Document IRIX->ARM cross compile problem.
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2 bug-gdb@prep.ai.mit.edu. If you would like to work on any of these,
3 you should consider sending mail to the same address, to find out
4 whether anyone else is working on it.
5
6
7 Known problems in GDB 5.0
8 =========================
9
10 Below is a list of problems identified during the GDB 5.0 release
11 cycle. People hope to have these problems fixed in a follow-on
12 release.
13
14 (The names in paren indicate people that posted the original problem.)
15
16 --
17
18 GDB doesn't build under IRIX6.4
19
20 Benjamin Gamsa wrote:
21
22 Has anyone successfully built the latest (from cvs) gdb on IRIX6.4 or
23 later? The first problem I hit is that proc-api.c includes
24 sys/user.h, which no longer exists under IRIX6.4. If I comment out
25 that include, the next problem I hit is that PIOCGETPR and PIOCGETU
26 are no longer defined in IRIX6.4 (presumably related to the
27 disappearance of user.h).
28
29 --
30
31 The BFD directory requires bug-fixed AUTOMAKE et.al.
32
33 AUTOMAKE 1.4 incorrectly set the TEXINPUTS environment variable. It
34 contained the full path to texinfo.tex when it should have only
35 contained the directory. The bug has been fixed in the current
36 AUTOMAKE sources. Automake snapshots can be found in:
37 ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/gdb/snapshots
38 and ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/binutils
39
40 --
41
42 gdb-cvs fails to build on freebsd-elf
43 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-04/msg00004.html
44
45 Either the FreeBSD group need to contribute their local GDB changes
46 back to the master sources or someone needs to provides a new
47 (clean-room) implementation. Since the former involves a fairly
48 complicated assignment the latter may be easier. [cagney]
49
50 --
51
52 Generic: lin-thread cannot handle thread exit (Mark Kettenis, Michael
53 Snyder) http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00525.html
54
55 The thread_db assisted debugging code doesn't handle exiting threads
56 properly, at least in combination with glibc 2.1.3 (the framework is
57 there, just not the actual code). There are at least two problems
58 that prevent this from working.
59
60 As an additional reference point, the pre thread_db code did not work
61 either.
62
63 --
64
65 Java (Anthony Green, David Taylor)
66
67 Anthony Green has a number of Java patches that did not make it into
68 the 5.0 release.
69
70 Patch: java tests
71 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00512.html
72
73 Patch: java booleans
74 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00515.html
75
76 Patch: handle N_MAIN stab
77 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00527.html
78
79 --
80
81 Pascal (Pierre Muller, David Taylor)
82
83 Pierre Muller has contributed patches for adding Pascal Language
84 support to GDB.
85
86 2 pascal language patches inserted in database
87 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00521.html
88
89 Indent -gnu ?
90 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00496.html
91
92 --
93
94 GNU/Linux/x86 and random thread signals (and Solaris/SPARC but not
95 Solaris/x86).
96 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00336.html
97
98 Christopher Blizzard writes:
99
100 So, I've done some more digging into this and it looks like Jim
101 Kingdon has reported this problem in the past:
102
103 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/bug-gdb/1999-10/msg00058.html
104
105 I can reproduce this problem both with and without Tom's patch. Has
106 anyone seen this before? Maybe have a solution for it hanging around?
107 :)
108
109 There's a test case for this documented at:
110
111 when debugging threaded applications you get extra SIGTRAPs
112 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9565
113
114 [There should be a GDB testcase - cagney]
115
116 --
117
118 Possible regressions with some devel GCCs.
119 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00475.html
120
121 gcc-2.95.2 outputs a line note *before* the prologue (and one for the
122 closing brace after the epilogue, instead of before it, as it used to
123 be). By disabling the RTL-style prologue generating mechanism
124 (undocumented GCC option -mno-schedule-prologue), you get back the
125 traditional behaviour.
126 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00510.html
127
128 This should now be fixed.
129
130 --
131
132 RFD: infrun.c: No bpstat_stop_status call after proceed over break?
133 (Peter Schauer)
134 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00665.html
135
136 GDB misses watchpoint triggers after proceeding over a breakpoint on
137 x86 targets.
