* emacs-buffer.gdb
@ 2005-05-02 5:20 Noah Friedman
2005-05-03 17:12 ` emacs-buffer.gdb Richard Stallman
0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Noah Friedman @ 2005-05-02 5:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I thought others might find this useful.
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# emacs-buffer.gdb --- gdb macros for recovering buffers from emacs coredumps
# Copyright (C) 1992, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 1998, 2000, 01, 2004
# Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# Copyright (C) 2005 Noah S. Friedman
# Maintainer: Noah Friedman <friedman@splode.com>
# Status: tested with Emacs 22.
# Created: 2005-04-28
# $Id: emacs-buffer.gdb,v 1.1 2005/05/02 05:15:49 friedman Exp $
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
# any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, you can either send email to this
# program's maintainer or write to: The Free Software Foundation,
# Inc.; 59 Temple Place, Suite 330; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
# Commentary:
# This is a set of gdb macros for recovering the contents of buffers from
# an Emacs coredump; they may not always be file-backed or have a recent
# autosave.
#
# The Emacs executable must have debugging symbols for this to work. But
# you never strip Emacs, right? Right!
#
# The main commands of interest are `ybuffer-list' and `ysave-buffer'. The
# `y' prefix avoids any namespace collisions with emacs/src/.gdbinit.
# Example usage:
#
# $ gdb /usr/bin/emacs core
# Current directory is /u/noah/
# GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.1post-1.20040607.43rh)
# ...
# #0 0x400007a2 in _dl_sysinfo_int80 () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
# (gdb) source emacs-buffer.gdb
# (gdb) ybuffer-list
# Buffer# Size Name
# 0 556 mail to emacs-devel@gnu.org
# 1 0 *Minibuf-1*
# 2 0 *mail*
# 3 0 *scratch*
# 4 0 *Minibuf-0*
# 5 3244 *Messages*
# 6 27 *Echo Area 0*
# 7 4 *Echo Area 1*
# 8 8 *code-conversion-work*
# 9 3158 *Completions*
# 10 318080 *bbdb data*
# 11 39 *canonical address*
# 12 39 *extract address components*
# (gdb) ysave-buffer 0 mail.save
# [Wrote buffer "mail to emacs-devel@gnu.org" to file mail.save]
# (gdb) quit
# $ ls -l mail.save
# -rw-rw-rw- 1 noah user 556 May 1 22:05 mail.save
# $
# Code:
# Force loading of symbols, enough to give us gdb_valbits etc.
set main
# When nonzero, display some extra diagnostics in various commands
set $yverbose = 1
define yinit
set $tagmask = (((long)1 << gdb_gctypebits) - 1)
set $valmask = gdb_use_lsb ? ~($tagmask) : ((long)1 << gdb_valbits) - 1
end
define ygetptr
set $ptr = $arg0
set $ptr = (gdb_use_union ? $ptr.u.val : $ptr & $valmask) | gdb_data_seg_bits
end
define ygettype
set $type = $arg0
set $type = gdb_use_union \
? $type.s.type \
: (enum Lisp_Type) (gdb_use_lsb \
? $type & $tagmask \
: $type >> gdb_valbits)
end
define ybuffer-list
if $yverbose
printf "Buffer# Size Name\n"
end
set $i = 0
set $alist = Vbuffer_alist
while $alist != Qnil
ygetptr $alist
set $this = ((struct Lisp_Cons *) $ptr)->car
set $alist = ((struct Lisp_Cons *) $ptr)->cdr
# pair of the form (name . buffer)
ygetptr $this
set $name = ((struct Lisp_Cons *) $ptr)->car
set $buf = ((struct Lisp_Cons *) $ptr)->cdr
ygetptr $name
set $name = ((struct Lisp_String *) $ptr)->data
ygetptr $buf
set $buf = ((struct buffer *) $ptr)->text
set $bufsize = $buf->z_byte - 1
printf "%3d %9d %s\n", $i, $bufsize, $name
set $i++
end
end
document ybuffer-list
Display a list of buffer names and sizes.
The buffer number in the first column is used as an argument
to some other emacs-buffer recovery commands, e.g. `ysave-buffer'.
end
define yset-buffer
set $i = $arg0
set $alist = Vbuffer_alist
while ($alist != Qnil && $i > 0)
ygetptr $alist
set $alist = ((struct Lisp_Cons *) $ptr)->cdr
set $i--
end
# Get car of alist; this is a pair (name . buffer)
ygetptr $alist
set $this = ((struct Lisp_Cons *) $ptr)->car
# Get the buffer object
ygetptr $this
set $this = ((struct Lisp_Cons *) $ptr)->cdr
ygetptr $this
set $ycurrent_buffer = (struct buffer *) $ptr
end
document yset-buffer
Set current buffer (for other emacs-buffer recovery commands) to the ARG'th
buffer as displayed by `ybuffer-list'.
end
define yget-buffer-pointers
yset-buffer $arg0
set $buf = $ycurrent_buffer->text
set $beg = $buf->beg
set $gap = $beg + $buf->gpt_byte
set $gap_end = $gap + $buf->gap_size - 1
set $end = $gap_end + ($buf->z_byte - $buf->gpt_byte)
#print *$beg@($gap - $beg)
#print *$gap_end@($end - $gap_end)
end
document yget-buffer-pointers
Update convenience variables with address pointers for the ARG'th buffer
as displayed by `ybuffer-list'.
