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1If you find inaccuracies in this list, please send mail to
2bug-gdb@prep.ai.mit.edu. If you would like to work on any of these,
3you should consider sending mail to the same address, to find out
4whether anyone else is working on it.
5
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7Known problems in GDB 5.0
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10Below is a list of problems identified during the GDB 5.0 release
11cycle. People hope to have these problems fixed in a follow-on
12release.
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bc9e5bbf 14(The names in paren indicate people that posted the original problem.)
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bc9e5bbf 18GDB doesn't build under IRIX6.4
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20Benjamin Gamsa wrote:
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22Has anyone successfully built the latest (from cvs) gdb on IRIX6.4 or
23later? The first problem I hit is that proc-api.c includes
24sys/user.h, which no longer exists under IRIX6.4. If I comment out
25that include, the next problem I hit is that PIOCGETPR and PIOCGETU
26are no longer defined in IRIX6.4 (presumably related to the
27disappearance of user.h).
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31The BFD directory requires bug-fixed AUTOMAKE et.al.
32
33AUTOMAKE 1.4 incorrectly set the TEXINPUTS environment variable. It
34contained the full path to texinfo.tex when it should have only
35contained the directory. The bug has been fixed in the current
36AUTOMAKE sources. Automake snapshots can be found in:
37 ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/gdb/snapshots
38and ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/binutils
39
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42gdb-cvs fails to build on freebsd-elf
43http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-04/msg00004.html
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45Either the FreeBSD group need to contribute their local GDB changes
46back to the master sources or someone needs to provides a new
47(clean-room) implementation. Since the former involves a fairly
48complicated assignment the latter may be easier. [cagney]
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51
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52Generic: lin-thread cannot handle thread exit (Mark Kettenis, Michael
53Snyder) http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00525.html
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55The thread_db assisted debugging code doesn't handle exiting threads
56properly, at least in combination with glibc 2.1.3 (the framework is
57there, just not the actual code). There are at least two problems
58that prevent this from working.
59
bc9e5bbf 60As an additional reference point, the pre thread_db code did not work
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61either.
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65Java (Anthony Green, David Taylor)
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67Anthony Green has a number of Java patches that did not make it into
68the 5.0 release.
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70Patch: java tests
71http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00512.html
72
73Patch: java booleans
74http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00515.html
75
76Patch: handle N_MAIN stab
77http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00527.html
78
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81Pascal (Pierre Muller, David Taylor)
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83Pierre Muller has contributed patches for adding Pascal Language
84support to GDB.
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862 pascal language patches inserted in database
87http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00521.html
88
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89Indent -gnu ?
90http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00496.html
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94GNU/Linux/x86 and random thread signals (and Solaris/SPARC but not
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95Solaris/x86).
96http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00336.html
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98Christopher Blizzard writes:
99
100So, I've done some more digging into this and it looks like Jim
101Kingdon has reported this problem in the past:
102
103http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/bug-gdb/1999-10/msg00058.html
104
105I can reproduce this problem both with and without Tom's patch. Has
106anyone seen this before? Maybe have a solution for it hanging around?
107:)
108
109There's a test case for this documented at:
110
111when debugging threaded applications you get extra SIGTRAPs
112http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9565
113
114[There should be a GDB testcase - cagney]
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bc9e5bbf 118Possible regressions with some devel GCCs.
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119http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00475.html
120
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121gcc-2.95.2 outputs a line note *before* the prologue (and one for the
122closing brace after the epilogue, instead of before it, as it used to
123be). By disabling the RTL-style prologue generating mechanism
124(undocumented GCC option -mno-schedule-prologue), you get back the
125traditional behaviour.
126http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00510.html
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bc9e5bbf 128This should now be fixed.
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132RFD: infrun.c: No bpstat_stop_status call after proceed over break?
133(Peter Schauer)
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134http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00665.html
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136GDB misses watchpoint triggers after proceeding over a breakpoint on
137x86 targets.
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141x86 linux GDB and SIGALRM (???)
142http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00803.html
143
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144I know there are problems with single stepping through signal
145handlers. These problems were present in 4.18. They were just masked
146because 4.18 failed to recognize signal handlers. Fixing it is not
147easy, and will require changes to handle_inferior_event(), that I
148prefer not to make before the 5.0 release.
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bc9e5bbf 150Mark
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154Revised UDP support (was: Re: [Fwd: [patch] UDP transport support])
155http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-04/msg00000.html
156
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157(Broken) support for GDB's remote protocol across UDP is to be
158included in the follow-on release.
