1 This is the core of the Wine debugger. The reverse assembler
2 was stolen from Mach more or less intact. It turns out that there are
3 two variables that are set differently if you are reverse assembling
4 16 bit code, and on the whole it seems to work.
8 The internal debugger has *tons* more capability than it did before.
9 I have enclosed some examples that show usage at the end of this file.
12 1) Ability of debugger to read debug information from wine executable
13 *and* from Win32 executables. Local variable and line number information is
14 also read and processed.
16 2) The internal debugger is capable of 'stepping' to the next
17 line number, just like gdb. Examples of the commands are:
29 All of these should be exactly like how gdb does things.
31 3) The internal debugger now has a sense of what source file and line
32 number a given PC is at. New commands to support this are just like gdb,
39 there are a variety of formats of arguments for the list command. All
40 permutations supported by gdb should also be supported.
42 4) The internal debugger knows about datatypes of various objects,
43 for both Win32 *and* the debugging information in the wine executable itself.
44 I have enclosed an example of how this works at the end.
46 5) There are more ways the 'b' command can be used to set breakpoints.
54 I don't think this covers all of the permutations that gdb accepts (this should
55 be cleaned up someday so that all possibilities are acceptable).
57 6) The 'print' and 'x' commands should behave more or less exactly
58 as they do under gdb. The difference is that the way the data is presented
59 will be slightly different, but the content should be fundamentally the same.
61 7) The internal debugger now supports conditional breakpoints, and
62 automatic display expressions. An example is at the end of this file. The
63 syntax and usage should be identical to that of gdb.
65 8) Type casts can be made from within the debugger, but they currently
66 don't work with typedef'ed types. They only work with builtin types and
67 named structures unions, etc. The problem is that internally we don't always
68 record the typedefed names of structures, so we have no guarantee that we
69 would know what each type is. This can be fixed, of course - it just takes
70 more memory. Note that in some cases, typedefed structures could be cast
71 using '(struct typedfname)' instead of '(typedfname)'. Technically this
72 isn't quite correct, but if and when the rest of this stuff gets fixed,
73 this would need to get corrected too.
77 If it weren't for the fact that gdb doesn't grok the Win32 debug
78 information, you could just use gdb. The internal debugger should be able
79 to read and use debugging information for both Win32 and also for the
80 Wine executable, making it possible to debug the combination of the two
81 together as if it were one large (very large) entity.
83 LIMITATIONS AND DIFFERENCES FROM GDB:
85 You cannot set a breakpoint by file and line number as you can
86 with gdb. Adding support for this wouldn't be all that tough, I guess, but
87 it would be a nuisance. You can set a breakpoint given a function and
88 line number, however. An example would be 'b main:2993'. It turns out
89 that the way the internal data structures are arranged it is a whole lot
90 easier to do things in this way than it would be to try and get the
91 source:line type of breakpoint working, but it would probably be worth it
94 Getting stack traces through Wine itself can be a bit tricky.
95 This is because by default the thing is built with optimization
96 enabled, and as a result sometimes functions don't get frames, and
97 lots of variables are optimized into registers. You can turn off
98 optimization for a few key source files if it will help you.
100 Memory consumption is getting to be a real problem. I think 32Mb is
101 no longer sufficient to debug wine - 48 or 64 is probably a whole lot better.
102 Unfortunately I cannot shut down X to save memory :-).
104 *************************************************************************
107 Here is an example of how I tracked down a bug in Wine. The program
108 is something that just maps and dumps the contents of a Win32 executable.
109 It was dying for some reason.
110 Note that this example is rather old and does not necessarily use current
113 Start the first time through.
115 bash$ ls -l dumpexe.exe
116 -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric devel 168448 Jan 4 13:51 dumpexe.exe
117 bash$ ./wine -debug './dumpexe.exe -symbol ./dumpexe.exe'
