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authorDimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>2017-01-02 19:26:05 +0000
committerDimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>2017-01-02 19:26:05 +0000
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tree0a00ad8d3498783fe0193f3b656bca17c4c8697d /examples/python/scripted_step.py
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diff --git a/examples/python/scripted_step.py b/examples/python/scripted_step.py
index 6be397188720..453b5e229fb4 100644
--- a/examples/python/scripted_step.py
+++ b/examples/python/scripted_step.py
@@ -5,15 +5,15 @@
# interface is a reduced version of the full internal mechanism, but captures
# most of the power with a much simpler interface.
#
-# But I'll attempt a brief summary here.
+# But I'll attempt a brief summary here.
# Stepping in lldb is done independently for each thread. Moreover, the stepping
-# operations are stackable. So for instance if you did a "step over", and in
+# operations are stackable. So for instance if you did a "step over", and in
# the course of stepping over you hit a breakpoint, stopped and stepped again,
# the first "step-over" would be suspended, and the new step operation would
# be enqueued. Then if that step over caused the program to hit another breakpoint,
# lldb would again suspend the second step and return control to the user, so
-# now there are two pending step overs. Etc. with all the other stepping
-# operations. Then if you hit "continue" the bottom-most step-over would complete,
+# now there are two pending step overs. Etc. with all the other stepping
+# operations. Then if you hit "continue" the bottom-most step-over would complete,
# and another continue would complete the first "step-over".
#
# lldb represents this system with a stack of "Thread Plans". Each time a new
@@ -26,16 +26,16 @@
# the current thread. In the scripted interface, you indicate this by returning
# False or True respectively from the should_step method.
#
-# Each time the process stops the thread plan stack for each thread that stopped
+# Each time the process stops the thread plan stack for each thread that stopped
# "for a reason", Ii.e. a single-step completed on that thread, or a breakpoint
-# was hit), is queried to determine how to proceed, starting from the most
+# was hit), is queried to determine how to proceed, starting from the most
# recently pushed plan, in two stages:
#
# 1) Each plan is asked if it "explains" the stop. The first plan to claim the
# stop wins. In scripted Thread Plans, this is done by returning True from
# the "explains_stop method. This is how, for instance, control is returned
-# to the User when the "step-over" plan hits a breakpoint. The step-over
-# plan doesn't explain the breakpoint stop, so it returns false, and the
+# to the User when the "step-over" plan hits a breakpoint. The step-over
+# plan doesn't explain the breakpoint stop, so it returns false, and the
# breakpoint hit is propagated up the stack to the "base" thread plan, which
# is the one that handles random breakpoint hits.
#
@@ -50,10 +50,10 @@
# the next time the thread continues.
#
# Note that deciding to return control to the user, and deciding your plan
-# is done, are orthgonal operations. You could set up the next phase of
+# is done, are orthgonal operations. You could set up the next phase of
# stepping, and then return True from should_stop, and when the user next
# "continued" the process your plan would resume control. Of course, the
-# user might also "step-over" or some other operation that would push a
+# user might also "step-over" or some other operation that would push a
# different plan, which would take control till it was done.
#
# One other detail you should be aware of, if the plan below you on the
@@ -64,10 +64,23 @@
# to allow you to do whatever cleanup is required. I haven't gotten to that
# yet. For now you should do that at the same time you mark your plan complete.
#
+# 3) After the round of negotiation over whether to stop or not is done, all the
+# plans get asked if they are "stale". If they are say they are stale
+# then they will get popped. This question is asked with the "is_stale" method.
+#
+# This is useful, for instance, in the FinishPrintAndContinue plan. What might
+# happen here is that after continuing but before the finish is done, the program
+# could hit another breakpoint and stop. Then the user could use the step
+# command repeatedly until they leave the frame of interest by stepping.
+# In that case, the step plan is the one that will be responsible for stopping,
+# and the finish plan won't be asked should_stop, it will just be asked if it
+# is stale. In this case, if the step_out plan that the FinishPrintAndContinue
+# plan is driving is stale, so is ours, and it is time to do our printing.
+#
# Both examples show stepping through an address range for 20 bytes from the
# current PC. The first one does it by single stepping and checking a condition.
# It doesn't, however handle the case where you step into another frame while
-# still in the current range in the starting frame.
+# still in the current range in the starting frame.