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162Can't build IRIX -> arm GDB.
163http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-04/msg00356.html
164
165David Whedon writes:
166> Now I'm building for an embedded arm target. If there is a way of turning
167> remote-rdi off, I couldn't find it. It looks like it gets built by default
168> in gdb/configure.tgt(line 58) Anyway, the build dies in
169> gdb/rdi-share/unixcomm.c. SERPORT1 et. al. never get defined because we
170> aren't one of the architectures supported.
171
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176
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177Code cleanups
178=============
179
180The following code cleanups are planned for the follow-on release to
181GDB 5.0.
182
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184
185ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED
186
187The need for this as almost been eliminated. The next version of GCC
188(assuming cagney gets the relevant patch committed) will be able to
189supress unused parameter warnings.
190
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193Delete macro TARGET_BYTE_ORDER_SELECTABLE.
194
195Patches in the database.
196
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198
199Updated readline
200
201Readline 4.? is out. A merge wouldn't hurt.
202
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204
205Purge PARAMS
206
207Eliminate all uses of PARAMS in GDB's source code.
208
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210
211Elimination of make_cleanup_func. (Andrew Cagney)
212
213make_cleanup_func elimination
214http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00791.html
215http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00814.html
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219ChangeLog.mi vs ChangeLog-mi (Andrew Cagney)
220Needs further debate.
221
222Re: [PATCH] Add change-log variables to more MI files
223http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00811.html
224
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227Re: Various C++ things
228
229value_headof/value_from_vtable_info are worthless, and should be removed.
230The one place in printcmd.c that uses it should use the RTTI functions.
231
232RTTI for g++ should be using the typeinfo functions rather than the vtables.
233The typeinfo functions are always at offset 4 from the beginning of the vtable,
234and are always right. The vtables will have weird names like E::VB sometimes.
235The typeinfo function will always be "E type_info function", or somesuch.
236
237value_virtual_fn_field needs to be fixed so there are no failures for virtual
238functions for C++ using g++.
239
240Testsuite cases are the major priority right now for C++ support, since i have
241to make a lot of changes that could potentially break each other.
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245GDBARCH cleanup (Andrew Cagney)
246
247The non-generated parts of gdbarch.{sh,h,c} should be separated out
bc9e5bbf 248into arch-utils.[hc].
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250The ``info architecture'' command should be replaced with a fixed
251``set architecture'' (implemented using the command.c enum code).
252
253Document that gdbarch_init_ftype could easily fail because it didn't
254identify an architecture.
255
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258Migrate qfThreadInfo packet -> qThreadInfo. (Andrew Cagney)
259
260Add support for packet enable/disable commands with these thread
261packets. General cleanup.
262
263[PATCH] Document the ThreadInfo remote protocol queries
264http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00832.html
265
266[PATCH] "info threads" queries for remote.c
267http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00831.html
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271Eliminate gdb/tui/Makefile.in.
272Cleanup configury support for optional sub-directories.
273
274Check how GCC handles multiple front ends for an example of how things
275could work. A tentative first step is to rationalize things so that
276all sub directories are handled in a fashion similar to gdb/mi.
277
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280[PATCH/5] src/intl/Makefile.in:distclean additions
281http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-04/msg00363.html
282
283Do not forget to merge the patch back into the trunk.
284
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287Re: [RFC] Change configure.in so -W arnings match reality
288http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-04/msg00350.html
289
290Some GCC compilers do not like -Wreturn-type. (Going forward there
291may be more problems like that). Need to check which of the warning
292options are valid. Need to probably disable warnings by default.
293
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296General Wish List
297=================
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301Check that GDB can handle all BFD architectures (Andrew Cagney)
302
303There should be a test that checks that BFD/GDB are in sync with
304regard to architecture changes. Something like a test that first
305queries GDB for all supported architectures and then feeds each back
306to GDB.. Anyone interested in learning how to write tests? :-)
307
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310This list is probably not up to date, and opinions vary about the
311importance or even desirability of some of the items.
312
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313Document trace machinery.
314
315Document overlay machinery.
316
317Extend .gdbinit mechanism to specify name on command line, allow for
318lists of files to load, include function of --tclcommand.
319
320@c This does not work (yet if ever). FIXME.
321@c @item --parse=@var{lang} @dots{}
322@c Configure the @value{GDBN} expression parser to parse the listed languages.
