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25.1; gdb package interpreter problem

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From: Randy Yates <randyy <at> garnerundergroundinc.com>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Cc: "yates <at> ieee.org" <yates <at> ieee.org>, Nick Roberts <nickrob <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 25.1; gdb package interpreter problem
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:33:54 +0000

this bug is for the gdb package, when debugging remotely. an extraneous
space is appended to the <path-to-exe> given in a "set remote exec-file
<path-to-exe>" command. this is causing the subsequent debug commands
(start, run, etc.) to fail.

presumably this is a bug in the interpreter adding an extraneous space.
note that the same commands issued to a command-line gdb instance work
fine.

Step-by-step
------------

1. configure remote system by running "gdbserver --multi localhost:<port>"

2. on host system, run emacs, then "M-x gdb <ret> -i=mi"

3. at the gdb prompt:

  file <path-to-exe>
  target extended-remote <remote-host-ip-addr>:<port>
  set remote exec-file <path-to-exe>
  start

4.on the remote side, note the message:

  "Cannot exec <path-to-exe> : No such file or directory."

specifically, note the space between "<path-to-exe>" and ":", which
should not be there. this is the extraneous space.



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Message #8 received at 25488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Randy Yates <randyy <at> garnerundergroundinc.com>
Cc: "yates <at> ieee.org" <yates <at> ieee.org>, 25488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 sergiodj <at> riseup.net
Subject: Re: bug#25488: 25.1; gdb package interpreter problem
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 14:24:28 -0500

(Nick doesn't maintain gdb.el any more, so I removed him from the cc)

Randy Yates wrote:

> 1. configure remote system by running "gdbserver --multi localhost:<port>"
>
> 2. on host system, run emacs, then "M-x gdb <ret> -i=mi"
>
> 3. at the gdb prompt:
>
>   file <path-to-exe>
>   target extended-remote <remote-host-ip-addr>:<port>
>   set remote exec-file <path-to-exe>
>   start
>
> 4.on the remote side, note the message:
>
>   "Cannot exec <path-to-exe> : No such file or directory."
>
> specifically, note the space between "<path-to-exe>" and ":", which
> should not be there. this is the extraneous space.


Confirmed on rhel 7.

This seems to be due to the " " in:

(concat gdb-continuation string " ")

in gdb-send, which was added in bug#14847. I've cc'd the author of that change.

Message #13 received at 25488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj <at> sergiodj.net>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: "yates <at> ieee.org" <yates <at> ieee.org>, 25488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Randy Yates <randyy <at> garnerundergroundinc.com>
Subject: Re: bug#25488: 25.1; gdb package interpreter problem
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 14:33:02 -0500

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

On Friday, January 20 2017, Glenn Morris wrote:

>> 1. configure remote system by running "gdbserver --multi localhost:<port>"
>>
>> 2. on host system, run emacs, then "M-x gdb <ret> -i=mi"
>>
>> 3. at the gdb prompt:
>>
>>   file <path-to-exe>
>>   target extended-remote <remote-host-ip-addr>:<port>
>>   set remote exec-file <path-to-exe>
>>   start
>>
>> 4.on the remote side, note the message:
>>
>>   "Cannot exec <path-to-exe> : No such file or directory."
>>
>> specifically, note the space between "<path-to-exe>" and ":", which
>> should not be there. this is the extraneous space.
>
>
> Confirmed on rhel 7.
>
> This seems to be due to the " " in:
>
> (concat gdb-continuation string " ")
>
> in gdb-send, which was added in bug#14847. I've cc'd the author of that change.

Heh, I helped the reporter diagnose this issue, and as it turns out I
was the culprit!

Thanks for the report, I'll take a look at this later today.

Cheers,

-- 
Sergio
GPG key ID: 237A 54B1 0287 28BF 00EF  31F4 D0EB 7628 65FC 5E36
Please send encrypted e-mail if possible
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Message #16 received at 25488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj <at> sergiodj.net>
Cc: "yates <at> ieee.org" <yates <at> ieee.org>, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>,
 25488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Randy Yates <randyy <at> garnerundergroundinc.com>
Subject: Re: bug#25488: 25.1; gdb package interpreter problem
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 03:21:20 +0200

Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj <at> sergiodj.net> writes:

