This patch is to add the following line to various arm target description
xml files,
<architecture>arm</architecture>
in order to fix problems I've seen on aarch64 multi-arch debugging,
detach^M
Detaching from program: build-gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/attach, process 17145^M
(gdb) PASS: gdb.base/attach.exp: attach1 detach file^M
No executable file now.^M
Architecture of file not recognized.^M
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.base/attach.exp: attach1, purging symbols after detach
Without this patch, struct target_desc *tdesc_* are not initialised
properly, that is, fields arch and osabi in 'struct target_desc' are
not set properly. This doesn't cause any problems on single arch
debugging, because arch-utils.c:gdbarch_info_fill will guess correctly.
However, in multi-arch debugging, gdbarch_info_fill gets the aarch64
arch, but the target description is for arm (because the current
inferior is 32-bit arm).
It is a surprise to me we didn't set architecture to "arm" before in *.xml
files, and I didn't find out why didn't do so. AFAICS,
gdb/features/arm-with-iwmmxt.xml was added firstly (in patch
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-01/msg00593.html)
which had <architecture>iwmmxt</architecture>, however, afterwards,
architecture isn't set anymore in features/arm-*.xml files (in patches
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-07/msg00689.html and
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2010-08/msg00225.html).
gdb:
2015-06-29 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
* features/arm-with-m-fpa-layout.xml: Set architecture to arm.
* features/arm-with-m-fpa-layout.c: Regenerated.
* features/arm-with-m-vfp-d16.xml: Likewise.
* features/arm-with-m-vfp-d16.c: Regenerated.
* features/arm-with-m.xml: Likewise.
* features/arm-with-m.c: Regenerated.
* features/arm-with-neon.xml: Likewise.
* features/arm-with-neon.c: Regenerated.
* features/arm-with-vfpv2.xml: Likewise.
* features/arm-with-vfpv2.c: Regenerated.
* features/arm-with-vfpv3.xml: Likewise.
* features/arm-with-vfpv3.c: Regenerated.
---
gdb/features/arm-with-m-fpa-layout.c | 2 ++
gdb/features/arm-with-m-fpa-layout.xml | 1 +
gdb/features/arm-with-m-vfp-d16.c | 2 ++
gdb/features/arm-with-m-vfp-d16.xml | 1 +
gdb/features/arm-with-m.c | 2 ++
gdb/features/arm-with-m.xml | 1 +
gdb/features/arm-with-neon.c | 2 ++
gdb/features/arm-with-neon.xml | 1 +
gdb/features/arm-with-vfpv2.c | 2 ++
gdb/features/arm-with-vfpv2.xml | 1 +
gdb/features/arm-with-vfpv3.c | 2 ++
gdb/features/arm-with-vfpv3.xml | 1 +
12 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ initialize_tdesc_arm_with_m_fpa_layout (void)
struct target_desc *result = allocate_target_description ();
struct tdesc_feature *feature;
+ set_tdesc_architecture (result, bfd_scan_arch ("arm"));
+
feature = tdesc_create_feature (result, "org.gnu.gdb.arm.m-profile");
tdesc_create_reg (feature, "r0", 0, 1, NULL, 32, "int");
tdesc_create_reg (feature, "r1", 1, 1, NULL, 32, "int");
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
<!DOCTYPE target SYSTEM "gdb-target.dtd">
<target>
+<architecture>arm</architecture>
<feature name="org.gnu.gdb.arm.m-profile">
<reg name="r0" bitsize="32"/>
<reg name="r1" bitsize="32"/>
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ initialize_tdesc_arm_with_m_vfp_d16 (void)
struct target_desc *result = allocate_target_description ();
struct tdesc_feature *feature;
+ set_tdesc_architecture (result, bfd_scan_arch ("arm"));
+
feature = tdesc_create_feature (result, "org.gnu.gdb.arm.m-profile");
tdesc_create_reg (feature, "r0", 0, 1, NULL, 32, "int");
tdesc_create_reg (feature, "r1", 1, 1, NULL, 32, "int");
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
<!DOCTYPE target SYSTEM "gdb-target.dtd">
<target>
+ <architecture>arm</architecture>
<xi:include href="arm-m-profile.xml"/>
<!-- Layout of vfpv4-sp-d16 is identical to vfpv2 -->
<xi:include href="arm-vfpv2.xml"/>
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ initialize_tdesc_arm_with_m (void)
struct target_desc *result = allocate_target_description ();
struct tdesc_feature *feature;
+ set_tdesc_architecture (result, bfd_scan_arch ("arm"));
+
feature = tdesc_create_feature (result, "org.gnu.gdb.arm.m-profile");
tdesc_create_reg (feature, "r0", 0, 1, NULL, 32, "int");
tdesc_create_reg (feature, "r1", 1, 1, NULL, 32, "int");
@@ -7,5 +7,6 @@
<!DOCTYPE target SYSTEM "gdb-target.dtd">
<target>
+ <architecture>arm</architecture>
<xi:include href="arm-m-profile.xml"/>
</target>
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ initialize_tdesc_arm_with_neon (void)
struct target_desc *result = allocate_target_description ();
struct tdesc_feature *feature;
+ set_tdesc_architecture (result, bfd_scan_arch ("arm"));
+
feature = tdesc_create_feature (result, "org.gnu.gdb.arm.core");
tdesc_create_reg (feature, "r0", 0, 1, NULL, 32, "uint32");
tdesc_create_reg (feature, "r1", 1, 1, NULL, 32, "uint32");
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
<!DOCTYPE target SYSTEM "gdb-target.dtd">
<target>
+ <architecture>arm</architecture>
<xi:include href="arm-core.xml"/>
<xi:include href="arm-vfpv3.xml"/>
<feature name="org.gnu.gdb.arm.neon"/>
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ initialize_tdesc_arm_with_vfpv2 (void)
struct target_desc *result = allocate_target_description ();
struct tdesc_feature *feature;
+ set_tdesc_architecture (result, bfd_scan_arch ("arm"));
+
feature = tdesc_create_feature (result, "org.gnu.gdb.arm.core");
tdesc_create_reg (feature, "r0", 0, 1, NULL, 32, "uint32");
tdesc_create_reg (feature, "r1", 1, 1, NULL, 32, "uint32");
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
<!DOCTYPE target SYSTEM "gdb-target.dtd">
<target>
+ <architecture>arm</architecture>
<xi:include href="arm-core.xml"/>
<xi:include href="arm-vfpv2.xml"/>
</target>
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ initialize_tdesc_arm_with_vfpv3 (void)
struct target_desc *result = allocate_target_description ();
struct tdesc_feature *feature;
+ set_tdesc_architecture (result, bfd_scan_arch ("arm"));
+
feature = tdesc_create_feature (result, "org.gnu.gdb.arm.core");
tdesc_create_reg (feature, "r0", 0, 1, NULL, 32, "uint32");
tdesc_create_reg (feature, "r1", 1, 1, NULL, 32, "uint32");
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
<!DOCTYPE target SYSTEM "gdb-target.dtd">
<target>
+ <architecture>arm</architecture>
<xi:include href="arm-core.xml"/>
<xi:include href="arm-vfpv3.xml"/>
</target>