rucc_debug/line.rs
1//! The line table, as the bytes of the sections it goes in.
2//!
3//! Design: `spec/11-asm-objects-debug.md` section 11.4.
4//!
5//! A line table answers one question: given an address in the program, which line of which file was
6//! the compiler writing code for when it produced the instruction there. Everything else DWARF
7//! describes is about what the program means, and this is about where it came from, which is why it
8//! is a table of its own rather than an attribute on something.
9//!
10//! # Why this is the first part written
11//!
12//! Because of what a safety report is. The monitor's descriptor carries a judgement, a class, an
13//! access size and a program counter, and `spec/safe-memory/06-instrumentation.md` section 6.5
14//! deliberately keeps the source location out of it so that a compiler does not ship two line
15//! tables that can come to disagree. That is the right design and it only pays when there is one
16//! line table, and until now there was none, so every report from a corpus run had to be read
17//! backwards out of a disassembly. On a quarter of a million lines of SQLite that is the difference
18//! between a minute and an afternoon per shape.
19//!
20//! # What is here
21//!
22//! The line number program, in `.debug_line`, with the file and directory tables DWARF 5 puts in
23//! its header, and the strings those tables name, in `.debug_line_str`. Beside them the smallest
24//! compilation unit that makes them findable: one `DW_TAG_compile_unit` in `.debug_info` with the
25//! producer, the name of the file, the directory the compiler ran in, a `DW_AT_stmt_list` pointing
26//! at the program and a `DW_AT_ranges` saying which addresses this unit covers, and the
27//! abbreviation it is written against in `.debug_abbrev`. A reader handed an address walks the
28//! units, and a unit with no entry in `.debug_info` is a unit nothing walks, so the table alone
29//! would have been a section no tool reads.
30//!
31//! The ranges are a list with one entry per function rather than a low and a high address over the
32//! whole unit. Under `-ffunction-sections` each function is a section of its own and the linker may
33//! place them anywhere and drop the ones nothing reaches, so there is no single span that covers
34//! them, and writing one would be writing down something that is true of the object and false of
35//! the program.
36//!
37//! # What is not here
38//!
39//! What the program means is in `tree.rs` and goes in the same unit: the types, the functions and
40//! the variables the unit defines at file scope, which is what a debugger reads a value through.
41//! Half the locals are there too, which is the ones lowering gave a frame slot, each a
42//! `DW_OP_fbreg` at an offset the frame layout worked out. The other half are held in SSA values
43//! and need a location list built over the register allocator's output, which is the rest of
44//! tamnd/rucc#9. What makes a location a different piece of work rather than more of this one is
45//! that it is checked differently: a line table is right or wrong against `addr2line` and a local's
46//! location is right or wrong against a debugger that stops in the middle of a function and prints
47//! it.
48//!
49//! One sequence per function, each beginning at that function's own symbol. A sequence is the unit
50//! of address ordering in a line program and its rows have to run forwards, so a table with one
51//! sequence over a section would be a table that breaks the moment two functions are laid out in an
52//! order the source did not have. One per function costs a `DW_LNE_set_address` and a relocation
53//! each and is correct under every combination of flags there is.
54
55use crate::shape::{Global, Local, Place, Scope, Shape, Sig};
56use crate::tree;
57
58use rucc_object::{Chunk, Info, Reference, Reloc};
59
60/// One compilation unit's worth of debug information.
61#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
62pub struct Unit {
63 /// The file being compiled, as the command line spelled it, already prefix mapped.
64 pub name: String,
65 /// The directory the compiler was run in, already prefix mapped.
66 ///
67 /// This is `DW_AT_comp_dir`, and what it is for is that every relative name in the tables below
68 /// is relative to it. A build that cannot say where it ran writes a single dot, which is what
69 /// the tables are already relative to and is therefore the one answer that changes nothing.
70 pub dir: String,
71 /// What produced this, which is this compiler and its version.
72 pub producer: String,
73 /// Every file any row names, in the order the rows refer to them by.
74 pub files: Vec<String>,
75 /// Every type anything in the unit names, in the order they refer to them by.