This also sets the current buffer using `yset-buffer' (which see).
end
define yget-current-buffer-name
set $this = $ycurrent_buffer->name
ygetptr $this
set $ycurrent_buffer_name = ((struct Lisp_String *) $ptr)->data
end
document yget-current-buffer-name
Set $ycurrent_buffer_name to the name of the currently selected buffer.
end
define ycurrent-buffer
yget-current-buffer-name
printf "%s\n", $ycurrent_buffer_name
end
document ycurrent-buffer
Display the currently selected buffer.
end
define ydump-buffer
yget-buffer-pointers $arg0
if $buf->z_byte > 1
if $buf->z_byte <= $buf->gpt_byte
set $endptr = $beg + $buf->gpt_byte - 1
dump binary memory $arg1 $beg $endptr
else
dump binary memory $arg1 $beg $gap-1
append binary memory $arg1 $gap_end $end
set $endptr = $end
end
end
end
document ydump-buffer
Write contents of buffer N (as numbered according to `ybuffer-list') to
file FILE.
This is mainly used as an internal subroutine for `ysave-buffer' and
`ybuffer-contents', which see.
end
define ysave-buffer
ydump-buffer $arg0 $arg1
if $yverbose
yget-current-buffer-name
if $buf->z_byte <= 1
printf "[Buffer \"%s\" is empty.]\n", $ycurrent_buffer_name
else
# Output string broken into separate calls as necessary to avoid
# requiring a running process for evaluation.
printf "[Wrote buffer \"%s\" to file ", $ycurrent_buffer_name
echo $arg1]\n
end
end
end
document ysave-buffer
Save contents of buffer N (as numbered according to `ybuffer-list') to
file FILE.
end
define ybuffer-contents
ydump-buffer $arg0 /dev/stdout
if $yverbose && $buf->z_byte <= 1
yget-current-buffer-name
printf "[Buffer \"%s\" is empty.]\n", $ycurrent_buffer_name
else
if *($endptr-1) != '\n'
echo \n
end
end
end
document ybuffer-contents
Write contents of buffer N (numbered according to `ybuffer-list') to stdout.
end
# local variables:
# mode: gdb-script
# end:
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* Re: emacs-buffer.gdb
2005-05-02 5:20 emacs-buffer.gdb Noah Friedman
@ 2005-05-03 17:12 ` Richard Stallman
0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2005-05-03 17:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
This sounds very useful. Can you contribute this to the Emacs
distribution?
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* Re: emacs-buffer.gdb
@ 2005-06-09 4:15 Ed Swarthout
2005-06-09 9:10 ` emacs-buffer.gdb Andreas Schwab
0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Ed Swarthout @ 2005-06-09 4:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
Even though I haven't needed it, thats an impressive gdb macro!
I'm seeing a problem with Qnil filename though:
(gdb) ybuffer-list
B# M Size Name Mode File
-- - ---- ---- ---- ----
0 68954 python.el Emacs-Lisp
/nfs/packages/packages/emacs/emacs/lisp/progmodes/python.el
1 10317 progmodes Dired by dateCannot access memory
at address 0x20
which is fixed by this simple patch:
--- emacs-buffer.gdb.~1.3.~ 2005-05-30 12:01:09.000000000 -0500
+++ emacs-buffer.gdb 2005-06-08 22:08:03.645246008 -0500
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
ygetptr $buf->filename
set $filename = ((struct Lisp_String *) $ptr)->data
else
- set $filename = ' '
+ set $filename = " "
end
printf "%2d %c %9d %-20s %-10s %s\n", \
- Ed Swarthout
- Austin, TX
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* Re: emacs-buffer.gdb
2005-06-09 4:15 emacs-buffer.gdb Ed Swarthout
@ 2005-06-09 9:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-06-10 2:17 ` emacs-buffer.gdb Ed Swarthout
0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Andreas Schwab @ 2005-06-09 9:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
Ed Swarthout <ed.swarthout@gmail.com> writes:
> which is fixed by this simple patch:
>
> --- emacs-buffer.gdb.~1.3.~ 2005-05-30 12:01:09.000000000 -0500
> +++ emacs-buffer.gdb 2005-06-08 22:08:03.645246008 -0500
> @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
> ygetptr $buf->filename
> set $filename = ((struct Lisp_String *) $ptr)->data
> else
> - set $filename = ' '
> + set $filename = " "
This is dangerous because gdb needs to call malloc in the inferior in
order to allocate the string.
Andreas.
--
Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de
SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."
