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1 /* Definitions for symbol file management in GDB.
2
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5
6 This file is part of GDB.
7
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17
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19 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
20
21 #if !defined (OBJFILES_H)
22 #define OBJFILES_H
23
24 #include "gdb_obstack.h" /* For obstack internals. */
25 #include "symfile.h" /* For struct psymbol_allocation_list */
26
27 struct bcache;
28 struct htab;
29 struct symtab;
30 struct objfile_data;
31
32 /* This structure maintains information on a per-objfile basis about the
33 "entry point" of the objfile, and the scope within which the entry point
34 exists. It is possible that gdb will see more than one objfile that is
35 executable, each with its own entry point.
36
37 For example, for dynamically linked executables in SVR4, the dynamic linker
38 code is contained within the shared C library, which is actually executable
39 and is run by the kernel first when an exec is done of a user executable
40 that is dynamically linked. The dynamic linker within the shared C library
41 then maps in the various program segments in the user executable and jumps
42 to the user executable's recorded entry point, as if the call had been made
43 directly by the kernel.
44
45 The traditional gdb method of using this info was to use the
46 recorded entry point to set the entry-file's lowpc and highpc from
47 the debugging information, where these values are the starting
48 address (inclusive) and ending address (exclusive) of the
49 instruction space in the executable which correspond to the
50 "startup file", I.E. crt0.o in most cases. This file is assumed to
51 be a startup file and frames with pc's inside it are treated as
52 nonexistent. Setting these variables is necessary so that
53 backtraces do not fly off the bottom of the stack.
54
55 NOTE: cagney/2003-09-09: It turns out that this "traditional"
56 method doesn't work. Corinna writes: ``It turns out that the call
57 to test for "inside entry file" destroys a meaningful backtrace
58 under some conditions. E. g. the backtrace tests in the asm-source
59 testcase are broken for some targets. In this test the functions
60 are all implemented as part of one file and the testcase is not
61 necessarily linked with a start file (depending on the target).
62 What happens is, that the first frame is printed normaly and
63 following frames are treated as being inside the enttry file then.
64 This way, only the #0 frame is printed in the backtrace output.''
65 Ref "frame.c" "NOTE: vinschen/2003-04-01".
66
67 Gdb also supports an alternate method to avoid running off the bottom
68 of the stack.
69
70 There are two frames that are "special", the frame for the function
71 containing the process entry point, since it has no predecessor frame,
72 and the frame for the function containing the user code entry point
73 (the main() function), since all the predecessor frames are for the
74 process startup code. Since we have no guarantee that the linked
75 in startup modules have any debugging information that gdb can use,
76 we need to avoid following frame pointers back into frames that might
77 have been built in the startup code, as we might get hopelessly
78 confused. However, we almost always have debugging information
79 available for main().
80
81 These variables are used to save the range of PC values which are
82 valid within the main() function and within the function containing
83 the process entry point. If we always consider the frame for
84 main() as the outermost frame when debugging user code, and the
85 frame for the process entry point function as the outermost frame
86 when debugging startup code, then all we have to do is have
87 DEPRECATED_FRAME_CHAIN_VALID return false whenever a frame's
88 current PC is within the range specified by these variables. In
89 essence, we set "ceilings" in the frame chain beyond which we will
90 not proceed when following the frame chain back up the stack.
91
92 A nice side effect is that we can still debug startup code without
93 running off the end of the frame chain, assuming that we have usable
94 debugging information in the startup modules, and if we choose to not
95 use the block at main, or can't find it for some reason, everything
96 still works as before. And if we have no startup code debugging
97 information but we do have usable information for main(), backtraces
98 from user code don't go wandering off into the startup code. */
99
100 struct entry_info
101 {
102
103 /* The value we should use for this objects entry point.
