We told clients that further loading of variables can be done by
specifying a type cast using the address of a variable that we
returned.
This does not work for registerized variables (or, in general,
variables that have a complex location expression) because we don't
give them unique addresses and we throw away the compositeMemory object
we made to read them.
This commit changes proc so that:
1. variables with location expression divided in pieces do get a unique
memory address
2. the compositeMemory object is saved somewhere
3. when an integer is cast back into a pointer type we look through our
saved compositeMemory objects to see if there is one that covers the
specified address and use it.
The unique memory addresses we generate have the MSB set to 1, as
specified by the Intel 86x64 manual addresses in this form are reserved
for kernel memory (which we can not read anyway) so we are guaranteed
to never generate a fake memory address that overlaps a real memory
address of the application.
The unfortunate side effect of this is that it will break clients that
do not deserialize the address to a 64bit integer. This practice is
contrary to how we defined our types and contrary to the specification
of the JSON format, as of json.org, however it is also fairly common,
due to javascript itself having only 53bit integers.
We could come up with a new mechanism but then even more old clients
would have to be changed.
Delve represents registerized variables (fully or partially) using
compositeMemory, implementing proc.(*compositeMemory).WriteMemory is
necessary to make SetVariable and function calls work when Go will
switch to using the register calling convention in 1.17.
This commit also makes some refactoring by moving the code that
converts between register numbers and register names out of pkg/proc
into a different package.
Since proc is supposed to work independently from the target
architecture it shouldn't use architecture-dependent types, like
uintptr. For example when reading a 64bit core file on a 32bit
architecture, uintptr will be 32bit but the addresses proc needs to
represent will be 64bit.
Changes implementations of proc.Registers interface and the
op.DwarfRegisters struct so that floating point registers can be loaded
only when they are needed.
Removes the floatingPoint parameter from proc.Thread.Registers.
This accomplishes three things:
1. it simplifies the proc.Thread.Registers interface
2. it makes it impossible to accidentally create a broken set of saved
registers or of op.DwarfRegisters by accidentally calling
Registers(false)
3. it improves general performance of Delve by avoiding to load
floating point registers as much as possible
Floating point registers are loaded under two circumstances:
1. When the Slice method is called with floatingPoint == true
2. When the Copy method is called
Benchmark before:
BenchmarkConditionalBreakpoints-4 1 4327350142 ns/op
Benchmark after:
BenchmarkConditionalBreakpoints-4 1 3852642917 ns/op
Updates #1549
* proc: support nested function calls
Changes the code in fncall.go to support nested function calls.
This changes delays argument evaluation until after we have used
the call injection protocol to allocate an argument frame. When
evaluating the parse tree of an expression we'll initiate each
function call we find on the way down and then complete the function
call on the way up.
For example. in:
f(g(x))
we will:
1. initiate the call injection protocol for f(...)
2. progress it until the point where we have space for the arguments
of 'f' (i.e. when we receive the debugCallAXCompleteCall message
from the target runtime)
3. inititate the call injection protocol for g(...)
4. progress it until the point where we have space for the arguments
of 'g'
5. copy the value of x into the argument frame of 'g'
6. finish the call to g(...)
7. copy the return value of g(x) into the argument frame of 'f'
8. finish the call to f(...)
Updates #119
* proc: bugfix: closure addr was wrong for non-closure functions
The repository is being switched from the personal account
github.com/derekparker/delve to the organization account
github.com/go-delve/delve. This patch updates imports and docs, while
preserving things which should not be changed such as my name in the
CHANGELOG and in TODO comments.
When a location expression requests a register check that we have as
many bytes in the register as requested and if we don't report the
error.
Updates #1416
Change memCache so that the preloaded memory is not read immediately
but only after the actual read to the preloaded range.
This allows us to request caching the entire stack frame every time we
create an eval scope and no unnecessary reads will be made even if the
user is just trying to evaluate a global variable.
