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, or `.debug_frame` in a
95 /// build that turned the unwind table off, which is a kernel or a freestanding image. The
96 /// caller writes that section and says here whether it did. A build with neither leaves a
97 /// reader with nothing to evaluate the operation against, so the attribute is left off there
98 /// rather than written as something no debugger can follow. The locations that would be
99 /// measured from it are left off with it.
100 pub frames: bool,
101 /// Whether the unit goes in a Mach-O object.
102 ///
103 /// ld64 reads the unit's name and directory to write the map a debugger finds the object
104 /// through, and it reads them only from `.debug_str`. Given a reference into `.debug_line_str`
105 /// it leaves the object out of the map, or crashes, so on a Mac those three strings go where
106 /// clang puts them and the line program's own strings stay where they are.
107 pub mach_o: bool,
108}
109
110/// One function: where each of its instructions came from, and what it is.
111#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
112pub struct Function {
113 /// Its name, as the C program spelled it, which is what a relocation here asks the linker for.
114 pub name: String,
115 /// How many bytes of instructions it is.
116 pub len: u64,
117 /// The rows, in increasing order of address.
118 pub rows: Vec<Row>,
119 /// Where it was declared, and nothing when that is not known.
120 pub decl: Option<Place>,
121 /// What it takes and gives back, and [`None`] when this compiler cannot yet say.
122 ///
123 /// A function with nothing here gets no entry in `.debug_info` at all, for the reason in the
124 /// `tree.rs` module documentation: an entry with no return type is an entry saying `void`, so
125 /// half an answer here is a wrong one rather than a partial one.
126 pub sig: Option<Sig>,
127 /// Whether anything outside this unit can see it, which is the opposite of `static`.
128 pub external: bool,
129 /// The locals lowering gave a frame slot, in the order the slots were asked for, which is the
130 /// order they were declared in.
131 ///
132 /// Parameters are not among them, whether or not they have a slot. See [`Local`].
133 pub locals: Vec<Local>,
134 /// The inner scopes of the function, each after the scope it is written inside.
135 ///
136 /// The function's own body is not one of them, for the reason [`Scope`] gives. A scope nothing
137 /// above names is written down anyway and costs nothing: an entry is only made for one that has
138 /// a local of its own or holds a scope that does.
139 pub scopes: Vec<Scope>,
140}
141
142/// One row of the table: an address, and where the code at it came from.
143#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
144pub struct Row {
145 /// How far into its function the instruction is.
146 pub at: u64,
147 /// Which of [`Unit::files`] it is in.
148 pub file: usize,
149 /// Which line of that file, counting from one, or zero for code no line of any file asked for.
150 ///
151 /// Zero is DWARF's own spelling of that and is worth more than a guess: a debugger stepping
152 /// over a row with no line knows not to stop, where one handed the nearest line it could find
153 /// would stop somewhere the program never was.
154 pub line: u32,
155 /// Which column of that line, counting from one, or zero for the left edge.
156 pub column: u32,
157}
158
159/// What went wrong while the sections were being built.
160#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
161pub enum Error {
162 /// The DWARF writer refused something, which is a bug here rather than in a program.
163 Refused {
164 /// What it said, already formatted.
165 why: String,
166 },
167}
168
169impl std::fmt::Display for Error {
170 fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
171 match self {
172 Error::Refused { why } => {
173 write!(f, "the debug writer refused what it was given: {why}")
174 }
175 }
176 }
177}
178
179impl std::error::Error for Error {}
180
181/// One section of DWARF being written, and the relocations found while writing it.
182///
183/// The writer underneath hands a relocation over the moment it writes the hole rather than at the
184/// end, because the hole's offset is the length of what it has written so far, so this has to be
185/// one type rather than bytes now and relocations later.
186#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
187struct Section {
188 bytes: gimli::write::EndianVec<gimli::LittleEndian>,
189 relocs: Vec<gimli::write::Relocation>,
190}
191
192impl Default for Section {
193 fn default() -> Self {
194 Self { bytes: gimli::write::EndianVec::new(gimli::LittleEndian), relocs: Vec::new() }
195 }
196}
197
198impl gimli::write::RelocateWriter for Section {
199 type Writer = gimli::write::EndianVec<gimli::LittleEndian>;
200
201 fn writer(&self) -> &Self::Writer {
202 &self.bytes
203 }
204
205 fn writer_mut(&mut self) -> &mut Self::Writer {
206 &mut self.bytes
207 }
208
209 fn relocate(&mut self, relocation: gimli::write::Relocation) {
210 self.relocs.push(relocation);
211 }
212}
213
214/// The sections a unit's debug information goes in.
