gdb: Show type summary for anonymous structures from c_print_typedef

Currently each language has a la_print_typedef method, this is only
used for the "info types" command.

The documentation for "info types" says:

   Print a brief description of all types whose names match the regular
   expression @var{regexp} (or all types in your program, if you supply
   no argument).

However, if we consider this C code:

   typedef struct {
     int a;
   } my_type;

Then currently with "info types" this will be printed like this:

   3:      typedef struct {
       int a;
   } my_type;

I see two problems with this, first the indentation is clearly broken,
second, if the struct contained more fields then it feels like the
actual type names could easily get lost in the noise.

Given that "info types" is about discovering type names, I think there
is an argument to be made that we should focus on giving _only_ the
briefest summary for "info types", and if the user wants to know more
they can take the type name and plug it into "ptype".  As such, I
propose that a better output would be:

   3:      typedef struct {...} my_type;

The user understands that there is a type called `my_type`, and that
it's an alias for an anonymous structure type.

The change to achieve this turns out to be pretty simple, but only
effects languages that make use of c_print_typedef, which are C, C++,
asm, minimal, d, go, objc, and opencl.  Other languages will for now
do whatever they used to do.

The patch to change how anonymous structs are displayed also changes
the display of anonymous enums, consider this code sample:

   typedef enum {
     AA, BB, CC
   } anon_enum_t;

This used to be displayed like this:

   3:      typedef enum {AA, BB, CC} anon_enum_t;

Which will quickly become cluttered for enums with a large number of
values.  The modified output looks like this:

   3:      typedef enum {...} anon_enum_t;

Again, the user can always make use of ptype if they want to see the
details of the anon_enum_t type.

It is worth pointing out that this change (to use {...}) only effects
anonymous structs and enums, named types don't change with this patch,
consider this code:

   struct struct_t {
     int i;
   };
   enum enum_t {
    AA, BB, CC
   };

The output from 'info types' remains unchanged, like this:

   4:      enum enum_t;
   1:      struct struct_t;

An additional area of interest is how C++ handles anonymous types used
within a typedef; enums are handled basically inline with how C
handles them, but structs (and classes) are slightly different.  The
behaviour before the patch is different, and is unchanged by this
patch.  Consider this code compiled for C++:

   typedef struct {
     int i;
   } struct_t;

Both before and after this patch, this is show by 'info types' as:

   3:      typedef struct_t struct_t;

Unions are displayed similarly to structs in both C and C++, the
handling of anonymous unions changes for C in the same way that
it changes for anonymous structs.

I did look at ada, as this is the only language to actually have some
tests for "info types", however, as I understand it ada doesn't really
support typedefs, however, by forcing the language we can see what ada
would print.  So, if we 'set language ada', then originally we printed
this:

   3:      record
       a: int;
   end record

Again the indentation is clearly broken, but we also have no mention
of the type name at all, which is odd, but understandable given the
lack of typedefs.  If I make a similar change as I'm proposing for C,
then we now get this output:

   3:      record ... end record

Which is even less informative I think.  However, the original output
_is_ tested for in gdb.ada/info_auto_lang.exp, and its not clear to me
if the change is a good one or not, so for now I have left this out.

gdb/ChangeLog:

	* c-typeprint.c (c_print_typedef): Pass -1 instead of 0 to
	type_print.

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:

	* gdb.ada/info_auto_lang.exp: Update expected results.
	* gdb.base/info-types.c: Add additional types to check.
	* gdb.base/info-types.exp: Update expected results.

