From: Yichao Yu <yyc1992@gmail.com>
To: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Suspected bug in DW_OP_addr handling
Date: Mon, 9 May 2022 10:03:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMvDr+SVJHczCJ_Em3uT_VKCvAedeCE9cK1Kp8f=QNGxn2Ro3Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bf01fd63-ae82-98ce-6f7f-0f52a5fa3764@simark.ca>
> My understanding is:
Thanks for the detailed explanation!
>
> - normally, a value given by DW_OP_addr is an address that should be
> relocated with the base address of the objfile
OK, this is my confusion I guess. I guess I wasn't sure what "address"
refers to in the dwarf spec.
I now see that dwarf spec has a section dedicated to relocation (7.3)
and it mentions that dw_op_addr should be relocated. I was previously
confused by the "constant address" in table 7.9 in 7.7.1 and assumed
that it is the full address.
The following then all makes sense.
> - the DW_OP_GNU_push_tls_address operation (now called
> DW_OP_form_tls_address in DWARF 5) expects some kind of value on top
> of the stack, identifying the TLS variable to fetch. It's
> implementation-defined what this value means, but in practice it
> means it's some value that should not be relocated.
> - a contemporary version of GCC produces something like this for a TLS
> variable's DW_AT_location:
>
> DW_OP_const8u 0x4, DW_OP_form_tls_address
>
> - A version of gcc in the past must have used this instead:
>
> DW_OP_addr 0x4, DW_OP_form_tls_address
>
> The usage of DW_OP_addr was wrong, and it made so GDB had to avoid
> relocating the DW_OP_addr value in this particular case. So it is
> checking, if we have DW_OP_addr followed by DW_OP_form_tls_address, then
> we don't relocate, because we are in this buggy situation.
>
> And so the condition:
>
> if (op_ptr >= op_end || *op_ptr != DW_OP_GNU_push_tls_address)
> result += this->m_per_objfile->objfile->text_section_offset ();
>
> looks right to me. It says, only relocate if:
>
> - DW_OP_addr is the last operation of the sequence
> - the following op is not DW_OP_form_tls_address / DW_OP_GNU_push_tls_address
>
> Simon
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-07 3:54 Yichao Yu
2022-05-08 17:25 ` Simon Marchi
2022-05-09 14:03 ` Yichao Yu [this message]
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