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1 /* Source-language-related definitions for GDB.
2
3 Copyright (C) 1991-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4
5 Contributed by the Department of Computer Science at the State University
6 of New York at Buffalo.
7
8 This file is part of GDB.
9
10 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
11 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
12 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
13 (at your option) any later version.
14
15 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
16 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
17 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
18 GNU General Public License for more details.
19
20 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
21 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
22
23 #if !defined (LANGUAGE_H)
24 #define LANGUAGE_H 1
25
26 #include "symtab.h"
27
28 /* Forward decls for prototypes. */
29 struct value;
30 struct objfile;
31 struct frame_info;
32 struct expression;
33 struct ui_file;
34 struct value_print_options;
35 struct type_print_options;
36 struct lang_varobj_ops;
37 struct parser_state;
38 struct compile_instance;
39
40 #define MAX_FORTRAN_DIMS 7 /* Maximum number of F77 array dims. */
41
42 /* range_mode ==
43 range_mode_auto: range_check set automatically to default of language.
44 range_mode_manual: range_check set manually by user. */
45
46 extern enum range_mode
47 {
48 range_mode_auto, range_mode_manual
49 }
50 range_mode;
51
52 /* range_check ==
53 range_check_on: Ranges are checked in GDB expressions, producing errors.
54 range_check_warn: Ranges are checked, producing warnings.
55 range_check_off: Ranges are not checked in GDB expressions. */
56
57 extern enum range_check
58 {
59 range_check_off, range_check_warn, range_check_on
60 }
61 range_check;
62
63 /* case_mode ==
64 case_mode_auto: case_sensitivity set upon selection of scope.
65 case_mode_manual: case_sensitivity set only by user. */
66
67 extern enum case_mode
68 {
69 case_mode_auto, case_mode_manual
70 }
71 case_mode;
72
73 /* array_ordering ==
74 array_row_major: Arrays are in row major order.
75 array_column_major: Arrays are in column major order. */
76
77 extern enum array_ordering
78 {
79 array_row_major, array_column_major
80 }
81 array_ordering;
82
83
84 /* case_sensitivity ==
85 case_sensitive_on: Case sensitivity in name matching is used.
86 case_sensitive_off: Case sensitivity in name matching is not used. */
87
88 extern enum case_sensitivity
89 {
90 case_sensitive_on, case_sensitive_off
91 }
92 case_sensitivity;
93
94
95 /* macro_expansion ==
96 macro_expansion_no: No macro expansion is available.
97 macro_expansion_c: C-like macro expansion is available. */
98
99 enum macro_expansion
100 {
101 macro_expansion_no, macro_expansion_c
102 };
103
104 \f
105 /* Per architecture (OS/ABI) language information. */
106
107 struct language_arch_info
108 {
109 /* Its primitive types. This is a vector ended by a NULL pointer.
110 These types can be specified by name in parsing types in
111 expressions, regardless of whether the program being debugged
112 actually defines such a type. */
113 struct type **primitive_type_vector;
114
115 /* Symbol wrappers around primitive_type_vector, so that the symbol lookup
116 machinery can return them. */
117 struct symbol **primitive_type_symbols;
118
119 /* Type of elements of strings. */
120 struct type *string_char_type;
121
122 /* Symbol name of type to use as boolean type, if defined. */
123 const char *bool_type_symbol;
124 /* Otherwise, this is the default boolean builtin type. */
125 struct type *bool_type_default;
126 };