76 ///
77 /// A table of indices rather than a tree, so that a type naming itself is an ordinary entry.
78 /// See [`Shape`] for what is in one and what is deliberately left out of one.
79 pub types: Vec<Shape>,
80 /// The functions, in the order the text section holds them.
81 pub funcs: Vec<Function>,
82 /// The file-scope variables this unit defines, in the order the object file holds them.
83 ///
84 /// Only the ones it defines. A name this unit declares and another one defines is a name the
85 /// linker resolves, so an entry for it here would be an entry whose address is somebody
86 /// else's, and a reader wanting the type of one reads the unit that has it.
87 pub globals: Vec<Global>,
88 /// How many bytes an address is on this target.
89 pub pointer: u8,
90 /// Whether this build writes a call frame table, which is what a frame base is resolved
91 /// through.
92 ///
93 /// A function's `DW_AT_frame_base` is `DW_OP_call_frame_cfa`, and what answers that operation
94 /// is the unwind table the build already writes for every function. A build that turns the
95 /// table off, which is a kernel or a freestanding image, leaves a reader with nothing to
96 /// evaluate the operation against, so the attribute is left off there rather than written as
97 /// something no debugger can follow. The locations that would be measured from it are left off
98 /// with it.
99 pub frames: bool,
100}
101
102/// One function: where each of its instructions came from, and what it is.
103#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
104pub struct Function {
105 /// Its name, as the C program spelled it, which is what a relocation here asks the linker for.
106 pub name: String,
107 /// How many bytes of instructions it is.
108 pub len: u64,
109 /// The rows, in increasing order of address.
110 pub rows: Vec<Row>,
111 /// Where it was declared, and nothing when that is not known.
112 pub decl: Option<Place>,
113 /// What it takes and gives back, and [`None`] when this compiler cannot yet say.
114 ///
115 /// A function with nothing here gets no entry in `.debug_info` at all, for the reason in the
116 /// `tree.rs` module documentation: an entry with no return type is an entry saying `void`, so
117 /// half an answer here is a wrong one rather than a partial one.
118 pub sig: Option<Sig>,
119 /// Whether anything outside this unit can see it, which is the opposite of `static`.
120 pub external: bool,
121 /// The locals lowering gave a frame slot, in the order the slots were asked for, which is the
122 /// order they were declared in.
123 ///
124 /// Parameters are not among them, whether or not they have a slot. See [`Local`].
125 pub locals: Vec<Local>,
126 /// The inner scopes of the function, each after the scope it is written inside.
127 ///
128 /// The function's own body is not one of them, for the reason [`Scope`] gives. A scope nothing
129 /// above names is written down anyway and costs nothing: an entry is only made for one that has
130 /// a local of its own or holds a scope that does.
131 pub scopes: Vec<Scope>,
132}
133
134/// One row of the table: an address, and where the code at it came from.
135#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
136pub struct Row {
137 /// How far into its function the instruction is.
138 pub at: u64,
139 /// Which of [`Unit::files`] it is in.
140 pub file: usize,
141 /// Which line of that file, counting from one, or zero for code no line of any file asked for.
142 ///
143 /// Zero is DWARF's own spelling of that and is worth more than a guess: a debugger stepping
144 /// over a row with no line knows not to stop, where one handed the nearest line it could find
145 /// would stop somewhere the program never was.
146 pub line: u32,
147 /// Which column of that line, counting from one, or zero for the left edge.
148 pub column: u32,
149}
150
151/// What went wrong while the sections were being built.
152#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
153pub enum Error {
154 /// The DWARF writer refused something, which is a bug here rather than in a program.
155 Refused {
156 /// What it said, already formatted.
157 why: String,
158 },
159}
160
161impl std::fmt::Display for Error {
162 fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
163 match self {
164 Error::Refused { why } => {
165 write!(f, "the debug writer refused what it was given: {why}")
166 }
167 }
168 }
169}
170
171impl std::error::Error for Error {}
172
173/// One section of DWARF being written, and the relocations found while writing it.
174///
175/// The writer underneath hands a relocation over the moment it writes the hole rather than at the
176/// end, because the hole's offset is the length of what it has written so far, so this has to be
177/// one type rather than bytes now and relocations later.
