Mark END_CATCH as ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN (-Wmaybe-uninitialized warnings)

This commit fixes a set of -Wmaybe-uninitialized warnings in GDB and
GDBserver, seen with GCC 7.3.1 on F27 at -O2.  Specifically, all of
these:

 src/gdb/breakpoint.c:5040:4: warning: ‘e’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
 src/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c:277:71: warning: ‘tracker’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
 src/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c:302:22: warning: ‘word’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
 src/gdb/gdbserver/server.c:1895:7: warning: ‘result’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
 src/gdb/gdbserver/server.c:1966:7: warning: ‘result’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]

For example, looking at one of the gdbserver ones in more detail:

 ../../../src/gdb/gdbserver/server.c: In function ‘int handle_qxfer_btrace_conf(const char*, gdb_byte*, const gdb_byte*, ULONGEST, LONGEST)’:
 ../../../src/gdb/gdbserver/server.c:1966:7: warning: ‘result’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
	if (result != 0)
	^~

In this case (like the others), the 'result' variable is assigned in
both TRY and CATCH blocks:

      TRY
        {
          result = target_read_btrace_conf (thread->btrace, &cache);
          if (result != 0)
            memcpy (own_buf, cache.buffer, cache.used_size);
        }
      CATCH (exception, RETURN_MASK_ERROR)
        {
          sprintf (own_buf, "E.%s", exception.message);
          result = -1;
        }
      END_CATCH

      if (result != 0)
        return -3;

so it would seem like the warning is bogus.

However, END_CATCH is really a catch block in disguise, and that path
indeed does not initialize the variable:

#define END_CATCH				\
    catch (...)					\
      {						\
	exception_rethrow ();			\
      }						\
  }

exception_rethrow does not return normally (it rethrows the current
exception after running cleanups), but the compiler can not see that.
If it could return normally, then indeed 'result' could be used
uninitialized if the TRY block threw some non-gdb exception, which
would be caught by END_CATCH.

The fix it to let the compiler know that the exception_rethrow does
not return normally, using ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN.

gdb/ChangeLog:
2018-05-30  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>

	* common/common-exceptions.h (exception_rethrow): Use
	ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN.

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 0a730c88f94a31792cacd6a2c097ffdfea8c0338..c38ff5b14a46ae603fa0f00daa34850731d62b38 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2018-05-30  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>
+
+       * common/common-exceptions.h (exception_rethrow): Use
+       ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN.
+
 2018-05-29  Simon Marchi  <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
 
        * breakpoint.c (print_solib_event, check_status_catch_solib):

diff --git a/gdb/common/common-exceptions.h b/gdb/common/common-exceptions.h
index 15c85e28ab56d08fdbe8a8451177ce1872d8d2c7..e873f9d0615648d76806c73922c6ef2b9a9edbe7 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/common/common-exceptions.h
+++ b/gdb/common/common-exceptions.h
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ extern int exceptions_state_mc_catch (struct gdb_exception *, int);
 #if GDB_XCPT != GDB_XCPT_SJMP
 extern void *exception_try_scope_entry (void);
 extern void exception_try_scope_exit (void *saved_state);
-extern void exception_rethrow (void);
+extern void exception_rethrow (void) ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN;
 #endif
 
 /* Macro to wrap up standard try/catch behavior.