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index f4e067bb7b4cc79953023e855786f7491cd1475d..63d67124322510d65ecd42c9cb7c2b6231e118e3 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2019-07-22  Andrew Burgess  <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
+
+       * c-typeprint.c (c_print_typedef): Pass -1 instead of 0 to
+       type_print.
+
 2019-07-22  Andrew Burgess  <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
 
        * symtab.c (search_symbols): Adjust msymbol matching type arrays

diff --git a/gdb/c-typeprint.c b/gdb/c-typeprint.c
index 6690ca53bcdac5e656eff63c37a54d6be0b283b0..43ad3b3e0e6ced43f3ecb405c7b9cc63edb25159 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/c-typeprint.c
+++ b/gdb/c-typeprint.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ c_print_typedef (struct type *type,
 {
   type = check_typedef (type);
   fprintf_filtered (stream, "typedef ");
-  type_print (type, "", stream, 0);
+  type_print (type, "", stream, -1);
   if (TYPE_NAME ((SYMBOL_TYPE (new_symbol))) == 0
       || strcmp (TYPE_NAME ((SYMBOL_TYPE (new_symbol))),
                 SYMBOL_LINKAGE_NAME (new_symbol)) != 0

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
index 864da179d9e86ef55f06fcbfda9c0af4d5261a4d..c575405279f8faa9334fd60df5c5fb3f0f60725b 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2019-07-22  Andrew Burgess  <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
+
+       * gdb.ada/info_auto_lang.exp: Update expected results.
+       * gdb.base/info-types.c: Add additional types to check.
+       * gdb.base/info-types.exp: Update expected results.
+
 2019-07-22  Andrew Burgess  <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
 
        * gdb.base/info-types.c: New file.

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.ada/info_auto_lang.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.ada/info_auto_lang.exp
index be1deae99ef280f13a4973ca8df4d85947b5558d..68457827d2ffacc5157528875ccadba89e3b5421 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.ada/info_auto_lang.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.ada/info_auto_lang.exp
@@ -53,10 +53,7 @@ set func_in_c(ada_syntax)    "${decimal}:    procedure proc_in_c;"
 set func_in_ada(c_syntax)    "${decimal}:      void proc_in_ada\\\(void\\\);"
 set func_in_ada(ada_syntax)  "${decimal}:      procedure proc_in_ada;"
 
-set type_in_c(c_syntax) [multi_line \
-                           "${decimal}:        typedef struct {" \
-                           "    int some_component_in_c;" \
-                           "} some_type_in_c;" ]
+set type_in_c(c_syntax) "${decimal}:   typedef struct {\\.\\.\\.} some_type_in_c;"
 set type_in_c(ada_syntax) [multi_line \
                              "${decimal}:      record" \
                              "    some_component_in_c: int;" \

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/info-types.c b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/info-types.c
index 6746238801d69419e38cb3b3deaa5e0a04f7a45c..de9320da88837cc4719ed4094118301f6ec747a6 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/info-types.c
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/info-types.c
@@ -38,6 +38,37 @@ enum enum_t
 typedef enum enum_t my_enum_t;
 typedef my_enum_t nested_enum_t;
 