178#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
179struct Section {
180 bytes: gimli::write::EndianVec<gimli::LittleEndian>,
181 relocs: Vec<gimli::write::Relocation>,
182}
183
184impl Default for Section {
185 fn default() -> Self {
186 Self { bytes: gimli::write::EndianVec::new(gimli::LittleEndian), relocs: Vec::new() }
187 }
188}
189
190impl gimli::write::RelocateWriter for Section {
191 type Writer = gimli::write::EndianVec<gimli::LittleEndian>;
192
193 fn writer(&self) -> &Self::Writer {
194 &self.bytes
195 }
196
197 fn writer_mut(&mut self) -> &mut Self::Writer {
198 &mut self.bytes
199 }
200
201 fn relocate(&mut self, relocation: gimli::write::Relocation) {
202 self.relocs.push(relocation);
203 }
204}
205
206/// The sections a unit's debug information goes in.
207///
208/// The result is empty when nothing in the unit has a row, which is a file of declarations and a
209/// file whose every function was dropped. An empty `.debug_line` is worse than no section at all,
210/// since a reader would find a unit covering no addresses and have to decide what that meant.
211///
212/// # Errors
213///
214/// [`Error::Refused`] for anything the DWARF writer objected to. Every value it is handed here came
215/// out of this compiler, so that is a bug here rather than a program's mistake.
216pub fn write(unit: &Unit) -> Result<Info, Error> {
217 if unit.funcs.iter().all(|func| func.rows.is_empty()) {
218 return Ok(Info::default());
219 }
220 let encoding =
221 gimli::Encoding { format: gimli::Format::Dwarf32, version: 5, address_size: unit.pointer };
222 let mut dwarf = gimli::write::DwarfUnit::new(encoding);
223 let dir = text(&unit.dir, encoding, &mut dwarf.line_strings);
224 let name = text(&unit.name, encoding, &mut dwarf.line_strings);
225 let mut program =
226 gimli::write::LineProgram::new(encoding, gimli::LineEncoding::default(), dir, name, None);
227 // Every file the rows name, under the directory above. The name is written whole rather than
228 // split into a directory and a base, which is legal and is not what gcc does: a reader joins
229 // the two only when the file is relative, so a whole name is one the reader takes as it stands.
230 // Splitting would buy a shorter table on a project whose files share directories and would put
231 // a second place in here where a path is taken apart.
232 let under = program.default_directory();
233 let files: Vec<gimli::write::FileId> = unit
234 .files
235 .iter()
236 .map(|file| {
237 let file = text(file, encoding, &mut dwarf.line_strings);
238 program.add_file(file, under, None)
239 })
240 .collect();
241 for (index, func) in unit.funcs.iter().enumerate() {
242 if func.rows.is_empty() {
243 continue;
244 }
245 program.begin_sequence(Some(gimli::write::Address::Symbol { symbol: index, addend: 0 }));
246 // A row that says what the row before it said is a row a reader would read and discard, so
247 // it is left out. That is most of them: a line of C is several instructions and every one
248 // of them carries the same span.
249 let mut said: Option<(usize, u32, u32)> = None;
250 for row in &func.rows {
251 let now = (row.file, row.line, row.column);
252 if said == Some(now) {
253 continue;
254 }
255 said = Some(now);
256 let Some(&file) = files.get(row.file) else {
257 let why = format!("row at {} names file {}, which is not one", row.at, row.file);
258 return Err(Error::Refused { why });
259 };
260 let state = program.row();
261 state.address_offset = row.at;
262 state.file = file;
263 state.line = u64::from(row.line);
264 state.column = u64::from(row.column);
265 // Every row is somewhere a breakpoint may attach, because at this optimization level
266 // every row is the start of a statement or is code with no statement to be the start
267 // of, and the second kind carries line zero and is not a place a debugger stops.