323@c @samp{all} configures @value{GDBN} for all supported languages. To get a
324@c list of all supported languages, omit the argument. Without this
325@c option, @value{GDBN} is configured to parse all supported languages.
326
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327Add an "info bfd" command that displays supported object formats,
328similarly to objdump -i.
329
330START_INFERIOR_TRAPS_EXPECTED need never be defined to 2, since that
331is its default value. Clean this up.
332
333It should be possible to use symbols from shared libraries before we know
334exactly where the libraries will be loaded. E.g. "b perror" before running
335the program. This could maybe be done as an extension of the "breakpoint
336re-evaluation" after new symbols are loaded.
337
338Make single_step() insert and remove breakpoints in one operation.
339
340Speed up single stepping by avoiding extraneous ptrace calls.
341
342Speed up single stepping by not inserting and removing breakpoints
343each time the inferior starts and stops.
344
345Breakpoints should not be inserted and deleted all the time. Only the
346one(s) there should be removed when we have to step over one. Support
347breakpoints that don't have to be removed to step over them.
348
349Update gdbint.texinfo to include doc on the directory structure and
350the various tricks of building gdb.
351
352Do a tutorial in gdb.texinfo on how to do simple things in gdb.
353E.g. how to set a breakpoint that just prints something and continues.
354How to break on aborts. Etc.
355
356Provide "voodoo" debugging of core files. This creates a zombie
357process as a child of the debugger, and loads it up with the data,
358stack, and regs of the core file. This allows you to call functions
359in the executable, to manipulate the data in the core file.
360
361GDB reopens the source file on every line, as you "next" through it.
362
363Referencing the vtbl member of a struct doesn't work. It prints OK
364if you print the struct, but it gets 0 if you try to deref it.
365
366Persistent command history: A feature where you could save off a list
367of the commands you did, so you can edit it into something that will bring
368the target to the same place every time you source it.
369This would also be useful for automated fast watchpointing; if you go
370past the place where it watchpoints, you just start it over again and
371do it more carefully.
372
373Deal with the SunOS 4.0 and 4.1.1 ptrace bug that loses the registers if
374the stack is paged out.
375
376Finish the C++ exception handling stub routines. Lint points them out
377as unused statics functions.
378
379Perhaps "i source" should take an argument like that of "list".
380
381See if core-aout.c's fetch_core_registers can be used on more machines.
382E.g. MIPS (mips-xdep.c).
383
384unpack_double() does not handle IEEE float on the target unless the host
385is also IEEE. Death on a vax.
386
387Set up interface between GDB and INFO so that you can hop into interactive
388INFO and back out again. When running under Emacs, should use Emacs
389info, else fork the info program. Installation of GDB should install
390its texinfo files into the info tree automagically, including the readline
391texinfo files.
392
393"help address" ought to find the "help set print address" entry.
394
395Remove the VTBL internal guts from printouts of C++ structs, unless
396vtblprint is set.
397
398Remove "at 0xnnnn" from the "b foo" response, if `print address off' and if
399it matches the source line indicated.
400
401The prompt at end of screen should accept space as well as CR.
402
403Check STORE_RETURN_VALUE on all architectures. Check near it in tm-sparc.h
404for other bogosities.
405
406Check for storage leaks in GDB, I'm sure there are a lot!
407
408vtblprint of a vtbl should demangle the names it's printing.
409
410Backtrace should point out what the currently selected frame is, in
411its display, perhaps showing "@3 foo (bar, ...)" or ">3 foo (bar,
412...)" rather than "#3 foo (bar, ...)".
413
414"i program" should work for core files, and display more info, like what
415actually caused it to die.
416
417"x/10i" should shorten the long name, if any, on subsequent lines.
418
419Check through the code for FIXME comments and fix them. dbxread.c,
420blockframe.c, and plenty more. (I count 634 as of 940621 - sts)
421
422"next" over a function that longjumps, never stops until next time you happen
423to get to that spot by accident. E.g. "n" over execute_command which has
424an error.
425
426"set zeroprint off", don't bother printing members of structs which
427are entirely zero. Useful for those big structs with few useful
428members.
429
430GDB does four ioctl's for every command, probably switching terminal modes
431to/from inferior or for readline or something.
432
433terminal_ours versus terminal_inferior: cache state. Switch should be a noop
434if the state is the same, too.
435
436ptype $i6 = void??!
437
438Clean up invalid_float handling so gdb doesn't coredump when it tries to
439access a NaN. While this might work on SPARC, other machines are not
440configured right.
