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1 /* Definitions for symbol file management in GDB.
2 Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 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 2 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, write to the Free Software
18 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
19
20 #if !defined (OBJFILES_H)
21 #define OBJFILES_H
22
23 /* This structure maintains information on a per-objfile basis about the
24 "entry point" of the objfile, and the scope within which the entry point
25 exists. It is possible that gdb will see more than one objfile that is
26 executable, each with its own entry point.
27
28 For example, for dynamically linked executables in SVR4, the dynamic linker
29 code is contained within the shared C library, which is actually executable
30 and is run by the kernel first when an exec is done of a user executable
31 that is dynamically linked. The dynamic linker within the shared C library
32 then maps in the various program segments in the user executable and jumps
33 to the user executable's recorded entry point, as if the call had been made
34 directly by the kernel.
35
36 The traditional gdb method of using this info is to use the recorded entry
37 point to set the variables entry_file_lowpc and entry_file_highpc from
38 the debugging information, where these values are the starting address
39 (inclusive) and ending address (exclusive) of the instruction space in the
40 executable which correspond to the "startup file", I.E. crt0.o in most
41 cases. This file is assumed to be a startup file and frames with pc's
42 inside it are treated as nonexistent. Setting these variables is necessary
43 so that backtraces do not fly off the bottom of the stack.
44
45 Gdb also supports an alternate method to avoid running off the bottom
46 of the stack.
47
48 There are two frames that are "special", the frame for the function
49 containing the process entry point, since it has no predecessor frame,
50 and the frame for the function containing the user code entry point
51 (the main() function), since all the predecessor frames are for the
52 process startup code. Since we have no guarantee that the linked
53 in startup modules have any debugging information that gdb can use,
54 we need to avoid following frame pointers back into frames that might
55 have been built in the startup code, as we might get hopelessly
56 confused. However, we almost always have debugging information
57 available for main().
58
59 These variables are used to save the range of PC values which are valid
60 within the main() function and within the function containing the process
61 entry point. If we always consider the frame for main() as the outermost
62 frame when debugging user code, and the frame for the process entry
63 point function as the outermost frame when debugging startup code, then
64 all we have to do is have FRAME_CHAIN_VALID return false whenever a
65 frame's current PC is within the range specified by these variables.
66 In essence, we set "ceilings" in the frame chain beyond which we will
67 not proceed when following the frame chain back up the stack.
68
69 A nice side effect is that we can still debug startup code without
70 running off the end of the frame chain, assuming that we have usable
71 debugging information in the startup modules, and if we choose to not
72 use the block at main, or can't find it for some reason, everything
73 still works as before. And if we have no startup code debugging
74 information but we do have usable information for main(), backtraces
75 from user code don't go wandering off into the startup code.
76
77 To use this method, define your FRAME_CHAIN_VALID macro like:
78
79 #define FRAME_CHAIN_VALID(chain, thisframe) \
80 (chain != 0 \
81 && !(inside_main_func ((thisframe)->pc)) \
82 && !(inside_entry_func ((thisframe)->pc)))
83
84 and add initializations of the four scope controlling variables inside
85 the object file / debugging information processing modules. */
86
87 struct entry_info
88 {
89
90 /* The value we should use for this objects entry point.
91 The illegal/unknown value needs to be something other than 0, ~0
92 for instance, which is much less likely than 0. */
93
94 CORE_ADDR entry_point;
95
96 #define INVALID_ENTRY_POINT (~0) /* ~0 will not be in any file, we hope. */
97
98 /* Start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) of function containing the
99 entry point. */
100
101 CORE_ADDR entry_func_lowpc;
102 CORE_ADDR entry_func_highpc;
103
104 /* Start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) of object file containing the
105 entry point. */
106
107 CORE_ADDR entry_file_lowpc;
108 CORE_ADDR entry_file_highpc;
109
110 /* Start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) of the user code main() function. */
111
112 CORE_ADDR main_func_lowpc;
113 CORE_ADDR main_func_highpc;
114
115 /* Use these values when any of the above ranges is invalid. */
116
117 /* We use these values because it guarantees that there is no number that is
118 both >= LOWPC && < HIGHPC. It is also highly unlikely that 3 is a valid
119 module or function start address (as opposed to 0). */
120
121 #define INVALID_ENTRY_LOWPC (3)
122 #define INVALID_ENTRY_HIGHPC (1)
123
124 };
125
126 /* Sections in an objfile.
