Debuggers • A very real interactive debugger: gdb – Widely used Debugging – Runs on everything – A classic implementation (with and without Debuggers) • Mostly standard debugger technology • Design decisions – Runs and instruments object code – Must map accurately between source/object code – Must deal with many different machines – Must be well-integrated with the compiler Ερευνητικά Θέματα Ανάπτυξης Λογισμικού - Μάθημα 03 2 / 46 gdb Architecture Breakpoints Three major pieces • The fundamental debugging primitive 1. User interface 2. Symbol piece • How does it work? • Mapping from source code to object code constructs – Via an object code rewriting hack • Dump the compile-time information into extra tables in – To stop at line 42, write an invalid opcode at line 42 the object code (at least when debugging is on) • Invalid opcode should be as small as possible • Typically, most compiler optimizations are disabled – Otherwise, we lose track of the position of source lines – Trap resulting fault, recover, and switch to the UI 3. Execution piece • Run object code • Disassemble object code • Manipulate stack frames • Set breakpoints Ερευνητικά Θέματα Ανάπτυξης Λογισμικού - Μάθημα 03 3 / 46 Ερευνητικά Θέματα Ανάπτυξης Λογισμικού - Μάθημα 03 4 / 46 Single Stepping Other Features • To single step: • Based on breakpoints – Set breakpoint at next instruction – Skip over function call – Resume execution – Break on nth execution of a statement – Trap exception, clear breakpoint, repeat • Based on exploiting compile-time information • Or: – Print the call stack – Etc. – Use hardware interpreter – Interpret instructions to the next source statement Ερευνητικά Θέματα Ανάπτυξης Λογισμικού - Μάθημα 03 5 / 46 Ερευνητικά Θέματα Ανάπτυξης Λογισμικού - Μάθημα 03 6 / 46 1
Host/Target A Big Problem with Debuggers • gdb can be used to debug a program on a • Seemingly unavoidable lack of support for remote machine optimized code – gdb runs on the host – Program runs on the target • Makes it difficult to debug “the real thing” – Find compiler bugs • Introduces cross-architecture issues – Find timing-dependent bugs – Find resource/performance bugs • True for any known approach to debuggers Ερευνητικά Θέματα Ανάπτυξης Λογισμικού - Μάθημα 03 7 / 46 Ερευνητικά Θέματα Ανάπτυξης Λογισμικού - Μάθημα 03 8 / 46 Debugger Advantages • Works even if source is not available – Albeit crippled Debugging without Debuggers • Responsive – Interactive experience is good – Scales well with object code size Ερευνητικά Θέματα Ανάπτυξης Λογισμικού - Μάθημα 03 9 / 46 Debugging without Debuggers A Generic Algorithm • Debugging is more than debuggers • How do people solve these problems? • In fact, debuggers are often the last resort • Binary search – Cut the test case in half – Iterate • Two other common problems: – Figuring out which program change caused a bug • Brilliant idea: Why not automate this? – Reducing a test case to a minimal example Ερευνητικά Θέματα Ανάπτυξης Λογισμικού - Μάθημα 03 11 / 46 Ερευνητικά Θέματα Ανάπτυξης Λογισμικού - Μάθημα 03 12 / 46 2
Delta Debugging Example • Find set of changes that cause a program to • Printing the following file causes Mozilla to crash: fail a test case <td align=left valign=top> <SELECT NAME="op sys" MULTIPLE SIZE=7> • Want to find a minimal set of changes that <OPTION VALUE="All">All<OPTION VALUE="Windows 3.1">Windows 3.1<OPTION VALUE="Windows 95">Windows 95<OPTION VALUE="Windows cause failure 98">Windows 98<OPTION VALUE="Windows ME">Windows ME<OPTION VALUE="Windows 2000">Windows 2000<OPTION VALUE="Windows NT">Windows NT<OPTION VALUE="Mac System 7">Mac System 7<OPTION VALUE="Mac System 7.5">Mac System 7.5<OPTION VALUE="Mac System 7.6.1">Mac System 7.6.1<OPTION VALUE="Mac System 8.0">Mac System 8.0<OPTION VALUE="Mac System 8.5">Mac System 8.5<OPTION VALUE="Mac System 8.6">Mac System 8.6<OPTION VALUE="Mac System 9.x">Mac System 9.x<OPTION VALUE="MacOS X">MacOS X<OPTION VALUE="Linux">Linux<OPTION VALUE="BSDI">BSDI<OPTION VALUE="FreeBSD">FreeBSD<OPTION VALUE="NetBSD">NetBSD<OPTION VALUE="OpenBSD">OpenBSD<OPTION VALUE="AIX">AIX<OPTION Ερευνητικά Θέματα Ανάπτυξης Λογισμικού - Μάθημα 03 13 / 46 Ερευνητικά Θέματα Ανάπτυξης Λογισμικού - Μάθημα 03 14 / 46 Example • Now looking at that file it is hard to figure VALUE="BeOS">BeOS<OPTION VALUE="HP-UX">HP-UX<OPTION out what the real cause of the failure is VALUE="IRIX">IRIX<OPTION VALUE="Neutrino">Neutrino<OPTION VALUE="OpenVMS">OpenVMS<OPTION VALUE="OS/2">OS/2<OPTION VALUE="OSF/1">OSF/1<OPTION VALUE="Solaris">Solaris<OPTION VALUE="SunOS">SunOS<OPTION VALUE="other">other</SELECT></td> • It would be very helpful in finding the error <td align=left valign=top> <SELECT NAME="priority" MULTIPLE SIZE=7> if we can simplify the input file and still <OPTION VALUE="--">--<OPTION VALUE="P1">P1<OPTION VALUE="P2">P2<OPTION VALUE="P3">P3<OPTION VALUE="P4">P4<OPTION generate the same failure VALUE="P5">P5</SELECT> </td> <td align=left valign=top> <SELECT NAME="bug severity" MULTIPLE SIZE=7> <OPTION VALUE="blocker">blocker<OPTION VALUE="critical">critical<OPTION VALUE="major">major<OPTION VALUE="normal">normal<OPTION VALUE="minor">minor<OPTION VALUE="trivial">trivial<OPTION VALUE="enhancement">enhancement</SELECT> </tr> </table> Ερευνητικά Θέματα Ανάπτυξης Λογισμικού - Μάθημα 03 15 / 46 Ερευνητικά Θέματα Ανάπτυξης Λογισμικού - Μάθημα 03 16 / 46 Worked Yesterday, Not Today GCC-2.95.2 Crash double bug(double z[], int n) • What are the causes { int i , j ; for GCC crashing? i = 0; for (j = 0; j < n; j++) { i = i + j + 1; z[i] = z[i] *(z[0]+1.0); } • Yesterday, my program worked. Today, it does not. return z[n]; Why? } – The new release 4.17 of GDB changed 178,000 lines $ gcc-2.95.2 -O bug.c – it no longer integrated properly with DDD (a graphical gcc: Internal error: front-end) program cc1 got fatal signal 11 – How to isolate the change that caused the failure. $ _ Ερευνητικά Θέματα Ανάπτυξης Λογισμικού - Μάθημα 03 17 / 46 Ερευνητικά Θέματα Ανάπτυξης Λογισμικού - Μάθημα 03 18 / 46 3
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