[Lldb-commits] [lldb] [lldb] Add SBProcess methods for get/set/use address masks (PR #83095)

Will Hawkins via lldb-commits lldb-commits at lists.llvm.org
Wed Feb 28 08:35:43 PST 2024


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@@ -407,6 +407,117 @@ class LLDB_API SBProcess {
   ///     the process isn't loaded from a core file.
   lldb::SBFileSpec GetCoreFile();
 
+  /// \{
+  /// \group Mask Address Methods
+  ///
+  /// \a type
+  /// All of the methods in this group take \a type argument
+  /// which is an AddressMaskType enum value.
+  /// There can be different address masks for code addresses and
+  /// data addresses, this argument can select which to get/set,
+  /// or to use when clearing non-addressable bits from an address.
+  /// On AArch32 code with arm+thumb code, where instructions start
+  /// on even addresses, the 0th bit may be used to indicate that
+  /// a function is thumb code.  On such a target, the eAddressMaskTypeCode
+  /// may clear the 0th bit from an address to get the actual address.
+  ///
+  /// \a addr_range
+  /// Many of the methods in this group take an \a addr_range argument
+  /// which is an AddressMaskRange enum value.
+  /// Needing to specify the address range is highly unusual, and the
+  /// default argument can be used in nearly all circumstances.
+  /// On some architectures like AArch64, it is possible to have
+  /// different page table setups for low and high memory, so different
+  /// numbers of bits relevant to addressing. It is possible to have
+  /// a program running in one half of memory and accessing the other
+  /// as heap, so we need to maintain two different sets of address masks
+  /// to debug this correctly.
+
+  /// Get the current address mask that will be applied to addresses
+  /// before reading from memory.
+  ///
+  /// \param[in] type
+  ///     See \ref Mask Address Methods descripton of this argument.
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hawkinsw wrote:

```suggestion
  ///     See \ref Mask Address Methods description of this argument.
```

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/83095


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