215///
216/// The result is empty when nothing in the unit has a row, which is a file of declarations and a
217/// file whose every function was dropped. An empty `.debug_line` is worse than no section at all,
218/// since a reader would find a unit covering no addresses and have to decide what that meant.
219///
220/// # Errors
221///
222/// [`Error::Refused`] for anything the DWARF writer objected to. Every value it is handed here came
223/// out of this compiler, so that is a bug here rather than a program's mistake.
224pub fn write(unit: &Unit) -> Result<Info, Error> {
225 if unit.funcs.iter().all(|func| func.rows.is_empty()) {
226 return Ok(Info::default());
227 }
228 let encoding =
229 gimli::Encoding { format: gimli::Format::Dwarf32, version: 5, address_size: unit.pointer };
230 let mut dwarf = gimli::write::DwarfUnit::new(encoding);
231 let dir = text(&unit.dir, encoding, &mut dwarf.line_strings);
232 let name = text(&unit.name, encoding, &mut dwarf.line_strings);
233 let mut program =
234 gimli::write::LineProgram::new(encoding, gimli::LineEncoding::default(), dir, name, None);
235 // Every file the rows name, under the directory above. The name is written whole rather than
236 // split into a directory and a base, which is legal and is not what gcc does: a reader joins
237 // the two only when the file is relative, so a whole name is one the reader takes as it stands.
238 // Splitting would buy a shorter table on a project whose files share directories and would put
239 // a second place in here where a path is taken apart.
240 let under = program.default_directory();
241 let files: Vec<gimli::write::FileId> = unit
242 .files
243 .iter()
244 .map(|file| {
245 let file = text(file, encoding, &mut dwarf.line_strings);
246 program.add_file(file, under, None)
247 })
248 .collect();
249 for (index, func) in unit.funcs.iter().enumerate() {
250 if func.rows.is_empty() {
251 continue;
252 }
253 program.begin_sequence(Some(gimli::write::Address::Symbol { symbol: index, addend: 0 }));
254 // A row that says what the row before it said is a row a reader would read and discard, so
255 // it is left out. That is most of them: a line of C is several instructions and every one
256 // of them carries the same span.
257 let mut said: Option<(usize, u32, u32)> = None;
258 for row in &func.rows {
259 let now = (row.file, row.line, row.column);
260 if said == Some(now) {
261 continue;
262 }
263 said = Some(now);
264 let Some(&file) = files.get(row.file) else {
265 let why = format!("row at {} names file {}, which is not one", row.at, row.file);
266 return Err(Error::Refused { why });
267 };
268 let state = program.row();
269 state.address_offset = row.at;
270 state.file = file;
271 state.line = u64::from(row.line);
272 state.column = u64::from(row.column);
273 // Every row is somewhere a breakpoint may attach, because at this optimization level
274 // every row is the start of a statement or is code with no statement to be the start
275 // of, and the second kind carries line zero and is not a place a debugger stops.
276 state.is_statement = true;
277 program.generate_row();
278 }
279 program.end_sequence(func.len);
280 }
281 let ranges = unit
282 .funcs
283 .iter()
284 .enumerate()
285 .filter(|(_, func)| !func.rows.is_empty())
286 .map(|(index, func)| gimli::write::Range::StartLength {
287 begin: gimli::write::Address::Symbol { symbol: index, addend: 0 },
288 length: func.len,
289 })
290 .collect();
291 dwarf.unit.line_program = program;
292 let covers = dwarf.unit.ranges.add(gimli::write::RangeList(ranges));
293 let root = dwarf.unit.root();
294 let mut said = Vec::with_capacity(3);
295 for (attr, val) in [
296 (gimli::DW_AT_producer, &unit.producer),
297 (gimli::DW_AT_name, &unit.name),
298 (gimli::DW_AT_comp_dir, &unit.dir),
299 ] {
300 let val = if unit.mach_o {
301 let bytes: Vec<u8> = val.bytes().filter(|&byte| byte != 0).collect();
302 gimli::write::AttributeValue::StringRef(dwarf.strings.add(bytes))
303 } else {
304 let string = text(val, encoding, &mut dwarf.line_strings);
305 gimli::write::AttributeValue::LineStringRef(held(string)?)