127
128 /* A pointer to a function expected to return nonzero if
129 SYMBOL_SEARCH_NAME matches the given LOOKUP_NAME.
130
131 SYMBOL_SEARCH_NAME should be a symbol's "search" name.
132 LOOKUP_NAME should be the name of an entity after it has been
133 transformed for lookup. */
134
135 typedef int (*symbol_name_cmp_ftype) (const char *symbol_search_name,
136 const char *lookup_name);
137
138 /* Structure tying together assorted information about a language. */
139
140 struct language_defn
141 {
142 /* Name of the language. */
143
144 const char *la_name;
145
146 /* Natural or official name of the language. */
147
148 const char *la_natural_name;
149
150 /* its symtab language-enum (defs.h). */
151
152 enum language la_language;
153
154 /* Default range checking. */
155
156 enum range_check la_range_check;
157
158 /* Default case sensitivity. */
159 enum case_sensitivity la_case_sensitivity;
160
161 /* Multi-dimensional array ordering. */
162 enum array_ordering la_array_ordering;
163
164 /* Style of macro expansion, if any, supported by this language. */
165 enum macro_expansion la_macro_expansion;
166
167 /* Definitions related to expression printing, prefixifying, and
168 dumping. */
169
170 const struct exp_descriptor *la_exp_desc;
171
172 /* Parser function. */
173
174 int (*la_parser) (struct parser_state *);
175
176 /* Parser error function. */
177
178 void (*la_error) (char *);
179
180 /* Given an expression *EXPP created by prefixifying the result of
181 la_parser, perform any remaining processing necessary to complete
182 its translation. *EXPP may change; la_post_parser is responsible
183 for releasing its previous contents, if necessary. If
184 VOID_CONTEXT_P, then no value is expected from the expression. */
185
186 void (*la_post_parser) (struct expression ** expp, int void_context_p);
187
188 void (*la_printchar) (int ch, struct type *chtype,
189 struct ui_file * stream);
190
191 void (*la_printstr) (struct ui_file * stream, struct type *elttype,
192 const gdb_byte *string, unsigned int length,
193 const char *encoding, int force_ellipses,
194 const struct value_print_options *);
195
196 void (*la_emitchar) (int ch, struct type *chtype,
197 struct ui_file * stream, int quoter);
198
199 /* Print a type using syntax appropriate for this language. */
200
201 void (*la_print_type) (struct type *, const char *, struct ui_file *, int,
202 int, const struct type_print_options *);
203
204 /* Print a typedef using syntax appropriate for this language.
205 TYPE is the underlying type. NEW_SYMBOL is the symbol naming
206 the type. STREAM is the output stream on which to print. */
207
208 void (*la_print_typedef) (struct type *type, struct symbol *new_symbol,
209 struct ui_file *stream);
210
211 /* Print a value using syntax appropriate for this language.
212
213 TYPE is the type of the sub-object to be printed.
214
215 CONTENTS holds the bits of the value. This holds the entire
216 enclosing object.
217
218 EMBEDDED_OFFSET is the offset into the outermost object of the
219 sub-object represented by TYPE. This is the object which this
220 call should print. Note that the enclosing type is not
221 available.
222
223 ADDRESS is the address in the inferior of the enclosing object.
224
225 STREAM is the stream on which the value is to be printed.
226
227 RECURSE is the recursion depth. It is zero-based.
228
229 OPTIONS are the formatting options to be used when
230 printing. */
231
232 void (*la_val_print) (struct type *type,
233 const gdb_byte *contents,
234 int embedded_offset, CORE_ADDR address,
235 struct ui_file *stream, int recurse,
236 const struct value *val,
237 const struct value_print_options *options);
238
239 /* Print a top-level value using syntax appropriate for this language. */
240
241 void (*la_value_print) (struct value *, struct ui_file *,
242 const struct value_print_options *);
243
244 /* Given a symbol VAR, and a stack frame id FRAME, read the value
245 of the variable an return (pointer to a) struct value containing
246 the value.
247
248 Throw an error if the variable cannot be found. */
249
250 struct value *(*la_read_var_value) (struct symbol *var,
251 struct frame_info *frame);
252
253 /* PC is possibly an unknown languages trampoline.