118 Warning: invalid dir 'e:\test' in path, deleting it.
119 Win32 task 'W32SXXXX': Breakpoint 1 at 0x081a3450
120 Loading symbols from ELF file ./wine...
121 Loading symbols from ELF file /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.6...
122 Loading symbols from ELF file /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6.0...
123 Loading symbols from ELF file /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6.0...
124 Loading symbols from ELF file /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.0...
125 Loading symbols from ELF file /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.0...
126 Loading symbols from ELF file /lib/libm.so.5.0.5...
127 Loading symbols from ELF file /lib/libc.so.5.2.18...
128 Loading symbols from ELF file /lib/ld-linux.so.1...
129 Loading symbols from Win32 file ./dumpexe.exe...
130 Stopped on breakpoint 1 at 0x081a3450 (_mainCRTStartup)
132 *** Invalid address 0x414c5ff8 (
\x7fKERNEL32_NULL_THUNK_DATA+0x3930ee6c)
133 0x081a3450 (_mainCRTStartup): movl %fs:0,%eax
135 Breakpoint 2 at 0x081a0078 (DumpFile+0x9 [dumpexe.c:2723])
137 Dump File: ./dumpexe.exe
138 Stopped on breakpoint 2 at 0x081a0078 (DumpFile+0x9 [dumpexe.c:2723])
139 Enter path to file dumpexe.c: ../de
140 2723 HANDLE hFile = NULL;
141 0x081a0078 (DumpFile+0x9 [dumpexe.c:2723]): movl $0x0,0xfffffff4(%ebp)
143 2723 HANDLE hFile = NULL;
144 2724 HANDLE hMap = NULL;
145 2725 PSTR lpMap = NULL;
146 2726 DWORD dwFileSize = 0;
147 2727 DWORD dwFileSizeHigh = 0;
149 2729 PIMAGE_DOS_HEADER lpImageDOS = NULL;
150 2730 PIMAGE_FILE_HEADER lpImageFile = NULL;
151 2731 PIMAGE_NT_HEADERS lpImageNT = NULL;
155 2747 dwFileSize = GetFileSize(hFile, &dwFileSizeHigh);
156 0x081a00ea (DumpFile+0x7b [dumpexe.c:2747]): leal 0xfffffff0(%ebp),%eax
158 2749 && (GetLastError() != NO_ERROR) )
159 0x081a00fb (DumpFile+0x8c [dumpexe.c:2749]): cmpl $-1,0xffffffe8(%ebp)
160 Wine-dbg>x/d dwFileSize
164 2758 PAGE_READONLY, 0, 0, (LPSTR) NULL);
165 0x081a0124 (DumpFile+0xb5 [dumpexe.c:2758]): pushl $0x0
169 2751 Fatal("Cannot get size of file %s", lpFileName);
175 2757 hMap = CreateFileMapping(hFile, (LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES) NULL,
176 2758 PAGE_READONLY, 0, 0, (LPSTR) NULL);
177 2759 if( hMap == NULL )
180 2759 if( hMap == NULL )
181 0x081a013b (DumpFile+0xcc [dumpexe.c:2759]): cmpl $0,0xfffffffc(%ebp)
185 2767 lpMap = (LPSTR) MapViewOfFile(hMap, FILE_MAP_READ, 0, 0, 0);
186 0x081a0156 (DumpFile+0xe7 [dumpexe.c:2767]): pushl $0x0
188 2768 if( lpMap == NULL )
189 0x081a016b (DumpFile+0xfc [dumpexe.c:2768]): cmpl $0,0xffffffe0(%ebp)
194 Wine-dbg> x/10x 0x40007000
196 0x40007000 (
\x7fKERNEL32_NULL_THUNK_DATA+0x37e4fe74): *** Invalid address 0x40007000 (
\x7fKERNEL32_NULL_THUNK_DATA+0x37e4fe74)
200 *******************************************************************
201 The first time through, we find that MapViewOfFile isn't mapping the file
202 correctly into the virtual address space. Try running again, and step into
203 MapViewOfFile to figure out what went wrong.
204 *******************************************************************
207 bash$ ./wine -debug './dumpexe.exe -symbol ./dumpexe.exe'
