copy_lsbytes() doesn't copy enough bytes when copying from a smaller
little-endian value to a larger big-endian value. This was caught by the
test cases for DW_OP_deref{,_size}, but it can affect other places when
debugging a little-endian target from a big-endian host or vice-versa.
Closes#105.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
Add support for evaluating a DWARF location description and translating
it into a drgn object. In this commit, this is just used for global
variables, but an upcoming commit will wire this up to stack traces for
parameters and local variables.
There are a few locations that drgn's object model can't represent yet.
DW_OP_piece/DW_OP_bit_piece can describe objects that are only partially
known or partially in memory; we approximate these where we can. We
don't have a good way to support DW_OP_implicit_pointer at all yet.
This also adds test cases for DWARF expressions, which we couldn't
easily test before.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
truncate_signed() requires 5 operations (compute a mask for the lower
bits, and it, compute the sign extension mask, xor it, subtract it) and
a branch. We can do it in 3 operations and no branches if we assume that
the compiler does an arithmetic shift for signed integers, which we
already depend on. Then, we can remove sign_extend(), which is the same
as truncate_signed() except it assumes that the upper bits are zero to
save on a couple of operations.
Similarly, for truncate_unsigned() we can remove the branch.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
drgn was originally my side project, but for awhile now it's also been
my work project. Update the copyright headers to reflect this, and add a
copyright header to various files that were missing it.
The current mixed Python/C implementation works well, but it has a
couple of important limitations:
- It's too slow for some common use cases, like iterating over large
data structures.
- It can't be reused in utilities written in other languages.
This replaces the internals with a new library written in C, libdrgn. It
includes Python bindings with mostly the same public interface as
before, with some important improvements:
- Types are now represented by a single Type class rather than the messy
polymorphism in the Python implementation.
- Qualifiers are a bitmask instead of a set of strings.
- Bit fields are not considered a separate type.
- The lvalue/rvalue terminology is replaced with reference/value.
- Structure, union, and array values are better supported.
- Function objects are supported.
- Program distinguishes between lookups of variables, constants, and
functions.
The C rewrite is about 6x as fast as the original Python when using the
Python bindings, and about 8x when using the C API directly.
Currently, the exposed API in C is fairly conservative. In the future,
the memory reader, type index, and object index APIs will probably be
exposed for more flexibility.