254 If that PC falls in a trampoline belonging to this language,
255 return the address of the first pc in the real function, or 0
256 if it isn't a language tramp for this language. */
257 CORE_ADDR (*skip_trampoline) (struct frame_info *, CORE_ADDR);
258
259 /* Now come some hooks for lookup_symbol. */
260
261 /* If this is non-NULL, specifies the name that of the implicit
262 local variable that refers to the current object instance. */
263
264 char *la_name_of_this;
265
266 /* This is a function that lookup_symbol will call when it gets to
267 the part of symbol lookup where C looks up static and global
268 variables. */
269
270 struct symbol *(*la_lookup_symbol_nonlocal) (const struct language_defn *,
271 const char *,
272 const struct block *,
273 const domain_enum);
274
275 /* Find the definition of the type with the given name. */
276 struct type *(*la_lookup_transparent_type) (const char *);
277
278 /* Return demangled language symbol, or NULL. */
279 char *(*la_demangle) (const char *mangled, int options);
280
281 /* Return class name of a mangled method name or NULL. */
282 char *(*la_class_name_from_physname) (const char *physname);
283
284 /* Table for printing expressions. */
285
286 const struct op_print *la_op_print_tab;
287
288 /* Zero if the language has first-class arrays. True if there are no
289 array values, and array objects decay to pointers, as in C. */
290
291 char c_style_arrays;
292
293 /* Index to use for extracting the first element of a string. */
294 char string_lower_bound;
295
296 /* The list of characters forming word boundaries. */
297 char *(*la_word_break_characters) (void);
298
299 /* Should return a vector of all symbols which are possible
300 completions for TEXT. WORD is the entire command on which the
301 completion is being made. If CODE is TYPE_CODE_UNDEF, then all
302 symbols should be examined; otherwise, only STRUCT_DOMAIN
303 symbols whose type has a code of CODE should be matched. */
304 VEC (char_ptr) *(*la_make_symbol_completion_list) (const char *text,
305 const char *word,
306 enum type_code code);
307
308 /* The per-architecture (OS/ABI) language information. */
309 void (*la_language_arch_info) (struct gdbarch *,
310 struct language_arch_info *);
311
312 /* Print the index of an element of an array. */
313 void (*la_print_array_index) (struct value *index_value,
314 struct ui_file *stream,
315 const struct value_print_options *options);
316
317 /* Return non-zero if TYPE should be passed (and returned) by
318 reference at the language level. */
319 int (*la_pass_by_reference) (struct type *type);
320
321 /* Obtain a string from the inferior, storing it in a newly allocated
322 buffer in BUFFER, which should be freed by the caller. If the
323 in- and out-parameter *LENGTH is specified at -1, the string is
324 read until a null character of the appropriate width is found -
325 otherwise the string is read to the length of characters specified.
326 On completion, *LENGTH will hold the size of the string in characters.
327 If a *LENGTH of -1 was specified it will count only actual
328 characters, excluding any eventual terminating null character.
329 Otherwise *LENGTH will include all characters - including any nulls.
330 CHARSET will hold the encoding used in the string. */
331 void (*la_get_string) (struct value *value, gdb_byte **buffer, int *length,
332 struct type **chartype, const char **charset);
333
334 /* Return a pointer to the function that should be used to match
335 a symbol name against LOOKUP_NAME. This is mostly for languages
336 such as Ada where the matching algorithm depends on LOOKUP_NAME.
337
338 This field may be NULL, in which case strcmp_iw will be used
339 to perform the matching. */
340 symbol_name_cmp_ftype (*la_get_symbol_name_cmp) (const char *lookup_name);
341
342 /* Find all symbols in the current program space matching NAME in
343 DOMAIN, according to this language's rules.
344
345 The search is done in BLOCK only.
346 The caller is responsible for iterating up through superblocks
347 if desired.
348
349 For each one, call CALLBACK with the symbol and the DATA
350 argument. If CALLBACK returns zero, the iteration ends at that
351 point.
352
353 This field may not be NULL. If the language does not need any
354 special processing here, 'iterate_over_symbols' should be
355 used as the definition. */
356 void (*la_iterate_over_symbols) (const struct block *block,
357 const char *name,
358 domain_enum domain,
359 symbol_found_callback_ftype *callback,
360 void *data);
361
362 /* Various operations on varobj. */
363 const struct lang_varobj_ops *la_varobj_ops;
364
365 /* If this language allows compilation from the gdb command line,
366 this method should be non-NULL. When called it should return
367 an instance of struct gcc_context appropriate to the language.
368 When defined this method must never return NULL; instead it
369 should throw an exception on failure. The returned compiler
370 instance is owned by its caller and must be deallocated by
371 calling its 'destroy' method. */
372
373 struct compile_instance *(*la_get_compile_instance) (void);
374
375 /* This method must be defined if 'la_get_gcc_context' is defined.
