gdb/gdb_bfd.h

   1 /* Definitions for BFD wrappers used by GDB.
   2
   3    Copyright (C) 2011-2014 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 3 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, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
  19
  20 #ifndef GDB_BFD_H
  21 #define GDB_BFD_H
  22
  23 #include "registry.h"
  24
  25 DECLARE_REGISTRY (bfd);
  26
  27 /* Open a read-only (FOPEN_RB) BFD given arguments like bfd_fopen.
  28    Returns NULL on error.  On success, returns a new reference to the
  29    BFD, which must be freed with gdb_bfd_unref.  BFDs returned by this
  30    call are shared among all callers opening the same file.  If FD is
  31    not -1, then after this call it is owned by BFD.  */
  32
  33 struct bfd *gdb_bfd_open (const char *name, const char *target, int fd);
  34
  35 /* Increment the reference count of ABFD.  It is fine for ABFD to be
  36    NULL; in this case the function does nothing.  */
  37
  38 void gdb_bfd_ref (struct bfd *abfd);
  39
  40 /* Decrement the reference count of ABFD.  If this is the last
  41    reference, ABFD will be freed.  If ABFD is NULL, this function does
  42    nothing.  */
  43
  44 void gdb_bfd_unref (struct bfd *abfd);
  45
  46 /* Mark the CHILD BFD as being a member of PARENT.  Also, increment
  47    the reference count of CHILD.  Calling this function ensures that
  48    as along as CHILD remains alive, PARENT will as well.  Both CHILD
  49    and PARENT must be non-NULL.  This can be called more than once
  50    with the same arguments; but it is not allowed to call it for a
  51    single CHILD with different values for PARENT.  */
  52
  53 void gdb_bfd_mark_parent (bfd *child, bfd *parent);
  54
  55 /* Mark INCLUDEE as being included by INCLUDER.
  56    This is used to associate the life time of INCLUDEE with INCLUDER.
  57    For example, with Fission, one file can refer to debug info in another
  58    file, and internal tables we build for the main file (INCLUDER) may refer
  59    to data contained in INCLUDEE.  Therefore we want to keep INCLUDEE around
  60    at least as long as INCLUDER exists.
  61
  62    Note that this is different than gdb_bfd_mark_parent because in our case
  63    lifetime tracking is based on the "parent" whereas in gdb_bfd_mark_parent
  64    lifetime tracking is based on the "child".  Plus in our case INCLUDEE could
  65    have multiple different "parents".  */
  66
  67 void gdb_bfd_record_inclusion (bfd *includer, bfd *includee);
  68
  69 /* Try to read or map the contents of the section SECT.  If
  70    successful, the section data is returned and *SIZE is set to the
  71    size of the section data; this may not be the same as the size
  72    according to bfd_get_section_size if the section was compressed.
  73    The returned section data is associated with the BFD and will be
  74    destroyed when the BFD is destroyed.  There is no other way to free
  75    it; for temporary uses of section data, see
  76    bfd_malloc_and_get_section.  SECT may not have relocations.  This
  77    function will throw on error.  */
  78
  79 const gdb_byte *gdb_bfd_map_section (asection *section, bfd_size_type *size);
  80
  81 /* Compute the CRC for ABFD.  The CRC is used to find and verify
  82    separate debug files.  When successful, this fills in *CRC_OUT and
  83    returns 1.  Otherwise, this issues a warning and returns 0.  */
  84
  85 int gdb_bfd_crc (struct bfd *abfd, unsigned long *crc_out);
  86
  87 \f
  88
  89 /* A wrapper for bfd_fopen that initializes the gdb-specific reference
  90    count.  */
  91
  92 bfd *gdb_bfd_fopen (const char *, const char *, const char *, int);
  93
  94 /* A wrapper for bfd_openr that initializes the gdb-specific reference
  95    count.  */
  96
  97 bfd *gdb_bfd_openr (const char *, const char *);
  98
  99 /* A wrapper for bfd_openw that initializes the gdb-specific reference
 100    count.  */
 101
 102 bfd *gdb_bfd_openw (const char *, const char *);
 103
 104 /* A wrapper for bfd_openr_iovec that initializes the gdb-specific
 105    reference count.  */
 106
 107 bfd *gdb_bfd_openr_iovec (const char *filename, const char *target,
 108                           void *(*open_func) (struct bfd *nbfd,
 109                                               void *open_closure),
 110                           void *open_closure,
 111                           file_ptr (*pread_func) (struct bfd *nbfd,
 112                                                   void *stream,
 113                                                   void *buf,
 114                                                   file_ptr nbytes,
 115                                                   file_ptr offset),
 116                           int (*close_func) (struct bfd *nbfd,
 117                                              void *stream),
 118                           int (*stat_func) (struct bfd *abfd,
 119                                             void *stream,
 120                                             struct stat *sb));
 121
 122 /* A wrapper for bfd_openr_next_archived_file that initializes the
 123    gdb-specific reference count.  */
 124
 125 bfd *gdb_bfd_openr_next_archived_file (bfd *archive, bfd *previous);
 126
 127 /* A wrapper for bfd_fdopenr that initializes the gdb-specific
 128    reference count.  */
 129
 130 bfd *gdb_bfd_fdopenr (const char *filename, const char *target, int fd);
 131
 132 \f
 133
 134 /* Return the index of the BFD section SECTION.  Ordinarily this is
 135    just the section's index, but for some special sections, like
 136    bfd_com_section_ptr, it will be a synthesized value.  */
 137
 138 int gdb_bfd_section_index (bfd *abfd, asection *section);
 139
 140
 141 /* Like bfd_count_sections, but include any possible global sections,
 142    like bfd_com_section_ptr.  */
 143
 144 int gdb_bfd_count_sections (bfd *abfd);
 145
 146 /* Return true if any section requires relocations, false
 147    otherwise.  */
 148
 149 int gdb_bfd_requires_relocations (bfd *abfd);
 150
 151 #endif /* GDB_BFD_H */