any_nb: all Ada exceptions$eol$gdb_prompt $" {
 	pass $msg
     }
-    -re "Cannot (insert catchpoints|break on __gnat_raise_nodefer_with_msg) in this configuration\.$eol$gdb_prompt $" {
+    -re "Your Ada runtime appears to be missing some debugging information.*$eol$gdb_prompt $" {
 	# If the runtime was not built with enough debug information,
 	# or if it was stripped, we can not test exception
 	# catchpoints.
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.ada/mi_catch_ex.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.ada/mi_catch_ex.exp
index 4be1cad..584cc00 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.ada/mi_catch_ex.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.ada/mi_catch_ex.exp
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ gdb_test_multiple "catch exception" $msg {
     -re "Catchpoint $any_nb: all Ada exceptions$eol$gdb_prompt $" {
 	pass $msg
     }
-    -re "Cannot (insert catchpoints|break on __gnat_raise_nodefer_with_msg) in this configuration\.\[\r\n\]+$gdb_prompt $" {
+    -re "Your Ada runtime appears to be missing some debugging information.*\[\r\n\]+$gdb_prompt $" {
 	# If the runtime was not built with enough debug information,
 	# or if it was stripped, we can not test exception
 	# catchpoints.
-- 
1.7.1



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