Problem after hitting breakpoint on Windows (with GDBserver)
When debugging on Windows with GDBserver, the debugger starts
failing after hitting a breakpoint. For instance:
(gdb) b foo
Breakpoint 1 at 0x40177e: file foo.adb, line 5.
(gdb) cont
Continuing.
Breakpoint 1, foo () at foo.adb:5
5 Put_Line ("Hello World."); -- STOP
(gdb) n
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00401782 in foo () at foo.adb:5
5 Put_Line ("Hello World."); -- STOP
There are two issues:
1. While trying to re-insert a breakpoint that is still inserted
in memory, insert_bp_location wipes out the breakpoint location's
shadow_contents. As a consequence, we cannot restore the proper
instruction when removing the breakpoint anymore. That's why
the inferior's behavior changes when trying to resume after
the breakpoint was hit.
2. mem-break.c:default_memory_insert_breakpoint passes a breakpoint
location's shadow_contents as the buffer for a memory read.
This reveals a limitation of the various memory-read target
functions. This patch documents this limitation and adjust
the two calls that seem to hit that limitation.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* breakpoint.c (breakpoint_xfer_memory): Add assertion.
Update function description.
(insert_bp_location): Do not wipe bl->target_info out.
* mem-break.c: #include "gdb_string.h".
(default_memory_insert_breakpoint): Do not call target_read_memory
with a pointer to the breakpoint's shadow_contents buffer. Use
a local buffer instead.
* m32r-tdep.c (m32r_memory_insert_breakpoint): Ditto.