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1 /* Definitions for symbol file management in GDB.
2 Copyright (C) 1992 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., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, 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 it's 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 (or top, depending
44 upon your stack orientation).
45
46 Gdb also supports an alternate method to avoid running off the top/bottom
47 of the stack.
48
49 There are two frames that are "special", the frame for the function
50 containing the process entry point, since it has no predecessor frame,
51 and the frame for the function containing the user code entry point
52 (the main() function), since all the predecessor frames are for the
53 process startup code. Since we have no guarantee that the linked
54 in startup modules have any debugging information that gdb can use,
55 we need to avoid following frame pointers back into frames that might
56 have been built in the startup code, as we might get hopelessly
57 confused. However, we almost always have debugging information
58 available for main().
59
60 These variables are used to save the range of PC values which are valid
61 within the main() function and within the function containing the process
62 entry point. If we always consider the frame for main() as the outermost
63 frame when debugging user code, and the frame for the process entry
64 point function as the outermost frame when debugging startup code, then
65 all we have to do is have FRAME_CHAIN_VALID return false whenever a
66 frame's current PC is within the range specified by these variables.
67 In essence, we set "ceilings" in the frame chain beyond which we will
68 not proceed when following the frame chain back up the stack.
69
70 A nice side effect is that we can still debug startup code without
71 running off the end of the frame chain, assuming that we have usable
72 debugging information in the startup modules, and if we choose to not
73 use the block at main, or can't find it for some reason, everything
74 still works as before. And if we have no startup code debugging
75 information but we do have usable information for main(), backtraces
76 from user code don't go wandering off into the startup code.
77
78 To use this method, define your FRAME_CHAIN_VALID macro like:
79
80 #define FRAME_CHAIN_VALID(chain, thisframe) \
81 (chain != 0 \
82 && !(inside_main_func ((thisframe)->pc)) \
83 && !(inside_entry_func ((thisframe)->pc)))
84
85 and add initializations of the four scope controlling variables inside
86 the object file / debugging information processing modules. */
87
88 struct entry_info
89 {
90
91 /* The value we should use for this objects entry point.
92 The illegal/unknown value needs to be something other than 0, ~0
93 for instance, which is much less likely than 0. */
94
95 CORE_ADDR entry_point;
96
97 /* Start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) of function containing the
98 entry point. */
99
100 CORE_ADDR entry_func_lowpc;
101 CORE_ADDR entry_func_highpc;
102
103 /* Start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) of object file containing the
104 entry point. */
105
106 CORE_ADDR entry_file_lowpc;
107 CORE_ADDR entry_file_highpc;
108
109 /* Start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) of the user code main() function. */
110
111 CORE_ADDR main_func_lowpc;
112 CORE_ADDR main_func_highpc;
113
114 };
115
116
117 /* This structure is used to map pc values into sections. Note that
118 offset is currently target independent and is redundant to the
119 section_offsets field in the objfile struct. FIXME. */
120
121 struct obj_section {
122 CORE_ADDR addr; /* lowest address in section */
123 CORE_ADDR endaddr; /* 1+highest address in section */
124 CORE_ADDR offset; /* offset between (end)addr and actual
125 memory addresses. */
126 sec_ptr sec_ptr; /* BFD section pointer */
127 };
128
129 /* Master structure for keeping track of each input file from which
130 gdb reads symbols. One of these is allocated for each such file we
131 access, e.g. the exec_file, symbol_file, and any shared library object
132 files. */
133
134 struct objfile
135 {
136
137 /* All struct objfile's are chained together by their next pointers.
138 The global variable "object_files" points to the first link in this
139 chain.
