1 # Python hooks for gdb for debugging GCC
2 # Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 # Contributed by David Malcolm <dmalcolm@redhat.com>
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23 Enabling the debugging hooks
24 ----------------------------
25 gcc/configure (from configure.ac) generates a .gdbinit within the "gcc"
26 subdirectory of the build directory, and when run by gdb, this imports
27 gcc/gdbhooks.py from the source directory, injecting useful Python code
30 You may see a message from gdb of the form:
31 "path-to-build/gcc/.gdbinit" auto-loading has been declined by your `auto-load safe-path'
32 as a protection against untrustworthy python scripts. See
33 http://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Auto_002dloading-safe-path.html
35 The fix is to mark the paths of the build/gcc directory as trustworthy.
36 An easy way to do so is by adding the following to your ~/.gdbinit script:
37 add-auto-load-safe-path /absolute/path/to/build/gcc
38 for the build directories for your various checkouts of gcc.
40 If it's working, you should see the message:
41 Successfully loaded GDB hooks for GCC
44 During development, I've been manually invoking the code in this way, as a
45 precanned way of printing a variety of different kinds of value:
48 -ex "break expand_gimple_stmt" \
54 Examples of output using the pretty-printers
55 --------------------------------------------
56 Pointer values are generally shown in the form:
57 <type address extra_info>
59 For example, an opt_pass* might appear as:
61 $2 = <opt_pass* 0x188b600 "expand"(170)>
63 The name of the pass is given ("expand"), together with the
66 Note that you can dereference the pointer in the normal way:
68 $4 = {type = RTL_PASS, name = 0x120a312 "expand",
71 and you can suppress pretty-printers using /r (for "raw"):
73 $3 = (opt_pass *) 0x188b600
75 Basic blocks are shown with their index in parentheses, apart from the
76 CFG's entry and exit blocks, which are given as "ENTRY" and "EXIT":
78 $9 = <basic_block 0x7ffff041f1a0 (2)>
79 (gdb) p cfun->cfg->x_entry_block_ptr
80 $10 = <basic_block 0x7ffff041f0d0 (ENTRY)>
81 (gdb) p cfun->cfg->x_exit_block_ptr
82 $11 = <basic_block 0x7ffff041f138 (EXIT)>
84 CFG edges are shown with the src and dest blocks given in parentheses:
86 $1 = <edge 0x7ffff043f118 (ENTRY -> 6)>
88 Tree nodes are printed using Python code that emulates print_node_brief,
89 running in gdb, rather than in the inferior:
91 $1 = <function_decl 0x7ffff0420b00 foo>
92 For usability, the type is printed first (e.g. "function_decl"), rather
95 RTL expressions use a kludge: they are pretty-printed by injecting
96 calls into print-rtl.c into the inferior:
97 Value returned is $1 = (note 9 8 10 [bb 3] NOTE_INSN_BASIC_BLOCK)
99 $2 = (note 9 8 10 [bb 3] NOTE_INSN_BASIC_BLOCK)
101 $3 = (rtx_def *) 0x7ffff043e140
102 This won't work for coredumps, and probably in other circumstances, but
103 it's a quick way of getting lots of debuggability quickly.