138
139 --
140
141 x86 linux GDB and SIGALRM (???)
142 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00803.html
143
144 I know there are problems with single stepping through signal
145 handlers. These problems were present in 4.18. They were just masked
146 because 4.18 failed to recognize signal handlers. Fixing it is not
147 easy, and will require changes to handle_inferior_event(), that I
148 prefer not to make before the 5.0 release.
149
150 Mark
151
152 --
153
154 Revised UDP support (was: Re: [Fwd: [patch] UDP transport support])
155 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-04/msg00000.html
156
157 (Broken) support for GDB's remote protocol across UDP is to be
158 included in the follow-on release.
159
160 --
161
162 Can't build IRIX -> arm GDB.
163 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-04/msg00356.html
164
165 David Whedon writes:
166 > Now I'm building for an embedded arm target. If there is a way of turning
167 > remote-rdi off, I couldn't find it. It looks like it gets built by default
168 > in gdb/configure.tgt(line 58) Anyway, the build dies in
169 > gdb/rdi-share/unixcomm.c. SERPORT1 et. al. never get defined because we
170 > aren't one of the architectures supported.
171
172
173 --
174
175 ------------------------------------------------
176
177 Code cleanups
178 =============
179
180 The following code cleanups are planned for the follow-on release to
181 GDB 5.0.
182
183 --
184
185 ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED
186
187 The need for this as almost been eliminated. The next version of GCC
188 (assuming cagney gets the relevant patch committed) will be able to
189 supress unused parameter warnings.
190
191 --
192
193 Delete macro TARGET_BYTE_ORDER_SELECTABLE.
194
195 Patches in the database.
196
197 --
198
199 Updated readline
200
201 Readline 4.? is out. A merge wouldn't hurt.
202
203 --
204
205 Purge PARAMS
206
207 Eliminate all uses of PARAMS in GDB's source code.
208
209 --
210
211 Elimination of make_cleanup_func. (Andrew Cagney)
212
213 make_cleanup_func elimination
214 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00791.html
215 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00814.html
216
217 --
218
219 ChangeLog.mi vs ChangeLog-mi (Andrew Cagney)
220 Needs further debate.
221
222 Re: [PATCH] Add change-log variables to more MI files
223 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00811.html
224
225 --
226
227 Re: Various C++ things
228
229 value_headof/value_from_vtable_info are worthless, and should be removed.
230 The one place in printcmd.c that uses it should use the RTTI functions.
231
232 RTTI for g++ should be using the typeinfo functions rather than the vtables.
233 The typeinfo functions are always at offset 4 from the beginning of the vtable,
234 and are always right. The vtables will have weird names like E::VB sometimes.
235 The typeinfo function will always be "E type_info function", or somesuch.
236
237 value_virtual_fn_field needs to be fixed so there are no failures for virtual
238 functions for C++ using g++.
239
240 Testsuite cases are the major priority right now for C++ support, since i have
241 to make a lot of changes that could potentially break each other.
242
243 --
244
245 GDBARCH cleanup (Andrew Cagney)
246
247 The non-generated parts of gdbarch.{sh,h,c} should be separated out
248 into arch-utils.[hc].
249
250 The ``info architecture'' command should be replaced with a fixed
251 ``set architecture'' (implemented using the command.c enum code).
252
253 Document that gdbarch_init_ftype could easily fail because it didn't
254 identify an architecture.
255
256 --
257
258 Migrate qfThreadInfo packet -> qThreadInfo. (Andrew Cagney)
259
260 Add support for packet enable/disable commands with these thread
261 packets. General cleanup.
262
263 [PATCH] Document the ThreadInfo remote protocol queries
264 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00832.html
265
266 [PATCH] "info threads" queries for remote.c
267 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00831.html
268
269 --
270
271 Eliminate gdb/tui/Makefile.in.
272 Cleanup configury support for optional sub-directories.
273
274 Check how GCC handles multiple front ends for an example of how things
275 could work. A tentative first step is to rationalize things so that
276 all sub directories are handled in a fashion similar to gdb/mi.
