1 /* GDB Notifications to Observers.
3 Copyright 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This file is part of GDB.
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19 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
20 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
22 /* An observer is an entity who is interested in being notified when GDB
23 reaches certain states, or certain events occur in GDB. The entity being
24 observed is called the Subject. To receive notifications, the observer
25 attaches a callback to the subject. One subject can have several
28 This file implements an internal generic low-level event notification
29 mechanism based on the Observer paradigm described in the book "Design
30 Patterns". This generic event notification mechansim is then re-used
31 to implement the exported high-level notification management routines
32 for all possible notifications.
34 The current implementation of the generic observer provides support
35 for contextual data. This contextual data is given to the subject
36 when attaching the callback. In return, the subject will provide
37 this contextual data back to the observer as a parameter of the
40 FIXME: The current support for the contextual data is only partial,
41 as it lacks a mechanism that would deallocate this data when the
42 callback is detached. This is not a problem so far, as this contextual
43 data is only used internally to hold a function pointer. Later on,
44 if a certain observer needs to provide support for user-level
45 contextual data, then the generic notification mechanism will need
46 need to be enhanced to allow the observer to provide a routine to
47 deallocate the data when attaching the callback.
49 This file is currently maintained by hand, but the long term plan
50 if the number of different notifications starts growing is to create
51 a new script (observer.sh) that would generate this file, and the
52 associated documentation. */
59 static int observer_debug;
61 /* The internal generic observer. */
63 typedef void (generic_observer_notification_ftype) (const void *data,
68 generic_observer_notification_ftype *notify;
69 /* No memory management needed for the following field for now. */
73 /* A list of observers, maintained by the subject. A subject is
74 actually represented by its list of observers. */
78 struct observer_list *next;
79 struct observer *observer;
82 /* Allocate a struct observer_list, intended to be used as a node
83 in the list of observers maintained by a subject. */
85 static struct observer_list *
86 xalloc_observer_list_node (void)
88 struct observer_list *node = XMALLOC (struct observer_list);
89 node->observer = XMALLOC (struct observer);
93 /* The opposite of xalloc_observer_list_node, frees the memory for
97 xfree_observer_list_node (struct observer_list *node)
99 xfree (node->observer);
103 /* Attach the callback NOTIFY to a SUBJECT. The DATA is also stored,
104 in order for the subject to provide it back to the observer during
107 static struct observer *
108 generic_observer_attach (struct observer_list **subject,
109 generic_observer_notification_ftype * notify,
112 struct observer_list *observer_list = xalloc_observer_list_node ();
114 observer_list->next = *subject;
115 observer_list->observer->notify = notify;
116 observer_list->observer->data = data;
117 *subject = observer_list;
119 return observer_list->observer;
122 /* Remove the given OBSERVER from the SUBJECT. Once detached, OBSERVER
123 should no longer be used, as it is no longer valid. */
126 generic_observer_detach (struct observer_list **subject,
127 const struct observer *observer)
129 struct observer_list *previous_node = NULL;
130 struct observer_list *current_node = *subject;
132 while (current_node != NULL)
134 if (current_node->observer == observer)
136 if (previous_node != NULL)
137 previous_node->next = current_node->next;
139 *subject = current_node->next;
140 xfree_observer_list_node (current_node);
143 previous_node = current_node;
144 current_node = current_node->next;
147 /* We should never reach this point. However, this should not be
148 a very serious error, so simply report a warning to the user. */
149 warning ("Failed to detach observer");
152 /* Send a notification to all the observers of SUBJECT. ARGS is passed to
153 all observers as an argument to the notification callback. */
156 generic_observer_notify (struct observer_list *subject, const void *args)
158 struct observer_list *current_node = subject;
160 while (current_node != NULL)
162 (*current_node->observer->notify) (current_node->observer->data, args);
163 current_node = current_node->next;
168 /* The following code is only used to unit-test the observers from our
169 testsuite. DO NOT USE IT within observer.c (or anywhere else for
172 /* If we define these variables and functions as `static', the
173 compiler will optimize them out. */
175 int observer_test_first_observer = 0;
176 int observer_test_second_observer = 0;
177 int observer_test_third_observer = 0;
180 observer_test_first_notification_function (struct bpstats *bs)
182 observer_test_first_observer++;
186 observer_test_second_notification_function (struct bpstats *bs)
188 observer_test_second_observer++;
192 observer_test_third_notification_function (struct bpstats *bs)
194 observer_test_third_observer++;
197 extern initialize_file_ftype _initialize_observer; /* -Wmissing-prototypes */
200 _initialize_observer (void)
202 add_setshow_zinteger_cmd ("observer", class_maintenance, &observer_debug, "\
203 Set observer debugging.", "\
204 Show observer debugging.", "\
205 When non-zero, observer debugging is enabled.", "\
206 Observer debugging is %s.",
208 &setdebuglist, &showdebuglist);
211 #include "observer.inc"