105 Callgraph nodes are printed with the name of the function decl, if
108 #5 0x00000000006c288a in expand_function (node=<cgraph_node* 0x7ffff0312720 "foo">) at ../../src/gcc/cgraphunit.c:1594
109 1594 execute_pass_list (g->get_passes ()->all_passes);
111 $1 = <cgraph_node* 0x7ffff0312720 "foo">
119 # Convert "enum tree_code" (tree.def and tree.h) to a dict:
120 tree_code_dict
= gdb
.types
.make_enum_dict(gdb
.lookup_type('enum tree_code'))
122 # ...and look up specific values for use later:
123 IDENTIFIER_NODE
= tree_code_dict
['IDENTIFIER_NODE']
124 TYPE_DECL
= tree_code_dict
['TYPE_DECL']
126 # Similarly for "enum tree_code_class" (tree.h):
127 tree_code_class_dict
= gdb
.types
.make_enum_dict(gdb
.lookup_type('enum tree_code_class'))
128 tcc_type
= tree_code_class_dict
['tcc_type']
129 tcc_declaration
= tree_code_class_dict
['tcc_declaration']
133 Wrapper around a gdb.Value for a tree, with various methods
134 corresponding to macros in gcc/tree.h
136 def __init__(self
, gdbval
):
139 def is_nonnull(self
):
140 return long(self
.gdbval
)
144 Get gdb.Value corresponding to TREE_CODE (self)
146 #define TREE_CODE(NODE) ((enum tree_code) (NODE)->base.code)
148 return self
.gdbval
['base']['code']
152 Get Tree instance corresponding to DECL_NAME (self)
154 return Tree(self
.gdbval
['decl_minimal']['name'])
158 Get Tree instance corresponding to result of TYPE_NAME (self)
160 return Tree(self
.gdbval
['type_common']['name'])
162 def IDENTIFIER_POINTER(self
):
164 Get str correspoinding to result of IDENTIFIER_NODE (self)
166 return self
.gdbval
['identifier']['id']['str'].string()
171 def __init__ (self
, gdbval
):
173 self
.node
= Tree(gdbval
)
175 def to_string (self
):
176 # like gcc/print-tree.c:print_node_brief
177 # #define TREE_CODE(NODE) ((enum tree_code) (NODE)->base.code)
178 # tree_code_name[(int) TREE_CODE (node)])
179 if long(self
.gdbval
) == 0:
182 val_TREE_CODE
= self
.node
.TREE_CODE()
184 # extern const enum tree_code_class tree_code_type[];
185 # #define TREE_CODE_CLASS(CODE) tree_code_type[(int) (CODE)]
187 val_tree_code_type
= gdb
.parse_and_eval('tree_code_type')
188 val_tclass
= val_tree_code_type
[val_TREE_CODE
]
190 val_tree_code_name
= gdb
.parse_and_eval('tree_code_name')
191 val_code_name
= val_tree_code_name
[long(val_TREE_CODE
)]
192 #print val_code_name.string()
194 result
= '<%s 0x%x' % (val_code_name
.string(), long(self
.gdbval
))
195 if long(val_tclass
) == tcc_declaration
:
196 tree_DECL_NAME
= self
.node
.DECL_NAME()
197 if tree_DECL_NAME
.is_nonnull():
198 result
+= ' %s' % tree_DECL_NAME
.IDENTIFIER_POINTER()
200 pass # TODO: labels etc
201 elif long(val_tclass
) == tcc_type
:
202 tree_TYPE_NAME
= Tree(self
.gdbval
['type_common']['name'])
203 if tree_TYPE_NAME
.is_nonnull():
204 if tree_TYPE_NAME
.TREE_CODE() == IDENTIFIER_NODE
:
205 result
+= ' %s' % tree_TYPE_NAME
.IDENTIFIER_POINTER()
206 elif tree_TYPE_NAME
.TREE_CODE() == TYPE_DECL
:
207 if tree_TYPE_NAME
.DECL_NAME().is_nonnull():
208 result
+= ' %s' % tree_TYPE_NAME
.DECL_NAME().IDENTIFIER_POINTER()
209 if self
.node
.TREE_CODE() == IDENTIFIER_NODE
:
210 result
+= ' %s' % self
.node
.IDENTIFIER_POINTER()
215 ######################################################################
216 # Callgraph pretty-printers
217 ######################################################################
219 class CGraphNodePrinter
:
220 def __init__(self
, gdbval
):
223 def to_string (self
):
224 result
= '<cgraph_node* 0x%x' % long(self
.gdbval
)
225 if long(self
.gdbval
):
226 # symtab_node::name calls lang_hooks.decl_printable_name
227 # default implementation (lhd_decl_printable_name) is:
228 # return IDENTIFIER_POINTER (DECL_NAME (decl));
229 tree_decl
= Tree(self
.gdbval
['decl'])
230 result
+= ' "%s"' % tree_decl
.DECL_NAME().IDENTIFIER_POINTER()
234 ######################################################################
237 def __init__(self
, gdbval
):
240 def to_string (self
):
241 if long(self
.gdbval
) == 0:
