always read synthetic pointers as signed integers
I see the error message "access outside bounds of object referenced
via synthetic pointer" in the two fails below of mips gdb testing
print d[-2]^M
access outside bounds of object referenced via synthetic pointer^M
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.dwarf2/implptrconst.exp: print d[-2]
(gdb) print/d p[-1]^M
access outside bounds of object referenced via synthetic pointer^M
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.dwarf2/implptrpiece.exp: print/d p[-1]
in the first test, 'd[-2]' is processed by GDB as '* (&d[-2])'. 'd'
is a synthetic pointer, so its value is zero, the address of 'd[-2]'
is -2. In dwarf2loc.c:indirect_pieced_value,
/* This is an offset requested by GDB, such as value subscripts.
However, due to how synthetic pointers are implemented, this is
always presented to us as a pointer type. This means we have to
sign-extend it manually as appropriate. */
byte_offset = value_as_address (value);
if (TYPE_LENGTH (value_type (value)) < sizeof (LONGEST))
byte_offset = gdb_sign_extend (byte_offset,
8 * TYPE_LENGTH (value_type (value)));
byte_offset += piece->v.ptr.offset;
We know that the value is really an offset instead of address, so the
fix is to extract the value as an (signed) offset.
gdb:
2015-01-08 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
* dwarf2loc.c (indirect_pieced_value): Don't call
gdb_sign_extend. Call extract_signed_integer instead.
* utils.c (gdb_sign_extend): Remove.
* utils.h (gdb_sign_extend): Remove declaration.