1 /* Code dealing with dummy stack frames, for GDB, the GNU debugger.
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26 #include "dummy-frame.h"
30 #include "gdb_assert.h"
31 #include "frame-unwind.h"
34 #include "gdb_string.h"
36 /* Dummy frame. This saves the processor state just prior to setting
37 up the inferior function call. Older targets save the registers
38 on the target stack (but that really slows down function calls). */
42 struct dummy_frame *next;
43 /* This frame's ID. Must match the value returned by
44 gdbarch_unwind_dummy_id. */
46 /* The caller's regcache. */
47 struct regcache *regcache;
50 static struct dummy_frame *dummy_frame_stack = NULL;
52 /* Function: deprecated_pc_in_call_dummy (pc)
54 Return non-zero if the PC falls in a dummy frame created by gdb for
55 an inferior call. The code below which allows DECR_PC_AFTER_BREAK
56 is for infrun.c, which may give the function a PC without that
59 FIXME: cagney/2002-11-23: This is silly. Surely "infrun.c" can
60 figure out what the real PC (as in the resume address) is BEFORE
61 calling this function.
63 NOTE: cagney/2004-08-02: I'm pretty sure that, with the introduction of
64 infrun.c:adjust_pc_after_break (thanks), this function is now
65 always called with a correctly adjusted PC!
67 NOTE: cagney/2004-08-02: Code should not need to call this. */
70 deprecated_pc_in_call_dummy (CORE_ADDR pc)
72 struct dummy_frame *dummyframe;
73 for (dummyframe = dummy_frame_stack;
75 dummyframe = dummyframe->next)
77 if ((pc >= dummyframe->id.code_addr)
78 && (pc <= dummyframe->id.code_addr + DECR_PC_AFTER_BREAK))
84 /* Push the caller's state, along with the dummy frame info, onto a
88 dummy_frame_push (struct regcache *caller_regcache,
89 const struct frame_id *dummy_id)
91 struct dummy_frame *dummy_frame;
93 /* Check to see if there are stale dummy frames, perhaps left over
94 from when a longjump took us out of a function that was called by
96 dummy_frame = dummy_frame_stack;
98 /* FIXME: cagney/2004-08-02: Should just test IDs. */
99 if (frame_id_inner (dummy_frame->id, (*dummy_id)))
100 /* Stale -- destroy! */
102 dummy_frame_stack = dummy_frame->next;
103 regcache_xfree (dummy_frame->regcache);
105 dummy_frame = dummy_frame_stack;
108 dummy_frame = dummy_frame->next;
110 dummy_frame = XZALLOC (struct dummy_frame);
111 dummy_frame->regcache = caller_regcache;
112 dummy_frame->id = (*dummy_id);
113 dummy_frame->next = dummy_frame_stack;
114 dummy_frame_stack = dummy_frame;
117 /* Return the dummy frame cache, it contains both the ID, and a
118 pointer to the regcache. */
119 struct dummy_frame_cache
121 struct frame_id this_id;
122 struct regcache *prev_regcache;
126 dummy_frame_sniffer (const struct frame_unwind *self,
127 struct frame_info *next_frame,
128 void **this_prologue_cache)
130 struct dummy_frame *dummyframe;
131 struct frame_id this_id;
133 /* When unwinding a normal frame, the stack structure is determined
134 by analyzing the frame's function's code (be it using brute force
135 prologue analysis, or the dwarf2 CFI). In the case of a dummy
136 frame, that simply isn't possible. The PC is either the program
137 entry point, or some random address on the stack. Trying to use
138 that PC to apply standard frame ID unwind techniques is just
139 asking for trouble. */
140 /* Use an architecture specific method to extract the prev's dummy
141 ID from the next frame. Note that this method uses
142 frame_register_unwind to obtain the register values needed to
143 determine the dummy frame's ID. */
144 this_id = gdbarch_unwind_dummy_id (get_frame_arch (next_frame), next_frame);
146 /* Use that ID to find the corresponding cache entry. */
147 for (dummyframe = dummy_frame_stack;
149 dummyframe = dummyframe->next)
151 if (frame_id_eq (dummyframe->id, this_id))
153 struct dummy_frame_cache *cache;
154 cache = FRAME_OBSTACK_ZALLOC (struct dummy_frame_cache);
155 cache->prev_regcache = dummyframe->regcache;
156 cache->this_id = this_id;
157 (*this_prologue_cache) = cache;
164 /* Given a call-dummy dummy-frame, return the registers. Here the
165 register value is taken from the local copy of the register buffer. */
168 dummy_frame_prev_register (struct frame_info *next_frame,
169 void **this_prologue_cache,
170 int regnum, int *optimized,
171 enum lval_type *lvalp, CORE_ADDR *addrp,
172 int *realnum, void *bufferp)
174 /* The dummy-frame sniffer always fills in the cache. */
175 struct dummy_frame_cache *cache = (*this_prologue_cache);
176 gdb_assert (cache != NULL);
178 /* Describe the register's location. Generic dummy frames always
179 have the register value in an ``expression''. */
185 /* If needed, find and return the value of the register. */
188 /* Return the actual value. */
189 /* Use the regcache_cooked_read() method so that it, on the fly,
190 constructs either a raw or pseudo register from the raw
192 regcache_cooked_read (cache->prev_regcache, regnum, bufferp);
196 /* Assuming that THIS frame is a dummy (remember, the NEXT and not
197 THIS frame is passed in), return the ID of THIS frame. That ID is
198 determined by examining the NEXT frame's unwound registers using
199 the method unwind_dummy_id(). As a side effect, THIS dummy frame's
200 dummy cache is located and and saved in THIS_PROLOGUE_CACHE. */
203 dummy_frame_this_id (struct frame_info *next_frame,
204 void **this_prologue_cache,
205 struct frame_id *this_id)
207 /* The dummy-frame sniffer always fills in the cache. */
208 struct dummy_frame_cache *cache = (*this_prologue_cache);
209 gdb_assert (cache != NULL);
210 (*this_id) = cache->this_id;
213 static const struct frame_unwind dummy_frame_unwinder =
217 dummy_frame_prev_register,
222 const struct frame_unwind *const dummy_frame_unwind = {
223 &dummy_frame_unwinder
227 fprint_dummy_frames (struct ui_file *file)
229 struct dummy_frame *s;
230 for (s = dummy_frame_stack; s != NULL; s = s->next)
232 gdb_print_host_address (s, file);
233 fprintf_unfiltered (file, ":");
234 fprintf_unfiltered (file, " id=");
235 fprint_frame_id (file, s->id);
236 fprintf_unfiltered (file, "\n");
241 maintenance_print_dummy_frames (char *args, int from_tty)
244 fprint_dummy_frames (gdb_stdout);
247 struct ui_file *file = gdb_fopen (args, "w");
249 perror_with_name ("maintenance print dummy-frames");
250 fprint_dummy_frames (file);
251 ui_file_delete (file);
255 extern void _initialize_dummy_frame (void);
258 _initialize_dummy_frame (void)
260 add_cmd ("dummy-frames", class_maintenance, maintenance_print_dummy_frames,
261 "Print the contents of the internal dummy-frame stack.",
262 &maintenanceprintlist);