277
278 --
279
280 [PATCH/5] src/intl/Makefile.in:distclean additions
281 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-04/msg00363.html
282
283 Do not forget to merge the patch back into the trunk.
284
285 --
286
287 Re: [RFC] Change configure.in so -W arnings match reality
288 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-04/msg00350.html
289
290 Some GCC compilers do not like -Wreturn-type. (Going forward there
291 may be more problems like that). Need to check which of the warning
292 options are valid. Need to probably disable warnings by default.
293
294 --
295
296 General Wish List
297 =================
298
299 --
300
301 Check that GDB can handle all BFD architectures (Andrew Cagney)
302
303 There should be a test that checks that BFD/GDB are in sync with
304 regard to architecture changes. Something like a test that first
305 queries GDB for all supported architectures and then feeds each back
306 to GDB.. Anyone interested in learning how to write tests? :-)
307
308 --
309
310 This list is probably not up to date, and opinions vary about the
311 importance or even desirability of some of the items.
312
313 Document trace machinery.
314
315 Document overlay machinery.
316
317 Extend .gdbinit mechanism to specify name on command line, allow for
318 lists of files to load, include function of --tclcommand.
319
320 @c This does not work (yet if ever). FIXME.
321 @c @item --parse=@var{lang} @dots{}
322 @c Configure the @value{GDBN} expression parser to parse the listed languages.
323 @c @samp{all} configures @value{GDBN} for all supported languages. To get a
324 @c list of all supported languages, omit the argument. Without this
325 @c option, @value{GDBN} is configured to parse all supported languages.
326
327 Add an "info bfd" command that displays supported object formats,
328 similarly to objdump -i.
329
330 START_INFERIOR_TRAPS_EXPECTED need never be defined to 2, since that
331 is its default value. Clean this up.
332
333 It should be possible to use symbols from shared libraries before we know
334 exactly where the libraries will be loaded. E.g. "b perror" before running
335 the program. This could maybe be done as an extension of the "breakpoint
336 re-evaluation" after new symbols are loaded.
337
338 Make single_step() insert and remove breakpoints in one operation.
339
340 Speed up single stepping by avoiding extraneous ptrace calls.
341
342 Speed up single stepping by not inserting and removing breakpoints
343 each time the inferior starts and stops.
344
345 Breakpoints should not be inserted and deleted all the time. Only the
346 one(s) there should be removed when we have to step over one. Support
347 breakpoints that don't have to be removed to step over them.
348
349 Update gdbint.texinfo to include doc on the directory structure and
350 the various tricks of building gdb.
351
352 Do a tutorial in gdb.texinfo on how to do simple things in gdb.
353 E.g. how to set a breakpoint that just prints something and continues.
354 How to break on aborts. Etc.
355
356 Provide "voodoo" debugging of core files. This creates a zombie
357 process as a child of the debugger, and loads it up with the data,
358 stack, and regs of the core file. This allows you to call functions
359 in the executable, to manipulate the data in the core file.
360
361 GDB reopens the source file on every line, as you "next" through it.
362
363 Referencing the vtbl member of a struct doesn't work. It prints OK
364 if you print the struct, but it gets 0 if you try to deref it.
365
366 Persistent command history: A feature where you could save off a list
367 of the commands you did, so you can edit it into something that will bring
368 the target to the same place every time you source it.
369 This would also be useful for automated fast watchpointing; if you go
370 past the place where it watchpoints, you just start it over again and
371 do it more carefully.
372
373 Deal with the SunOS 4.0 and 4.1.1 ptrace bug that loses the registers if
374 the stack is paged out.
375
376 Finish the C++ exception handling stub routines. Lint points them out
377 as unused statics functions.
378
379 Perhaps "i source" should take an argument like that of "list".
380
381 See if core-aout.c's fetch_core_registers can be used on more machines.
382 E.g. MIPS (mips-xdep.c).
383
384 unpack_double() does not handle IEEE float on the target unless the host
385 is also IEEE. Death on a vax.
