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1 /* Definitions for expressions designed to be executed on the agent
2 Copyright (C) 1998-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3
4 This file is part of GDB.
5
6 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
9 (at your option) any later version.
10
11 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
14 GNU General Public License for more details.
15
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
18
19 #ifndef AX_H
20 #define AX_H
21
22 /* It's sometimes useful to be able to debug programs that you can't
23 really stop for more than a fraction of a second. To this end, the
24 user can specify a tracepoint (like a breakpoint, but you don't
25 stop at it), and specify a bunch of expressions to record the
26 values of when that tracepoint is reached. As the program runs,
27 GDB collects the values. At any point (possibly while values are
28 still being collected), the user can display the collected values.
29
30 This is used with remote debugging; we don't really support it on
31 native configurations.
32
33 This means that expressions are being evaluated by the remote agent,
34 which doesn't have any access to the symbol table information, and
35 needs to be small and simple.
36
37 The agent_expr routines and datatypes are a bytecode language
38 designed to be executed by the agent. Agent expressions work in
39 terms of fixed-width values, operators, memory references, and
40 register references. You can evaluate a agent expression just given
41 a bunch of memory and register values to sniff at; you don't need
42 any symbolic information like variable names, types, etc.
43
44 GDB translates source expressions, whose meaning depends on
45 symbolic information, into agent bytecode expressions, whose meaning
46 is independent of symbolic information. This means the agent can
47 evaluate them on the fly without reference to data only available
48 to the host GDB. */
49 \f
50
51 /* Different kinds of flaws an agent expression might have, as
52 detected by ax_reqs. */
53 enum agent_flaws
54 {
55 agent_flaw_none = 0, /* code is good */
56
57 /* There is an invalid instruction in the stream. */
58 agent_flaw_bad_instruction,
59
60 /* There is an incomplete instruction at the end of the expression. */
61 agent_flaw_incomplete_instruction,
62
63 /* ax_reqs was unable to prove that every jump target is to a
64 valid offset. Valid offsets are within the bounds of the
65 expression, and to a valid instruction boundary. */
66 agent_flaw_bad_jump,
67
68 /* ax_reqs was unable to prove to its satisfaction that, for each
69 jump target location, the stack will have the same height whether
70 that location is reached via a jump or by straight execution. */
71 agent_flaw_height_mismatch,
72
73 /* ax_reqs was unable to prove that every instruction following
74 an unconditional jump was the target of some other jump. */
75 agent_flaw_hole
76 };
77
78 /* Agent expression data structures. */
79
80 /* A buffer containing a agent expression. */
81 struct agent_expr
82 {
83 /* Construct an empty agent expression. */
84 agent_expr (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, CORE_ADDR scope)
85 : gdbarch (gdbarch),
86 scope (scope)
87 { }
88
89 /* The bytes of the expression. */
90 gdb::byte_vector buf;
91
92 /* The target architecture assumed to be in effect. */
93 struct gdbarch *gdbarch;
94
95 /* The address to which the expression applies. */
96 CORE_ADDR scope;
97
98 /* If the following is not equal to agent_flaw_none, the rest of the
99 information in this structure is suspect. */
100 enum agent_flaws flaw;
101
102 /* Number of elements left on stack at end; may be negative if expr
103 only consumes elements. */
104 int final_height;
105
106 /* Maximum and minimum stack height, relative to initial height. */
107 int max_height, min_height;
108
109 /* Largest `ref' or `const' opcode used, in bits. Zero means the
110 expression has no such instructions. */
111 int max_data_size;
112
113 /* Bit vector of registers needed. Register R is needed iff
114 reg_mask[R] is non-zero. Note! You may not assume that this
115 bitmask is long enough to hold bits for all the registers of
116 the machine; the agent expression code has no idea how many
117 registers the machine has.
118
119 Also note that this mask may contain registers that are needed
120 for the original collection expression to work, but that are
121 not referenced by any bytecode. This could, for example, occur
122 when collecting a local variable allocated to a register; the
123 compiler sets the mask bit and skips generating a bytecode whose
124 result is going to be discarded anyway.
