FYI: [python/Ada] gdb.lookup_type fails to looking primitive type

Message ID 1421083588-927-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com
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Joel Brobecker Jan. 12, 2015, 5:26 p.m. UTC
  The following change...

    commit 1994afbf19892c9e614a034fbf1a5233e9addce3
    Date:   Tue Dec 23 07:55:39 2014 -0800
    Subject: Look up primitive types as symbols.

... caused the following regression:

    % gdb
    (gdb) set lang ada
    (gdb) python print gdb.lookup_type('character')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
    gdb.error: No type named character.
    Error while executing Python code.

This is because the language_lookup_primitive_type_as_symbol call
was moved to the la_lookup_symbol_nonlocal hook. A couple of
implementations have been upated accordingly, but the Ada version
has not. This patch fixes this omission.

gdb/ChangeLog:

        * ada-lang.c (ada_lookup_symbol_nonlocal): If name not found
        in static block, then try searching for primitive types.

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:

        * gdb.python/py-lkup_type.exp: New file.

Tested on x86_64-linux, no regression.  It's getting late, here,
so I will push tomorrow, as I'd like to have the fix before we
branch.

---
 gdb/ada-lang.c                            | 33 ++++++++++++++++-
 gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-lkup_type.exp | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-lkup_type.exp
  

Comments

Doug Evans Jan. 12, 2015, 5:59 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
> The following change...
>
>     commit 1994afbf19892c9e614a034fbf1a5233e9addce3
>     Date:   Tue Dec 23 07:55:39 2014 -0800
>     Subject: Look up primitive types as symbols.
>
> ... caused the following regression:
>
>     % gdb
>     (gdb) set lang ada
>     (gdb) python print gdb.lookup_type('character')
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>     gdb.error: No type named character.
>     Error while executing Python code.
>
> This is because the language_lookup_primitive_type_as_symbol call
> was moved to the la_lookup_symbol_nonlocal hook. A couple of
> implementations have been upated accordingly, but the Ada version
> has not. This patch fixes this omission.
>
> gdb/ChangeLog:
>
>         * ada-lang.c (ada_lookup_symbol_nonlocal): If name not found
>         in static block, then try searching for primitive types.
>
> gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
>
>         * gdb.python/py-lkup_type.exp: New file.
>
> Tested on x86_64-linux, no regression.  It's getting late, here,
> so I will push tomorrow, as I'd like to have the fix before we
> branch.

Awesome, thanks.

Nit: py-lkup-tupe.exp instead of py-lkup_type.exp?
Or even py-lookup-type.exp.

Plus one more comment below.

> diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-lkup_type.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-lkup_type.exp
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..d8fb9e7
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-lkup_type.exp
> @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
> +# Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> +
> +# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> +# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> +# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
> +# (at your option) any later version.
> +#
> +# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> +# GNU General Public License for more details.
> +#
> +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> +# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> +
> +# This file is part of the GDB testsuite.  It tests the mechanism
> +# of exposing types to Python.
> +
> +load_lib gdb-python.exp
> +
> +# Note that the purpose of this testcase is to test the behavior
> +# of gdb.lookup_type searching for the primitive types internally
> +# created by each language since GDB.  So, we must start GDB without
> +# loading any symbol in.
> +
> +gdb_exit
> +gdb_start
> +gdb_reinitialize_dir $srcdir/$subdir
> +
> +# Skip all tests if Python scripting is not enabled.
> +if { [skip_python_tests] } { continue }
> +
> +proc test_lookup_type { lang type_name } {
> +    gdb_test_no_output "set language ${lang}"
> +    gdb_test_no_output "python gdb.lookup_type('${type_name}')" \
> +        "lookup type ${type_name} using language ${lang}"
> +}

I wouldn't have expected gdb_test_no_output to work here
for python.lookup_type, though I can see that it does.
This is no different than "python 1+1": it doesn't print anything either.
[I wonder if we can fix that without having to add a knob.  Would anything
break if we started printing the result here? Possibly I guess.]

