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1 /* Find a variable's value in memory, for GDB, the GNU debugger.
2
3 Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995,
4 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009
5 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
6
7 This file is part of GDB.
8
9 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
10 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
11 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
12 (at your option) any later version.
13
14 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
15 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
16 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
17 GNU General Public License for more details.
18
19 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
20 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
21
22 #include "defs.h"
23 #include "symtab.h"
24 #include "gdbtypes.h"
25 #include "frame.h"
26 #include "value.h"
27 #include "gdbcore.h"
28 #include "inferior.h"
29 #include "target.h"
30 #include "gdb_string.h"
31 #include "gdb_assert.h"
32 #include "floatformat.h"
33 #include "symfile.h" /* for overlay functions */
34 #include "regcache.h"
35 #include "user-regs.h"
36 #include "block.h"
37 #include "objfiles.h"
38
39 /* Basic byte-swapping routines. All 'extract' functions return a
40 host-format integer from a target-format integer at ADDR which is
41 LEN bytes long. */
42
43 #if TARGET_CHAR_BIT != 8 || HOST_CHAR_BIT != 8
44 /* 8 bit characters are a pretty safe assumption these days, so we
45 assume it throughout all these swapping routines. If we had to deal with
46 9 bit characters, we would need to make len be in bits and would have
47 to re-write these routines... */
48 you lose
49 #endif
50
51 LONGEST
52 extract_signed_integer (const gdb_byte *addr, int len,
53 enum bfd_endian byte_order)
54 {
55 LONGEST retval;
56 const unsigned char *p;
57 const unsigned char *startaddr = addr;
58 const unsigned char *endaddr = startaddr + len;
59
60 if (len > (int) sizeof (LONGEST))
61 error (_("\
62 That operation is not available on integers of more than %d bytes."),
63 (int) sizeof (LONGEST));
64
65 /* Start at the most significant end of the integer, and work towards
66 the least significant. */
67 if (byte_order == BFD_ENDIAN_BIG)
68 {
69 p = startaddr;
70 /* Do the sign extension once at the start. */
71 retval = ((LONGEST) * p ^ 0x80) - 0x80;
72 for (++p; p < endaddr; ++p)
73 retval = (retval << 8) | *p;
74 }
75 else
76 {
77 p = endaddr - 1;
78 /* Do the sign extension once at the start. */
79 retval = ((LONGEST) * p ^ 0x80) - 0x80;
80 for (--p; p >= startaddr; --p)
81 retval = (retval << 8) | *p;
82 }
83 return retval;
84 }
85
86 ULONGEST
87 extract_unsigned_integer (const gdb_byte *addr, int len,
88 enum bfd_endian byte_order)
89 {
90 ULONGEST retval;
91 const unsigned char *p;
92 const unsigned char *startaddr = addr;
93 const unsigned char *endaddr = startaddr + len;
94
95 if (len > (int) sizeof (ULONGEST))
96 error (_("\
97 That operation is not available on integers of more than %d bytes."),
98 (int) sizeof (ULONGEST));
99
100 /* Start at the most significant end of the integer, and work towards
101 the least significant. */
102 retval = 0;
103 if (byte_order == BFD_ENDIAN_BIG)
104 {
105 for (p = startaddr; p < endaddr; ++p)
106 retval = (retval << 8) | *p;
107 }
108 else
109 {
110 for (p = endaddr - 1; p >= startaddr; --p)
111 retval = (retval << 8) | *p;
112 }
113 return retval;
114 }
115
116 /* Sometimes a long long unsigned integer can be extracted as a
117 LONGEST value. This is done so that we can print these values
118 better. If this integer can be converted to a LONGEST, this
119 function returns 1 and sets *PVAL. Otherwise it returns 0. */
120
121 int
122 extract_long_unsigned_integer (const gdb_byte *addr, int orig_len,
123 enum bfd_endian byte_order, LONGEST *pval)
124 {
