[regression] Do not read from catchpoint/watchpoint locations' addresses when checking for a permanent breakpoint
While running bare-metal tests with GDB i noticed some failures in
gdb.base/break.exp, related to the use of the catch commands.
It turns out GDB tries to access memory address 0x0 whenever one tries
to insert a catchpoint, which should obviously not happen.
This was introduced with the changes for permanent breakpoints. In special,
bp_loc_is_permanent tries to check if there is a breakpoint inserted at
the same address as the current breakpoint's location's address. In the
case of catchpoints, this is 0x0.
(top-gdb) catch fork
Sending packet: $m0,1#fa...Packet received: E01
Catchpoint 4 (fork)
(top-gdb) catch vfork
Sending packet: $m0,1#fa...Packet received: E01
Catchpoint 5 (vfork)
It is not obvious to detect because this fails silently for Linux. For our
bare-metal testing, though, this fails with a clear error message from the
target about not being able to read such address.
The attached patch addresses this by bailing out of bp_loc_is_permanent (...)
if the location address is not meaningful. I also took the opportunity to
update the comment for breakpoint_address_is_meaningful, which mentioned
breakpoint addresses as opposed to their locations' addresses.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-08-11 Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com>
* breakpoint.c (bp_loc_is_permanent): Return 0 when breakpoint
location address is not meaningful.
(breakpoint_address_is_meaningful): Update comment.