[lldb-dev] software breakpoints show up in a memory read when debugging via rsp

Vince Harron vince at nethacker.com
Wed Apr 22 16:11:11 PDT 2015


Hi Ted,

Thanks for the bugreport.

You are correct, they should be removed.  There is a test that was added
specifically to track this.

lldb/test/functionalities/disassembly/TestDisassembleBreakpoint.py




On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Ted Woodward <ted.woodward at codeaurora.org>
wrote:

> Expected behavior when doing a memory read or disassembly is that software
> breakpoints don’t show up – the original code does.
>
>
>
> Using lldb on x86 Linux, I run a test program and set a breakpoint, then
> disassemble. I get this:
>
>
>
> Process 22519 stopped
>
> * thread #1: tid = 22519, 0x00000000004004db test`main(argc=1,
> argv=0x00007fffffffea58) + 11 at test.c:3, name = 'test', stop reason =
> breakpoint 1.1
>
>     frame #0: 0x00000000004004db test`main(argc=1,
> argv=0x00007fffffffea58) + 11 at test.c:3
>
>    1    int main (int argc, void **argv)
>
>    2    {
>
> -> 3      int i = 1;
>
>    4      int j = 2;
>
>    5      int k = 3;
>
>    6      return 0;
>
>    7    }
>
> (lldb) dis
>
> test`main:
>
>     0x4004d0 <+0>:  pushq  %rbp
>
>     0x4004d1 <+1>:  movq   %rsp, %rbp
>
>     0x4004d4 <+4>:  movl   %edi, -0x14(%rbp)
>
>     0x4004d7 <+7>:  movq   %rsi, -0x20(%rbp)
>
> ->  0x4004db <+11>: int3
>
>     0x4004dc <+12>: hlt
>
>     0x4004de <+14>: addl   %eax, (%rax)
>
>     0x4004e0 <+16>: addb   %al, (%rax)
>
>
>
>
>
> Shouldn’t the remote gdbserver (lldb-server, in this case) replace the
> software breakpoint instructions with the actual opcodes?
>
>
>
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