125 const gdb_byte *p;
126 const gdb_byte *first_addr;
127 int len;
128
129 len = orig_len;
130 if (byte_order == BFD_ENDIAN_BIG)
131 {
132 for (p = addr;
133 len > (int) sizeof (LONGEST) && p < addr + orig_len;
134 p++)
135 {
136 if (*p == 0)
137 len--;
138 else
139 break;
140 }
141 first_addr = p;
142 }
143 else
144 {
145 first_addr = addr;
146 for (p = addr + orig_len - 1;
147 len > (int) sizeof (LONGEST) && p >= addr;
148 p--)
149 {
150 if (*p == 0)
151 len--;
152 else
153 break;
154 }
155 }
156
157 if (len <= (int) sizeof (LONGEST))
158 {
159 *pval = (LONGEST) extract_unsigned_integer (first_addr,
160 sizeof (LONGEST),
161 byte_order);
162 return 1;
163 }
164
165 return 0;
166 }
167
168
169 /* Treat the bytes at BUF as a pointer of type TYPE, and return the
170 address it represents. */
171 CORE_ADDR
172 extract_typed_address (const gdb_byte *buf, struct type *type)
173 {
174 if (TYPE_CODE (type) != TYPE_CODE_PTR
175 && TYPE_CODE (type) != TYPE_CODE_REF)
176 internal_error (__FILE__, __LINE__,
177 _("extract_typed_address: "
178 "type is not a pointer or reference"));
179
180 return gdbarch_pointer_to_address (get_type_arch (type), type, buf);
181 }
182
183 /* All 'store' functions accept a host-format integer and store a
184 target-format integer at ADDR which is LEN bytes long. */
185
186 void
187 store_signed_integer (gdb_byte *addr, int len,
188 enum bfd_endian byte_order, LONGEST val)
189 {
190 gdb_byte *p;
191 gdb_byte *startaddr = addr;
192 gdb_byte *endaddr = startaddr + len;
193
194 /* Start at the least significant end of the integer, and work towards
195 the most significant. */
196 if (byte_order == BFD_ENDIAN_BIG)
197 {
198 for (p = endaddr - 1; p >= startaddr; --p)
199 {
200 *p = val & 0xff;
201 val >>= 8;
202 }
203 }
204 else
205 {
206 for (p = startaddr; p < endaddr; ++p)
207 {
208 *p = val & 0xff;
209 val >>= 8;
210 }
211 }
212 }
213
214 void
215 store_unsigned_integer (gdb_byte *addr, int len,
216 enum bfd_endian byte_order, ULONGEST val)
217 {
218 unsigned char *p;
219 unsigned char *startaddr = (unsigned char *) addr;
220 unsigned char *endaddr = startaddr + len;
221
222 /* Start at the least significant end of the integer, and work towards
223 the most significant. */
224 if (byte_order == BFD_ENDIAN_BIG)
225 {
226 for (p = endaddr - 1; p >= startaddr; --p)
227 {
228 *p = val & 0xff;
229 val >>= 8;
230 }
231 }
232 else
233 {
234 for (p = startaddr; p < endaddr; ++p)
235 {
236 *p = val & 0xff;
237 val >>= 8;
238 }
239 }
240 }
241
242 /* Store the address ADDR as a pointer of type TYPE at BUF, in target
243 form. */
244 void
245 store_typed_address (gdb_byte *buf, struct type *type, CORE_ADDR addr)
246 {
247 if (TYPE_CODE (type) != TYPE_CODE_PTR
248 && TYPE_CODE (type) != TYPE_CODE_REF)
249 internal_error (__FILE__, __LINE__,
250 _("store_typed_address: "
251 "type is not a pointer or reference"));
252
253 gdbarch_address_to_pointer (get_type_arch (type), type, buf, addr);
254 }
255
256
257
258 /* Return a `value' with the contents of (virtual or cooked) register
259 REGNUM as found in the specified FRAME. The register's type is
260 determined by register_type(). */
261
262 struct value *
263 value_of_register (int regnum, struct frame_info *frame)
264 {
265 struct gdbarch *gdbarch = get_frame_arch (frame);
266 CORE_ADDR addr;
267 int optim;
268 struct value *reg_val;
269 int realnum;
270 gdb_byte raw_buffer[MAX_REGISTER_SIZE];
271 enum lval_type lval;
272
273 /* User registers lie completely outside of the range of normal
274 registers. Catch them early so that the target never sees them. */
275 if (regnum >= gdbarch_num_regs (gdbarch)
276 + gdbarch_num_pseudo_regs (gdbarch))
277 return value_of_user_reg (regnum, frame);
278
279 frame_register (frame, regnum, &optim, &lval, &addr, &realnum, raw_buffer);
280
281 reg_val = allocate_value (register_type (gdbarch, regnum));
282
283 memcpy (value_contents_raw (reg_val), raw_buffer,