#
# That is better handled in the second example by using the built-in StepOverRange
# thread plan.
@@ -82,76 +95,84 @@
import lldb
+
class SimpleStep:
- def __init__ (self, thread_plan, dict):
+
+ def __init__(self, thread_plan, dict):
self.thread_plan = thread_plan
self.start_address = thread_plan.GetThread().GetFrameAtIndex(0).GetPC()
-
- def explains_stop (self, event):
+
+ def explains_stop(self, event):
# We are stepping, so if we stop for any other reason, it isn't
# because of us.
- if self.thread_plan.GetThread().GetStopReason()== lldb.eStopReasonTrace:
+ if self.thread_plan.GetThread().GetStopReason() == lldb.eStopReasonTrace:
return True
else:
return False
-
- def should_stop (self, event):
+
+ def should_stop(self, event):
cur_pc = self.thread_plan.GetThread().GetFrameAtIndex(0).GetPC()
-
+
if cur_pc < self.start_address or cur_pc >= self.start_address + 20:
self.thread_plan.SetPlanComplete(True)
return True
else:
return False
- def should_step (self):
+ def should_step(self):
return True
+
class StepWithPlan:
- def __init__ (self, thread_plan, dict):
+
+ def __init__(self, thread_plan, dict):
self.thread_plan = thread_plan
self.start_address = thread_plan.GetThread().GetFrameAtIndex(0).GetPCAddress()
- self.step_thread_plan =thread_plan.QueueThreadPlanForStepOverRange(self.start_address, 20);
+ self.step_thread_plan = thread_plan.QueueThreadPlanForStepOverRange(
+ self.start_address, 20)
- def explains_stop (self, event):
+ def explains_stop(self, event):
# Since all I'm doing is running a plan, I will only ever get askedthis
# if myplan doesn't explain the stop, and in that caseI don'teither.
return False
- def should_stop (self, event):
+ def should_stop(self, event):
if self.step_thread_plan.IsPlanComplete():
self.thread_plan.SetPlanComplete(True)
return True
else:
return False
- def should_step (self):
+ def should_step(self):
return False
# Here's another example which does "step over" through the current function,
# and when it stops at each line, it checks some condition (in this example the
# value of a variable) and stops if that condition is true.
+
class StepCheckingCondition:
- def __init__ (self, thread_plan, dict):
+
+ def __init__(self, thread_plan, dict):
self.thread_plan = thread_plan
self.start_frame = thread_plan.GetThread().GetFrameAtIndex(0)
self.queue_next_plan()
- def queue_next_plan (self):
+ def queue_next_plan(self):
cur_frame = self.thread_plan.GetThread().GetFrameAtIndex(0)
cur_line_entry = cur_frame.GetLineEntry()
start_address = cur_line_entry.GetStartAddress()
end_address = cur_line_entry.GetEndAddress()
line_range = end_address.GetFileAddress() - start_address.GetFileAddress()
- self.step_thread_plan = self.thread_plan.QueueThreadPlanForStepOverRange(start_address, line_range)
+ self.step_thread_plan = self.thread_plan.QueueThreadPlanForStepOverRange(
+ start_address, line_range)
- def explains_stop (self, event):
+ def explains_stop(self, event):
# We are stepping, so if we stop for any other reason, it isn't
# because of us.
return False
-
- def should_stop (self, event):
+
+ def should_stop(self, event):
if not self.step_thread_plan.IsPlanComplete():
return False
@@ -169,7 +190,7 @@ class StepCheckingCondition:
return True
error = lldb.SBError()
- a_value = a_var.GetValueAsSigned (error)
+ a_value = a_var.GetValueAsSigned(error)
if not error.Success():
print "A value was not good."
return True
@@ -181,7 +202,7 @@ class StepCheckingCondition:
self.queue_next_plan()
return False
- def should_step (self):
+ def should_step(self):
return True
# Here's an example that steps out of the current frame, gathers some information
@@ -189,23 +210,35 @@ class StepCheckingCondition:
# plans are not a safe place to call lldb command-line commands, so the information
# is gathered through SB API calls.
+
class FinishPrintAndContinue:
- def __init__ (self, thread_plan, dict):
+
+ def __init__(self, thread_plan, dict):
self.thread_plan = thread_plan
- self.step_out_thread_plan = thread_plan.QueueThreadPlanForStepOut(0, True)
+ self.step_out_thread_plan = thread_plan.QueueThreadPlanForStepOut(
+ 0, True)
self.thread = self.thread_plan.GetThread()
- def explains_stop (self, event):
- return False
+ def is_stale(self):
+ if self.step_out_thread_plan.IsPlanStale():
+ self.do_print()
+ return True
+ else:
+ return False
- def should_stop (self, event):
- if self.step_out_thread_plan.IsPlanComplete():
- frame_0 = self.thread.frames[0]
- rax_value = frame_0.FindRegister("rax")
- if rax_value.GetError().Success():
- print "RAX on exit: ", rax_value.GetValue()
- else:
- print "Couldn't get rax value:", rax_value.GetError().GetCString()
+ def explains_stop(self, event):
+ return False
+ def should_stop(self, event):
+ if self.step_out_thread_plan.IsPlanComplete():
+ self.do_print()
self.thread_plan.SetPlanComplete(True)
return False
+
+ def do_print(self):
+ frame_0 = self.thread.frames[0]
+ rax_value = frame_0.FindRegister("rax")
+ if rax_value.GetError().Success():
+ print "RAX on exit: ", rax_value.GetValue()
+ else:
+ print "Couldn't get rax value:", rax_value.GetError().GetCString()