386
387 Set up interface between GDB and INFO so that you can hop into interactive
388 INFO and back out again. When running under Emacs, should use Emacs
389 info, else fork the info program. Installation of GDB should install
390 its texinfo files into the info tree automagically, including the readline
391 texinfo files.
392
393 "help address" ought to find the "help set print address" entry.
394
395 Remove the VTBL internal guts from printouts of C++ structs, unless
396 vtblprint is set.
397
398 Remove "at 0xnnnn" from the "b foo" response, if `print address off' and if
399 it matches the source line indicated.
400
401 The prompt at end of screen should accept space as well as CR.
402
403 Check STORE_RETURN_VALUE on all architectures. Check near it in tm-sparc.h
404 for other bogosities.
405
406 Check for storage leaks in GDB, I'm sure there are a lot!
407
408 vtblprint of a vtbl should demangle the names it's printing.
409
410 Backtrace should point out what the currently selected frame is, in
411 its display, perhaps showing "@3 foo (bar, ...)" or ">3 foo (bar,
412 ...)" rather than "#3 foo (bar, ...)".
413
414 "i program" should work for core files, and display more info, like what
415 actually caused it to die.
416
417 "x/10i" should shorten the long name, if any, on subsequent lines.
418
419 Check through the code for FIXME comments and fix them. dbxread.c,
420 blockframe.c, and plenty more. (I count 634 as of 940621 - sts)
421
422 "next" over a function that longjumps, never stops until next time you happen
423 to get to that spot by accident. E.g. "n" over execute_command which has
424 an error.
425
426 "set zeroprint off", don't bother printing members of structs which
427 are entirely zero. Useful for those big structs with few useful
428 members.
429
430 GDB does four ioctl's for every command, probably switching terminal modes
431 to/from inferior or for readline or something.
432
433 terminal_ours versus terminal_inferior: cache state. Switch should be a noop
434 if the state is the same, too.
435
436 ptype $i6 = void??!
437
438 Clean up invalid_float handling so gdb doesn't coredump when it tries to
439 access a NaN. While this might work on SPARC, other machines are not
440 configured right.
441
442 "b value_at ; commands ; continue ; end" stops EVERY OTHER TIME!
443 Then once you enter a command, it does the command, runs two more
444 times, and then stops again! Bizarre... (This behaviour has been
445 modified, but it is not yet 100% predictable when e.g. the commands
446 call functions in the child, and while there, the child is interrupted
447 with a signal, or hits a breakpoint.)
448
449 help completion, help history should work.
450
451 Check that we can handle stack trace through varargs AND alloca in same
452 function, on 29K.
453
454 wait_for_inferior loops forever if wait() gives it an error.
455
456 "i frame" shows wrong "arglist at" location, doesn't show where the args
457 should be found, only their actual values.
458
459 There should be a way for "set" commands to validate the new setting
460 before it takes effect.
461
462 A mess of floating point opcodes are missing from sparc-opcode.h.
463 Also, a little program should test the table for bits that are
464 overspecified or underspecified. E.g. if the must-be-ones bits
465 and the must-be-zeroes bits leave some fields unexamined, and the format
466 string leaves them unprinted, then point this out. If multiple
467 non-alias patterns match, point this out too. Finally, there should
468 be a sparc-optest.s file that tries each pattern out. This file
469 should end up coming back the same (modulo transformation comments)
470 if fed to "gas" then the .o is fed to gdb for disassembly.
471
472 Eliminate all the core_file_command's in all the xdep files.
473 Eliminate separate declarations of registers[] everywhere.
474
475 "ena d" is ambiguous, why? "ena delete" seems to think it is a command!
476
477 Perhaps move the tdep, xdep, and nat files, into the config
478 subdirectories. If not, at least straighten out their names so that
479 they all start with the machine name.
480
481 inferior_status should include stop_print_frame. It won't need to be
482 reset in wait_for_inferior after bpstat_stop_status call, then.