104 The illegal/unknown value needs to be something other than 0, ~0
105 for instance, which is much less likely than 0. */
106
107 CORE_ADDR entry_point;
108
109 #define INVALID_ENTRY_POINT (~0) /* ~0 will not be in any file, we hope. */
110
111 };
112
113 /* Sections in an objfile.
114
115 It is strange that we have both this notion of "sections"
116 and the one used by section_offsets. Section as used
117 here, (currently at least) means a BFD section, and the sections
118 are set up from the BFD sections in allocate_objfile.
119
120 The sections in section_offsets have their meaning determined by
121 the symbol format, and they are set up by the sym_offsets function
122 for that symbol file format.
123
124 I'm not sure this could or should be changed, however. */
125
126 struct obj_section
127 {
128 CORE_ADDR addr; /* lowest address in section */
129 CORE_ADDR endaddr; /* 1+highest address in section */
130
131 /* This field is being used for nefarious purposes by syms_from_objfile.
132 It is said to be redundant with section_offsets; it's not really being
133 used that way, however, it's some sort of hack I don't understand
134 and am not going to try to eliminate (yet, anyway). FIXME.
135
136 It was documented as "offset between (end)addr and actual memory
137 addresses", but that's not true; addr & endaddr are actual memory
138 addresses. */
139 CORE_ADDR offset;
140
141 struct bfd_section *the_bfd_section; /* BFD section pointer */
142
143 /* Objfile this section is part of. */
144 struct objfile *objfile;
145
146 /* True if this "overlay section" is mapped into an "overlay region". */
147 int ovly_mapped;
148 };
149
150
151 /* The "objstats" structure provides a place for gdb to record some
152 interesting information about its internal state at runtime, on a
153 per objfile basis, such as information about the number of symbols
154 read, size of string table (if any), etc. */
155
156 struct objstats
157 {
158 int n_minsyms; /* Number of minimal symbols read */
159 int n_psyms; /* Number of partial symbols read */
160 int n_syms; /* Number of full symbols read */
161 int n_stabs; /* Number of ".stabs" read (if applicable) */
162 int n_types; /* Number of types */
163 int sz_strtab; /* Size of stringtable, (if applicable) */
164 };
165
166 #define OBJSTAT(objfile, expr) (objfile -> stats.expr)
167 #define OBJSTATS struct objstats stats
168 extern void print_objfile_statistics (void);
169 extern void print_symbol_bcache_statistics (void);
170
171 /* Number of entries in the minimal symbol hash table. */
172 #define MINIMAL_SYMBOL_HASH_SIZE 2039
173
174 /* Master structure for keeping track of each file from which
175 gdb reads symbols. There are several ways these get allocated: 1.
176 The main symbol file, symfile_objfile, set by the symbol-file command,
177 2. Additional symbol files added by the add-symbol-file command,
178 3. Shared library objfiles, added by ADD_SOLIB, 4. symbol files
179 for modules that were loaded when GDB attached to a remote system
180 (see remote-vx.c). */
181
182 struct objfile
183 {
184
185 /* All struct objfile's are chained together by their next pointers.
186 The global variable "object_files" points to the first link in this
187 chain.
188
189 FIXME: There is a problem here if the objfile is reusable, and if
190 multiple users are to be supported. The problem is that the objfile
191 list is linked through a member of the objfile struct itself, which
192 is only valid for one gdb process. The list implementation needs to
193 be changed to something like:
194
195 struct list {struct list *next; struct objfile *objfile};
196
197 where the list structure is completely maintained separately within
198 each gdb process. */
199
200 struct objfile *next;
201
202 /* The object file's name, tilde-expanded and absolute.