306 };
307 said.push((attr, val));
308 }
309 let root = dwarf.unit.get_mut(root);
310 let mut said = said.into_iter();
311 if let Some((attr, val)) = said.next() {
312 root.set(attr, val);
313 }
314 root.set(gimli::DW_AT_language, gimli::write::AttributeValue::Language(gimli::DW_LANG_C11));
315 for (attr, val) in said {
316 root.set(attr, val);
317 }
318 root.set(gimli::DW_AT_stmt_list, gimli::write::AttributeValue::LineProgramRef);
319 root.set(gimli::DW_AT_ranges, gimli::write::AttributeValue::RangeListRef(covers));
320 tree::describe(&mut dwarf, &unit.types, &files, &unit.funcs, &unit.globals, unit.frames)?;
321 let mut sections = gimli::write::Sections::new(Section::default());
322 dwarf.write(&mut sections).map_err(refused)?;
323 let mut info = Info::default();
324 // One index space over both lists, the functions first. `gimli` calls a relocation target a
325 // symbol number and leaves it to the caller to say what a number means, and what one means here
326 // is a position in this: the line table and a subprogram's low PC ask for a function, and a
327 // variable's location asks for a variable.
328 let named = |target: gimli::write::RelocationTarget| match target {
329 gimli::write::RelocationTarget::Symbol(index) => match unit.funcs.get(index) {
330 Some(func) => func.name.clone(),
331 None => unit.globals[index - unit.funcs.len()].name.clone(),
332 },
333 gimli::write::RelocationTarget::Section(id) => id.name().to_owned(),
334 };
335 sections.for_each(|id, section| {
336 if section.bytes.slice().is_empty() {
337 return Ok(());
338 }
339 let relocs = section
340 .relocs
341 .iter()
342 .map(|reloc| Reloc {
343 at: reloc.offset,
344 symbol: named(reloc.target),
345 kind: Reference::Address { bytes: reloc.size },
346 addend: reloc.addend,
347 after: 0,
348 })
349 .collect();
350 info.chunks.push(Chunk {
351 name: id.name().to_owned(),
352 bytes: section.bytes.slice().to_vec(),
353 relocs,
354 });
355 Ok::<(), Error>(())
356 })?;
357 Ok(info)
358}
359
360/// A string as the line program writes one, which is a reference into `.debug_line_str`.
361///
362/// Every string here goes in that section rather than in `.debug_str` or inline, because the file
363/// and directory tables of a DWARF 5 line program can reach it and the unit's own attributes can
364/// too, so one section holds all of them and a name that appears in both is written once.
365fn text(
366 val: &str,
367 encoding: gimli::Encoding,
368 strings: &mut gimli::write::LineStringTable,
369) -> gimli::write::LineString {
370 // A null byte in a path is not something a file system hands back and is something the writer
371 // underneath panics on, so it is taken out rather than passed through.
372 let val: Vec<u8> = val.bytes().filter(|&byte| byte != 0).collect();
373 gimli::write::LineString::new(val, encoding, strings)
374}
375
376/// The identifier behind a string that went into `.debug_line_str`.
377///
378/// [`text`] answers with whichever form of string the encoding wanted, and for DWARF 5 that is
379/// always a reference into that section. An attribute has to name the reference rather than repeat
380/// the bytes, so this is where the one shape the encoding can produce is taken apart, and anything
381/// else is a disagreement between this function and that one rather than anything a caller did.
382fn held(string: gimli::write::LineString) -> Result<gimli::write::LineStringId, Error> {
383 match string {
384 gimli::write::LineString::LineStringRef(id) => Ok(id),
385 _ => Err(Error::Refused {
386 why: "a string meant for the line string section was written another way".to_owned(),
387 }),
388 }
389}
390
391/// What the DWARF writer said, as the one kind of news it can be here.
392fn refused(why: gimli::write::Error) -> Error {
393 Error::Refused { why: why.to_string() }
394}
395
396#[cfg(test)]
397mod tests {
398 use super::*;
399
400 /// A unit with one function and two lines in it.