483
484 i line VAR produces "Line number not known for symbol ``var''.". I
485 thought we were stashing that info now!
486
487 We should be able to write to random files at hex offsets like adb.
488
489 Make "target xxx" command interruptible.
490
491 Handle add_file with separate text, data, and bss addresses. Maybe
492 handle separate addresses for each segment in the object file?
493
494 Handle free_named_symtab to cope with multiply-loaded object files
495 in a dynamic linking environment. Should remember the last copy loaded,
496 but not get too snowed if it finds references to the older copy.
497
498 Generalize and Standardize the RPC interface to a target program,
499 improve it beyond the "ptrace" interface, and see if it can become a
500 standard for remote debugging. (This is talking about the vxworks
501 interface. Seems unlikely to me that there will be "a standard" for
502 remote debugging anytime soon --kingdon, 8 Nov 1994).
503
504 Remove all references to:
505 text_offset
506 data_offset
507 text_data_start
508 text_end
509 exec_data_offset
510 ...
511 now that we have BFD. All remaining are in machine dependent files.
512
513 When quitting with a running program, if a core file was previously
514 examined, you get "Couldn't read float regs from core file"...if
515 indeed it can't. generic_mourn_inferior...
516
517 Have remote targets give a warning on a signal argument to
518 target_resume. Or better yet, extend the protocols so that it works
519 like it does on the Unix-like systems.
520
521 Sort help and info output.
522
523 Re-organize help categories into things that tend to fit on a screen
524 and hang together.
525
526 renote-nindy.c handles interrupts poorly; it error()s out of badly
527 chosen places, e.g. leaving current_frame zero, which causes core dumps
528 on the next command.
529
530 Add in commands like ADB's for searching for patterns, etc. We should
531 be able to examine and patch raw unsymboled binaries as well in gdb as
532 we can in adb. (E.g. increase the timeout in /bin/login without source).
533
534 Those xdep files that call register_addr without defining it are
535 probably simply broken. When reconfiguring this part of gdb, I could
536 only make guesses about how to redo some of those files, and I
537 probably guessed wrong, or left them "for later" when I have a
538 machine that can attempt to build them.
539
540 When doing "step" or "next", if a few lines of source are skipped between
541 the previous line and the current one, print those lines, not just the
542 last line of a multiline statement.
543
544 When searching for C++ superclasses in value_cast in valops.c, we must
545 not search the "fields", only the "superclasses". There might be a
546 struct with a field name that matches the superclass name. This can
547 happen when the struct was defined before the superclass (before the
548 name became a typedef).
549
550 Handling of "&" address-of operator needs some serious overhaul
551 for ANSI C and consistency on arrays and functions.
552 For "float point[15];":
553 ptype &point[4] ==> Attempt to take address of non-lvalue.
554 For "char *malloc();":
555 ptype malloc ==> "char *()"; should be same as
556 ptype &malloc ==> "char *(*)()"
557 call printf ("%x\n", malloc) ==> weird value, should be same as
558 call printf ("%x\n", &malloc) ==> correct value
559
560 Fix dbxread.c symbol reading in the presence of interrupts. It
561 currently leaves a cleanup to blow away the entire symbol table when a
562 QUIT occurs. (What's wrong with that? -kingdon, 28 Oct 1993).
563
564 Mipsread.c reads include files depth-first, because the dependencies
565 in the psymtabs are way too inclusive (it seems to me). Figure out what
566 really depends on what, to avoid recursing 20 or 30 times while reading
567 real symtabs.
568
569 value_add() should be subtracting the lower bound of arrays, if known,
570 and possibly checking against the upper bound for error reporting.
571
572 mipsread.c symbol table allocation and deallocation should be checked.
573 My suspicion is that it's full of memory leaks.
574
575 SunOS should have a target_lookup_symbol() for common'd things allocated
576 by the shared library linker ld.so.
577
578 When listing source lines, check for a preceding \n, to verify that
579 the file hasn't changed out from under us.