140
141 FIXME: There is a problem here if the objfile is reusable, and if
142 multiple users are to be supported. The problem is that the objfile
143 list is linked through a member of the objfile struct itself, which
144 is only valid for one gdb process. The list implementation needs to
145 be changed to something like:
146
147 struct list {struct list *next; struct objfile *objfile};
148
149 where the list structure is completely maintained separately within
150 each gdb process. */
151
152 struct objfile *next;
153
154 /* The object file's name. Malloc'd; free it if you free this struct. */
155
156 char *name;
157
158 /* Some flag bits for this objfile. */
159
160 unsigned short flags;
161
162 /* Each objfile points to a linked list of symtabs derived from this file,
163 one symtab structure for each compilation unit (source file). Each link
164 in the symtab list contains a backpointer to this objfile. */
165
166 struct symtab *symtabs;
167
168 /* Each objfile points to a linked list of partial symtabs derived from
169 this file, one partial symtab structure for each compilation unit
170 (source file). */
171
172 struct partial_symtab *psymtabs;
173
174 /* List of freed partial symtabs, available for re-use */
175
176 struct partial_symtab *free_psymtabs;
177
178 /* The object file's BFD. Can be null, in which case bfd_open (name) and
179 put the result here. */
180
181 bfd *obfd;
182
183 /* The modification timestamp of the object file, as of the last time
184 we read its symbols. */
185
186 long mtime;
187
188 /* Obstacks to hold objects that should be freed when we load a new symbol
189 table from this object file. */
190
191 struct obstack psymbol_obstack; /* Partial symbols */
192 struct obstack symbol_obstack; /* Full symbols */
193 struct obstack type_obstack; /* Types */
194
195 /* Vectors of all partial symbols read in from file. The actual data
196 is stored in the psymbol_obstack. */
197
198 struct psymbol_allocation_list global_psymbols;
199 struct psymbol_allocation_list static_psymbols;
200
201 /* Each file contains a pointer to an array of minimal symbols for all
202 global symbols that are defined within the file. The array is terminated
203 by a "null symbol", one that has a NULL pointer for the name and a zero
204 value for the address. This makes it easy to walk through the array
205 when passed a pointer to somewhere in the middle of it. There is also
206 a count of the number of symbols, which does include the terminating
207 null symbol. The array itself, as well as all the data that it points
208 to, should be allocated on the symbol_obstack for this file. */
209
210 struct minimal_symbol *msymbols;
211 int minimal_symbol_count;
212
213 /* For object file formats which don't specify fundamental types, gdb
214 can create such types. For now, it maintains a vector of pointers
215 to these internally created fundamental types on a per objfile basis,
216 however it really should ultimately keep them on a per-compilation-unit
217 basis, to account for linkage-units that consist of a number of
218 compilation units that may have different fundamental types, such as
219 linking C modules with ADA modules, or linking C modules that are
220 compiled with 32-bit ints with C modules that are compiled with 64-bit
221 ints (not inherently evil with a smarter linker). */
222
223 struct type **fundamental_types;
224
225 /* The mmalloc() malloc-descriptor for this objfile if we are using
226 the memory mapped malloc() package to manage storage for this objfile's
227 data. NULL if we are not. */
228
229 PTR md;
230
231 /* The file descriptor that was used to obtain the mmalloc descriptor
232 for this objfile. If we call mmalloc_detach with the malloc descriptor
233 we should then close this file descriptor. */
234
235 int mmfd;
236
237 /* Structure which keeps track of functions that manipulate objfile's
238 of the same type as this objfile. I.E. the function to read partial
239 symbols for example. Note that this structure is in statically
240 allocated memory, and is shared by all objfiles that use the
241 object module reader of this type. */
242
243 struct sym_fns *sf;
244
245 /* The per-objfile information about the entry point, the scope (file/func)
246 containing the entry point, and the scope of the user's main() func. */
247
248 struct entry_info ei;
249
250 /* Hook for information which is shared by sym_init and sym_read for
251 this objfile. It is typically a pointer to malloc'd memory. */
252
253 PTR sym_private;
254
255 /* Hook for other info specific to this objfile. This must point to
256 memory allocated on one of the obstacks in this objfile, so that it
257 gets freed automatically when reading a new object file. */
258
259 PTR obj_private;
260
261 /* Set of relocation offsets to apply to each section.
262 Currently on the psymbol_obstack (which makes no sense, but I'm
263 not sure it's harming anything).
264
265 These offsets indicate that all symbols (including partial and
266 minimal symbols) which have been read have been relocated by this
267 much. Symbols which are yet to be read need to be relocated by
268 it. */
269
270 struct section_offsets *section_offsets;
271 int num_sections;
272
273 /* set of section begin and end addresses used to map pc addresses
274 into sections. Currently on the psymbol_obstack (which makes no
275 sense, but I'm not sure it's harming anything). */
276
277 struct obj_section
278 *sections,
279 *sections_end;
280 };
281
282 /* Defines for the objfile flag word. */
283
284 /* Gdb can arrange to allocate storage for all objects related to a
285 particular objfile in a designated section of it's address space,
286 managed at a low level by mmap() and using a special version of
287 malloc that handles malloc/free/realloc on top of the mmap() interface.
