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- /* Definitions for symbol file management in GDB.
- Copyright (C) 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- This file is part of GDB.
-
- 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 of the License, 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, write to the Free Software
- Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
-
- #if !defined (OBJFILES_H)
- #define OBJFILES_H
-
- /* This structure maintains information on a per-objfile basis about the
- "entry point" of the objfile, and the scope within which the entry point
- exists. It is possible that gdb will see more than one objfile that is
- executable, each with it's own entry point.
-
- For example, for dynamically linked executables in SVR4, the dynamic linker
- code is contained within the shared C library, which is actually executable
- and is run by the kernel first when an exec is done of a user executable
- that is dynamically linked. The dynamic linker within the shared C library
- then maps in the various program segments in the user executable and jumps
- to the user executable's recorded entry point, as if the call had been made
- directly by the kernel.
-
- The traditional gdb method of using this info is to use the recorded entry
- point to set the variables entry_file_lowpc and entry_file_highpc from
- the debugging information, where these values are the starting address
- (inclusive) and ending address (exclusive) of the instruction space in the
- executable which correspond to the "startup file", I.E. crt0.o in most
- cases. This file is assumed to be a startup file and frames with pc's
- inside it are treated as nonexistent. Setting these variables is necessary
- so that backtraces do not fly off the bottom of the stack (or top, depending
- upon your stack orientation).
-
- Gdb also supports an alternate method to avoid running off the top/bottom
- of the stack.
-
- There are two frames that are "special", the frame for the function
- containing the process entry point, since it has no predecessor frame,
- and the frame for the function containing the user code entry point
- (the main() function), since all the predecessor frames are for the
- process startup code. Since we have no guarantee that the linked
- in startup modules have any debugging information that gdb can use,
- we need to avoid following frame pointers back into frames that might
- have been built in the startup code, as we might get hopelessly
- confused. However, we almost always have debugging information
- available for main().
-
- These variables are used to save the range of PC values which are valid
- within the main() function and within the function containing the process
- entry point. If we always consider the frame for main() as the outermost
- frame when debugging user code, and the frame for the process entry
- point function as the outermost frame when debugging startup code, then
- all we have to do is have FRAME_CHAIN_VALID return false whenever a
- frame's current PC is within the range specified by these variables.
- In essence, we set "ceilings" in the frame chain beyond which we will
- not proceed when following the frame chain back up the stack.
-
- A nice side effect is that we can still debug startup code without
- running off the end of the frame chain, assuming that we have usable
- debugging information in the startup modules, and if we choose to not
- use the block at main, or can't find it for some reason, everything
- still works as before. And if we have no startup code debugging
- information but we do have usable information for main(), backtraces
- from user code don't go wandering off into the startup code.
-
- To use this method, define your FRAME_CHAIN_VALID macro like:
-
- #define FRAME_CHAIN_VALID(chain, thisframe) \
- (chain != 0 \
- && !(inside_main_func ((thisframe)->pc)) \
- && !(inside_entry_func ((thisframe)->pc)))
-
- and add initializations of the four scope controlling variables inside
- the object file / debugging information processing modules. */
-
- struct entry_info
- {
-
- /* The value we should use for this objects entry point.
- The illegal/unknown value needs to be something other than 0, ~0
- for instance, which is much less likely than 0. */
-
- CORE_ADDR entry_point;
-
- /* Start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) of function containing the
- entry point. */
-
- CORE_ADDR entry_func_lowpc;
- CORE_ADDR entry_func_highpc;
-
- /* Start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) of object file containing the
- entry point. */
-
- CORE_ADDR entry_file_lowpc;
- CORE_ADDR entry_file_highpc;
-
- /* Start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) of the user code main() function. */
-
- CORE_ADDR main_func_lowpc;
- CORE_ADDR main_func_highpc;
-
- };
-
-
- /* Master structure for keeping track of each input file from which
- gdb reads symbols. One of these is allocated for each such file we
- access, e.g. the exec_file, symbol_file, and any shared library object
- files. */
-
- struct objfile
- {
-
- /* All struct objfile's are chained together by their next pointers.
