[committed][gdb/testsuite] Fix .debug_abbrev terminators

Tom de Vries tdevries@suse.de
Tue Nov 3 16:41:45 GMT 2020


Hi,

The abbreviations table for a single compilation unit has two types of
terminators:
- a ".byte 0" pair denoting the end of an attribute list
- a single ".byte 0" denoting the end of the table

However, at the end of the .debug_abbrev section in dw2-line-number-zero-dw.S,
we have four ".byte 0" entries:
...
        .uleb128        0x12            /* DW_AT_high_pc */
        .uleb128        0x01            /* DW_FORM_addr */
        .byte        0x0                /* Terminator */
        .byte        0x0                /* Terminator */
        .byte        0x0                /* Terminator */
        .byte        0x0                /* Terminator */
...

The first two are the attribute list terminator, the third is the end-of-table
terminator, and the last is superfluous/incorrect.

Fix this by emitting instead:
...
        .uleb128        0x12            /* DW_AT_high_pc */
        .uleb128        0x01            /* DW_FORM_addr */
        .byte        0x0                /* DW_AT - Terminator */
        .byte        0x0                /* DW_FORM - Terminator */
        .byte        0x0                /* Abbrev end - Terminator */
...
where the last comment resembles the comment for other abbreviation codes:
...
        .section .debug_abbrev
.Labbrev1_begin:
        .uleb128        2               /* Abbrev start */
...

Tested on x86_64-linux.

Committed to trunk.

Thanks,
- Tom

[gdb/testsuite] Fix .debug_abbrev terminators

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:

2020-11-03  Tom de Vries  <tdevries@suse.de>

	* lib/dwarf.exp (Dwarf::_handle_DW_TAG): Improve attribute list
	terminator comments.
	(Dwarf::cu, Dwarf::tu): Remove superfluous abbreviation table
	terminator.

---
 gdb/testsuite/lib/dwarf.exp | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/lib/dwarf.exp b/gdb/testsuite/lib/dwarf.exp
index 1a0cbf689e..c585621ac4 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/lib/dwarf.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/lib/dwarf.exp
@@ -723,8 +723,8 @@ namespace eval Dwarf {
 
 	_defer_output $_abbrev_section {
 	    # Terminator.
-	    _op .byte 0x0 Terminator
-	    _op .byte 0x0 Terminator
+	    _op .byte 0x0 "DW_AT - Terminator"
+	    _op .byte 0x0 "DW_FORM - Terminator"
 	}
 
 	if {$has_children} {
@@ -1111,8 +1111,7 @@ namespace eval Dwarf {
 
 	_defer_output $_abbrev_section {
 	    # Emit the terminator.
-	    _op .byte 0x0 Terminator
-	    _op .byte 0x0 Terminator
+	    _op .byte 0x0 "Abbrev end - Terminator"
 	}
 
 	define_label $end_label
@@ -1220,8 +1219,7 @@ namespace eval Dwarf {
 
 	_defer_output $_abbrev_section {
 	    # Emit the terminator.
-	    _op .byte 0x0 Terminator
-	    _op .byte 0x0 Terminator
+	    _op .byte 0x0 "Abbrev end - Terminator"
 	}
 
 	define_label $end_label


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