127
128 It is strange that we have both this notion of "sections"
129 and the one used by section_offsets. Section as used
130 here, (currently at least) means a BFD section, and the sections
131 are set up from the BFD sections in allocate_objfile.
132
133 The sections in section_offsets have their meaning determined by
134 the symbol format, and they are set up by the sym_offsets function
135 for that symbol file format.
136
137 I'm not sure this could or should be changed, however. */
138
139 struct obj_section {
140 CORE_ADDR addr; /* lowest address in section */
141 CORE_ADDR endaddr; /* 1+highest address in section */
142
143 /* This field is being used for nefarious purposes by syms_from_objfile.
144 It is said to be redundant with section_offsets; it's not really being
145 used that way, however, it's some sort of hack I don't understand
146 and am not going to try to eliminate (yet, anyway). FIXME.
147
148 It was documented as "offset between (end)addr and actual memory
149 addresses", but that's not true; addr & endaddr are actual memory
150 addresses. */
151 CORE_ADDR offset;
152
153 sec_ptr the_bfd_section; /* BFD section pointer */
154
155 /* Objfile this section is part of. */
156 struct objfile *objfile;
157
158 /* True if this "overlay section" is mapped into an "overlay region". */
159 int ovly_mapped;
160 };
161
162 /* An import entry contains information about a symbol that
163 is used in this objfile but not defined in it, and so needs
164 to be imported from some other objfile */
165 /* Currently we just store the name; no attributes. 1997-08-05 */
166 typedef char * ImportEntry;
167
168
169 /* An export entry contains information about a symbol that
170 is defined in this objfile and available for use in other
171 objfiles */
172 typedef struct {
173 char * name; /* name of exported symbol */
174 int address; /* offset subject to relocation */
175 /* Currently no other attributes 1997-08-05 */
176 } ExportEntry;
177
178
179
180 /* The "objstats" structure provides a place for gdb to record some
181 interesting information about its internal state at runtime, on a
182 per objfile basis, such as information about the number of symbols
183 read, size of string table (if any), etc. */
184
185 #if MAINTENANCE_CMDS
186
187 struct objstats {
188 int n_minsyms; /* Number of minimal symbols read */
189 int n_psyms; /* Number of partial symbols read */
190 int n_syms; /* Number of full symbols read */
191 int n_stabs; /* Number of ".stabs" read (if applicable) */
192 int n_types; /* Number of types */
193 int sz_strtab; /* Size of stringtable, (if applicable) */
194 };
195
196 #define OBJSTAT(objfile, expr) (objfile -> stats.expr)
197 #define OBJSTATS struct objstats stats
198 extern void print_objfile_statistics PARAMS ((void));
199 extern void print_symbol_bcache_statistics PARAMS ((void));
200
201 #else
202
203 #define OBJSTAT(objfile, expr) /* Nothing */
204 #define OBJSTATS /* Nothing */
205
206 #endif /* MAINTENANCE_CMDS */
207
208 /* Master structure for keeping track of each file from which
209 gdb reads symbols. There are several ways these get allocated: 1.
210 The main symbol file, symfile_objfile, set by the symbol-file command,
211 2. Additional symbol files added by the add-symbol-file command,
212 3. Shared library objfiles, added by ADD_SOLIB, 4. symbol files
213 for modules that were loaded when GDB attached to a remote system
214 (see remote-vx.c). */
215
216 struct objfile
217 {
218
219 /* All struct objfile's are chained together by their next pointers.
220 The global variable "object_files" points to the first link in this
221 chain.
222
223 FIXME: There is a problem here if the objfile is reusable, and if
224 multiple users are to be supported. The problem is that the objfile
225 list is linked through a member of the objfile struct itself, which
226 is only valid for one gdb process. The list implementation needs to
227 be changed to something like:
228
229 struct list {struct list *next; struct objfile *objfile};
230
231 where the list structure is completely maintained separately within
232 each gdb process. */
233
234 struct objfile *next;
235
236 /* The object file's name. Malloc'd; free it if you free this struct. */
237
238 char *name;
239
240 /* TRUE if this objfile was created because the user explicitly caused
241 it (e.g., used the add-symbol-file command).