+typedef struct
+{
+  double d;
+  float f;
+} anon_struct_t;
+
+typedef anon_struct_t nested_anon_struct_t;
+
+typedef enum
+{
+ DD, EE, FF
+} anon_enum_t;
+
+typedef anon_enum_t nested_anon_enum_t;
+
+union union_t
+{
+  int i;
+  float f;
+};
+
+typedef union union_t nested_union_t;
+
+typedef union
+{
+  int i;
+  double d;
+} anon_union_t;
+
+typedef anon_union_t nested_anon_union_t;
+
 volatile int var_a;
 volatile float var_b;
 volatile my_int_t var_c;
@@ -53,6 +84,14 @@ volatile baz_ptr var_l;
 volatile enum enum_t var_m;
 volatile my_enum_t var_n;
 volatile nested_enum_t var_o;
+volatile anon_struct_t var_p;
+volatile nested_anon_struct_t var_q;
+volatile anon_enum_t var_r;
+volatile nested_anon_enum_t var_s;
+volatile union union_t var_t;
+volatile nested_union_t var_u;
+volatile anon_union_t var_v;
+volatile nested_anon_union_t var_w;
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/info-types.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/info-types.exp
index a58084253980d3fe0b888e3b644ee463cc67b30b..3a514b5bc191793023aeea5f128ceb8e4a389b49 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/info-types.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/info-types.exp
@@ -57,25 +57,35 @@ proc run_test { lang } {
                 "All defined types:" \
                 "" \
                 "File .*:" \
-                "59:\[\t \]+CL;" \
+                "98:\[\t \]+CL;" \
+                "42:\[\t \]+anon_struct_t;" \
+                "65:\[\t \]+anon_union_t;" \
                 "21:\[\t \]+baz_t;" \
                 "33:\[\t \]+enum_t;" \
+                "56:\[\t \]+union_t;" \
+                "52:\[\t \]+typedef enum {\\.\\.\\.} anon_enum_t;" \
+                "45:\[\t \]+typedef anon_struct_t anon_struct_t;" \
+                "68:\[\t \]+typedef anon_union_t anon_union_t;" \
                 "28:\[\t \]+typedef baz_t baz;" \
                 "31:\[\t \]+typedef baz_t \\* baz_ptr;" \
                 "27:\[\t \]+typedef baz_t baz_t;" \
                 "\[\t \]+double" \
                 "\[\t \]+float" \
                 "\[\t \]+int" \
-                "64:\[\t \]+typedef CL my_cl;" \
+                "103:\[\t \]+typedef CL my_cl;" \
                 "38:\[\t \]+typedef enum_t my_enum_t;" \
                 "17:\[\t \]+typedef float my_float_t;" \
                 "16:\[\t \]+typedef int my_int_t;" \
-                "65:\[\t \]+typedef CL \\* my_ptr;" \
+                "104:\[\t \]+typedef CL \\* my_ptr;" \
+                "54:\[\t \]+typedef enum {\\.\\.\\.} nested_anon_enum_t;" \
+                "47:\[\t \]+typedef anon_struct_t nested_anon_struct_t;" \
+                "70:\[\t \]+typedef anon_union_t nested_anon_union_t;" \
                 "30:\[\t \]+typedef baz_t nested_baz;" \
                 "29:\[\t \]+typedef baz_t nested_baz_t;" \
                 "39:\[\t \]+typedef enum_t nested_enum_t;" \
                 "19:\[\t \]+typedef float nested_float_t;" \
                 "18:\[\t \]+typedef int nested_int_t;" \
+                "62:\[\t \]+typedef union_t nested_union_t;" \
                 "\[\t \]+unsigned int"]
     } else {
        set output_re \
@@ -83,6 +93,9 @@ proc run_test { lang } {
                 "All defined types:" \
                 "" \
                 "File .*:" \
+                "52:\[\t \]+typedef enum {\\.\\.\\.} anon_enum_t;" \
+                "45:\[\t \]+typedef struct {\\.\\.\\.} anon_struct_t;" \
+                "68:\[\t \]+typedef union {\\.\\.\\.} anon_union_t;" \
                 "28:\[\t \]+typedef struct baz_t baz;" \
                 "31:\[\t \]+typedef struct baz_t \\* baz_ptr;" \
                 "21:\[\t \]+struct baz_t;" \
@@ -93,11 +106,16 @@ proc run_test { lang } {
                 "38:\[\t \]+typedef enum enum_t my_enum_t;" \
                 "17:\[\t \]+typedef float my_float_t;" \
                 "16:\[\t \]+typedef int my_int_t;" \
+                "54:\[\t \]+typedef enum {\\.\\.\\.} nested_anon_enum_t;" \
+                "47:\[\t \]+typedef struct {\\.\\.\\.} nested_anon_struct_t;" \
+                "70:\[\t \]+typedef union {\\.\\.\\.} nested_anon_union_t;" \
                 "30:\[\t \]+typedef struct baz_t nested_baz;" \
                 "29:\[\t \]+typedef struct baz_t nested_baz_t;" \
                 "39:\[\t \]+typedef enum enum_t nested_enum_t;" \
                 "19:\[\t \]+typedef float nested_float_t;" \
                 "18:\[\t \]+typedef int nested_int_t;" \
+                "62:\[\t \]+typedef union union_t nested_union_t;" \
+                "56:\[\t \]+union union_t;" \
                 "\[\t \]+unsigned int" ]
     }