zturner added inline comments.

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Comment at: unittests/tools/lldb-server/inferior/thread_inferior.cpp:21
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+  LLVM_BUILTIN_DEBUGTRAP;
+  delay = false;
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labath wrote:
> krytarowski wrote:
> > labath wrote:
> > > krytarowski wrote:
> > > > jmajors wrote:
> > > > > krytarowski wrote:
> > > > > > jmajors wrote:
> > > > > > > zturner wrote:
> > > > > > > > This will work on MSVC and presumably clang.  I'm not sure 
> > > > > > > > about gcc.  Is that sufficient for your needs?   Do you know if 
> > > > > > > > gcc has the `__builtin_debugtrap` intrinsic?
> > > > > > > Do we use gcc to build/test lldb? If not, then it shouldn't be an 
> > > > > > > issue. If we ever change our compiler of choice, we can always 
> > > > > > > change this to match.
> > > > > > Yes, we use and support GCC with libstdc++ to build LLDB including 
> > > > > > tests. At least on NetBSD.
> > > > > Is there a gcc equivalent, that I could wrap in some #ifdefs?
> > > > No, there is no equivalent and I'm trying to convince that we should 
> > > > not try to use this `__builtin_debugtrap()` in the code. We should ask 
> > > > the debugger to set and handle the trap.
> > > > 
> > > > Otherwise we will need to handle this on per-cpu and per-os matrix. In 
> > > > the SPARC/NetBSD example we would need to ask the debugger to set PC 
> > > > after the trap manually.
> > > The thing with the lldb-server tests is that there is no "debugger" which 
> > > can set the figure out where to set the breakpoint. Lldb-server operates 
> > > at a much lower level, and it knows nothing about dwarf, or even symbol 
> > > tables, and I think the tests shouldn't either (mainly to keep the tests 
> > > more targetted, but also because it would be quite tricky to wire that up 
> > > at this level). The existing lldb-server tests don't do debug info 
> > > parsing either.
> > > 
> > > BTW, this test doesn't actually need the int3 breakpoint for its work -- 
> > > all we need is for the inferior to stop so that the debugger can take a 
> > > look at this state. Any stopping event will do the trick, and the most 
> > > "portable" would probably be dereferencing a null pointer.
> > > 
> > > However, we will get back to this soon enough, when we start talking 
> > > about breakpoint-setting tests. Since the client doesn't know anything 
> > > about debug info, the best way to figure out where to set a breakpoint is 
> > > for the inferior to tell us. The way existing lldb-server tests do that 
> > > is via printf, but that has some issues (intercepting stdio is hard or 
> > > impossible on windows and stdio comes asynchronously on linux so it is 
> > > hard to write race-free tests). The most reliable way I came up for that 
> > > was to put that value in a register. Now this requires a bit of assembly 
> > > (eg., `movq %rax, $function_I_want_to_break_in; int3` in x86 case), but 
> > > that little snippet can be tucked away in a utility function (plus a 
> > > similar utility function on the recieving side to read out the value) and 
> > > noone has to look at it again, and the rest of the test can be 
> > > architecture-independent.
> > > 
> > > The assembly will obviously be architecture-dependent, but I don't think 
> > > we will really need an OS dimension. I am not sure if we currently 
> > > support on os where the PC fixup would be necessary, but even if we do, 
> > > the implementation of that would be quite simple.
> > > 
> > > I am open to other ideas on how to pass information between the inferior 
> > > and the test though.
> > Can we go for `raise(SIGTRAP)`?
> Doesn't work on windows (so it is not more portable than null dereference) 
> and it has no payload (so you cannot use it for passing data to the test) :)
Just use `LLVM_BUILTIN_TRAP` or a null pointer dereference, so it works 
everywhere.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D32930



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