284 register_size (gdbarch, regnum));
285 VALUE_LVAL (reg_val) = lval;
286 set_value_address (reg_val, addr);
287 VALUE_REGNUM (reg_val) = regnum;
288 set_value_optimized_out (reg_val, optim);
289 VALUE_FRAME_ID (reg_val) = get_frame_id (frame);
290 return reg_val;
291 }
292
293 /* Return a `value' with the contents of (virtual or cooked) register
294 REGNUM as found in the specified FRAME. The register's type is
295 determined by register_type(). The value is not fetched. */
296
297 struct value *
298 value_of_register_lazy (struct frame_info *frame, int regnum)
299 {
300 struct gdbarch *gdbarch = get_frame_arch (frame);
301 struct value *reg_val;
302
303 gdb_assert (regnum < (gdbarch_num_regs (gdbarch)
304 + gdbarch_num_pseudo_regs (gdbarch)));
305
306 /* We should have a valid (i.e. non-sentinel) frame. */
307 gdb_assert (frame_id_p (get_frame_id (frame)));
308
309 reg_val = allocate_value (register_type (gdbarch, regnum));
310 VALUE_LVAL (reg_val) = lval_register;
311 VALUE_REGNUM (reg_val) = regnum;
312 VALUE_FRAME_ID (reg_val) = get_frame_id (frame);
313 set_value_lazy (reg_val, 1);
314 return reg_val;
315 }
316
317 /* Given a pointer of type TYPE in target form in BUF, return the
318 address it represents. */
319 CORE_ADDR
320 unsigned_pointer_to_address (struct gdbarch *gdbarch,
321 struct type *type, const gdb_byte *buf)
322 {
323 enum bfd_endian byte_order = gdbarch_byte_order (gdbarch);
324 return extract_unsigned_integer (buf, TYPE_LENGTH (type), byte_order);
325 }
326
327 CORE_ADDR
328 signed_pointer_to_address (struct gdbarch *gdbarch,
329 struct type *type, const gdb_byte *buf)
330 {
331 enum bfd_endian byte_order = gdbarch_byte_order (gdbarch);
332 return extract_signed_integer (buf, TYPE_LENGTH (type), byte_order);
333 }
334
335 /* Given an address, store it as a pointer of type TYPE in target
336 format in BUF. */
337 void
338 unsigned_address_to_pointer (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, struct type *type,
339 gdb_byte *buf, CORE_ADDR addr)
340 {
341 enum bfd_endian byte_order = gdbarch_byte_order (gdbarch);
342 store_unsigned_integer (buf, TYPE_LENGTH (type), byte_order, addr);
343 }
344
345 void
346 address_to_signed_pointer (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, struct type *type,
347 gdb_byte *buf, CORE_ADDR addr)
348 {
349 enum bfd_endian byte_order = gdbarch_byte_order (gdbarch);
350 store_signed_integer (buf, TYPE_LENGTH (type), byte_order, addr);
351 }
352 \f
353 /* Will calling read_var_value or locate_var_value on SYM end
354 up caring what frame it is being evaluated relative to? SYM must
355 be non-NULL. */
356 int
357 symbol_read_needs_frame (struct symbol *sym)
358 {
359 switch (SYMBOL_CLASS (sym))
360 {
361 /* All cases listed explicitly so that gcc -Wall will detect it if
362 we failed to consider one. */
363 case LOC_COMPUTED:
364 /* FIXME: cagney/2004-01-26: It should be possible to
365 unconditionally call the SYMBOL_COMPUTED_OPS method when available.
366 Unfortunately DWARF 2 stores the frame-base (instead of the
367 function) location in a function's symbol. Oops! For the
368 moment enable this when/where applicable. */
369 return SYMBOL_COMPUTED_OPS (sym)->read_needs_frame (sym);
370
371 case LOC_REGISTER:
372 case LOC_ARG:
373 case LOC_REF_ARG:
374 case LOC_REGPARM_ADDR:
375 case LOC_LOCAL:
376 return 1;
377
378 case LOC_UNDEF:
379 case LOC_CONST:
380 case LOC_STATIC:
381 case LOC_TYPEDEF:
382
383 case LOC_LABEL:
384 /* Getting the address of a label can be done independently of the block,
385 even if some *uses* of that address wouldn't work so well without
386 the right frame. */
387
388 case LOC_BLOCK:
389 case LOC_CONST_BYTES:
390 case LOC_UNRESOLVED:
391 case LOC_OPTIMIZED_OUT:
392 return 0;
393 }
394 return 1;
395 }
396
397 /* Given a struct symbol for a variable,
398 and a stack frame id, read the value of the variable
399 and return a (pointer to a) struct value containing the value.