268 state.is_statement = true;
269 program.generate_row();
270 }
271 program.end_sequence(func.len);
272 }
273 let ranges = unit
274 .funcs
275 .iter()
276 .enumerate()
277 .filter(|(_, func)| !func.rows.is_empty())
278 .map(|(index, func)| gimli::write::Range::StartLength {
279 begin: gimli::write::Address::Symbol { symbol: index, addend: 0 },
280 length: func.len,
281 })
282 .collect();
283 dwarf.unit.line_program = program;
284 let covers = dwarf.unit.ranges.add(gimli::write::RangeList(ranges));
285 let root = dwarf.unit.root();
286 let producer = text(&unit.producer, encoding, &mut dwarf.line_strings);
287 let name = text(&unit.name, encoding, &mut dwarf.line_strings);
288 let dir = text(&unit.dir, encoding, &mut dwarf.line_strings);
289 let root = dwarf.unit.get_mut(root);
290 root.set(gimli::DW_AT_producer, gimli::write::AttributeValue::LineStringRef(held(producer)?));
291 root.set(gimli::DW_AT_language, gimli::write::AttributeValue::Language(gimli::DW_LANG_C11));
292 root.set(gimli::DW_AT_name, gimli::write::AttributeValue::LineStringRef(held(name)?));
293 root.set(gimli::DW_AT_comp_dir, gimli::write::AttributeValue::LineStringRef(held(dir)?));
294 root.set(gimli::DW_AT_stmt_list, gimli::write::AttributeValue::LineProgramRef);
295 root.set(gimli::DW_AT_ranges, gimli::write::AttributeValue::RangeListRef(covers));
296 tree::describe(&mut dwarf, &unit.types, &files, &unit.funcs, &unit.globals, unit.frames)?;
297 let mut sections = gimli::write::Sections::new(Section::default());
298 dwarf.write(&mut sections).map_err(refused)?;
299 let mut info = Info::default();
300 // One index space over both lists, the functions first. `gimli` calls a relocation target a
301 // symbol number and leaves it to the caller to say what a number means, and what one means here
302 // is a position in this: the line table and a subprogram's low PC ask for a function, and a
303 // variable's location asks for a variable.
304 let named = |target: gimli::write::RelocationTarget| match target {
305 gimli::write::RelocationTarget::Symbol(index) => match unit.funcs.get(index) {
306 Some(func) => func.name.clone(),
307 None => unit.globals[index - unit.funcs.len()].name.clone(),
308 },
309 gimli::write::RelocationTarget::Section(id) => id.name().to_owned(),
310 };
311 sections.for_each(|id, section| {
312 if section.bytes.slice().is_empty() {
313 return Ok(());
314 }
315 let relocs = section
316 .relocs
317 .iter()
318 .map(|reloc| Reloc {
319 at: reloc.offset,
320 symbol: named(reloc.target),
321 kind: Reference::Address { bytes: reloc.size },
322 addend: reloc.addend,
323 after: 0,
324 })
325 .collect();
326 info.chunks.push(Chunk {
327 name: id.name().to_owned(),
328 bytes: section.bytes.slice().to_vec(),
329 relocs,
330 });
331 Ok::<(), Error>(())
332 })?;
333 Ok(info)
334}
335
336/// A string as the line program writes one, which is a reference into `.debug_line_str`.
337///
338/// Every string here goes in that section rather than in `.debug_str` or inline, because the file
339/// and directory tables of a DWARF 5 line program can reach it and the unit's own attributes can
340/// too, so one section holds all of them and a name that appears in both is written once.
341fn text(
342 val: &str,
343 encoding: gimli::Encoding,
344 strings: &mut gimli::write::LineStringTable,
345) -> gimli::write::LineString {
346 // A null byte in a path is not something a file system hands back and is something the writer
347 // underneath panics on, so it is taken out rather than passed through.
348 let val: Vec<u8> = val.bytes().filter(|&byte| byte != 0).collect();
349 gimli::write::LineString::new(val, encoding, strings)
350}
351
352/// The identifier behind a string that went into `.debug_line_str`.
353///
354/// [`text`] answers with whichever form of string the encoding wanted, and for DWARF 5 that is
355/// always a reference into that section. An attribute has to name the reference rather than repeat
356/// the bytes, so this is where the one shape the encoding can produce is taken apart, and anything
357/// else is a disagreement between this function and that one rather than anything a caller did.