203 Malloc'd; free it if you free this struct. */
204
205 char *name;
206
207 /* Some flag bits for this objfile. */
208
209 unsigned short flags;
210
211 /* Each objfile points to a linked list of symtabs derived from this file,
212 one symtab structure for each compilation unit (source file). Each link
213 in the symtab list contains a backpointer to this objfile. */
214
215 struct symtab *symtabs;
216
217 /* Each objfile points to a linked list of partial symtabs derived from
218 this file, one partial symtab structure for each compilation unit
219 (source file). */
220
221 struct partial_symtab *psymtabs;
222
223 /* List of freed partial symtabs, available for re-use */
224
225 struct partial_symtab *free_psymtabs;
226
227 /* The object file's BFD. Can be null if the objfile contains only
228 minimal symbols, e.g. the run time common symbols for SunOS4. */
229
230 bfd *obfd;
231
232 /* The modification timestamp of the object file, as of the last time
233 we read its symbols. */
234
235 long mtime;
236
237 /* Obstack to hold objects that should be freed when we load a new symbol
238 table from this object file. */
239
240 struct obstack objfile_obstack;
241
242 /* A byte cache where we can stash arbitrary "chunks" of bytes that
243 will not change. */
244
245 struct bcache *psymbol_cache; /* Byte cache for partial syms */
246 struct bcache *macro_cache; /* Byte cache for macros */
247
248 /* Hash table for mapping symbol names to demangled names. Each
249 entry in the hash table is actually two consecutive strings,
250 both null-terminated; the first one is a mangled or linkage
251 name, and the second is the demangled name or just a zero byte
252 if the name doesn't demangle. */
253 struct htab *demangled_names_hash;
254
255 /* Vectors of all partial symbols read in from file. The actual data
256 is stored in the objfile_obstack. */
257
258 struct psymbol_allocation_list global_psymbols;
259 struct psymbol_allocation_list static_psymbols;
260
261 /* Each file contains a pointer to an array of minimal symbols for all
262 global symbols that are defined within the file. The array is terminated
263 by a "null symbol", one that has a NULL pointer for the name and a zero
264 value for the address. This makes it easy to walk through the array
265 when passed a pointer to somewhere in the middle of it. There is also
266 a count of the number of symbols, which does not include the terminating
267 null symbol. The array itself, as well as all the data that it points
268 to, should be allocated on the objfile_obstack for this file. */
269
270 struct minimal_symbol *msymbols;
271 int minimal_symbol_count;
272
273 /* This is a hash table used to index the minimal symbols by name. */
274
275 struct minimal_symbol *msymbol_hash[MINIMAL_SYMBOL_HASH_SIZE];
276
277 /* This hash table is used to index the minimal symbols by their
278 demangled names. */
279
280 struct minimal_symbol *msymbol_demangled_hash[MINIMAL_SYMBOL_HASH_SIZE];
281
282 /* The mmalloc() malloc-descriptor for this objfile if we are using
283 the memory mapped malloc() package to manage storage for this objfile's
284 data. NULL if we are not. */
285
286 void *md;
287
288 /* The file descriptor that was used to obtain the mmalloc descriptor
289 for this objfile. If we call mmalloc_detach with the malloc descriptor
290 we should then close this file descriptor. */
291
292 int mmfd;
293
294 /* Structure which keeps track of functions that manipulate objfile's
295 of the same type as this objfile. I.E. the function to read partial
296 symbols for example. Note that this structure is in statically
297 allocated memory, and is shared by all objfiles that use the
298 object module reader of this type. */
299
300 struct sym_fns *sf;
301
302 /* The per-objfile information about the entry point, the scope (file/func)
303 containing the entry point, and the scope of the user's main() func. */
304
305 struct entry_info ei;
306
307 /* Information about stabs. Will be filled in with a dbx_symfile_info
308 struct by those readers that need it. */
309 /* NOTE: cagney/2004-10-23: This has been replaced by per-objfile
310 data points implemented using "data" and "num_data" below. For
311 an example of how to use this replacement, see "objfile_data"
312 in "mips-tdep.c". */
313
314 struct dbx_symfile_info *deprecated_sym_stab_info;
315
316 /* Hook for information for use by the symbol reader (currently used
317 for information shared by sym_init and sym_read). It is
318 typically a pointer to malloc'd memory. The symbol reader's finish
319 function is responsible for freeing the memory thusly allocated. */
320 /* NOTE: cagney/2004-10-23: This has been replaced by per-objfile
321 data points implemented using "data" and "num_data" below. For
322 an example of how to use this replacement, see "objfile_data"
323 in "mips-tdep.c". */
324
325 void *deprecated_sym_private;
326
327 /* Hook for target-architecture-specific information. This must
328 point to memory allocated on one of the obstacks in this objfile,
329 so that it gets freed automatically when reading a new object
330 file. */
331
332 void *deprecated_obj_private;
333
334 /* Per objfile data-pointers required by other GDB modules. */
335 /* FIXME: kettenis/20030711: This mechanism could replace
336 deprecated_sym_stab_info, deprecated_sym_private and
337 deprecated_obj_private entirely. */
338
339 void **data;
340 unsigned num_data;
341
342 /* Set of relocation offsets to apply to each section.