401 fn one() -> Unit {
402 Unit {
403 name: "a.c".to_owned(),
404 dir: "/tmp".to_owned(),
405 producer: "rucc".to_owned(),
406 files: vec!["a.c".to_owned()],
407 types: Vec::new(),
408 funcs: vec![Function {
409 name: "f".to_owned(),
410 len: 16,
411 rows: vec![
412 Row { at: 0, file: 0, line: 3, column: 1 },
413 Row { at: 8, file: 0, line: 4, column: 5 },
414 ],
415 ..Function::default()
416 }],
417 globals: Vec::new(),
418 pointer: 8,
419 frames: true,
420 mach_o: false,
421 }
422 }
423
424 /// The sections that come out, and that each of them has something in it.
425 ///
426 /// Four rather than two, because a line table nothing can find is a section no reader opens.
427 /// The unit in `.debug_info` is what a reader walks to reach the program, the abbreviation in
428 /// `.debug_abbrev` is what that unit is written against, and the strings are in
429 /// `.debug_line_str` because both the unit and the program's own tables name them.
430 #[test]
431 fn a_unit_with_rows_writes_the_four_sections_a_reader_needs() {
432 let info = write(&one()).expect("sections");
433 let names: Vec<&str> = info.chunks.iter().map(|chunk| chunk.name.as_str()).collect();
434 assert_eq!(
435 names,
436 [".debug_abbrev", ".debug_line_str", ".debug_line", ".debug_rnglists", ".debug_info"]
437 );
438 assert!(info.chunks.iter().all(|chunk| !chunk.bytes.is_empty()));
439 }
440
441 /// Where a function is is the one number no compilation knows, so every sequence asks for it.
442 ///
443 /// The relocation names the function rather than the section it is in, because under
444 /// `-ffunction-sections` the section is the function's own and under anything else the object
445 /// writer is the one that knows where in the text it landed. The others in the same section are
446 /// the header naming its own strings, which is the other thing only a linker can resolve.
447 #[test]
448 fn a_sequence_asks_the_linker_where_its_function_went() {
449 let info = write(&one()).expect("sections");
450 let line = info.chunks.iter().find(|chunk| chunk.name == ".debug_line").expect("a table");
451 let address = line.relocs.iter().find(|reloc| reloc.symbol == "f").expect("an address");
452 assert_eq!(address.kind, Reference::Address { bytes: 8 });
453 assert_eq!(address.addend, 0);
454 // The rest are the header's own, and they are section offsets rather than addresses: a
455 // directory and a file name in DWARF 5 are written as a place in `.debug_line_str`.
456 let rest = line.relocs.iter().filter(|reloc| reloc.symbol != "f");
457 assert!(rest.clone().count() > 0);
458 assert!(rest.clone().all(|reloc| reloc.symbol == ".debug_line_str"));
459 assert!(rest.clone().all(|reloc| reloc.kind == Reference::Address { bytes: 4 }));
460 }
461
462 /// On a Mac the unit's own name, directory and producer are read from `.debug_str`, which is
463 /// the only place ld64 looks for them when it writes the map `dsymutil` follows to the object.
464 #[test]
465 fn a_mach_o_unit_names_itself_in_the_strings_ld64_reads() {
466 let unit = Unit { mach_o: true, ..one() };
467 let info = write(&unit).expect("sections");
468 let strings = info.chunks.iter().find(|chunk| chunk.name == ".debug_str").expect("strings");
469 for name in ["rucc", "a.c"] {
470 let held = format!("{name}\0");
471 assert!(strings.bytes.windows(held.len()).any(|at| at == held.as_bytes()), "{name}");
472 }
473 let unit = info.chunks.iter().find(|chunk| chunk.name == ".debug_info").expect("a unit");
474 assert!(unit.relocs.iter().all(|reloc| reloc.symbol != ".debug_line_str"));
475 assert!(unit.relocs.iter().any(|reloc| reloc.symbol == ".debug_str"));
476 }
477
478 /// A file with nothing to say writes no sections rather than empty ones.
479 #[test]
480 fn a_unit_with_no_rows_writes_nothing() {
481 let mut unit = one();
482 unit.funcs[0].rows.clear();
483 assert_eq!(write(&unit).expect("sections"), Info::default());
484 }
485
486 /// A row naming a file the unit does not have is refused rather than written as something else.
487 #[test]
488 fn a_row_naming_a_file_that_is_not_there_is_refused() {
489 let mut unit = one();
490 unit.funcs[0].rows[1].file = 7;
491 assert!(write(&unit).is_err());
492 }
493}