- The global variable "object_files" points to the first link in this
- chain. */
-
- struct objfile *next;
-
- /* The object file's name. Malloc'd; free it if you free this struct. */
-
- char *name;
-
- /* Some flag bits for this objfile. */
-
- unsigned short flags;
-
- /* Each objfile points to a linked list of symtabs derived from this file,
- one symtab structure for each compilation unit (source file). Each link
- in the symtab list contains a backpointer to this objfile. */
-
- struct symtab *symtabs;
-
- /* Each objfile points to a linked list of partial symtabs derived from
- this file, one partial symtab structure for each compilation unit
- (source file). */
-
- struct partial_symtab *psymtabs;
-
- /* List of freed partial symtabs, available for re-use */
-
- struct partial_symtab *free_psymtabs;
-
- /* The object file's BFD. Can be null, in which case bfd_open (name) and
- put the result here. */
-
- bfd *obfd;
-
- /* The modification timestamp of the object file, as of the last time
- we read its symbols. */
-
- long mtime;
-
- /* Obstacks to hold objects that should be freed when we load a new symbol
- table from this object file. */
-
- struct obstack psymbol_obstack; /* Partial symbols */
- struct obstack symbol_obstack; /* Full symbols */
- struct obstack type_obstack; /* Types */
-
- /* Vectors of all partial symbols read in from file. The actual data
- is stored in the psymbol_obstack. */
-
- struct psymbol_allocation_list global_psymbols;
- struct psymbol_allocation_list static_psymbols;
-
- /* Each file contains a pointer to an array of minimal symbols for all
- global symbols that are defined within the file. The array is terminated
- by a "null symbol", one that has a NULL pointer for the name and a zero
- value for the address. This makes it easy to walk through the array
- when passed a pointer to somewhere in the middle of it. There is also
- a count of the number of symbols, which does include the terminating
- null symbol. The array itself, as well as all the data that it points
- to, should be allocated on the symbol_obstack for this file. */
-
- struct minimal_symbol *msymbols;
- int minimal_symbol_count;
-
- /* For object file formats which don't specify fundamental types, gdb
- can create such types. For now, it maintains a vector of pointers
- to these internally created fundamental types on a per objfile basis,
- however it really should ultimately keep them on a per-compilation-unit
- basis, to account for linkage-units that consist of a number of
- compilation units that may have different fundamental types, such as
- linking C modules with ADA modules, or linking C modules that are
- compiled with 32-bit ints with C modules that are compiled with 64-bit
- ints (not inherently evil with a smarter linker). */
-
- struct type **fundamental_types;
-
- /* The mmalloc() malloc-descriptor for this objfile if we are using
- the memory mapped malloc() package to manage storage for this objfile's
- data. NULL if we are not. */
-
- PTR md;
-
- /* Structure which keeps track of functions that manipulate objfile's
- of the same type as this objfile. I.E. the function to read partial
- symbols for example. Note that this structure is in statically
- allocated memory, and is shared by all objfiles that use the
- object module reader of this type. */
-
- struct sym_fns *sf;
-
- /* The per-objfile information about the entry point, the scope (file/func)
- containing the entry point, and the scope of the user's main() func. */
-
- struct entry_info ei;
-
- /* Hook for information which is shared by sym_init and sym_read for
- this objfile. It is typically a pointer to malloc'd memory. */
-
- PTR sym_private;
-
- };
-
- /* Defines for the objfile flag word. */
-
- /* Gdb can arrange to allocate storage for all objects related to a
- particular objfile in a designated section of it's address space,
- managed at a low level by mmap() and using a special version of
- malloc that handles malloc/free/realloc on top of the mmap() interface.
- This allows the "internal gdb state" for a particular objfile to be
- dumped to a gdb state file and subsequently reloaded at a later time. */
-
- #define OBJF_MAPPED (1 << 0) /* Objfile data is mmap'd */
-
- /* When using mapped/remapped predigested gdb symbol information, we need
- a flag that indicates that we have previously done an initial symbol
- table read from this particular objfile. We can't just look for the
- absence of any of the three symbol tables (msymbols, psymtab, symtab)
- because if the file has no symbols for example, none of these will
- exist. */
-
- #define OBJF_SYMS (1 << 1) /* Have tried to read symbols */
-
- /* The object file that the main symbol table was loaded from (e.g. the
- argument to the "symbol-file" or "file" command). */
-
- extern struct objfile *symfile_objfile;
-
- /* When we need to allocate a new type, we need to know which type_obstack
- to allocate the type on, since there is one for each objfile. The places
- where types are allocated are deeply buried in function call hierarchies
- which know nothing about objfiles, so rather than trying to pass a
- particular objfile down to them, we just do an end run around them and
- set current_objfile to be whatever objfile we expect to be using at the
- time types are being allocated. For instance, when we start reading
- symbols for a particular objfile, we set current_objfile to point to that
- objfile, and when we are done, we set it back to NULL, to ensure that we
- never put a type someplace other than where we are expecting to put it.
- FIXME: Maybe we should review the entire type handling system and
- see if there is a better way to avoid this problem. */
-
- extern struct objfile *current_objfile;
-
- /* All known objfiles are kept in a linked list. This points to the
- root of this list. */
-
- extern struct objfile *object_files;
-
- /* Declarations for functions defined in objfiles.c */
-
- extern struct objfile *
- allocate_objfile PARAMS ((bfd *, int));
-
- extern void
- free_objfile PARAMS ((struct objfile *));
-
- extern void
- free_all_objfiles PARAMS ((void));
-
- extern int
- have_partial_symbols PARAMS ((void));
-
- extern int
- have_full_symbols PARAMS ((void));
-
- /* Functions for dealing with the minimal symbol table, really a misc
- address<->symbol mapping for things we don't have debug symbols for. */
-
- extern int
- have_minimal_symbols PARAMS ((void));
-
-
- /* Traverse all object files. ALL_OBJFILES_SAFE works even if you delete
- the objfile during the traversal. */
-
- #define ALL_OBJFILES(obj) \
- for ((obj) = object_files; (obj) != NULL; (obj) = (obj)->next)
-
- #define ALL_OBJFILES_SAFE(obj,nxt) \
- for ((obj) = object_files; \
- (obj) != NULL? ((nxt)=(obj)->next,1) :0; \
- (obj) = (nxt))
-
- /* Traverse all symtabs in all objfiles. */
-
- #define ALL_SYMTABS(objfile, s) \
- ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
- for ((s) = (objfile) -> symtabs; (s) != NULL; (s) = (s) -> next)
-
- /* Traverse all psymtabs in all objfiles. */
-
- #define ALL_PSYMTABS(objfile, p) \
- ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
- for ((p) = (objfile) -> psymtabs; (p) != NULL; (p) = (p) -> next)
-
- /* Traverse all minimal symbols in all objfiles. */
-
- #define ALL_MSYMBOLS(objfile, m) \
- ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
- for ((m) = (objfile) -> msymbols; (m)->name != NULL; (m)++)
-
- #endif /* !defined (OBJFILES_H) */
-