376 If 'la_get_gcc_context' is not defined, then this method is
377 ignored.
378
379 This takes the user-supplied text and returns a newly malloc'd
380 bit of code to compile. The caller owns the result.
381
382 INST is the compiler instance being used.
383 INPUT is the user's input text.
384 GDBARCH is the architecture to use.
385 EXPR_BLOCK is the block in which the expression is being
386 parsed.
387 EXPR_PC is the PC at which the expression is being parsed. */
388
389 char *(*la_compute_program) (struct compile_instance *inst,
390 const char *input,
391 struct gdbarch *gdbarch,
392 const struct block *expr_block,
393 CORE_ADDR expr_pc);
394
395 /* Add fields above this point, so the magic number is always last. */
396 /* Magic number for compat checking. */
397
398 long la_magic;
399
400 };
401
402 #define LANG_MAGIC 910823L
403
404 /* Pointer to the language_defn for our current language. This pointer
405 always points to *some* valid struct; it can be used without checking
406 it for validity.
407
408 The current language affects expression parsing and evaluation
409 (FIXME: it might be cleaner to make the evaluation-related stuff
410 separate exp_opcodes for each different set of semantics. We
411 should at least think this through more clearly with respect to
412 what happens if the language is changed between parsing and
413 evaluation) and printing of things like types and arrays. It does
414 *not* affect symbol-reading-- each source file in a symbol-file has
415 its own language and we should keep track of that regardless of the
416 language when symbols are read. If we want some manual setting for
417 the language of symbol files (e.g. detecting when ".c" files are
418 C++), it should be a separate setting from the current_language. */
419
420 extern const struct language_defn *current_language;
421
422 /* Pointer to the language_defn expected by the user, e.g. the language
423 of main(), or the language we last mentioned in a message, or C. */
424
425 extern const struct language_defn *expected_language;
426
427 /* language_mode ==
428 language_mode_auto: current_language automatically set upon selection
429 of scope (e.g. stack frame)
430 language_mode_manual: current_language set only by user. */
431
432 extern enum language_mode
433 {
434 language_mode_auto, language_mode_manual
435 }
436 language_mode;
437
438 struct type *language_bool_type (const struct language_defn *l,
439 struct gdbarch *gdbarch);
440
441 struct type *language_string_char_type (const struct language_defn *l,
442 struct gdbarch *gdbarch);
443
444 /* Look up type NAME in language L, and return its definition for architecture
445 GDBARCH. Returns NULL if not found. */
446
447 struct type *language_lookup_primitive_type (const struct language_defn *l,
448 struct gdbarch *gdbarch,
449 const char *name);
450
451 /* Wrapper around language_lookup_primitive_type to return the
452 corresponding symbol. */
453
454 struct symbol *
455 language_lookup_primitive_type_as_symbol (const struct language_defn *l,
456 struct gdbarch *gdbarch,
457 const char *name);
458
459 \f
460 /* These macros define the behaviour of the expression
461 evaluator. */
462
463 /* Should we range check values against the domain of their type? */
464 #define RANGE_CHECK (range_check != range_check_off)
465
466 /* "cast" really means conversion. */
467 /* FIXME -- should be a setting in language_defn. */
468 #define CAST_IS_CONVERSION(LANG) ((LANG)->la_language == language_c || \
469 (LANG)->la_language == language_cplus || \
470 (LANG)->la_language == language_objc)
471
472 extern void language_info (int);
473
474 extern enum language set_language (enum language);
475 \f
476
477 /* This page contains functions that return things that are
478 specific to languages. Each of these functions is based on
479 the current setting of working_lang, which the user sets
480 with the "set language" command. */
481
482 #define LA_PRINT_TYPE(type,varstring,stream,show,level,flags) \
483 (current_language->la_print_type(type,varstring,stream,show,level,flags))
484
485 #define LA_PRINT_TYPEDEF(type,new_symbol,stream) \
486 (current_language->la_print_typedef(type,new_symbol,stream))