441
442"b value_at ; commands ; continue ; end" stops EVERY OTHER TIME!
443Then once you enter a command, it does the command, runs two more
444times, and then stops again! Bizarre... (This behaviour has been
445modified, but it is not yet 100% predictable when e.g. the commands
446call functions in the child, and while there, the child is interrupted
447with a signal, or hits a breakpoint.)
448
449help completion, help history should work.
450
451Check that we can handle stack trace through varargs AND alloca in same
452function, on 29K.
453
454wait_for_inferior loops forever if wait() gives it an error.
455
456"i frame" shows wrong "arglist at" location, doesn't show where the args
457should be found, only their actual values.
458
459There should be a way for "set" commands to validate the new setting
460before it takes effect.
461
462A mess of floating point opcodes are missing from sparc-opcode.h.
463Also, a little program should test the table for bits that are
464overspecified or underspecified. E.g. if the must-be-ones bits
465and the must-be-zeroes bits leave some fields unexamined, and the format
466string leaves them unprinted, then point this out. If multiple
467non-alias patterns match, point this out too. Finally, there should
468be a sparc-optest.s file that tries each pattern out. This file
469should end up coming back the same (modulo transformation comments)
470if fed to "gas" then the .o is fed to gdb for disassembly.
471
472Eliminate all the core_file_command's in all the xdep files.
473Eliminate separate declarations of registers[] everywhere.
474
475"ena d" is ambiguous, why? "ena delete" seems to think it is a command!
476
477Perhaps move the tdep, xdep, and nat files, into the config
478subdirectories. If not, at least straighten out their names so that
479they all start with the machine name.
480
481inferior_status should include stop_print_frame. It won't need to be
482reset in wait_for_inferior after bpstat_stop_status call, then.
483
484i line VAR produces "Line number not known for symbol ``var''.". I
485thought we were stashing that info now!
486
487We should be able to write to random files at hex offsets like adb.
488
489Make "target xxx" command interruptible.
490
491Handle add_file with separate text, data, and bss addresses. Maybe
492handle separate addresses for each segment in the object file?
493
494Handle free_named_symtab to cope with multiply-loaded object files
495in a dynamic linking environment. Should remember the last copy loaded,
496but not get too snowed if it finds references to the older copy.
497
498Generalize and Standardize the RPC interface to a target program,
499improve it beyond the "ptrace" interface, and see if it can become a
500standard for remote debugging. (This is talking about the vxworks
501interface. Seems unlikely to me that there will be "a standard" for
502remote debugging anytime soon --kingdon, 8 Nov 1994).
503
504Remove all references to:
505 text_offset
506 data_offset
507 text_data_start
508 text_end
509 exec_data_offset
510 ...
511now that we have BFD. All remaining are in machine dependent files.
512
513When quitting with a running program, if a core file was previously
514examined, you get "Couldn't read float regs from core file"...if
515indeed it can't. generic_mourn_inferior...
516
517Have remote targets give a warning on a signal argument to
518target_resume. Or better yet, extend the protocols so that it works
519like it does on the Unix-like systems.
520
521Sort help and info output.
522
523Re-organize help categories into things that tend to fit on a screen
524and hang together.
525
526renote-nindy.c handles interrupts poorly; it error()s out of badly
527chosen places, e.g. leaving current_frame zero, which causes core dumps
528on the next command.
529
530Add in commands like ADB's for searching for patterns, etc. We should
531be able to examine and patch raw unsymboled binaries as well in gdb as
532we can in adb. (E.g. increase the timeout in /bin/login without source).
533
534Those xdep files that call register_addr without defining it are
535probably simply broken. When reconfiguring this part of gdb, I could
536only make guesses about how to redo some of those files, and I
537probably guessed wrong, or left them "for later" when I have a
538machine that can attempt to build them.
539
540When doing "step" or "next", if a few lines of source are skipped between
541the previous line and the current one, print those lines, not just the
542last line of a multiline statement.
543
544When searching for C++ superclasses in value_cast in valops.c, we must
545not search the "fields", only the "superclasses". There might be a
546struct with a field name that matches the superclass name. This can
547happen when the struct was defined before the superclass (before the
548name became a typedef).
549
550Handling of "&" address-of operator needs some serious overhaul
551for ANSI C and consistency on arrays and functions.
552 For "float point[15];":
553ptype &point[4] ==> Attempt to take address of non-lvalue.