208 Warning: invalid dir 'e:\test' in path, deleting it.
209 Win32 task 'W32SXXXX': Breakpoint 1 at 0x081a3450
210 Loading symbols from ELF file ./wine...
211 Loading symbols from ELF file /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.6...
212 Loading symbols from ELF file /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6.0...
213 Loading symbols from ELF file /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6.0...
214 Loading symbols from ELF file /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.0...
215 Loading symbols from ELF file /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.0...
216 Loading symbols from ELF file /lib/libm.so.5.0.5...
217 Loading symbols from ELF file /lib/libc.so.5.2.18...
218 Loading symbols from ELF file /lib/ld-linux.so.1...
219 Loading symbols from Win32 file ./dumpexe.exe...
220 Stopped on breakpoint 1 at 0x081a3450 (_mainCRTStartup)
222 *** Invalid address 0x414c5ff8 (
\x7fKERNEL32_NULL_THUNK_DATA+0x3930ee6c)
223 0x081a3450 (_mainCRTStartup): movl %fs:0,%eax
224 Wine-dbg>b DumpFile:2767
225 Breakpoint 2 at 0x081a0156 (DumpFile+0xe7 [dumpexe.c:2767])
227 Dump File: ./dumpexe.exe
228 Stopped on breakpoint 2 at 0x081a0156 (DumpFile+0xe7 [dumpexe.c:2767])
229 Enter path to file dumpexe.c: ../de
230 2767 lpMap = (LPSTR) MapViewOfFile(hMap, FILE_MAP_READ, 0, 0, 0);
231 0x081a0156 (DumpFile+0xe7 [dumpexe.c:2767]): pushl $0x0
233 390 0385 stdcall MapViewOfFile(long long long long long) MapViewOfFile
234 0x080d793c (KERNEL32_385 [kernel32.spec:390]): pushl %ebp
236 223 if (!debugging_relay) return;
237 0x080c83dc (RELAY_DebugCallFrom32+0xc [relay.c:223]): cmpw $0,0x644a
240 0x080c848e (RELAY_DebugCallFrom32+0xbe [relay.c:244]): leal 0xfffffff4(%ebp),%esp
242 103 return MapViewOfFileEx(handle,access,offhi,offlo,size,0);
243 0x080911a4 (MapViewOfFile+0x14 [file.c:103]): pushl $0x0
245 113 FILEMAP_OBJECT *fmap = (FILEMAP_OBJECT*)handle;
246 0x080911cf (MapViewOfFileEx+0xf [file.c:113]): movl 0x8(%ebp),%esi
248 115 if (!size) size = fmap->size;
249 0x080911d2 (MapViewOfFileEx+0x12 [file.c:115]): testl %ebx,%ebx
252 115 if (!size) size = fmap->size;
253 116 if (!size) size = 1;
254 117 return mmap ((caddr_t)st, size, fmap->prot,
255 118 MAP_ANON|MAP_PRIVATE,
256 119 FILE_GetUnixHandle(fmap->hfile),
260 123 /***********************************************************************
261 124 * UnmapViewOfFile (KERNEL32.385)
266 116 if (!size) size = 1;
267 0x080911d9 (MapViewOfFileEx+0x19 [file.c:116]): testl %ebx,%ebx
271 117 return mmap ((caddr_t)st, size, fmap->prot,
272 0x080911e2 (MapViewOfFileEx+0x22 [file.c:117]): pushl %eax
276 MapViewOfFileEx:handle == 0x08e48c90
277 MapViewOfFileEx:access == 0x00000004
278 MapViewOfFileEx:offhi == 0x00000000
279 MapViewOfFileEx:offlo == 0x00000000
280 MapViewOfFileEx:size == 0x00000000
281 MapViewOfFileEx:st == 0x00000000
282 MapViewOfFileEx:offlo optimized into register $eax
283 MapViewOfFileEx:size optimized into register $ebx
284 MapViewOfFileEx:st optimized into register $edi
285 MapViewOfFileEx:fmap optimized into register $esi
291 =>0 0x080911e2 (MapViewOfFileEx+0x22 [file.c:117])
292 1 0x080911b0 (MapViewOfFile+0x20(handle=0x8e48c90, access=0x4, offhi=0x0, offlo=0x0, size=0x0) [file.c:104])
293 2 0x08104ab5 (CallFrom32_stdcall_5+0x25 [callfrom32.s])
294 3 0x081a0168 (DumpFile+0xf9(lpFileName=0x414c61ed) [dumpexe.c:2767])
295 4 0x081a0c35 (main+0x410(argc=0x3, argv=0x414c61cc) [dumpexe.c:3078])
296 5 0x081a3514 (_mainCRTStartup+0xc4)
297 6 0x0810549f (Code_Start+0x13 [callto32.s])
298 7 0x0802fdac (TASK_CallToStart+0x8c [task.c:373])
302 *******************************************************************
303 Notice that you can step through the thunks into our own transfer
304 routines. You will notice that the source line displays as something
307 390 0385 stdcall MapViewOfFile(long long long long long) MapViewOfFile
309 This is just the source line from the spec file that caused the transfer
310 routine to be generated. From this you can step again, and you step
311 into the relay logging code - keep stepping and you eventually step into
312 the actual function that does the dirty work.