343 Currently on the objfile_obstack (which makes no sense, but I'm
344 not sure it's harming anything).
345
346 These offsets indicate that all symbols (including partial and
347 minimal symbols) which have been read have been relocated by this
348 much. Symbols which are yet to be read need to be relocated by
349 it. */
350
351 struct section_offsets *section_offsets;
352 int num_sections;
353
354 /* Indexes in the section_offsets array. These are initialized by the
355 *_symfile_offsets() family of functions (som_symfile_offsets,
356 xcoff_symfile_offsets, default_symfile_offsets). In theory they
357 should correspond to the section indexes used by bfd for the
358 current objfile. The exception to this for the time being is the
359 SOM version. */
360
361 int sect_index_text;
362 int sect_index_data;
363 int sect_index_bss;
364 int sect_index_rodata;
365
366 /* These pointers are used to locate the section table, which
367 among other things, is used to map pc addresses into sections.
368 SECTIONS points to the first entry in the table, and
369 SECTIONS_END points to the first location past the last entry
370 in the table. Currently the table is stored on the
371 objfile_obstack (which makes no sense, but I'm not sure it's
372 harming anything). */
373
374 struct obj_section
375 *sections, *sections_end;
376
377 /* Link to objfile that contains the debug symbols for this one.
378 One is loaded if this file has an debug link to an existing
379 debug file with the right checksum */
380 struct objfile *separate_debug_objfile;
381
382 /* If this is a separate debug object, this is used as a link to the
383 actual executable objfile. */
384 struct objfile *separate_debug_objfile_backlink;
385
386 /* Place to stash various statistics about this objfile */
387 OBJSTATS;
388
389 /* A symtab that the C++ code uses to stash special symbols
390 associated to namespaces. */
391
392 /* FIXME/carlton-2003-06-27: Delete this in a few years once
393 "possible namespace symbols" go away. */
394 struct symtab *cp_namespace_symtab;
395 };
396
397 /* Defines for the objfile flag word. */
398
399 /* When using mapped/remapped predigested gdb symbol information, we need
400 a flag that indicates that we have previously done an initial symbol
401 table read from this particular objfile. We can't just look for the
402 absence of any of the three symbol tables (msymbols, psymtab, symtab)
403 because if the file has no symbols for example, none of these will
404 exist. */
405
406 #define OBJF_SYMS (1 << 1) /* Have tried to read symbols */
407
408 /* When an object file has its functions reordered (currently Irix-5.2
409 shared libraries exhibit this behaviour), we will need an expensive
410 algorithm to locate a partial symtab or symtab via an address.
411 To avoid this penalty for normal object files, we use this flag,
412 whose setting is determined upon symbol table read in. */
413
414 #define OBJF_REORDERED (1 << 2) /* Functions are reordered */
415
416 /* Distinguish between an objfile for a shared library and a "vanilla"
417 objfile. (If not set, the objfile may still actually be a solib.
