To debug a simulator which uses PIN tool, by using 2 different terminal windows, I do the following:
/home/agy/mcsim/pin/intel64/bin/pinbin -pause_tool 5 -t /home/agy/mcsim/Pthread/mypthreadtool -port 47145 -skip_first 10000 -- McSim/JacNoBoost/JACCARD
Pausing to attach to pid 5465
To load the tool's debug info to gdb use:
add-symbol-file /home/agy/mcsim/Pthread/mypthreadtool 0x7f86e6c06ee0 -s .data 0x7f86e709f620 -s .bss 0x7f86e70aaac0
On the other window I do the following:
gdb /home/agy/mcsim/Pthread/mypthreadtool
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Reading symbols from /home/agy/mcsim/Pthread/mypthreadtool...done.
(gdb) attach 5465
Attaching to program: /home/agy/mcsim/Pthread/mypthreadtool, process 5465
0x0000000030592c70 in ?? ()
(gdb) add-symbol-file /home/agy/mcsim/Pthread/mypthreadtool 0x7f86e6c06ee0 -s .data 0x7f86e709f620 -s .bss 0x7f86e70aaac0
add symbol table from file "/home/agy/mcsim/Pthread/mypthreadtool" at
.text_addr = 0x7f86e6c06ee0
.data_addr = 0x7f86e709f620
.bss_addr = 0x7f86e70aaac0
(y or n) y
Reading symbols from /home/agy/mcsim/Pthread/mypthreadtool...done.
(gdb) c
Continuing.
At some point, pin tool freezes and i manually send interrupt signal to pin tool and try to debug it on the attached window. To understand at which line pin implementation stucks, I tried backtrace command but it returns with question marks even though the symbol file is added.
Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
0x000000003052c474 in ?? ()
(gdb) backtrace
#0 0x000000003052c474 in ?? ()
#1 0x00007f86e5570850 in ?? ()
#2 0x000000003070c290 in ?? ()
#3 0x0000000001dda880 in ?? ()
#4 0x0000000001dda880 in ?? ()
#5 0x000000000040e03a in ?? ()
#6 0x0000000030643de0 in ?? ()
#7 0x00007f86d5ada0c0 in ?? ()
#8 0x0000000000000012 in ?? ()
#9 0x00007f86e5571350 in ?? ()
#10 0x0000000030aade20 in ?? ()
#11 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
I couldn't find the wrong approach here. Could you please help me?
I couldn't find the wrong approach here.
You are telling GDB that mypthreadtool is your main executable, but it is not: /home/agy/mcsim/pin/intel64/bin/pinbin is.
Try this:
gdb /home/agy/mcsim/pin/intel64/bin/pinbin 5465
(gdb) add-symbol-file /home/agy/mcsim/Pthread/mypthreadtool \
0x7f86e6c06ee0 -s .data 0x7f86e709f620 -s .bss 0x7f86e70aaac0