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