288 This allows the "internal gdb state" for a particular objfile to be
289 dumped to a gdb state file and subsequently reloaded at a later time. */
290
291 #define OBJF_MAPPED (1 << 0) /* Objfile data is mmap'd */
292
293 /* When using mapped/remapped predigested gdb symbol information, we need
294 a flag that indicates that we have previously done an initial symbol
295 table read from this particular objfile. We can't just look for the
296 absence of any of the three symbol tables (msymbols, psymtab, symtab)
297 because if the file has no symbols for example, none of these will
298 exist. */
299
300 #define OBJF_SYMS (1 << 1) /* Have tried to read symbols */
301
302 /* The object file that the main symbol table was loaded from (e.g. the
303 argument to the "symbol-file" or "file" command). */
304
305 extern struct objfile *symfile_objfile;
306
307 /* When we need to allocate a new type, we need to know which type_obstack
308 to allocate the type on, since there is one for each objfile. The places
309 where types are allocated are deeply buried in function call hierarchies
310 which know nothing about objfiles, so rather than trying to pass a
311 particular objfile down to them, we just do an end run around them and
312 set current_objfile to be whatever objfile we expect to be using at the
313 time types are being allocated. For instance, when we start reading
314 symbols for a particular objfile, we set current_objfile to point to that
315 objfile, and when we are done, we set it back to NULL, to ensure that we
316 never put a type someplace other than where we are expecting to put it.
317 FIXME: Maybe we should review the entire type handling system and
318 see if there is a better way to avoid this problem. */
319
320 extern struct objfile *current_objfile;
321
322 /* All known objfiles are kept in a linked list. This points to the
323 root of this list. */
324
325 extern struct objfile *object_files;
326
327 /* Declarations for functions defined in objfiles.c */
328
329 extern struct objfile *
330 allocate_objfile PARAMS ((bfd *, int));
331
332 extern void
333 unlink_objfile PARAMS ((struct objfile *));
334
335 extern void
336 free_objfile PARAMS ((struct objfile *));
337
338 extern void
339 free_all_objfiles PARAMS ((void));
340
341 extern void
342 objfile_relocate PARAMS ((struct objfile *, struct section_offsets *));
343
344 extern int
345 have_partial_symbols PARAMS ((void));
346
347 extern int
348 have_full_symbols PARAMS ((void));
349
350 /* Functions for dealing with the minimal symbol table, really a misc
351 address<->symbol mapping for things we don't have debug symbols for. */
352
353 extern int
354 have_minimal_symbols PARAMS ((void));
355
356 extern sec_ptr
357 find_pc_section PARAMS((CORE_ADDR pc));
358
359 /* Traverse all object files. ALL_OBJFILES_SAFE works even if you delete
360 the objfile during the traversal. */
361
362 #define ALL_OBJFILES(obj) \
363 for ((obj) = object_files; (obj) != NULL; (obj) = (obj)->next)
364
365 #define ALL_OBJFILES_SAFE(obj,nxt) \
366 for ((obj) = object_files; \
367 (obj) != NULL? ((nxt)=(obj)->next,1) :0; \
368 (obj) = (nxt))
369
370
371 /* Traverse all symtabs in one objfile. */
372
373 #define ALL_OBJFILE_SYMTABS(objfile, s) \
374 for ((s) = (objfile) -> symtabs; (s) != NULL; (s) = (s) -> next)
375
376 /* Traverse all psymtabs in one objfile. */
377
378 #define ALL_OBJFILE_PSYMTABS(objfile, p) \
379 for ((p) = (objfile) -> psymtabs; (p) != NULL; (p) = (p) -> next)
380
381 /* Traverse all minimal symbols in one objfile. */
382
383 #define ALL_OBJFILE_MSYMBOLS(objfile, m) \
384 for ((m) = (objfile) -> msymbols; SYMBOL_NAME(m) != NULL; (m)++)
385
386
387 /* Traverse all symtabs in all objfiles. */
388
389 #define ALL_SYMTABS(objfile, s) \
390 ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
391 ALL_OBJFILE_SYMTABS (objfile, s)
392
393 /* Traverse all psymtabs in all objfiles. */
394
395 #define ALL_PSYMTABS(objfile, p) \
396 ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
397 ALL_OBJFILE_PSYMTABS (objfile, p)
398
399 /* Traverse all minimal symbols in all objfiles. */
400
401 #define ALL_MSYMBOLS(objfile, m) \
402 ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
403 if ((objfile)->msymbols) \
404 ALL_OBJFILE_MSYMBOLS (objfile, m)
405
406 #endif /* !defined (OBJFILES_H) */