418 This can happen if the user created the objfile by using the
419 add-symbol-file command. GDB doesn't in that situation actually
420 check whether the file is a solib. Rather, the target's
421 implementation of the solib interface is responsible for setting
422 this flag when noticing solibs used by an inferior.) */
423
424 #define OBJF_SHARED (1 << 3) /* From a shared library */
425
426 /* User requested that this objfile be read in it's entirety. */
427
428 #define OBJF_READNOW (1 << 4) /* Immediate full read */
429
430 /* This objfile was created because the user explicitly caused it
431 (e.g., used the add-symbol-file command). This bit offers a way
432 for run_command to remove old objfile entries which are no longer
433 valid (i.e., are associated with an old inferior), but to preserve
434 ones that the user explicitly loaded via the add-symbol-file
435 command. */
436
437 #define OBJF_USERLOADED (1 << 5) /* User loaded */
438
439 /* The object file that the main symbol table was loaded from (e.g. the
440 argument to the "symbol-file" or "file" command). */
441
442 extern struct objfile *symfile_objfile;
443
444 /* The object file that contains the runtime common minimal symbols
445 for SunOS4. Note that this objfile has no associated BFD. */
446
447 extern struct objfile *rt_common_objfile;
448
449 /* When we need to allocate a new type, we need to know which objfile_obstack
450 to allocate the type on, since there is one for each objfile. The places
451 where types are allocated are deeply buried in function call hierarchies
452 which know nothing about objfiles, so rather than trying to pass a
453 particular objfile down to them, we just do an end run around them and
454 set current_objfile to be whatever objfile we expect to be using at the
455 time types are being allocated. For instance, when we start reading
456 symbols for a particular objfile, we set current_objfile to point to that
457 objfile, and when we are done, we set it back to NULL, to ensure that we
458 never put a type someplace other than where we are expecting to put it.
459 FIXME: Maybe we should review the entire type handling system and
460 see if there is a better way to avoid this problem. */
461
462 extern struct objfile *current_objfile;
463
464 /* All known objfiles are kept in a linked list. This points to the
465 root of this list. */
466
467 extern struct objfile *object_files;
468
469 /* Declarations for functions defined in objfiles.c */
470
471 extern struct objfile *allocate_objfile (bfd *, int);
472
473 extern void init_entry_point_info (struct objfile *);
474
475 extern CORE_ADDR entry_point_address (void);
476
477 extern int build_objfile_section_table (struct objfile *);
478
479 extern void terminate_minimal_symbol_table (struct objfile *objfile);
480
481 extern void put_objfile_before (struct objfile *, struct objfile *);
482
483 extern void objfile_to_front (struct objfile *);
484
485 extern void unlink_objfile (struct objfile *);
486
487 extern void free_objfile (struct objfile *);
488
489 extern struct cleanup *make_cleanup_free_objfile (struct objfile *);
490
491 extern void free_all_objfiles (void);
492
493 extern void objfile_relocate (struct objfile *, struct section_offsets *);
494
495 extern int have_partial_symbols (void);
496
497 extern int have_full_symbols (void);
498
499 /* This operation deletes all objfile entries that represent solibs that
500 weren't explicitly loaded by the user, via e.g., the add-symbol-file
501 command.