487
488 #define LA_VAL_PRINT(type,valaddr,offset,addr,stream,val,recurse,options) \
489 (current_language->la_val_print(type,valaddr,offset,addr,stream, \
490 val,recurse,options))
491 #define LA_VALUE_PRINT(val,stream,options) \
492 (current_language->la_value_print(val,stream,options))
493
494 #define LA_PRINT_CHAR(ch, type, stream) \
495 (current_language->la_printchar(ch, type, stream))
496 #define LA_PRINT_STRING(stream, elttype, string, length, encoding, force_ellipses, options) \
497 (current_language->la_printstr(stream, elttype, string, length, \
498 encoding, force_ellipses,options))
499 #define LA_EMIT_CHAR(ch, type, stream, quoter) \
500 (current_language->la_emitchar(ch, type, stream, quoter))
501 #define LA_GET_STRING(value, buffer, length, chartype, encoding) \
502 (current_language->la_get_string(value, buffer, length, chartype, encoding))
503
504 #define LA_PRINT_ARRAY_INDEX(index_value, stream, options) \
505 (current_language->la_print_array_index(index_value, stream, options))
506
507 #define LA_ITERATE_OVER_SYMBOLS(BLOCK, NAME, DOMAIN, CALLBACK, DATA) \
508 (current_language->la_iterate_over_symbols (BLOCK, NAME, DOMAIN, CALLBACK, \
509 DATA))
510
511 /* Test a character to decide whether it can be printed in literal form
512 or needs to be printed in another representation. For example,
513 in C the literal form of the character with octal value 141 is 'a'
514 and the "other representation" is '\141'. The "other representation"
515 is program language dependent. */
516
517 #define PRINT_LITERAL_FORM(c) \
518 ((c) >= 0x20 \
519 && ((c) < 0x7F || (c) >= 0xA0) \
520 && (!sevenbit_strings || (c) < 0x80))
521
522 /* Type predicates */
523
524 extern int pointer_type (struct type *);
525
526 /* Error messages */
527
528 extern void range_error (const char *, ...) ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF (1, 2);
529
530 /* Data: Does this value represent "truth" to the current language? */
531
532 extern int value_true (struct value *);
533
534 /* Misc: The string representing a particular enum language. */
535
536 extern enum language language_enum (char *str);
537
538 extern const struct language_defn *language_def (enum language);
539
540 extern const char *language_str (enum language);
541
542 /* Add a language to the set known by GDB (at initialization time). */
543
544 extern void add_language (const struct language_defn *);
545
546 extern enum language get_frame_language (void); /* In stack.c */
547
548 /* Check for a language-specific trampoline. */
549
550 extern CORE_ADDR skip_language_trampoline (struct frame_info *, CORE_ADDR pc);
551
552 /* Return demangled language symbol, or NULL. */
553 extern char *language_demangle (const struct language_defn *current_language,
554 const char *mangled, int options);
555
556 /* Return class name from physname, or NULL. */
557 extern char *language_class_name_from_physname (const struct language_defn *,
558 const char *physname);
559
560 /* Splitting strings into words. */
561 extern char *default_word_break_characters (void);
562
563 /* Print the index of an array element using the C99 syntax. */
564 extern void default_print_array_index (struct value *index_value,
565 struct ui_file *stream,
566 const struct value_print_options *options);
567
568 /* Return non-zero if TYPE should be passed (and returned) by
569 reference at the language level. */
570 int language_pass_by_reference (struct type *type);
571
572 /* Return zero; by default, types are passed by value at the language
573 level. The target ABI may pass or return some structs by reference
574 independent of this. */
575 int default_pass_by_reference (struct type *type);
576
577 /* The default implementation of la_print_typedef. */
578 void default_print_typedef (struct type *type, struct symbol *new_symbol,
579 struct ui_file *stream);
580
581 void default_get_string (struct value *value, gdb_byte **buffer, int *length,
582 struct type **char_type, const char **charset);
583
584 void c_get_string (struct value *value, gdb_byte **buffer, int *length,
585 struct type **char_type, const char **charset);
586
587 #endif /* defined (LANGUAGE_H) */