[Bug gdb/16696] New: AIX 32-bit cores, high section addresses.

[Bug gdb/16696] New: AIX 32-bit cores, high section addresses.

[palves at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16696

            Bug ID: 16696
           Summary: AIX 32-bit cores, high section addresses.
           Product: gdb
           Version: 7.7
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: gdb
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: palves at redhat dot com

GDB fails to find the memory for variables in 32-bit AIX cores when the program
had the corresponding segment mapped at a high addresses (>= 0x80000000).

E.g.:

 (gdb) p &__n_pthreads
 $2 = (<data variable, no debug info> *) 0xf074fda8 <__n_pthreads>
 (gdb) p __n_pthreads
 $1 = -1

That should have returned 2 instead of -1.  

(-1 is the value the variable has in the executable)

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commit 0136e467ea6d053fede23dda74c30033bd9371b7
Author: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 12 10:28:59 2014 +0000

    AIX 32-bit core loading, high section addresses.

    I noticed GDB was failing to enable threading support for 32-bit AIX
    cores.  I traced it to failure to read variables from libpthreads.a.
    The issue is that data for that library is loaded at a high address,
    and bfd is sign extending the section addresses:

     (gdb) info files
     Symbols from "/home/palves/crash".
     Local core dump file:
         `/home/palves/core', file type aixcoff-rs6000.
         0x2ff22000 - 0x2ff23000 is .stack
         0x20000000 - 0x200316e0 is .data
         0x20000e90 - 0x200016c0 is .data
         0xfffffffff0254000 - 0xfffffffff0297920 is .data
         0xfffffffff07b46a8 - 0xfffffffff07b47c8 is .data
         0xfffffffff0298000 - 0xfffffffff029bfcc is .data
         0xfffffffff06dafe0 - 0xfffffffff07b3838 is .data
     Local exec file:
         `/home/palves/crash', file type aixcoff-rs6000.
         Entry point: 0x20001394
         0x10000150 - 0x10000e90 is .text
         0x20000e90 - 0x2000149c is .data
         0x2000149c - 0x200016c0 is .bss
         0xd053b124 - 0xd053e15f is .text in /usr/lib/libpthreads.a(shr_comm.o)
         0xf0254000 - 0xf0297920 is .data in /usr/lib/libpthreads.a(shr_comm.o)
         0xf0254450 - 0xf0297920 is .bss in /usr/lib/libpthreads.a(shr_comm.o)
         0xd053a280 - 0xd053aabe is .text in /usr/lib/libcrypt.a(shr.o)
         0xf07b46a8 - 0xf07b47c8 is .data in /usr/lib/libcrypt.a(shr.o)
         0xf07b47c8 - 0xf07b47c8 is .bss in /usr/lib/libcrypt.a(shr.o)
         0xd04fb180 - 0xd053917e is .text in /usr/lib/libpthreads.a(shr_xpg5.o)
         0xf0298000 - 0xf029bfcc is .data in /usr/lib/libpthreads.a(shr_xpg5.o)
         0xf029bf64 - 0xf029bfcc is .bss in /usr/lib/libpthreads.a(shr_xpg5.o)
         0xd0100900 - 0xd04fa39c is .text in /usr/lib/libc.a(shr.o)
         0xf06dafe0 - 0xf07b3838 is .data in /usr/lib/libc.a(shr.o)
         0xf0751e94 - 0xf07b3838 is .bss in /usr/lib/libc.a(shr.o)

    Notice:
        ...
        0xfffffffff0298000 - 0xfffffffff029bfcc is .data
        ...

    Those are the bfd section start/end addresses.  It't not visible here:

             ...
         0xf0298000 - 0xf029bfcc is .data in /usr/lib/libpthreads.a(shr_xpg5.o)
             ...

    ... just because GDB trims that number to 32-bit when printing.

    GDB then fails to find the memory for libpthreads.a variables in the
    core, and falls back to reading it directly from the executable (which
    yields the values as originally initialized in the code).

    E.g.:

     (gdb) p &__n_pthreads
     $2 = (<data variable, no debug info> *) 0xf074fda8 <__n_pthreads>
     (gdb) p __n_pthreads
     $1 = -1

    That should have returned 2 instead of -1.

    bfd/
    2014-03-12  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>

        PR gdb/16696
        * rs6000-core.c (rs6000coff_core_p): Cast pointers to bfd_vma
        through ptr_to_uint instead of through long.

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Summary of changes:
 bfd/ChangeLog     |    6 ++++++
 bfd/rs6000-core.c |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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commit 5893c83a47db6f00e183a271f3b330dcd8efd069
Author: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 12 11:07:37 2014 +0000

    Mention PR gdb/16696 in corresponding ChangeLog entry.

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 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

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Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Target Milestone|---                         |7.8

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Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |FIXED

--- Comment #3 from Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com> ---
Fixed 7.7.1 and mainline.

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