580
581 When listing source lines, eat leading whitespace corresponding to the
582 line-number prefix we print. This avoids long lines wrapping.
583
584 mipsread.c needs to check for old symtabs and psymtabs for the same
585 files, the way it happens for dbxread.c and coffread.c, for VxWorks
586 incremental symbol table reloading.
587
588 Get all the remote systems (where the protocol allows it) to be able to
589 stop the remote system when the GDB user types ^C (like remote.c
590 does). For ebmon, use ^Ak.
591
592 Possible feature: A version of the "disassemble" command which shows
593 both source and assembly code ("set symbol-filename on" is a partial
594 solution).
595
596 investigate "x/s 0" (right now stops early) (I think maybe GDB is
597 using a 0 address for bad purposes internally).
598
599 Make "info path" and path_command work again (but independent of the
600 environment either of gdb or that we'll pass to the inferior).
601
602 Make GDB understand the GCC feature for putting octal constants in
603 enums. Make it so overflow on an enum constant does not error_type
604 the whole type. Allow arbitrarily large enums with type attributes.
605 Put all this stuff in the testsuite.
606
607 Make TYPE_CODE_ERROR with a non-zero TYPE_LENGTH more useful (print
608 the value in hex; process type attributes). Add this to the
609 testsuite. This way future compilers can add new types and old
610 versions of GDB can do something halfway reasonable.
611
612 Clean up formatting of "info registers" on MIPS and 88k. See if it
613 is possible to do this generically across all target architectures.
614
615 GDB gets bfd/corefile.c and gdb/corefile.c confused (this should be easy to
616 repeat even with something more recent than GDB 4.9).
617
618 Check that unmatched RBRAC doesn't abort().
619
620 Fix mdebugread.c:parse_type to do fundamental types right (see
621 rs6000_builtin_type in stabsread.c for what "right" is--the point is
622 that the debug format fixes the sizes of these things and it shouldn't
623 depend on stuff like TARGET_PTR_BIT and so on. For mdebug, there seem
624 to be separate bt* codes for 64 bit and 32 bit things, and GDB should
625 be aware of that). Also use a switch statement for clarity and speed.
626
627 Investigate adding symbols in target_load--some targets do, some
628 don't.
629
630 Put dirname in psymtabs and change lookup*symtab to use dirname (so
631 /foo/bar.c works whether compiled by cc /foo/bar.c, or cd /foo; cc
632 bar.c).
633
634 Merge xcoffread.c and coffread.c. Use breakpoint_re_set instead of
635 fixup_breakpoints.
636
637 Fix byte order and int size sins in tm-a29k.h
638 (EXTRACT_RETURN_VALUE). Perhaps should reproduce bug and verify fix
639 (or perhaps should just fix it...).
640
641 Make a watchpoint on a constant expression an error (or warning
642 perhaps)
643
644 Make a watchpoint which contains a function call an error (it is
645 broken now, making it work is probably not worth the effort).
646
647 Re-do calls to signal() in remote.c, and inflow.c (set_sigint_trap and
648 so on) to be independent of the debugging target, using target_stop to
649 stop the inferior. Probably the part which is now handled by
650 interrupt_query in remote.c can be done without any new features in
651 the debugging target.
652
653 New test case based on weird.exp but in which type numbers are not
654 renumbered (thus multiply defining a type). This currently causes an
655 infinite loop on "p v_comb".
656
657 Nuke baseclass_addr.
658
659 Nuke USG define.
660
661 "source file more recent" loses on re-read
662
663 Fix 386 floating point so that floating point registers are real
664 registers (but code can deal at run-time if they are missing, like
665 mips and 68k). This would clean up "info float" and related stuff.
666
667 Look at Solaris bug in interrupt.exp. Can get out of syscall with
668 PRSABORT (syscall will return EINTR) but merely doing that leads to a
669 "can't read memory" error.
670
671 gcc -g -c enummask.c then gdb enummask.o, then "p v". GDB complains
672 about not being able to access memory location 0.
