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[commit/Ada] array pointers encoded as typedef to fat pointer
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:11:43 -0800
- Subject: [commit/Ada] array pointers encoded as typedef to fat pointer
A recent change in check_typedef caused the following regression,
considering:
type String_Access is access String;
S1 : String_Access := null;
Trying to print S1, we get:
(gdb) print s1
$1 = (string) (null)
The type name is wrong. We were expecting:
(gdb) print s1
$1 = (string_bug.string_access) (null)
The extensive comment in this patch explains how pointers to arrays
are encoded when the array is a "fat pointer". What happened is
that the change in check_typedef broke a type-equality test that
we were performing. The test really was on the fringe, but it
turns out that, for what we're doing, we're really only interested
in the main-type portion of the type.
The patch adjust the check accordingly.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* ada-lang.c (ada_to_fixed_type): Expand function documentation.
Return the original type if the main type portions match rather
than when the type themselves match.
Tested on x86_64-linux. Checked in.
---
gdb/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
gdb/ada-lang.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 8872ab4..dd91159 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
2010-11-22 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
+ * ada-lang.c (ada_to_fixed_type): Expand function documentation.
+ Return the original type if the main type portions match rather
+ than when the type themselves match.
+
+2010-11-22 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
+
* ada-lang.c (ada_template_to_fixed_record_type_1):
For dynamic fields, check the field size against the maximum
object size.
diff --git a/gdb/ada-lang.c b/gdb/ada-lang.c
index 341db4a..4471481 100644
--- a/gdb/ada-lang.c
+++ b/gdb/ada-lang.c
@@ -7659,7 +7659,23 @@ ada_to_fixed_type_1 (struct type *type, const gdb_byte *valaddr,
/* The same as ada_to_fixed_type_1, except that it preserves the type
if it is a TYPE_CODE_TYPEDEF of a type that is already fixed.
- ada_to_fixed_type_1 would return the type referenced by TYPE. */
+
+ The typedef layer needs be preserved in order to differentiate between
+ arrays and array pointers when both types are implemented using the same
+ fat pointer. In the array pointer case, the pointer is encoded as
+ a typedef of the pointer type. For instance, considering:
+
+ type String_Access is access String;
+ S1 : String_Access := null;
+
+ To the debugger, S1 is defined as a typedef of type String. But
+ to the user, it is a pointer. So if the user tries to print S1,
+ we should not dereference the array, but print the array address
+ instead.
+
+ If we didn't preserve the typedef layer, we would lose the fact that
+ the type is to be presented as a pointer (needs de-reference before
+ being printed). And we would also use the source-level type name. */
struct type *
ada_to_fixed_type (struct type *type, const gdb_byte *valaddr,
@@ -7669,8 +7685,26 @@ ada_to_fixed_type (struct type *type, const gdb_byte *valaddr,
struct type *fixed_type =
ada_to_fixed_type_1 (type, valaddr, address, dval, check_tag);
+ /* If TYPE is a typedef and its target type is the same as the FIXED_TYPE,
+ then preserve the typedef layer.
+
+ Implementation note: We can only check the main-type portion of
+ the TYPE and FIXED_TYPE, because eliminating the typedef layer
+ from TYPE now returns a type that has the same instance flags
+ as TYPE. For instance, if TYPE is a "typedef const", and its
+ target type is a "struct", then the typedef elimination will return
+ a "const" version of the target type. See check_typedef for more
+ details about how the typedef layer elimination is done.
+
+ brobecker/2010-11-19: It seems to me that the only case where it is
+ useful to preserve the typedef layer is when dealing with fat pointers.
+ Perhaps, we could add a check for that and preserve the typedef layer
+ only in that situation. But this seems unecessary so far, probably
+ because we call check_typedef/ada_check_typedef pretty much everywhere.
+ */
if (TYPE_CODE (type) == TYPE_CODE_TYPEDEF
- && TYPE_TARGET_TYPE (type) == fixed_type)
+ && (TYPE_MAIN_TYPE (TYPE_TARGET_TYPE (type))
+ == TYPE_MAIN_TYPE (fixed_type)))
return type;
return fixed_type;
--
1.7.1