> On Friday, January 20 2017, Glenn Morris wrote:
>
>>> 1. configure remote system by running "gdbserver --multi localhost:<port>"
>>>
>>> 2. on host system, run emacs, then "M-x gdb <ret> -i=mi"
>>>
>>> 3. at the gdb prompt:
>>>
>>>   file <path-to-exe>
>>>   target extended-remote <remote-host-ip-addr>:<port>
>>>   set remote exec-file <path-to-exe>
>>>   start
>>>
>>> 4.on the remote side, note the message:
>>>
>>>   "Cannot exec <path-to-exe> : No such file or directory."
>>>
>>> specifically, note the space between "<path-to-exe>" and ":", which
>>> should not be there. this is the extraneous space.
>>
>>
>> Confirmed on rhel 7.
>>
>> This seems to be due to the " " in:
>>
>> (concat gdb-continuation string " ")
>>
>> in gdb-send, which was added in bug#14847. I've cc'd the author of that change.
>
> Heh, I helped the reporter diagnose this issue, and as it turns out I
> was the culprit!
>
> Thanks for the report, I'll take a look at this later today.

Hi Sergio,

I see that the latest update here was in January 2017.  Did you ever get
a chance to look into this issue?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

Message #19 received at 25488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj <at> sergiodj.net>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: "yates <at> ieee.org" <yates <at> ieee.org>, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>,
 25488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Randy Yates <randyy <at> garnerundergroundinc.com>
Subject: Re: bug#25488: 25.1; gdb package interpreter problem
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 09:32:27 -0400

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

On Saturday, September 14 2019, Stefan Kangas wrote:

> Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj <at> sergiodj.net> writes:
>
>> On Friday, January 20 2017, Glenn Morris wrote:
>>
>>>> 1. configure remote system by running "gdbserver --multi localhost:<port>"
>>>>
>>>> 2. on host system, run emacs, then "M-x gdb <ret> -i=mi"
>>>>
>>>> 3. at the gdb prompt:
>>>>
>>>>   file <path-to-exe>
>>>>   target extended-remote <remote-host-ip-addr>:<port>
>>>>   set remote exec-file <path-to-exe>
>>>>   start
>>>>
>>>> 4.on the remote side, note the message:
>>>>
>>>>   "Cannot exec <path-to-exe> : No such file or directory."
>>>>
>>>> specifically, note the space between "<path-to-exe>" and ":", which
>>>> should not be there. this is the extraneous space.
>>>
>>>
>>> Confirmed on rhel 7.
>>>
>>> This seems to be due to the " " in:
>>>
>>> (concat gdb-continuation string " ")
>>>
>>> in gdb-send, which was added in bug#14847. I've cc'd the author of that change.
>>
>> Heh, I helped the reporter diagnose this issue, and as it turns out I
>> was the culprit!
>>
>> Thanks for the report, I'll take a look at this later today.
>
> Hi Sergio,
>
> I see that the latest update here was in January 2017.  Did you ever get
> a chance to look into this issue?

Wow, what a strange concept of "later today"!  Sorry about that.

Yeah, I had the chance to look into it, and even though I don't remember
the details now, I have a patch here that seems to work for me.  I'm
attaching it to this message; can you check if it fixes the problem for
you, please?

It seems strange that the extra whitespace was added by mistake there.
I'm a bit afraid that there is a case which I haven't envisioned and
which requires that whitespace, but I couldn't come up with a testing
scenario that triggers the error.  I tested this by debugging a binary
with and without arguments (i.e., "/bin/true" and "/bin/true --help"),
and both worked fine.

Thanks,

-- 
Sergio
GPG key ID: 237A 54B1 0287 28BF 00EF  31F4 D0EB 7628 65FC 5E36
Please send encrypted e-mail if possible
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From cad0deb10f2dbdc7b3dd7d3c6f4347da9cb1f557 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj <at> sergiodj.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 14:50:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [gdb-mi.el] Don't add trailing whitespace when passing
 argument to GDB

This fixes bug #25488.

* lisp/progmodes/gdb-mi.el (gdb-send): Don't append whitespace to
'gdb-continuation'.
---
 lisp/progmodes/gdb-mi.el | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/gdb-mi.el b/lisp/progmodes/gdb-mi.el
index 48c7dde9f51..cf54207337d 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/gdb-mi.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/gdb-mi.el
@@ -1827,7 +1827,7 @@ gdb-send
 		      " "))
       (setq gdb-first-done-or-error t)
       (let ((to-send (concat "-interpreter-exec console "
-                             (gdb-mi-quote (concat gdb-continuation string " "))
+                             (gdb-mi-quote (concat gdb-continuation string))
                              "\n")))
         (if gdb-enable-debug
             (push (cons 'mi-send to-send) gdb-debug-log))
-- 
2.20.1