242 return '<gimple 0x0>'
243 val_gimple_code
= self
.gdbval
['gsbase']['code']
244 val_gimple_code_name
= gdb
.parse_and_eval('gimple_code_name')
245 val_code_name
= val_gimple_code_name
[long(val_gimple_code
)]
246 result
= '<%s 0x%x' % (val_code_name
.string(),
251 ######################################################################
252 # CFG pretty-printers
253 ######################################################################
255 def bb_index_to_str(index
):
263 class BasicBlockPrinter
:
264 def __init__(self
, gdbval
):
267 def to_string (self
):
268 result
= '<basic_block 0x%x' % long(self
.gdbval
)
269 if long(self
.gdbval
):
270 result
+= ' (%s)' % bb_index_to_str(long(self
.gdbval
['index']))
274 class CfgEdgePrinter
:
275 def __init__(self
, gdbval
):
278 def to_string (self
):
279 result
= '<edge 0x%x' % long(self
.gdbval
)
280 if long(self
.gdbval
):
281 src
= bb_index_to_str(long(self
.gdbval
['src']['index']))
282 dest
= bb_index_to_str(long(self
.gdbval
['dest']['index']))
283 result
+= ' (%s -> %s)' % (src
, dest
)
287 ######################################################################
290 def __init__(self
, gdbval
):
294 return self
.gdbval
['code']
296 def GET_RTX_LENGTH(code
):
297 val_rtx_length
= gdb
.parse_and_eval('rtx_length')
298 return long(val_rtx_length
[code
])
300 def GET_RTX_NAME(code
):
301 val_rtx_name
= gdb
.parse_and_eval('rtx_name')
302 return val_rtx_name
[code
].string()
304 def GET_RTX_FORMAT(code
):
305 val_rtx_format
= gdb
.parse_and_eval('rtx_format')
306 return val_rtx_format
[code
].string()
309 def __init__(self
, gdbval
):
311 self
.rtx
= Rtx(gdbval
)
313 def to_string (self
):
315 For now, a cheap kludge: invoke the inferior's print
316 function to get a string to use the user, and return an empty
319 # We use print_inline_rtx to avoid a trailing newline
320 gdb
.execute('call print_inline_rtx (stderr, (const_rtx) %s, 0)'
324 # or by hand; based on gcc/print-rtl.c:print_rtx
325 result
= ('<rtx_def 0x%x'
326 % (long(self
.gdbval
)))
327 code
= self
.rtx
.GET_CODE()
328 result
+= ' (%s' % GET_RTX_NAME(code
)
329 format_
= GET_RTX_FORMAT(code
)
330 for i
in range(GET_RTX_LENGTH(code
)):
335 ######################################################################
338 def __init__(self
, gdbval
):
341 def to_string (self
):
342 result
= '<opt_pass* 0x%x' % long(self
.gdbval
)
343 if long(self
.gdbval
):
344 result
+= (' "%s"(%i)'
345 % (self
.gdbval
['name'].string(),
346 long(self
.gdbval
['static_pass_number'])))
350 ######################################################################
357 class GdbSubprinter(gdb
.printing
.SubPrettyPrinter
):
358 def __init__(self
, name
, str_type_
, class_
):
359 super(GdbSubprinter
, self
).__init
__(name
)
360 self
.str_type_
= str_type_
363 class GdbPrettyPrinters(gdb
.printing
.PrettyPrinter
):
364 def __init__(self
, name
):
365 super(GdbPrettyPrinters
, self
).__init
__(name
, [])
367 def add_printer(self
, name
, exp
, class_
):
368 self
.subprinters
.append(GdbSubprinter(name
, exp
, class_
))
370 def __call__(self
, gdbval
):
371 type_
= gdbval
.type.unqualified()
372 str_type_
= str(type_
)
373 for printer
in self
.subprinters
:
374 if printer
.enabled
and str_type_
== printer
.str_type_
:
375 return printer
.class_(gdbval
)
377 # Couldn't find a pretty printer (or it was disabled):
381 def build_pretty_printer():
382 pp
= GdbPrettyPrinters('gcc')
383 pp
.add_printer('tree', 'tree', TreePrinter
)
384 pp
.add_printer('cgraph_node', 'cgraph_node *', CGraphNodePrinter
)
385 pp
.add_printer('gimple', 'gimple', GimplePrinter
)
386 pp
.add_printer('basic_block', 'basic_block', BasicBlockPrinter
)
387 pp
.add_printer('edge', 'edge', CfgEdgePrinter
)
388 pp
.add_printer('rtx_def', 'rtx_def *', RtxPrinter
)
389 pp
.add_printer('opt_pass', 'opt_pass *', PassPrinter
)
392 gdb
.printing
.register_pretty_printer(
393 gdb
.current_objfile(),
394 build_pretty_printer())
396 print('Successfully loaded GDB hooks for GCC')