242 */
243 int user_loaded;
244
245 /* TRUE if this objfile was explicitly created to represent a solib.
246
247 (If FALSE, the objfile may actually be a solib. This can happen if
248 the user created the objfile by using the add-symbol-file command.
249 GDB doesn't in that situation actually check whether the file is a
250 solib. Rather, the target's implementation of the solib interface
251 is responsible for setting this flag when noticing solibs used by
252 an inferior.)
253 */
254 int is_solib;
255
256 /* Some flag bits for this objfile. */
257
258 unsigned short flags;
259
260 /* Each objfile points to a linked list of symtabs derived from this file,
261 one symtab structure for each compilation unit (source file). Each link
262 in the symtab list contains a backpointer to this objfile. */
263
264 struct symtab *symtabs;
265
266 /* Each objfile points to a linked list of partial symtabs derived from
267 this file, one partial symtab structure for each compilation unit
268 (source file). */
269
270 struct partial_symtab *psymtabs;
271
272 /* List of freed partial symtabs, available for re-use */
273
274 struct partial_symtab *free_psymtabs;
275
276 /* The object file's BFD. Can be null if the objfile contains only
277 minimal symbols, e.g. the run time common symbols for SunOS4. */
278
279 bfd *obfd;
280
281 /* The modification timestamp of the object file, as of the last time
282 we read its symbols. */
283
284 long mtime;
285
286 /* Obstacks to hold objects that should be freed when we load a new symbol
287 table from this object file. */
288
289 struct obstack psymbol_obstack; /* Partial symbols */
290 struct obstack symbol_obstack; /* Full symbols */
291 struct obstack type_obstack; /* Types */
292
293 /* A byte cache where we can stash arbitrary "chunks" of bytes that
294 will not change. */
295
296 struct bcache psymbol_cache; /* Byte cache for partial syms */
297
298 /* Vectors of all partial symbols read in from file. The actual data
299 is stored in the psymbol_obstack. */
300
301 struct psymbol_allocation_list global_psymbols;
302 struct psymbol_allocation_list static_psymbols;
303
304 /* Each file contains a pointer to an array of minimal symbols for all
305 global symbols that are defined within the file. The array is terminated
306 by a "null symbol", one that has a NULL pointer for the name and a zero
307 value for the address. This makes it easy to walk through the array
308 when passed a pointer to somewhere in the middle of it. There is also
309 a count of the number of symbols, which does not include the terminating
310 null symbol. The array itself, as well as all the data that it points
311 to, should be allocated on the symbol_obstack for this file. */
312
313 struct minimal_symbol *msymbols;
314 int minimal_symbol_count;
315
316 /* For object file formats which don't specify fundamental types, gdb
317 can create such types. For now, it maintains a vector of pointers
318 to these internally created fundamental types on a per objfile basis,
319 however it really should ultimately keep them on a per-compilation-unit
320 basis, to account for linkage-units that consist of a number of
321 compilation units that may have different fundamental types, such as
322 linking C modules with ADA modules, or linking C modules that are
323 compiled with 32-bit ints with C modules that are compiled with 64-bit
324 ints (not inherently evil with a smarter linker). */
325
326 struct type **fundamental_types;
327
328 /* The mmalloc() malloc-descriptor for this objfile if we are using
329 the memory mapped malloc() package to manage storage for this objfile's
330 data. NULL if we are not. */
331
332 PTR md;
333
334 /* The file descriptor that was used to obtain the mmalloc descriptor
335 for this objfile. If we call mmalloc_detach with the malloc descriptor
336 we should then close this file descriptor. */
337
338 int mmfd;
339
340 /* Structure which keeps track of functions that manipulate objfile's
341 of the same type as this objfile. I.E. the function to read partial
342 symbols for example. Note that this structure is in statically
343 allocated memory, and is shared by all objfiles that use the
344 object module reader of this type. */
345
346 struct sym_fns *sf;
347
348 /* The per-objfile information about the entry point, the scope (file/func)
349 containing the entry point, and the scope of the user's main() func. */
350
351 struct entry_info ei;
352
353 /* Information about stabs. Will be filled in with a dbx_symfile_info
354 struct by those readers that need it. */
355
356 struct dbx_symfile_info *sym_stab_info;
357
358 /* Hook for information for use by the symbol reader (currently used
359 for information shared by sym_init and sym_read). It is
360 typically a pointer to malloc'd memory. The symbol reader's finish
361 function is responsible for freeing the memory thusly allocated. */
362
363 PTR sym_private;
364
365 /* Hook for target-architecture-specific information. This must
366 point to memory allocated on one of the obstacks in this objfile,
367 so that it gets freed automatically when reading a new object
368 file. */
369
370 PTR obj_private;
371
372 /* Set of relocation offsets to apply to each section.