502 */
503 extern void objfile_purge_solibs (void);
504
505 /* Functions for dealing with the minimal symbol table, really a misc
506 address<->symbol mapping for things we don't have debug symbols for. */
507
508 extern int have_minimal_symbols (void);
509
510 extern struct obj_section *find_pc_section (CORE_ADDR pc);
511
512 extern struct obj_section *find_pc_sect_section (CORE_ADDR pc,
513 asection * section);
514
515 extern int in_plt_section (CORE_ADDR, char *);
516
517 /* Keep a registry of per-objfile data-pointers required by other GDB
518 modules. */
519
520 extern const struct objfile_data *register_objfile_data (void);
521 extern void clear_objfile_data (struct objfile *objfile);
522 extern void set_objfile_data (struct objfile *objfile,
523 const struct objfile_data *data, void *value);
524 extern void *objfile_data (struct objfile *objfile,
525 const struct objfile_data *data);
526 \f
527
528 /* Traverse all object files. ALL_OBJFILES_SAFE works even if you delete
529 the objfile during the traversal. */
530
531 #define ALL_OBJFILES(obj) \
532 for ((obj) = object_files; (obj) != NULL; (obj) = (obj)->next)
533
534 #define ALL_OBJFILES_SAFE(obj,nxt) \
535 for ((obj) = object_files; \
536 (obj) != NULL? ((nxt)=(obj)->next,1) :0; \
537 (obj) = (nxt))
538
539 /* Traverse all symtabs in one objfile. */
540
541 #define ALL_OBJFILE_SYMTABS(objfile, s) \
542 for ((s) = (objfile) -> symtabs; (s) != NULL; (s) = (s) -> next)
543
544 /* Traverse all psymtabs in one objfile. */
545
546 #define ALL_OBJFILE_PSYMTABS(objfile, p) \
547 for ((p) = (objfile) -> psymtabs; (p) != NULL; (p) = (p) -> next)
548
549 /* Traverse all minimal symbols in one objfile. */
550
551 #define ALL_OBJFILE_MSYMBOLS(objfile, m) \
552 for ((m) = (objfile) -> msymbols; DEPRECATED_SYMBOL_NAME(m) != NULL; (m)++)
553
554 /* Traverse all symtabs in all objfiles. */
555
556 #define ALL_SYMTABS(objfile, s) \
557 ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
558 ALL_OBJFILE_SYMTABS (objfile, s)
559
560 /* Traverse all symtabs in all objfiles, skipping included files
561 (which share a blockvector with their primary symtab). */
562
563 #define ALL_PRIMARY_SYMTABS(objfile, s) \
564 ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
565 ALL_OBJFILE_SYMTABS (objfile, s) \
566 if ((s)->primary)
567
568 /* Traverse all psymtabs in all objfiles. */
569
570 #define ALL_PSYMTABS(objfile, p) \
571 ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
572 ALL_OBJFILE_PSYMTABS (objfile, p)
573
574 /* Traverse all minimal symbols in all objfiles. */
575
576 #define ALL_MSYMBOLS(objfile, m) \
577 ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
578 ALL_OBJFILE_MSYMBOLS (objfile, m)
579
580 #define ALL_OBJFILE_OSECTIONS(objfile, osect) \
581 for (osect = objfile->sections; osect < objfile->sections_end; osect++)
582
583 #define ALL_OBJSECTIONS(objfile, osect) \
584 ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
585 ALL_OBJFILE_OSECTIONS (objfile, osect)
586
587 #define SECT_OFF_DATA(objfile) \
588 ((objfile->sect_index_data == -1) \
589 ? (internal_error (__FILE__, __LINE__, _("sect_index_data not initialized")), -1) \
590 : objfile->sect_index_data)
591
592 #define SECT_OFF_RODATA(objfile) \
593 ((objfile->sect_index_rodata == -1) \
594 ? (internal_error (__FILE__, __LINE__, _("sect_index_rodata not initialized")), -1) \
595 : objfile->sect_index_rodata)
596
597 #define SECT_OFF_TEXT(objfile) \
598 ((objfile->sect_index_text == -1) \
599 ? (internal_error (__FILE__, __LINE__, _("sect_index_text not initialized")), -1) \
600 : objfile->sect_index_text)
601
602 /* Sometimes the .bss section is missing from the objfile, so we don't
603 want to die here. Let the users of SECT_OFF_BSS deal with an
604 uninitialized section index. */
605 #define SECT_OFF_BSS(objfile) (objfile)->sect_index_bss
606
607 #endif /* !defined (OBJFILES_H) */