This updates the copyright headers to include 2025. I did this by
running gdb/copyright.py and then manually modifying a few files as
noted by the script.
Approved-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
This commit changes how gdbserver stores the inferior arguments from
being a vector of separate arguments into a single string with all of
the arguments combined together.
Making this change might feel a little strange; intuitively it feels
like we would be better off storing the arguments as a vector, but
this change is part of a larger series of work that aims to improve
GDB's inferior argument handling. The full series was posted here:
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb-patches/cover.1730731085.git.aburgess@redhat.com
But asking people to review a 14 patch series in unreasonable, so I'm
instead posting the patches in smaller batches. This patch can stand
alone, and I do think this change makes sense on its own:
First, GDB already stores the inferior arguments as a single string,
so doing this moves gdbserver into line with GDB. The common code
into which gdbserver calls requires the arguments to be a single
string, so currently each target's create_inferior implementation
merged the arguments anyway, so all this commit really does is move
the merging up the call stack, and store the merged result rather than
storing the separate parts.
However, the biggest reason for why this commit is needed, is an issue
with passing arguments from GDB to gdbserver when starting a new
inferior.
Consider:
(gdb) set args $VAR
(gdb) run
...
When using a native target the inferior will see the value of $VAR
expanded by the shell GDB uses to start the inferior. However, if
using an extended-remote target the inferior will see literally $VAR,
the unexpanded name of the variable, the reason for this is that,
although GDB sends '$VAR' to gdbserver, when gdbserver receives this,
it converts this to '\$VAR', which prevents the variable from being
expanded by the shell.
The reason for this is that construct_inferior_arguments escapes all
special shell characters within its arguments, and it is
construct_inferior_arguments that is used to combine the separate
arguments into a single string.
In the future I will change construct_inferior_arguments so that
it can apply different escaping strategies. When this happens we will
want to escape arguments coming from the gdbserver command line
differently than arguments coming from GDB (via a vRun packet), which
means we need to call construct_inferior_arguments earlier, at the
point where we know if the arguments came from the gdbserver command
line, or from the vRun packet.
This argument escaping issue is discussed in PR gdb/28392.
This commit doesn't fix any issues, nor does it change
construct_inferior_arguments to actually do different escaping, that
will all come later. This is purely a restructuring.
There should be no user visible changes after this commit.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28392
Tested-By: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
This commit is the result of the following actions:
- Running gdb/copyright.py to update all of the copyright headers to
include 2024,
- Manually updating a few files the copyright.py script told me to
update, these files had copyright headers embedded within the
file,
- Regenerating gdbsupport/Makefile.in to refresh it's copyright
date,
- Using grep to find other files that still mentioned 2023. If
these files were updated last year from 2022 to 2023 then I've
updated them this year to 2024.
I'm sure I've probably missed some dates. Feel free to fix them up as
you spot them.
This patch doesn't change gdbserver behaviour, but after later changes are
made it avoids a null pointer dereference when HWCAP needs to be obtained
for a specific process while current_thread is nullptr.
Fixing linux_read_auxv, linux_get_hwcap and linux_get_hwcap2 to take a PID
parameter seems more correct than setting current_thread in one particular
code path.
Changes are propagated to allow passing the new parameter through the call
chain.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
This commit is the result of running the gdb/copyright.py script,
which automated the update of the copyright year range for all
source files managed by the GDB project to be updated to include
year 2023.
This commit brings all the changes made by running gdb/copyright.py
as per GDB's Start of New Year Procedure.
For the avoidance of doubt, all changes in this commits were
performed by the script.
This commits the result of running gdb/copyright.py as per our Start
of New Year procedure...
gdb/ChangeLog
Update copyright year range in copyright header of all GDB files.
Replace the pre-C++ construct of netbsd_target_ops, netbsd_regset_info
and netbsd_tdesc with C++ inheritance approach found in the Linux
gdbserver code. Add netbsd_amd64_target, that inherits from the
netbsd_process_target class and add proper singleton object for
the_netbsd_target, initialized from netbsd_amd64_target.
Call low_arch_setup () on post process creation, which sets machine
specific properties of the traced process.
Remove global singleton the_netbsd_target object from the generic
gdbserver code.
This refactoring introduces no functional change from the end-user
point of view.
gdbserver/ChangeLog:
* netbsd-amd64-low.cc (netbsd_x86_64_arch_setup): Remove.
(netbsd_target_regsets): Now const.
(the_low_target): Remove.
(class netbsd_amd64_target, the_netbsd_amd64_target)
(the_netbsd_target): Add.
* netbsd-low.cc (netbsd_process_target::post_create_inferior): Call
low_arch_setup ().
(netbsd_process_target::fetch_registers)
(netbsd_process_target::store_registers, initialize_low): Update.
(the_netbsd_target): Remove.
* netbsd-low.h (netbsd_target_regsets, netbsd_target_ops)
(the_low_target, netbsd_tdesc): Remove.
(netbsd_process_target::get_regs_info)
(netbsd_process_target::low_arch_setup): Add.
