[gdb] Support anonymous typedef generated by gcc -feliminate-dwarf2-dups

Gcc supports an option -feliminate-dwarf2-dups (up until gcc-7, removed in
gcc-8).

When running tests with target board unix/-feliminate-dwarf2-dups, we run
into:
...
(gdb) PASS: gdb.ada/arraydim.exp: print m'length(3)
ptype global_3dim_for_gdb_testing^M
type = array (Unexpected type in ada_discrete_type_low_bound.^M
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.ada/arraydim.exp: ptype global_3dim_for_gdb_testing
...

The DWARF for the variable global_3dim_for_gdb_testing looks as follows:
...
 <0><824>: Abbrev Number: 1 (DW_TAG_compile_unit)
    <825>   DW_AT_name        : src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.ada/arraydim/inc.c
 <1><832>: Abbrev Number: 2 (DW_TAG_array_type)
    <833>   DW_AT_type        : <0x874>
 <2><837>: Abbrev Number: 3 (DW_TAG_subrange_type)
    <838>   DW_AT_type        : <0x84a>
    <83c>   DW_AT_upper_bound : 0
 <2><83d>: Abbrev Number: 3 (DW_TAG_subrange_type)
    <83e>   DW_AT_type        : <0x84a>
    <842>   DW_AT_upper_bound : 1
 <2><843>: Abbrev Number: 3 (DW_TAG_subrange_type)
    <844>   DW_AT_type        : <0x84a>
    <848>   DW_AT_upper_bound : 2
 <2><849>: Abbrev Number: 0
 <1><84a>: Abbrev Number: 4 (DW_TAG_typedef)
    <84b>   DW_AT_type        : <0x86d>
 <1><84f>: Abbrev Number: 0
 <0><85b>: Abbrev Number: 5 (DW_TAG_compile_unit)
    <861>   DW_AT_name        : src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.ada/arraydim/inc.c
 <1><86d>: Abbrev Number: 6 (DW_TAG_base_type)
    <86e>   DW_AT_byte_size   : 8
    <86f>   DW_AT_encoding    : 7       (unsigned)
    <870>   DW_AT_name        : long unsigned int
 <1><874>: Abbrev Number: 7 (DW_TAG_base_type)
    <875>   DW_AT_byte_size   : 4
    <876>   DW_AT_encoding    : 5       (signed)
    <877>   DW_AT_name        : int
 <1><87b>: Abbrev Number: 8 (DW_TAG_variable)
    <87c>   DW_AT_name        : global_3dim_for_gdb_testing
    <882>   DW_AT_type        : <0x832>
    <886>   DW_AT_external    : 1
...

The DWARF contains an anonymous typedef at 0x84a, referring to 0x86d.
Strictly speaking, the anonymous typedef is illegal DWARF, because a
DW_TAG_typedef is defined to have an DW_AT_name attribute containing the name
of the typedef as it appears in the source program.

The DWARF reading code creates a corresponding type for this typedef, which
goes on to confuse the code handling arrays.

Rather than trying to support the type representing this anonymous typedef in
all the locations where it causes problems, fix this by treating the anonymous
typedef as a forwarder DIE in the DWARF reader.

Tested on x86_64-linux, with target boards unix and
unix/-feliminate-dwarf2-dups.

This fixes ~85 failures for unix/-feliminate-dwarf2-dups.

gdb/ChangeLog:

2020-03-07  Tom de Vries  <tdevries@suse.de>

	* dwarf2/read.c (read_typedef): Treat anonymous typedef as forwarder
	DIE.

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 9a25504faaf400301070fd6315654695b779ddfc..fca56484664c4bbf209ac7b9f45336c80a5da55e 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2020-03-07  Tom de Vries  <tdevries@suse.de>
+
+       * dwarf2/read.c (read_typedef): Treat anonymous typedef as forwarder
+       DIE.
+
 2020-03-07  Tom Tromey  <tom@tromey.com>
 
        * valops.c (value_literal_complex): Remove obsolete comment.

diff --git a/gdb/dwarf2/read.c b/gdb/dwarf2/read.c
index 3556908cf5a48330d94e611c24b9296e2f7a38b5..1d4397dfabc72004eaa64013e47033e0ebdfe213 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/dwarf2/read.c
+++ b/gdb/dwarf2/read.c
@@ -16816,6 +16816,16 @@ read_typedef (struct die_info *die, struct dwarf2_cu *cu)
                 sect_offset_str (die->sect_off), objfile_name (objfile));
       TYPE_TARGET_TYPE (this_type) = NULL;
     }
+  if (name == NULL)
+    {
+      /* Gcc-7 and before supports -feliminate-dwarf2-dups, which generates
+        anonymous typedefs, which is, strictly speaking, invalid DWARF.
+        Handle these by just returning the target type, rather than
+        constructing an anonymous typedef type and trying to handle this
+        elsewhere.  */
+      set_die_type (die, target_type, cu);
+      return target_type;
+    }
   return this_type;
 }