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            [zz]An introduction to debugging in MSVC++ using Pseudoregisters

            Introduction

            Let's start with the reason why I wrote this article. One day, a colleague asked me to help him debug a problem he had. So I was watching him stepping in his code, when I noticed the following line:

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            int test = GetLastError();

            He did this, because he wanted to know the error code, if the previous function failed. He was adding this line every time he wanted to know the error code. I advised him to remove all those lines and use the @ERR pseudoregister in his watch window. He didn't know what it was and asking around in the office, a lot of other people didn't. So I came up with this article for people who have never heard of pseudoregisters.

            What is a pseudoregister anyway?

            A pseudoregister is not an actual hardware register, but is displayed as though it were a hardware register. With a pseudoregister, you can see and use certain values (error codes, thread information block...) in the debugger.

            Let's have a look at the @ERR pseudoregister. Fire up your debugger with your favourite home-written application. Put a breakpoint in your code so that the debugger will break execution. Open the watch window if it isn't already (do this by right clicking on some empty toolbar space, and select "Watch" from this list). Add @ERR in this watch window. You should see 0 in the Value column. Now step through your code, and watch this value. It will always show the GetLastError() number for the current thread. So if something goes wrong in your code, this value will change.

            If you want to test this, but your code doesn't have any errors, I advise to put some in (but don't forget to remove them afterwards). You can insert something like this:

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            FILE *fp = fopen("c:\\a_file_that_does_not_exist.txt", "r");

            If you step over this line, you'll see that the @ERR value changed to 2. Go to Tools->Error Lookup to see what this error value means ("The system cannot find the file specified" if you were wondering). Lazy bums like me, and smart lads / lasses like you can change the @ERR pseudoregister to @ERR,hr . Doing this will change the value of the pseudoregister to the error string. Now you even don't have to lookup the error. I leave the @ERR,hr in the watch window all the time.

            Conditional Expressions

            Pseudoregisters can also be used in conditional expressions. To try this out, put following lines after the fopen:

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            if (fp)
            {
            fclose(fp);
            }

            Put a breakpoint on the if (fp) line. Go to Edit->Breakpoints (or press Alt-F9). Select the breakpoint you just inserted and press the "Condition" button. Here, you can enter the @ERR==2 condition. Now start the debugger. The debugger will break on this breakpoint if fopen() failed because it couldn't find the file. If the file does exist, the debugger won't break, even if it encountered another error (say error 4: could not open the file). Try this out by running the code (not stepping) after creating, and deleting the "a_file_that_does_not_exist.txt" file on c:\.

            Just for the very curious (and otherwise totally irrelevant to this article) : what does @ERR do? How does it get the error number? As it turns out, @ERR does exactly the same thing as GetLastError() does. These functions have a whopping 3 lines of assembly code:

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            mov eax,fs:[00000018h] 
            mov eax,dword ptr [eax+34h]
            ret

            So @ERR grabs the DWORD at offset 0x34 in the thread environment block pointed to by fs:[18h].

            The @TIB pseudoregister

            The @ERR pseudoregister is not the only one that exists. Another important pseudoregister is @TIB. This is the thread information block for the current thread and is extremely helpful in multi-threaded debugging. If you place a breakpoint in a function that is called by multiple threads, the debugger will break execution every time no matter which thread passes the breakpoint. Even if you're stepping through your code, the debugger can jump to the breakpoint if another thread called the function. To solve this, you'll need to do the following. If execution breaks in the thread you want, add @TIB in the watch window. You will see some value like "0x7ffa6000" or "2147115008" in regular display. Go to the breakpoint menu (Alt-F9) and select the breakpoint. You can now add the @TIB==0x7ffa6000 condition filter. Doing this, the debugger will only break execution for this thread. All other threads using the same function will not result in a break.

            This doesn't work in Windows 98 though. For Windows 98, you'll need to look at the Intel CPU FS register, which is unique for each thread. You can use the expression @FS==value

            Complete list of pseudoregisters

            Pseudoregister

            Description

            @ERR

            Last error value; the same value returned by the GetLastError() API function

            @TIB

            Thread information block for the current thread; necessary because the debugger doesn't handle the "FS:0" format

            @CLK

            Undocumented clock register; usable only in the Watch window

            @EAX, @EBX, @ECX, @EDX, @ESI, @EDI, @EIP, @ESP, @EBP, @EFL

            Intel CPU registers

            @CS, @DS, @ES, @SS, @FS, @GS

            Intel CPU segment registers

            @ST0, @ST1, @ST2, @ST3, @ST4, @ST5, @ST6, @ST7

            Intel CPU floating-point registers

            posted on 2009-11-18 09:49 鍵盤的詠嘆調 閱讀(259) 評論(0)  編輯 收藏 引用 所屬分類: C++

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