314 At this point an examination of the source to the Win32 program
315 and an examination of the source to win32/file.s showed where the problem
316 was. When you specify 0 for the size of the object in CreateFileMapping,
317 it is supposed to use the entire size of the file as the size of the
318 object. Instead we were just blindly copying the number over.
320 *******************************************************************
323 Breakpoint 1 at 0x080108c0 (main [dbgmain.c:213])
324 Wine-dbg>print breakpoints[1]
325 {addr={type=0x08043000, seg=0, off=134285504}, addrlen=' ', opcode='U', enabled=1, skipcount=0, in_use=1}
327 Wine-dbg> print breakpoints[1].enabled
329 Wine-dbg>set breakpoints[0].enabled = 0
330 Wine-dbg>print breakpoints[0].enabled
333 Wine-dbg>print type_hash_table[1]->type
336 Wine-dbg>print type_hash_table[1]
338 Wine-dbg>print *type_hash_table[1]
339 print *type_hash_table[1]
340 {type=STRUCT, next=0x00000000, name="LOGPALETTE", un={basic={basic_type=8, output_format=" V
\x1d\b M
\x1d\b", basic_size=-128, b_signed=0}, bitfield={bitoff=8, nbits=0, basetype=0x081d56c0}, pointer={pointsto=0x00000008}, funct={rettype=0x00000008}, array={start=8, end=136140480, basictype=0x08043e80}, structure={size=8, members=0x081d56c0}, enumeration={members=0x00000008}}}
343 *******************************************************************
345 This example shows how you can print out various data structures.
346 Note that enumerated types are displayed in the symbolic form, and strings
347 are displayed in the expected manner.
349 You can use the set command to set more or less anything. Note
350 however that you cannot use enumerated types on the RHS of the expression.
352 *******************************************************************
361 2991 for( i = 1; i < argc; i++ )
363 2993 if( strncmp(argv[i], "-dos", sizeof("-dos") - 1) == 0 )
365 2995 DmpCtrl.bDumpDOSHeader = TRUE;
368 Breakpoint 3 at 0x081a8861 (main+0x3c [dumpexe.c:2993])
369 Wine-dbg>condition 3 i == 2
371 Stopped on breakpoint 3 at 0x081a8861 (main+0x3c [dumpexe.c:2993])
372 2993 if( strncmp(argv[i], "-dos", sizeof("-dos") - 1) == 0 )
373 0x081a8861 (main+0x3c [dumpexe.c:2993]): pushl $0x4
376 Wine-dbg>print argv[i]
379 *******************************************************************
381 This example shows how to use conditional breakpoints.
382 Here is another one that demonstrates another cool feature
383 conditional breakpoints that involve a function call:
385 condition 3 strcmp(argv[i], "./dumpexe.exe") == 0
387 *******************************************************************
396 2991 for( i = 1; i < argc; i++ )
398 2993 if( strncmp(argv[i], "-dos", sizeof("-dos") - 1) == 0 )
400 2995 DmpCtrl.bDumpDOSHeader = TRUE;
403 Breakpoint 3 at 0x081a8861 (main+0x3c [dumpexe.c:2993])
404 Wine-dbg>condition 3 strcmp(argv[i], "./dumpexe.exe") == 0
407 1: y 0x081ab450 (_mainCRTStartup)
408 2: y 0x081a882e (main+0x9 [dumpexe.c:2986])
409 3: y 0x081a8861 (main+0x3c [dumpexe.c:2993])
410 stop when ( strcmp(( argv[i] ), "./dumpexe.exe") == 0 )
412 Stopped on breakpoint 3 at 0x081a8861 (main+0x3c [dumpexe.c:2993])
413 2993 if( strncmp(argv[i], "-dos", sizeof("-dos") - 1) == 0 )
414 0x081a8861 (main+0x3c [dumpexe.c:2993]): pushl $0x4
417 Wine-dbg>print argv[i]