[lldb-dev] gdb-remote protocol questions

[Pavel Labath via lldb-dev]

On 27/01/2020 19:43, Alexander Zhang via lldb-dev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for pointing me towards stack unwinding. I don't have debug
> information much of the time, so I'm depending on the architecture rules
> for backtracing. A look at the mips ABI plugin shows it uses dwarf
> register numbers to get the register values it needs, and I wasn't
> including them in my qRegisterInfo responses. After fixing this, step
> over and step out appear to work correctly, which is a great help.
> 
> However, backtraces only show 2 frames with the current pc and ra
> values, no matter where I am, so it seems there's some problem getting
> stack frame info from the actual stack. I've attached an unwind log from
> running bt inside a function that should have a deeper backtrace. The
> afa value of 0xffffffffffffffff looks suspicious to me, but I don't
> really understand where it comes from. The frame before 0x8002ee70
> should, I think, be 0x80026a6c, as that's the pc after stepping out twice.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alexander 
> 

Hi Alexander,

I am pretty sure the AFA is a red herring and you needn't worry about
it. It is only used in some very specific circumstances, when a function
realigns the stack pointer (e.g. when you have a over-aligned local
variable), and only on x86 I believe. Everyone else gets a 0xfff...f
value, and that's fine.

pl