673
674 -------------------- enummask.c
675 enum mask
676 {
677 ANIMAL = 0,
678 VEGETABLE = 1,
679 MINERAL = 2,
680 BASIC_CATEGORY = 3,
681
682 WHITE = 0,
683 BLUE = 4,
684 GREEN = 8,
685 BLACK = 0xc,
686 COLOR = 0xc,
687
688 ALIVE = 0x10,
689
690 LARGE = 0x20
691 } v;
692
693 If try to modify value in file with "set write off" should give
694 appropriate error not "cannot access memory at address 0x65e0".
695
696 Why do we allow a target to omit standard register names (NO_STD_REGS
697 in tm-z8k.h)? I thought the standard register names were supposed to
698 be just that, standard.
699
700 Allow core file without exec file on RS/6000.
701
702 Make sure "shell" with no arguments works right on DOS.
703
704 Make gdb.ini (as well as .gdbinit) be checked on all platforms, so
705 the same directory can be NFS-mounted on unix or DOS, and work the
706 same way.
707
708 cd ~/tmp/<M-?> causes infinite loop (where ~/tmp is a directory).
709
710 Get SECT_OFF_TEXT stuff out of objfile_relocate (might be needed to
711 get RS/6000 to work right, might not be immediately relevant).
712
713 Clean up add_toc_to_loadinfo
714
715 Think about attached processes and sharing terminal.
716
717 John sez in reference to ignoring errors from tcsegpgrp if attach_flag:
718 set_tty_state should not have any trouble with attached processes.
719 Instead, the tty handling should leave the pgrp of the tty alone when
720 attaching to processes (perhaps pass terminal_init_inferior a flag
721 saying whether we're attaching).
722
723 PAGE_SIZE redefined warnings on AIX. Probably should be using
724 BFD_PAGE_SIZE throughout BFD.
725
726 Rewrite proceed, wait_for_inferior, and normal_stop to clean them up.
727 Suggestions:
728
729 1) Make each test in wait_for_inferior a seperate subroutine
730 call.
731 2) Combine wait_for_inferior and normal_stop to clean up
732 communication via global variables.
733 3) See if you can find some way to clean up the global
734 variables that are used; possibly group them by data flow
735 and information content?
736
737 Work out some kind of way to allow running the inferior to be done as
738 a sub-execution of, eg. breakpoint command lists. Currently running
739 the inferior interupts any command list execution. This would require
740 some rewriting of wait_for_inferior & friends, and hence should
741 probably be done in concert with the above.
742
743 Add function arguments to gdb user defined functions.
744
745 Add convenience variables that refer to exec file, symbol file,
746 selected frame source file, selected frame function, selected frame
747 line number, etc.
748
749 Add a "suspend" subcommand of the "continue" command to suspend gdb
750 while continuing execution of the subprocess. Useful when you are
751 debugging servers and you want to dodge out and initiate a connection
752 to a server running under gdb.
753
754 Add stab information to allow reasonable debugging of inline functions
755 (possibly they should show up on a stack backtrace? With a note
756 indicating that they weren't "real"?).
757
758 Modify the naked "until" command to step until past the current source
759 line, rather than past the current pc value. This is tricky simply
760 because the low level routines have no way of specifying a multi-line
761 step range, and there is no way of saying "don't print stuff when we
762 stop" from above (otherwise could just call step many times).
763
764 Modify the handling of symbols grouped through BINCL/EINCL stabs to
765 allocate a partial symtab for each BINCL/EINCL grouping. This will
766 seriously decrease the size of inter-psymtab dependencies and hence
767 lessen the amount that needs to be read in when a new source file is
768 accessed.
769
770 Do an "x/i $pc" after each stepi or nexti.
771
772 Modify all of the disassemblers to use printf_filtered to get correct
773 more filtering.
774
775 Modify gdb to work correctly with Pascal.
776
777 Add a command for searching memory, a la adb. It specifies size,
778 mask, value, start address. ADB searches until it finds it or hits
779 an error (or is interrupted).
780
781 Remove the range and type checking code and documentation, if not
782 going to implement.
783
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