400 If the variable cannot be found, return a zero pointer. */
401
402 struct value *
403 read_var_value (struct symbol *var, struct frame_info *frame)
404 {
405 struct value *v;
406 struct type *type = SYMBOL_TYPE (var);
407 CORE_ADDR addr;
408 int len;
409
410 if (SYMBOL_CLASS (var) == LOC_COMPUTED
411 || SYMBOL_CLASS (var) == LOC_REGISTER)
412 /* These cases do not use V. */
413 v = NULL;
414 else
415 {
416 v = allocate_value (type);
417 VALUE_LVAL (v) = lval_memory; /* The most likely possibility. */
418 }
419
420 len = TYPE_LENGTH (type);
421
422 if (symbol_read_needs_frame (var))
423 gdb_assert (frame);
424
425 switch (SYMBOL_CLASS (var))
426 {
427 case LOC_CONST:
428 /* Put the constant back in target format. */
429 store_signed_integer (value_contents_raw (v), len,
430 gdbarch_byte_order (get_type_arch (type)),
431 (LONGEST) SYMBOL_VALUE (var));
432 VALUE_LVAL (v) = not_lval;
433 return v;
434
435 case LOC_LABEL:
436 /* Put the constant back in target format. */
437 if (overlay_debugging)
438 {
439 CORE_ADDR addr
440 = symbol_overlayed_address (SYMBOL_VALUE_ADDRESS (var),
441 SYMBOL_OBJ_SECTION (var));
442 store_typed_address (value_contents_raw (v), type, addr);
443 }
444 else
445 store_typed_address (value_contents_raw (v), type,
446 SYMBOL_VALUE_ADDRESS (var));
447 VALUE_LVAL (v) = not_lval;
448 return v;
449
450 case LOC_CONST_BYTES:
451 {
452 memcpy (value_contents_raw (v), SYMBOL_VALUE_BYTES (var), len);
453 VALUE_LVAL (v) = not_lval;
454 return v;
455 }
456
457 case LOC_STATIC:
458 if (overlay_debugging)
459 addr = symbol_overlayed_address (SYMBOL_VALUE_ADDRESS (var),
460 SYMBOL_OBJ_SECTION (var));
461 else
462 addr = SYMBOL_VALUE_ADDRESS (var);
463 break;
464
465 case LOC_ARG:
466 addr = get_frame_args_address (frame);
467 if (!addr)
468 return 0;
469 addr += SYMBOL_VALUE (var);
470 break;
471
472 case LOC_REF_ARG:
473 {
474 struct value *ref;
475 CORE_ADDR argref;
476 argref = get_frame_args_address (frame);
477 if (!argref)
478 return 0;
479 argref += SYMBOL_VALUE (var);
480 ref = value_at (lookup_pointer_type (type), argref);
481 addr = value_as_address (ref);
482 break;
483 }
484
485 case LOC_LOCAL:
486 addr = get_frame_locals_address (frame);
487 addr += SYMBOL_VALUE (var);
488 break;
489
490 case LOC_TYPEDEF:
491 error (_("Cannot look up value of a typedef"));
492 break;
493
494 case LOC_BLOCK:
495 if (overlay_debugging)
496 set_value_address (v, symbol_overlayed_address
497 (BLOCK_START (SYMBOL_BLOCK_VALUE (var)), SYMBOL_OBJ_SECTION (var)));
498 else
499 set_value_address (v, BLOCK_START (SYMBOL_BLOCK_VALUE (var)));
500 return v;
501
502 case LOC_REGISTER:
503 case LOC_REGPARM_ADDR:
504 {
505 int regno = SYMBOL_REGISTER_OPS (var)
506 ->register_number (var, get_frame_arch (frame));
507 struct value *regval;
508
509 if (SYMBOL_CLASS (var) == LOC_REGPARM_ADDR)
510 {
511 regval = value_from_register (lookup_pointer_type (type),
512 regno,
513 frame);
514
515 if (regval == NULL)
516 error (_("Value of register variable not available."));
517
518 addr = value_as_address (regval);
519 VALUE_LVAL (v) = lval_memory;
520 }
521 else
522 {
523 regval = value_from_register (type, regno, frame);
524
525 if (regval == NULL)
526 error (_("Value of register variable not available."));
527 return regval;
528 }
529 }
530 break;
531
532 case LOC_COMPUTED:
533 /* FIXME: cagney/2004-01-26: It should be possible to
534 unconditionally call the SYMBOL_COMPUTED_OPS method when available.