358fn held(string: gimli::write::LineString) -> Result<gimli::write::LineStringId, Error> {
359 match string {
360 gimli::write::LineString::LineStringRef(id) => Ok(id),
361 _ => Err(Error::Refused {
362 why: "a string meant for the line string section was written another way".to_owned(),
363 }),
364 }
365}
366
367/// What the DWARF writer said, as the one kind of news it can be here.
368fn refused(why: gimli::write::Error) -> Error {
369 Error::Refused { why: why.to_string() }
370}
371
372#[cfg(test)]
373mod tests {
374 use super::*;
375
376 /// A unit with one function and two lines in it.
377 fn one() -> Unit {
378 Unit {
379 name: "a.c".to_owned(),
380 dir: "/tmp".to_owned(),
381 producer: "rucc".to_owned(),
382 files: vec!["a.c".to_owned()],
383 types: Vec::new(),
384 funcs: vec![Function {
385 name: "f".to_owned(),
386 len: 16,
387 rows: vec![
388 Row { at: 0, file: 0, line: 3, column: 1 },
389 Row { at: 8, file: 0, line: 4, column: 5 },
390 ],
391 ..Function::default()
392 }],
393 globals: Vec::new(),
394 pointer: 8,
395 frames: true,
396 }
397 }
398
399 /// The sections that come out, and that each of them has something in it.
400 ///
401 /// Four rather than two, because a line table nothing can find is a section no reader opens.
402 /// The unit in `.debug_info` is what a reader walks to reach the program, the abbreviation in
403 /// `.debug_abbrev` is what that unit is written against, and the strings are in
404 /// `.debug_line_str` because both the unit and the program's own tables name them.
405 #[test]
406 fn a_unit_with_rows_writes_the_four_sections_a_reader_needs() {
407 let info = write(&one()).expect("sections");
408 let names: Vec<&str> = info.chunks.iter().map(|chunk| chunk.name.as_str()).collect();
409 assert_eq!(
410 names,
411 [".debug_abbrev", ".debug_line_str", ".debug_line", ".debug_rnglists", ".debug_info"]
412 );
413 assert!(info.chunks.iter().all(|chunk| !chunk.bytes.is_empty()));
414 }
415
416 /// Where a function is is the one number no compilation knows, so every sequence asks for it.
417 ///
418 /// The relocation names the function rather than the section it is in, because under
419 /// `-ffunction-sections` the section is the function's own and under anything else the object
420 /// writer is the one that knows where in the text it landed. The others in the same section are
421 /// the header naming its own strings, which is the other thing only a linker can resolve.
422 #[test]
423 fn a_sequence_asks_the_linker_where_its_function_went() {
424 let info = write(&one()).expect("sections");
425 let line = info.chunks.iter().find(|chunk| chunk.name == ".debug_line").expect("a table");
426 let address = line.relocs.iter().find(|reloc| reloc.symbol == "f").expect("an address");
427 assert_eq!(address.kind, Reference::Address { bytes: 8 });
428 assert_eq!(address.addend, 0);
429 // The rest are the header's own, and they are section offsets rather than addresses: a
430 // directory and a file name in DWARF 5 are written as a place in `.debug_line_str`.
431 let rest = line.relocs.iter().filter(|reloc| reloc.symbol != "f");
432 assert!(rest.clone().count() > 0);
433 assert!(rest.clone().all(|reloc| reloc.symbol == ".debug_line_str"));
434 assert!(rest.clone().all(|reloc| reloc.kind == Reference::Address { bytes: 4 }));
435 }
436
437 /// A file with nothing to say writes no sections rather than empty ones.
438 #[test]
439 fn a_unit_with_no_rows_writes_nothing() {
440 let mut unit = one();
441 unit.funcs[0].rows.clear();
442 assert_eq!(write(&unit).expect("sections"), Info::default());
443 }
444
445 /// A row naming a file the unit does not have is refused rather than written as something else.
446 #[test]
447 fn a_row_naming_a_file_that_is_not_there_is_refused() {
448 let mut unit = one();
449 unit.funcs[0].rows[1].file = 7;
450 assert!(write(&unit).is_err());
451 }
452}