554 For "char *malloc();":
555ptype malloc ==> "char *()"; should be same as
556ptype &malloc ==> "char *(*)()"
557call printf ("%x\n", malloc) ==> weird value, should be same as
558call printf ("%x\n", &malloc) ==> correct value
559
560Fix dbxread.c symbol reading in the presence of interrupts. It
561currently leaves a cleanup to blow away the entire symbol table when a
562QUIT occurs. (What's wrong with that? -kingdon, 28 Oct 1993).
563
564Mipsread.c reads include files depth-first, because the dependencies
565in the psymtabs are way too inclusive (it seems to me). Figure out what
566really depends on what, to avoid recursing 20 or 30 times while reading
567real symtabs.
568
569value_add() should be subtracting the lower bound of arrays, if known,
570and possibly checking against the upper bound for error reporting.
571
572mipsread.c symbol table allocation and deallocation should be checked.
573My suspicion is that it's full of memory leaks.
574
575SunOS should have a target_lookup_symbol() for common'd things allocated
576by the shared library linker ld.so.
577
578When listing source lines, check for a preceding \n, to verify that
579the file hasn't changed out from under us.
580
581When listing source lines, eat leading whitespace corresponding to the
582line-number prefix we print. This avoids long lines wrapping.
583
584mipsread.c needs to check for old symtabs and psymtabs for the same
585files, the way it happens for dbxread.c and coffread.c, for VxWorks
586incremental symbol table reloading.
587
588Get all the remote systems (where the protocol allows it) to be able to
589stop the remote system when the GDB user types ^C (like remote.c
590does). For ebmon, use ^Ak.
591
592Possible feature: A version of the "disassemble" command which shows
593both source and assembly code ("set symbol-filename on" is a partial
594solution).
595
596investigate "x/s 0" (right now stops early) (I think maybe GDB is
597using a 0 address for bad purposes internally).
598
599Make "info path" and path_command work again (but independent of the
600environment either of gdb or that we'll pass to the inferior).
601
602Make GDB understand the GCC feature for putting octal constants in
603enums. Make it so overflow on an enum constant does not error_type
604the whole type. Allow arbitrarily large enums with type attributes.
605Put all this stuff in the testsuite.
606
607Make TYPE_CODE_ERROR with a non-zero TYPE_LENGTH more useful (print
608the value in hex; process type attributes). Add this to the
609testsuite. This way future compilers can add new types and old
610versions of GDB can do something halfway reasonable.
611
612Clean up formatting of "info registers" on MIPS and 88k. See if it
613is possible to do this generically across all target architectures.
614
615GDB gets bfd/corefile.c and gdb/corefile.c confused (this should be easy to
616repeat even with something more recent than GDB 4.9).
617
618Check that unmatched RBRAC doesn't abort().
619
620Fix mdebugread.c:parse_type to do fundamental types right (see
621rs6000_builtin_type in stabsread.c for what "right" is--the point is
622that the debug format fixes the sizes of these things and it shouldn't
623depend on stuff like TARGET_PTR_BIT and so on. For mdebug, there seem
624to be separate bt* codes for 64 bit and 32 bit things, and GDB should
625be aware of that). Also use a switch statement for clarity and speed.
626
627Investigate adding symbols in target_load--some targets do, some
628don't.
629
630Put dirname in psymtabs and change lookup*symtab to use dirname (so
631/foo/bar.c works whether compiled by cc /foo/bar.c, or cd /foo; cc
632bar.c).
633
634Merge xcoffread.c and coffread.c. Use breakpoint_re_set instead of
635fixup_breakpoints.
636
637Fix byte order and int size sins in tm-a29k.h
638(EXTRACT_RETURN_VALUE). Perhaps should reproduce bug and verify fix
639(or perhaps should just fix it...).
640
641Make a watchpoint on a constant expression an error (or warning
642perhaps)
643
644Make a watchpoint which contains a function call an error (it is
645broken now, making it work is probably not worth the effort).
646
647Re-do calls to signal() in remote.c, and inflow.c (set_sigint_trap and
648so on) to be independent of the debugging target, using target_stop to
649stop the inferior. Probably the part which is now handled by
650interrupt_query in remote.c can be done without any new features in
651the debugging target.
652
653New test case based on weird.exp but in which type numbers are not
654renumbered (thus multiply defining a type). This currently causes an
655infinite loop on "p v_comb".
656
657Nuke baseclass_addr.
658
659Nuke USG define.