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Message #22 received at 25488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj <at> sergiodj.net>
Cc: "yates <at> ieee.org" <yates <at> ieee.org>, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>,
 25488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Randy Yates <randyy <at> garnerundergroundinc.com>
Subject: Re: bug#25488: 25.1; gdb package interpreter problem
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:44:36 +0200

tags 25488 + patch
quit

Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj <at> sergiodj.net> writes:

> Yeah, I had the chance to look into it, and even though I don't remember
> the details now, I have a patch here that seems to work for me.  I'm
> attaching it to this message; can you check if it fixes the problem for
> you, please?

Thanks for reporting back and providing a patch.  Could someone more
familiar with this code please help test and review this?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

Message #27 received at 25488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj <at> sergiodj.net>
Cc: "yates <at> ieee.org" <yates <at> ieee.org>, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>,
 25488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Randy Yates <randyy <at> garnerundergroundinc.com>,
 Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Subject: Re: bug#25488: 25.1; gdb package interpreter problem
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:03:24 -0400

> Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj <at> sergiodj.net> writes:
>
>> Yeah, I had the chance to look into it, and even though I don't remember
>> the details now, I have a patch here that seems to work for me.  I'm
>> attaching it to this message; can you check if it fixes the problem for
>> you, please?
>>
>> It seems strange that the extra whitespace was added by mistake there.
>> I'm a bit afraid that there is a case which I haven't envisioned and
>> which requires that whitespace, but I couldn't come up with a testing
>> scenario that triggers the error.  I tested this by debugging a binary
>> with and without arguments (i.e., "/bin/true" and "/bin/true --help"),
>> and both worked fine.

> Thanks for reporting back and providing a patch.  Could someone more
> familiar with this code please help test and review this?

I'm not very familiar with the code, but looking around, it seems quite
likely that the extra " " was just due to a copy paste error.

Message #30 received at 25488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: "yates <at> ieee.org" <yates <at> ieee.org>, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>,
 25488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Randy Yates <randyy <at> garnerundergroundinc.com>,
 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj <at> sergiodj.net>
Subject: Re: bug#25488: 25.1; gdb package interpreter problem
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:18:56 +0200

Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com> writes:

> > Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj <at> sergiodj.net> writes:
> >
> >> Yeah, I had the chance to look into it, and even though I don't remember
> >> the details now, I have a patch here that seems to work for me.  I'm
> >> attaching it to this message; can you check if it fixes the problem for
> >> you, please?
> >>
> >> It seems strange that the extra whitespace was added by mistake there.
> >> I'm a bit afraid that there is a case which I haven't envisioned and
> >> which requires that whitespace, but I couldn't come up with a testing
> >> scenario that triggers the error.  I tested this by debugging a binary
> >> with and without arguments (i.e., "/bin/true" and "/bin/true --help"),
> >> and both worked fine.
>
> > Thanks for reporting back and providing a patch.  Could someone more
> > familiar with this code please help test and review this?
>
> I'm not very familiar with the code, but looking around, it seems quite
> likely that the extra " " was just due to a copy paste error.

Thanks.  Sergio has also tested this, and it worked for him.  If no
one objects perhaps we could go ahead and install his patch.

I'm assuming that we have his assignment on file since his
contributions already seem to exceed the 15 line limit for trivial
changes.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

Message #33 received at 25488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: yates <at> ieee.org, 25488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, randyy <at> garnerundergroundinc.com,
 sergiodj <at> sergiodj.net, npostavs <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#25488: 25.1; gdb package interpreter problem
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:19:28 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:18:56 +0200
> Cc: "yates <at> ieee.org" <yates <at> ieee.org>, 25488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>  Randy Yates <randyy <at> garnerundergroundinc.com>,
>  Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj <at> sergiodj.net>
> 
> I'm assuming that we have his assignment on file

We do.

Message #36 received at 25488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: "yates <at> ieee.org" <yates <at> ieee.org>, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>,
 25488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Randy Yates <randyy <at> garnerundergroundinc.com>,
 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj <at> sergiodj.net>
Subject: Re: bug#25488: 25.1; gdb package interpreter problem
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 15:12:39 +0200

close 25488 27.1
quit

> Thanks.  Sergio has also tested this, and it worked for him.  If no
> one objects perhaps we could go ahead and install his patch.

No objections in 9 days, so I've now pushed this as commit 77207ca841.  Closing.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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