[Lldb-commits] [lldb] [LLDB] Serve unknown type symbols through `qSymbol` (PR #200134)
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Author: Aurore Poirier (aurore-poirier)
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<summary>Changes</summary>
`358cf1ea302eb` introduced a divergence between GDB and LLDB where LLDB does not serve symbols of unknown type through GDB protocol command `qSymbol`. Per commit description, this is an expected behavior on MachO-based platforms, but it is not on ELF-based platforms, where LLDB should follow GDB. The changes introduced by said commit are now gated behind an architecture check.
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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/200134.diff
1 Files Affected:
- (modified) lldb/source/Plugins/Process/gdb-remote/GDBRemoteCommunicationClient.cpp (+49-33)
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diff --git a/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/gdb-remote/GDBRemoteCommunicationClient.cpp b/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/gdb-remote/GDBRemoteCommunicationClient.cpp
index 8df7936786b04..116ececac49b0 100644
--- a/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/gdb-remote/GDBRemoteCommunicationClient.cpp
+++ b/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/gdb-remote/GDBRemoteCommunicationClient.cpp
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#include <optional>
#include <sstream>
+#include "lldb/Core/Module.h"
#include "lldb/Core/ModuleSpec.h"
#include "lldb/Host/HostInfo.h"
#include "lldb/Host/SafeMachO.h"
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@
#include "llvm/ADT/StringSwitch.h"
#include "llvm/Config/llvm-config.h" // for LLVM_ENABLE_ZLIB
#include "llvm/Support/JSON.h"
+#include "llvm/TargetParser/Triple.h"
#if HAVE_LIBCOMPRESSION
#include <compression.h>
@@ -4156,41 +4158,55 @@ void GDBRemoteCommunicationClient::ServeSymbolLookups(
if (symbol_load_addr != LLDB_INVALID_ADDRESS)
break;
if (sc.symbol) {
- switch (sc.symbol->GetType()) {
- case eSymbolTypeInvalid:
- case eSymbolTypeAbsolute:
- case eSymbolTypeUndefined:
- case eSymbolTypeSourceFile:
- case eSymbolTypeHeaderFile:
- case eSymbolTypeObjectFile:
- case eSymbolTypeCommonBlock:
- case eSymbolTypeBlock:
- case eSymbolTypeLocal:
- case eSymbolTypeParam:
- case eSymbolTypeVariable:
- case eSymbolTypeVariableType:
- case eSymbolTypeLineEntry:
- case eSymbolTypeLineHeader:
- case eSymbolTypeScopeBegin:
- case eSymbolTypeScopeEnd:
- case eSymbolTypeAdditional:
- case eSymbolTypeCompiler:
- case eSymbolTypeInstrumentation:
- case eSymbolTypeTrampoline:
- break;
-
- case eSymbolTypeCode:
- case eSymbolTypeResolver:
- case eSymbolTypeData:
- case eSymbolTypeRuntime:
- case eSymbolTypeException:
- case eSymbolTypeObjCClass:
- case eSymbolTypeObjCMetaClass:
- case eSymbolTypeObjCIVar:
- case eSymbolTypeReExported:
+ if (sc.module_sp->GetArchitecture()
+ .GetTriple()
+ .getObjectFormat() ==
+ llvm::Triple::ObjectFormatType::MachO) {
+ switch (sc.symbol->GetType()) {
+ case eSymbolTypeInvalid:
+ case eSymbolTypeAbsolute:
+ case eSymbolTypeUndefined:
+ case eSymbolTypeSourceFile:
+ case eSymbolTypeHeaderFile:
+ case eSymbolTypeObjectFile:
+ case eSymbolTypeCommonBlock:
+ case eSymbolTypeBlock:
+ case eSymbolTypeLocal:
+ case eSymbolTypeParam:
+ case eSymbolTypeVariable:
+ case eSymbolTypeVariableType:
+ case eSymbolTypeLineEntry:
+ case eSymbolTypeLineHeader:
+ case eSymbolTypeScopeBegin:
+ case eSymbolTypeScopeEnd:
+ case eSymbolTypeAdditional:
+ case eSymbolTypeCompiler:
+ case eSymbolTypeInstrumentation:
+ case eSymbolTypeTrampoline:
+ break;
+
+ case eSymbolTypeCode:
+ case eSymbolTypeResolver:
+ case eSymbolTypeData:
+ case eSymbolTypeRuntime:
+ case eSymbolTypeException:
+ case eSymbolTypeObjCClass:
+ case eSymbolTypeObjCMetaClass:
+ case eSymbolTypeObjCIVar:
+ case eSymbolTypeReExported:
+ symbol_load_addr =
+ sc.symbol->GetLoadAddress(&process->GetTarget());
+ break;
+ }
+ } else {
+ // GDB does return symbols even when they're not valid
+ // address, following this behavior on non Mach-O
+ // architectures.
symbol_load_addr =
sc.symbol->GetLoadAddress(&process->GetTarget());
- break;
+ if (symbol_load_addr == LLDB_INVALID_ADDRESS) {
+ symbol_load_addr = sc.symbol->GetRawValue();
+ }
}
}
}
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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/200134
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