660
661"source file more recent" loses on re-read
662
663Fix 386 floating point so that floating point registers are real
664registers (but code can deal at run-time if they are missing, like
665mips and 68k). This would clean up "info float" and related stuff.
666
667Look at Solaris bug in interrupt.exp. Can get out of syscall with
668PRSABORT (syscall will return EINTR) but merely doing that leads to a
669"can't read memory" error.
670
671gcc -g -c enummask.c then gdb enummask.o, then "p v". GDB complains
672about not being able to access memory location 0.
673
674-------------------- enummask.c
675enum mask
676{
677 ANIMAL = 0,
678 VEGETABLE = 1,
679 MINERAL = 2,
680 BASIC_CATEGORY = 3,
681
682 WHITE = 0,
683 BLUE = 4,
684 GREEN = 8,
685 BLACK = 0xc,
686 COLOR = 0xc,
687
688 ALIVE = 0x10,
689
690 LARGE = 0x20
691} v;
692
693If try to modify value in file with "set write off" should give
694appropriate error not "cannot access memory at address 0x65e0".
695
696Why do we allow a target to omit standard register names (NO_STD_REGS
697in tm-z8k.h)? I thought the standard register names were supposed to
698be just that, standard.
699
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700Allow core file without exec file on RS/6000.
701
702Make sure "shell" with no arguments works right on DOS.
703
704Make gdb.ini (as well as .gdbinit) be checked on all platforms, so
705the same directory can be NFS-mounted on unix or DOS, and work the
706same way.
707
708cd ~/tmp/<M-?> causes infinite loop (where ~/tmp is a directory).
709
710Get SECT_OFF_TEXT stuff out of objfile_relocate (might be needed to
711get RS/6000 to work right, might not be immediately relevant).
712
713Clean up add_toc_to_loadinfo
714
715Think about attached processes and sharing terminal.
716
717John sez in reference to ignoring errors from tcsegpgrp if attach_flag:
718set_tty_state should not have any trouble with attached processes.
719Instead, the tty handling should leave the pgrp of the tty alone when
720attaching to processes (perhaps pass terminal_init_inferior a flag
721saying whether we're attaching).
722
723PAGE_SIZE redefined warnings on AIX. Probably should be using
724BFD_PAGE_SIZE throughout BFD.
725
726Rewrite proceed, wait_for_inferior, and normal_stop to clean them up.
727Suggestions:
728
729 1) Make each test in wait_for_inferior a seperate subroutine
730 call.
731 2) Combine wait_for_inferior and normal_stop to clean up
732 communication via global variables.
733 3) See if you can find some way to clean up the global
734 variables that are used; possibly group them by data flow
735 and information content?
736
737Work out some kind of way to allow running the inferior to be done as
738a sub-execution of, eg. breakpoint command lists. Currently running
739the inferior interupts any command list execution. This would require
740some rewriting of wait_for_inferior & friends, and hence should
741probably be done in concert with the above.
742
743Add function arguments to gdb user defined functions.
744
745Add convenience variables that refer to exec file, symbol file,
746selected frame source file, selected frame function, selected frame
747line number, etc.
748
749Add a "suspend" subcommand of the "continue" command to suspend gdb
750while continuing execution of the subprocess. Useful when you are
751debugging servers and you want to dodge out and initiate a connection
752to a server running under gdb.
753
754Add stab information to allow reasonable debugging of inline functions
755(possibly they should show up on a stack backtrace? With a note
756indicating that they weren't "real"?).
757
758Modify the naked "until" command to step until past the current source
759line, rather than past the current pc value. This is tricky simply
760because the low level routines have no way of specifying a multi-line
761step range, and there is no way of saying "don't print stuff when we
762stop" from above (otherwise could just call step many times).
763
764Modify the handling of symbols grouped through BINCL/EINCL stabs to
765allocate a partial symtab for each BINCL/EINCL grouping. This will
766seriously decrease the size of inter-psymtab dependencies and hence
767lessen the amount that needs to be read in when a new source file is
768accessed.
769
770Do an "x/i $pc" after each stepi or nexti.
771
772Modify all of the disassemblers to use printf_filtered to get correct
773more filtering.
774
775Modify gdb to work correctly with Pascal.
776
777Add a command for searching memory, a la adb. It specifies size,
778mask, value, start address. ADB searches until it finds it or hits
779an error (or is interrupted).
780
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781Remove the range and type checking code and documentation, if not
782going to implement.
783
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