373 Currently on the psymbol_obstack (which makes no sense, but I'm
374 not sure it's harming anything).
375
376 These offsets indicate that all symbols (including partial and
377 minimal symbols) which have been read have been relocated by this
378 much. Symbols which are yet to be read need to be relocated by
379 it. */
380
381 struct section_offsets *section_offsets;
382 int num_sections;
383
384 /* set of section begin and end addresses used to map pc addresses
385 into sections. Currently on the psymbol_obstack (which makes no
386 sense, but I'm not sure it's harming anything). */
387
388 struct obj_section
389 *sections,
390 *sections_end;
391
392 /* two auxiliary fields, used to hold the fp of separate symbol files */
393 FILE *auxf1, *auxf2;
394
395 /* Imported symbols */
396 ImportEntry * import_list;
397 int import_list_size;
398
399 /* Exported symbols */
400 ExportEntry * export_list;
401 int export_list_size;
402
403 /* Place to stash various statistics about this objfile */
404 OBJSTATS;
405 };
406
407 /* Defines for the objfile flag word. */
408
409 /* Gdb can arrange to allocate storage for all objects related to a
410 particular objfile in a designated section of its address space,
411 managed at a low level by mmap() and using a special version of
412 malloc that handles malloc/free/realloc on top of the mmap() interface.
413 This allows the "internal gdb state" for a particular objfile to be
414 dumped to a gdb state file and subsequently reloaded at a later time. */
415
416 #define OBJF_MAPPED (1 << 0) /* Objfile data is mmap'd */
417
418 /* When using mapped/remapped predigested gdb symbol information, we need
419 a flag that indicates that we have previously done an initial symbol
420 table read from this particular objfile. We can't just look for the
421 absence of any of the three symbol tables (msymbols, psymtab, symtab)
422 because if the file has no symbols for example, none of these will
423 exist. */
424
425 #define OBJF_SYMS (1 << 1) /* Have tried to read symbols */
426
427 /* When an object file has its functions reordered (currently Irix-5.2
428 shared libraries exhibit this behaviour), we will need an expensive
429 algorithm to locate a partial symtab or symtab via an address.
430 To avoid this penalty for normal object files, we use this flag,
431 whose setting is determined upon symbol table read in. */
432
433 #define OBJF_REORDERED (1 << 2) /* Functions are reordered */
434
435 /* Distinguish between an objfile for a shared library and a
436 "vanilla" objfile. */
437
438 #define OBJF_SHARED (1 << 3) /* From a shared library */
439
440 /* The object file that the main symbol table was loaded from (e.g. the
441 argument to the "symbol-file" or "file" command). */
442
443 extern struct objfile *symfile_objfile;
444
445 /* The object file that contains the runtime common minimal symbols
446 for SunOS4. Note that this objfile has no associated BFD. */
447
448 extern struct objfile *rt_common_objfile;
449
450 /* When we need to allocate a new type, we need to know which type_obstack
451 to allocate the type on, since there is one for each objfile. The places
452 where types are allocated are deeply buried in function call hierarchies
453 which know nothing about objfiles, so rather than trying to pass a
454 particular objfile down to them, we just do an end run around them and
455 set current_objfile to be whatever objfile we expect to be using at the
456 time types are being allocated. For instance, when we start reading
457 symbols for a particular objfile, we set current_objfile to point to that
458 objfile, and when we are done, we set it back to NULL, to ensure that we
459 never put a type someplace other than where we are expecting to put it.
