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1 /* Generic interface between GCC and GDB
2
3 Copyright (C) 2014-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4
5 This file is part of GCC.
6
7 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
10 (at your option) any later version.
11
12 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15 GNU General Public License for more details.
16
17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
19
20 #ifndef GCC_INTERFACE_H
21 #define GCC_INTERFACE_H
22
23 /* This header defines the interface to the GCC API. It must be both
24 valid C and valid C++, because it is included by both programs. */
25
26 #ifdef __cplusplus
27 extern "C" {
28 #endif
29
30 /* Opaque typedefs for objects passed through the interface. */
31
32 typedef unsigned long long gcc_type;
33 typedef unsigned long long gcc_decl;
34
35 /* An address in the inferior. */
36
37 typedef unsigned long long gcc_address;
38
39 /* Forward declaration. */
40
41 struct gcc_base_context;
42
43 /* Defined versions of the generic API. */
44
45 enum gcc_base_api_version
46 {
47 GCC_FE_VERSION_0 = 0,
48
49 /* Deprecated method compile_v0. Added method set_verbose and compile. */
50 GCC_FE_VERSION_1 = 1,
51 };
52
53 /* The operations defined by the GCC base API. This is the vtable for
54 the real context structure which is passed around.
55
56 The "base" API is concerned with basics shared by all compiler
57 front ends: setting command-line arguments, the file names, etc.
58
59 Front-end-specific interfaces inherit from this one. */
60
61 struct gcc_base_vtable
62 {
63 /* The actual version implemented in this interface. This field can
64 be relied on not to move, so users can always check it if they
65 desire. The value is one of the gcc_base_api_version constants.
66 */
67
68 unsigned int version;
69
70 /* Set the compiler's command-line options for the next compilation.
71 TRIPLET_REGEXP is a regular expression that is used to match the
72 configury triplet prefix to the compiler.
73 The arguments are copied by GCC. ARGV need not be
74 NULL-terminated. The arguments must be set separately for each
75 compilation; that is, after a compile is requested, the
76 previously-set arguments cannot be reused.
77
78 This returns NULL on success. On failure, returns a malloc()d
79 error message. The caller is responsible for freeing it. */
80
81 char *(*set_arguments) (struct gcc_base_context *self,
82 const char *triplet_regexp,
83 int argc, char **argv);
84
85 /* Set the file name of the program to compile. The string is
86 copied by the method implementation, but the caller must
87 guarantee that the file exists through the compilation. */
88
89 void (*set_source_file) (struct gcc_base_context *self, const char *file);
90
91 /* Set a callback to use for printing error messages. DATUM is
92 passed through to the callback unchanged. */
93
94 void (*set_print_callback) (struct gcc_base_context *self,
95 void (*print_function) (void *datum,
96 const char *message),
97 void *datum);
98
99 /* Deprecated GCC_FE_VERSION_0 variant of the GCC_FE_VERSION_1
100 compile method. GCC_FE_VERSION_0 version verbose parameter has
101 been replaced by the set_verbose method. */
102
103 int /* bool */ (*compile_v0) (struct gcc_base_context *self,
104 const char *filename,
105 int /* bool */ verbose);
106
107 /* Destroy this object. */
108
109 void (*destroy) (struct gcc_base_context *self);
110
111 /* VERBOSE can be set to non-zero to cause GCC to print some
112 information as it works. Calling this method overrides its
113 possible previous calls.
114
115 This method is only available since GCC_FE_VERSION_1. */
116
117 void (*set_verbose) (struct gcc_base_context *self,
118 int /* bool */ verbose);
119
120 /* Perform the compilation. FILENAME is the name of the resulting
121 object file. Either set_triplet_regexp or set_driver_filename must
122 be called before. Returns true on success, false on error.
123
124 This method is only available since GCC_FE_VERSION_1. */
125
126 int /* bool */ (*compile) (struct gcc_base_context *self,
127 const char *filename);
128 };
129
130 /* The GCC object. */
131
132 struct gcc_base_context
133 {
134 /* The virtual table. */
135
136 const struct gcc_base_vtable *ops;
137 };
138
139 /* The name of the dummy wrapper function generated by gdb. */
140
141 #define GCC_FE_WRAPPER_FUNCTION "_gdb_expr"
142
143 #ifdef __cplusplus
144 }
145 #endif
146
147 #endif /* GCC_INTERFACE_H */