causes child processes after fork to fall completely silent, which can
make the output a lot less confusing. In addition it is pretty much
essential in XML output mode, so as to avoid mixing up any child XML
output with the parent's.
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reading. Two sets of changes:
* New flags for debugging the readers.
--debug-dump=syms
--debug-dump=line
--debug-dump=frames
These (currently accepted but nonfunctional) are intended to
create output in the style of (that is, identical to)
/usr/bin/readelf --syms
/usr/bin/readelf --debug-dump=line
/usr/bin/readelf --debug-dump=frames
respectively. The plan is that flaws in these readers can then
be easily found by diff-ing the output against that from readelf.
Also, a new flag --trace-symtab-patt=<object filename pattern>
which is used to limit all debuginfo-related debug info to the
set of shared object names matching the given pattern. This
facilitates extracting the debuginfo details of one specific
shared object, which is usually what is required, rather than
having to wade through megabytes of junk from every object in
the process.
* Propagate the avma/svma/image address-naming scheme
(as described at the top of debuginfo.c) through large parts of
readelf.c and readdwarf.c.
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New option --sym-offsets=yes|no [no], which causes all symbols to be
shown in the form 'name+offset'. Mostly useful for debugging Valgrind
itself.
Also move command-line-error functions from m_main into m_options.
[Will move them back shortly.]
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go, but realistically we can't implement it portably, at least without
considerable performance overhead and some additional complexity.
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with respect to syscalls. It is detailed and comprehensive but does
not offer a way to deal with minor deviations in behaviour from the
vanilla kernel sources, either due to running a hacked kernel or
running a vanilla kernel with a custom kernel module loaded.
This commit adds a flexible way to handle such cases without polluting
the vanilla handler syswrap-*.c files or their supporting vki_*.h
header files. For each OS, a syswrap-OS-variants.c file is added,
containing wrappers for variants of OS. A new command line flag
--kernel-variants= carries a comma separated list of variant names
that apply to the current run. There are no other changes.
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the contents of environment variable VAR (viz, $VAR) are incorporated
into logfile names. This makes it easy to incorporate environmental
information into logfile names.
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via the use of self-checking translations. (Friendly platforms which
have icache-invalidation instructions we can observe, such as ppc32,
are already handled correctly.) This should finally fix the
longstanding problem of V incorrectly handling calls of statically
nested functions (a gcc extension), and more generally make it a lot
easier to use V to debug dynamic code generation systems.
Since self-checking is a large performance overhead, there is some
control via a command line flag:
--smc-support=none
Don't make any translations self-checking.
--smc-support=stack
Add checking code for translations taken from segments which
have the SF_GROWDOWN flag set -- stacks, basically.
This is the default. It should make gcc nested functions and
GNU Ada work correctly with no intervention from the user.
--smc-support=all
Make all translations self-checking. This is expensive and
you want to do this if you're debugging a JIT compiler or
some such.
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