It's ok to leave as is, but you might want to add a clarifying comment.
Maybe something like

> +    gdb_test_no_output "set language ${lang}"
> +    # gdb discards python results, so what we're checking for here is the
> +    # presence of an error message.
> +    gdb_test_no_output "python gdb.lookup_type('${type_name}')" \
> +        "lookup type ${type_name} using language ${lang}"

> +
> +test_lookup_type "ada" "character"
> +
> +test_lookup_type "c" "char"
> +
> +test_lookup_type "d" "ucent"
> +
> +test_lookup_type "fortran" "character"
> +
> +test_lookup_type "go" "int32"
> +
> +test_lookup_type "java" "byte"
> +
> +test_lookup_type "modula-2" "CARDINAL"
> +
> +test_lookup_type "opencl" "ushort"
> +
> +test_lookup_type "objective-c" "char"
> +
> +test_lookup_type "opencl" "ushort"
> +
> +test_lookup_type "pascal" "char"
> --
> 1.9.1
>
  

Patch

diff --git a/gdb/ada-lang.c b/gdb/ada-lang.c
index 71c3b3a..ec06693 100644
--- a/gdb/ada-lang.c
+++ b/gdb/ada-lang.c
@@ -5598,7 +5598,38 @@  ada_lookup_symbol_nonlocal (const struct language_defn *langdef,
                             const struct block *block,
                             const domain_enum domain)
 {
-  return ada_lookup_symbol (name, block_static_block (block), domain, NULL);
+  struct symbol *sym;
+
+  sym = ada_lookup_symbol (name, block_static_block (block), domain, NULL);
+  if (sym != NULL)
+    return sym;
+
+  /* If we haven't found a match at this point, try the primitive
+     types.  In other languages, this search is performed before
+     searching for global symbols in order to short-circuit that
+     global-symbol search if it happens that the name corresponds
+     to a primitive type.  But we cannot do the same in Ada, because
+     it is perfectly legitimate for a program to declare a type which
+     has the same name as a standard type.  If looking up a type in
+     that situation, we have traditionally ignored the primitive type
+     in favor of user-defined types.  This is why, unlike most other
+     languages, we search the primitive types this late and only after
+     having searched the global symbols without success.  */
+
+  if (domain == VAR_DOMAIN)
+    {
+      struct gdbarch *gdbarch;
+
+      if (block == NULL)
+	gdbarch = target_gdbarch ();
+      else
+	gdbarch = block_gdbarch (block);
+      sym = language_lookup_primitive_type_as_symbol (langdef, gdbarch, name);
+      if (sym != NULL)
+	return sym;
+    }
+
+  return NULL;
 }
 
 
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-lkup_type.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-lkup_type.exp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d8fb9e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-lkup_type.exp
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ 
+# Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# This file is part of the GDB testsuite.  It tests the mechanism
+# of exposing types to Python.
+
+load_lib gdb-python.exp
+
+# Note that the purpose of this testcase is to test the behavior
+# of gdb.lookup_type searching for the primitive types internally
+# created by each language since GDB.  So, we must start GDB without
+# loading any symbol in.
+
+gdb_exit
+gdb_start
+gdb_reinitialize_dir $srcdir/$subdir
+
+# Skip all tests if Python scripting is not enabled.
+if { [skip_python_tests] } { continue }
+
+proc test_lookup_type { lang type_name } {
+    gdb_test_no_output "set language ${lang}"
+    gdb_test_no_output "python gdb.lookup_type('${type_name}')" \
+        "lookup type ${type_name} using language ${lang}"
+}
+
+test_lookup_type "ada" "character"
+
+test_lookup_type "c" "char"
+
+test_lookup_type "d" "ucent"
+
+test_lookup_type "fortran" "character"
+
+test_lookup_type "go" "int32"
+
+test_lookup_type "java" "byte"
+
+test_lookup_type "modula-2" "CARDINAL"
+
+test_lookup_type "opencl" "ushort"
+
+test_lookup_type "objective-c" "char"
+
+test_lookup_type "opencl" "ushort"
+
+test_lookup_type "pascal" "char"