This commit subtly changes the meaning of the values obtained via the

stack unwind mechanism (the function VG_(record_ExeContext) et al),
clears up some associated kludges, and makes suppression matching work
more reliably.

Prior to this commit, a stack snapshot contained, at [0], the IP of
the relevant thread, and at all positions [1] and above, the return
addresses for the open calls.

When showing a snapshot to the user (in VG_(apply_StackTrace)), and
searching the stack for stack blocks (in VG_(get_data_description)), 1
is subtracted from positions [1] and above, so as to move these return
addresses back to the last byte of the calling instruction.  This
subtraction is also done even in VG_(get_StackTrace_wrk) itself, in
order to make the stack unwinding work at all.

It turns out that suppression-vs-function-name matching requires the
same hack, and sometimes failed to match suppressions that should
match, because of this self-same problem.

So the commit changes the stack unwinder itself, so that entries [1]
and above point to the last byte of the call instruction, rather than
the return address.  The associated kludges in VG_(apply_StackTrace)
and VG_(get_StackTrace_wrk) are removed, and suppression matching is
observed to work in a case where it failed before.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@8818
This commit is contained in:
Julian Seward
2008-12-12 13:23:03 +00:00
parent 05e92e79d9
commit ba2ece03b8
4 changed files with 45 additions and 47 deletions

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@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ typedef
// ThreadId should be passed in by the core. The initial IP value to
// use is adjusted by first_ip_delta before the stack is unwound.
// A safe value to pass is zero.
//
// See comments in pub_tool_stacktrace.h for precise definition of
// the meaning of the code addresses in the returned ExeContext.
extern
ExeContext* VG_(record_ExeContext) ( ThreadId tid, Word first_ip_delta );