125 */
126 std::vector<bool> reg_mask;
127
128 /* For the data tracing facility, we need to insert `trace' bytecodes
129 before each data fetch; this records all the memory that the
130 expression touches in the course of evaluation, so that memory will
131 be available when the user later tries to evaluate the expression
132 in GDB.
133
134 Setting the flag 'tracing' to true enables the code that
135 emits the trace bytecodes at the appropriate points. */
136
137 bool tracing = false;
138
139 /* This indicates that pointers to chars should get an added
140 tracenz bytecode to record nonzero bytes, up to a length that
141 is the value of trace_string. */
142
143 int trace_string = 0;
144 };
145
146 /* An agent_expr owning pointer. */
147 typedef std::unique_ptr<agent_expr> agent_expr_up;
148
149 /* The actual values of the various bytecode operations. */
150
151 enum agent_op
152 {
153 #define DEFOP(NAME, SIZE, DATA_SIZE, CONSUMED, PRODUCED, VALUE) \
154 aop_ ## NAME = VALUE,
155 #include "gdbsupport/ax.def"
156 #undef DEFOP
157 };
158 \f
159
160
161 /* Functions for building expressions. */
162
163 /* Append a raw byte to EXPR. */
164 extern void ax_raw_byte (struct agent_expr *expr, gdb_byte byte);
165
166 /* Append a simple operator OP to EXPR. */
167 extern void ax_simple (struct agent_expr *EXPR, enum agent_op OP);
168
169 /* Append a pick operator to EXPR. DEPTH is the stack item to pick,
170 with 0 being top of stack. */
171 extern void ax_pick (struct agent_expr *EXPR, int DEPTH);
172
173 /* Append the floating-point prefix, for the next bytecode. */
174 #define ax_float(EXPR) (ax_simple ((EXPR), aop_float))
175
176 /* Append a sign-extension instruction to EXPR, to extend an N-bit value. */
177 extern void ax_ext (struct agent_expr *EXPR, int N);
178
179 /* Append a zero-extension instruction to EXPR, to extend an N-bit value. */
180 extern void ax_zero_ext (struct agent_expr *EXPR, int N);
181
182 /* Append a trace_quick instruction to EXPR, to record N bytes. */
183 extern void ax_trace_quick (struct agent_expr *EXPR, int N);
184
185 /* Append a goto op to EXPR. OP is the actual op (must be aop_goto or
186 aop_if_goto). We assume we don't know the target offset yet,
187 because it's probably a forward branch, so we leave space in EXPR
188 for the target, and return the offset in EXPR of that space, so we
189 can backpatch it once we do know the target offset. Use ax_label
190 to do the backpatching. */
191 extern int ax_goto (struct agent_expr *EXPR, enum agent_op OP);
192
193 /* Suppose a given call to ax_goto returns some value PATCH. When you
194 know the offset TARGET that goto should jump to, call
195 ax_label (EXPR, PATCH, TARGET)
196 to patch TARGET into the ax_goto instruction. */
197 extern void ax_label (struct agent_expr *EXPR, int patch, int target);
198
199 /* Assemble code to push a constant on the stack. */
200 extern void ax_const_l (struct agent_expr *EXPR, LONGEST l);
201 extern void ax_const_d (struct agent_expr *EXPR, LONGEST d);
202
203 /* Assemble code to push the value of register number REG on the
204 stack. */
205 extern void ax_reg (struct agent_expr *EXPR, int REG);
206
207 /* Add the given register to the register mask of the expression. */
208 extern void ax_reg_mask (struct agent_expr *ax, int reg);
209
210 /* Assemble code to operate on a trace state variable. */
211 extern void ax_tsv (struct agent_expr *expr, enum agent_op op, int num);
212
213 /* Append a string to the bytecode stream. */
214 extern void ax_string (struct agent_expr *x, const char *str, int slen);
215 \f
216
217 /* Functions for printing out expressions, and otherwise debugging
218 things. */
219
220 /* Disassemble the expression EXPR, writing to F. */
221 extern void ax_print (struct ui_file *f, struct agent_expr * EXPR);
222
223 /* Given an agent expression AX, analyze and update its requirements. */
224
225 extern void ax_reqs (struct agent_expr *ax);
226
227 #endif /* AX_H */