PR gdb/28093 points out that gdb crashes when language is set to
"unknown" and expression parsing is attempted. At first I thought
this was a regression due to the expression rewrite, but it turns out
that older versions crash as well.
This patch avoids the crash by changing the default expression parser
to throw an exception. I think this is preferable -- the current
behavior of silently doing nothing does not really make sense.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28093
(cherry picked from commit
dcd482c1b756d9da2130552a6eb58b852d6efb97)
gdb/ChangeLog
2021-07-19 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
PR gdb/28093
* language.c (auto_or_unknown_language::parser): Call error.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
2021-07-19 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
PR gdb/28093
* gdb.base/langs.exp: Add tests.
+2021-07-19 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
+
+ PR gdb/28093
+ * language.c (auto_or_unknown_language::parser): Call error.
+
2021-07-17 Sergey Belyashov <Sergey.Belyashov@gmail.com>
* Makefile.in (ALL_TARGET_OBS): Add z80-tdep.c.
int parser (struct parser_state *ps) const override
{
- /* No parsing is done, just claim success. */
- return 1;
+ error (_("expression parsing not implemented for language \"%s\""),
+ natural_name ());
}
/* See language.h. */
+2021-07-19 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
+
+ PR gdb/28093
+ * gdb.base/langs.exp: Add tests.
+
2021-07-14 Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
* lib/gdb.exp (have_index): New proc.
"set lang to minimal"
gdb_test "print x" " = 5000" "print parameter value"
+
+ # Ensure this at least does not crash.
+ gdb_test_no_output "set language unknown"
+ gdb_test "print x" \
+ "expression parsing not implemented for language .Unknown." \
+ "expression parsing does not crash for unknown"
}
set timeout $oldtimeout