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2003-01-16 Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
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1 /* Code dealing with dummy stack frames, for GDB, the GNU debugger.
2
3 Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4
5 This file is part of GDB.
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 2 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, write to the Free Software
19 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
20 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
21
22 #if !defined (DUMMY_FRAME_H)
23 #define DUMMY_FRAME_H 1
24
25 struct frame_info;
26 struct regcache;
27 struct frame_id;
28
29 /* GENERIC DUMMY FRAMES
30
31 The following code serves to maintain the dummy stack frames for
32 inferior function calls (ie. when gdb calls into the inferior via
33 call_function_by_hand). This code saves the machine state before
34 the call in host memory, so we must maintain an independent stack
35 and keep it consistant etc. I am attempting to make this code
36 generic enough to be used by many targets.
37
38 The cheapest and most generic way to do CALL_DUMMY on a new target
39 is probably to define CALL_DUMMY to be empty, CALL_DUMMY_LENGTH to
40 zero, and CALL_DUMMY_LOCATION to AT_ENTRY. Then you must remember
41 to define PUSH_RETURN_ADDRESS, because no call instruction will be
42 being executed by the target. Also FRAME_CHAIN_VALID as
43 generic_{file,func}_frame_chain_valid and FIX_CALL_DUMMY as
44 generic_fix_call_dummy. */
45
46 /* Assuming that FRAME is a dummy, return a register value for the
47 previous frame. */
48
49 extern void dummy_frame_register_unwind (struct frame_info *frame,
50 void **unwind_cache,
51 int regnum,
52 int *optimized,
53 enum lval_type *lvalp,
54 CORE_ADDR *addrp,
55 int *realnump,
56 void *valuep);
57
58 /* Assuming that FRAME is a dummy, return the resume address for the
59 previous frame. */
60
61 extern CORE_ADDR dummy_frame_pc_unwind (struct frame_info *frame,
62 void **unwind_cache);
63
64 /* Assuming that FRAME is a dummy, return the ID of the calling frame
65 (the frame that the dummy has the saved state of). */
66
67 extern void dummy_frame_id_unwind (struct frame_info *frame,
68 void **unwind_cache,
69 struct frame_id *id);
70
71 /* Does the PC fall in a dummy frame?
72
73 This function is used by "frame.c" when creating a new `struct
74 frame_info'.
75
76 Note that there is also very similar code in breakpoint.c (where
77 the bpstat stop reason is computed). It is looking for a PC
78 falling on a dummy_frame breakpoint. Perhaphs this, and that code
79 should be combined?
80
81 Architecture dependant code, that has access to a frame, should not
82 use this function. Instead (get_frame_type() == DUMMY_FRAME)
83 should be used.
84
85 Hmm, but what about threads? When the dummy-frame code tries to
86 relocate a dummy frame's saved registers it definitly needs to
87 differentiate between threads (otherwize it will do things like
88 clean-up the wrong threads frames). However, when just trying to
89 identify a dummy-frame that shouldn't matter. The wost that can
90 happen is that a thread is marked as sitting in a dummy frame when,
91 in reality, its corrupted its stack, to the point that a PC is
92 pointing into a dummy frame. */
93
94 extern int pc_in_dummy_frame (CORE_ADDR pc);
95
96 /* Return the regcache that belongs to the dummy-frame identifed by PC
97 and FP, or NULL if no such frame exists. */
98 /* FIXME: cagney/2002-11-08: The function only exists because of
99 deprecated_generic_get_saved_register. Eliminate that function and
100 this, to, can go. */
101
102 extern struct regcache *generic_find_dummy_frame (CORE_ADDR pc,
103 CORE_ADDR fp);
104 #endif /* !defined (DUMMY_FRAME_H) */