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* Re: emacs-buffer.gdb
2005-06-09 9:10 ` emacs-buffer.gdb Andreas Schwab
@ 2005-06-10 2:17 ` Ed Swarthout
2005-06-10 20:48 ` emacs-buffer.gdb Juri Linkov
0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Ed Swarthout @ 2005-06-10 2:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
On 6/9/05, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> > - set $filename = ' '
> > + set $filename = " "
>
> This is dangerous because gdb needs to call malloc in the inferior in
> order to allocate the string.
Thank you. In fact, had I tested it with a core file, I'd have gotten:
"You can't do that without a process to debug."
Here's a better fix.
-Ed Swarthout
--- emacs-buffer.gdb 30 May 2005 17:01:09 -0000 1.3
+++ emacs-buffer.gdb 10 Jun 2005 02:05:38 -0000
@@ -117,12 +117,13 @@
if $buf->filename != Qnil
ygetptr $buf->filename
set $filename = ((struct Lisp_String *) $ptr)->data
+ printf "%2d %c %9d %-20s %-10s %s\n", \
+ $i, $modp, ($buf->text->z_byte - 1), $name, $mode, $filename
else
- set $filename = ' '
+ printf "%2d %c %9d %-20s %-10ss\n", \
+ $i, $modp, ($buf->text->z_byte - 1), $name, $mode
end
- printf "%2d %c %9d %-20s %-10s %s\n", \
- $i, $modp, ($buf->text->z_byte - 1), $name, $mode, $filename
end
set $i++
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* Re: emacs-buffer.gdb
2005-06-10 2:17 ` emacs-buffer.gdb Ed Swarthout
@ 2005-06-10 20:48 ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-10 22:44 ` emacs-buffer.gdb Noah Friedman
0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Juri Linkov @ 2005-06-10 20:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: schwab, emacs-devel, friedman
> + printf "%2d %c %9d %-20s %-10ss\n", \
=
This looks like a tyop.
BTW, emacs-buffer.gdb deserves mentioning in etc/NEWS (and maybe in
etc/DEBUG as well), and a better location for this file is
src/emacs-buffer.gdb (where other gdb files are located) instead of
etc/emacs-buffer.gdb.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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* Re: emacs-buffer.gdb
2005-06-10 20:48 ` emacs-buffer.gdb Juri Linkov
@ 2005-06-10 22:44 ` Noah Friedman
2005-06-11 13:03 ` emacs-buffer.gdb Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-11 23:38 ` emacs-buffer.gdb Kim F. Storm
0 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Noah Friedman @ 2005-06-10 22:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ed.swarthout, emacs-devel
>> + printf "%2d %c %9d %-20s %-10ss\n", \
> =
>This looks like a tyop.
>
>BTW, emacs-buffer.gdb deserves mentioning in etc/NEWS (and maybe in
>etc/DEBUG as well), and a better location for this file is
>src/emacs-buffer.gdb (where other gdb files are located) instead of
>etc/emacs-buffer.gdb.
Ed: Thanks for finding that. I checked in a fix.
Juri: I'm indifferent about where it goes, but rms thought etc was a
reasonable place for it. It's documented in etc/NEWS already and in
man/trouble.texi. I suppose it could be mentioned in etc/DEBUG also, but
that file describes much lower-level detail. emacs-buffer.gdb is really
just a lazy-man's graverobbing tool; hopefully little to no knowledge of
emacs internals should be necessary to use it.
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* Re: emacs-buffer.gdb
2005-06-10 22:44 ` emacs-buffer.gdb Noah Friedman
@ 2005-06-11 13:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-11 23:38 ` emacs-buffer.gdb Kim F. Storm
1 sibling, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2005-06-11 13:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: juri, ed.swarthout, emacs-devel
> From: Noah Friedman <friedman@splode.com>
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 15:44:44 -0700 (PDT)
> Cc: ed.swarthout@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Juri: I'm indifferent about where it goes, but rms thought etc was a
> reasonable place for it. It's documented in etc/NEWS already and in
> man/trouble.texi. I suppose it could be mentioned in etc/DEBUG also, but
> that file describes much lower-level detail.
I added a short notice of this file to etc/DEBUG.
Thanks.
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* Re: emacs-buffer.gdb
2005-06-10 22:44 ` emacs-buffer.gdb Noah Friedman
2005-06-11 13:03 ` emacs-buffer.gdb Eli Zaretskii
@ 2005-06-11 23:38 ` Kim F. Storm
1 sibling, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Kim F. Storm @ 2005-06-11 23:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: juri, ed.swarthout, emacs-devel
Noah Friedman <friedman@splode.com> writes:
> Juri: I'm indifferent about where it goes, but rms thought etc was a
> reasonable place for it. It's documented in etc/NEWS already and in
> man/trouble.texi. I suppose it could be mentioned in etc/DEBUG also, but
> that file describes much lower-level detail. emacs-buffer.gdb is really
> just a lazy-man's graverobbing tool; hopefully little to no knowledge of
> emacs internals should be necessary to use it.
Maybe you could add a simple command to src/.gdbinit to load the file.
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
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