460 FIXME: Maybe we should review the entire type handling system and
461 see if there is a better way to avoid this problem. */
462
463 extern struct objfile *current_objfile;
464
465 /* All known objfiles are kept in a linked list. This points to the
466 root of this list. */
467
468 extern struct objfile *object_files;
469
470 /* Declarations for functions defined in objfiles.c */
471
472 extern struct objfile *
473 allocate_objfile PARAMS ((bfd *, int, int, int));
474
475 extern int
476 build_objfile_section_table PARAMS ((struct objfile *));
477
478 extern void objfile_to_front PARAMS ((struct objfile *));
479
480 extern void
481 unlink_objfile PARAMS ((struct objfile *));
482
483 extern void
484 free_objfile PARAMS ((struct objfile *));
485
486 extern void
487 free_all_objfiles PARAMS ((void));
488
489 extern void
490 objfile_relocate PARAMS ((struct objfile *, struct section_offsets *));
491
492 extern int
493 have_partial_symbols PARAMS ((void));
494
495 extern int
496 have_full_symbols PARAMS ((void));
497
498 /* This operation deletes all objfile entries that represent solibs that
499 weren't explicitly loaded by the user, via e.g., the add-symbol-file
500 command.
501 */
502 extern void
503 objfile_purge_solibs PARAMS ((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
509 have_minimal_symbols PARAMS ((void));
510
511 extern struct obj_section *
512 find_pc_section PARAMS((CORE_ADDR pc));
513
514 extern struct obj_section *
515 find_pc_sect_section PARAMS((CORE_ADDR pc, asection *section));
516
517 extern int
518 in_plt_section PARAMS ((CORE_ADDR, char *));
519
520 /* Traverse all object files. ALL_OBJFILES_SAFE works even if you delete
521 the objfile during the traversal. */
522
523 #define ALL_OBJFILES(obj) \
524 for ((obj) = object_files; (obj) != NULL; (obj) = (obj)->next)
525
526 #define ALL_OBJFILES_SAFE(obj,nxt) \
527 for ((obj) = object_files; \
528 (obj) != NULL? ((nxt)=(obj)->next,1) :0; \
529 (obj) = (nxt))
530
531 /* Traverse all symtabs in one objfile. */
532
533 #define ALL_OBJFILE_SYMTABS(objfile, s) \
534 for ((s) = (objfile) -> symtabs; (s) != NULL; (s) = (s) -> next)
535
536 /* Traverse all psymtabs in one objfile. */
537
538 #define ALL_OBJFILE_PSYMTABS(objfile, p) \
539 for ((p) = (objfile) -> psymtabs; (p) != NULL; (p) = (p) -> next)
540
541 /* Traverse all minimal symbols in one objfile. */
542
543 #define ALL_OBJFILE_MSYMBOLS(objfile, m) \
544 for ((m) = (objfile) -> msymbols; SYMBOL_NAME(m) != NULL; (m)++)
545
546 /* Traverse all symtabs in all objfiles. */
547
548 #define ALL_SYMTABS(objfile, s) \
549 ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
550 ALL_OBJFILE_SYMTABS (objfile, s)
551
552 /* Traverse all psymtabs in all objfiles. */
553
554 #define ALL_PSYMTABS(objfile, p) \
555 ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
556 ALL_OBJFILE_PSYMTABS (objfile, p)
557
558 /* Traverse all minimal symbols in all objfiles. */
559
560 #define ALL_MSYMBOLS(objfile, m) \
561 ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
562 if ((objfile)->msymbols) \
563 ALL_OBJFILE_MSYMBOLS (objfile, m)
564
565 #define ALL_OBJFILE_OSECTIONS(objfile, osect) \
566 for (osect = objfile->sections; osect < objfile->sections_end; osect++)
567
568 #define ALL_OBJSECTIONS(objfile, osect) \
569 ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
570 ALL_OBJFILE_OSECTIONS (objfile, osect)
571
572 #endif /* !defined (OBJFILES_H) */