535 Unfortunately DWARF 2 stores the frame-base (instead of the
536 function) location in a function's symbol. Oops! For the
537 moment enable this when/where applicable. */
538 return SYMBOL_COMPUTED_OPS (var)->read_variable (var, frame);
539
540 case LOC_UNRESOLVED:
541 {
542 struct minimal_symbol *msym;
543 struct obj_section *obj_section;
544
545 msym = lookup_minimal_symbol (SYMBOL_LINKAGE_NAME (var), NULL, NULL);
546 if (msym == NULL)
547 return 0;
548 if (overlay_debugging)
549 addr = symbol_overlayed_address (SYMBOL_VALUE_ADDRESS (msym),
550 SYMBOL_OBJ_SECTION (msym));
551 else
552 addr = SYMBOL_VALUE_ADDRESS (msym);
553
554 obj_section = SYMBOL_OBJ_SECTION (msym);
555 if (obj_section
556 && (obj_section->the_bfd_section->flags & SEC_THREAD_LOCAL) != 0)
557 addr = target_translate_tls_address (obj_section->objfile, addr);
558 }
559 break;
560
561 case LOC_OPTIMIZED_OUT:
562 VALUE_LVAL (v) = not_lval;
563 set_value_optimized_out (v, 1);
564 return v;
565
566 default:
567 error (_("Cannot look up value of a botched symbol."));
568 break;
569 }
570
571 set_value_address (v, addr);
572 set_value_lazy (v, 1);
573 return v;
574 }
575
576 /* Install default attributes for register values. */
577
578 struct value *
579 default_value_from_register (struct type *type, int regnum,
580 struct frame_info *frame)
581 {
582 struct gdbarch *gdbarch = get_frame_arch (frame);
583 int len = TYPE_LENGTH (type);
584 struct value *value = allocate_value (type);
585
586 VALUE_LVAL (value) = lval_register;
587 VALUE_FRAME_ID (value) = get_frame_id (frame);
588 VALUE_REGNUM (value) = regnum;
589
590 /* Any structure stored in more than one register will always be
591 an integral number of registers. Otherwise, you need to do
592 some fiddling with the last register copied here for little
593 endian machines. */
594 if (gdbarch_byte_order (gdbarch) == BFD_ENDIAN_BIG
595 && len < register_size (gdbarch, regnum))
596 /* Big-endian, and we want less than full size. */
597 set_value_offset (value, register_size (gdbarch, regnum) - len);
598 else
599 set_value_offset (value, 0);
600
601 return value;
602 }
603
604 /* Return a value of type TYPE, stored in register REGNUM, in frame FRAME. */
605
606 struct value *
607 value_from_register (struct type *type, int regnum, struct frame_info *frame)
608 {
609 struct gdbarch *gdbarch = get_frame_arch (frame);
610 struct type *type1 = check_typedef (type);
611 struct value *v;
612
613 if (gdbarch_convert_register_p (gdbarch, regnum, type1))
614 {
615 /* The ISA/ABI need to something weird when obtaining the
616 specified value from this register. It might need to
617 re-order non-adjacent, starting with REGNUM (see MIPS and
618 i386). It might need to convert the [float] register into
619 the corresponding [integer] type (see Alpha). The assumption
620 is that gdbarch_register_to_value populates the entire value
621 including the location. */
622 v = allocate_value (type);
623 VALUE_LVAL (v) = lval_register;
624 VALUE_FRAME_ID (v) = get_frame_id (frame);
625 VALUE_REGNUM (v) = regnum;
626 gdbarch_register_to_value (gdbarch,
627 frame, regnum, type1, value_contents_raw (v));
628 }
629 else
630 {
631 int len = TYPE_LENGTH (type);
632
633 /* Construct the value. */
634 v = gdbarch_value_from_register (gdbarch, type, regnum, frame);
635
636 /* Get the data. */
637 if (!get_frame_register_bytes (frame, regnum, value_offset (v), len,
638 value_contents_raw (v)))
639 set_value_optimized_out (v, 1);
640 }
641 return v;
642 }
643
644 /* Return contents of register REGNUM in frame FRAME as address,
645 interpreted as value of type TYPE. Will abort if register
646 value is not available. */
647
648 CORE_ADDR
649 address_from_register (struct type *type, int regnum, struct frame_info *frame)
650 {
651 struct value *value;
652 CORE_ADDR result;
653
654 value = value_from_register (type, regnum, frame);
655 gdb_assert (value);
656
657 result = value_as_address (value);
658 release_value (value);
659 value_free (value);
660
661 return result;
662 }