1 /* Read ELF (Executable and Linking Format) object files for GDB.
2 Copyright 1991, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Written by Fred Fish at Cygnus Support.
5 This file is part of GDB.
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.
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.
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., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
21 /************************************************************************
25 * This file is still under construction. When it is complete, this *
26 * notice will be removed. Until then, direct any questions or changes *
29 * FIXME Still needs support for shared libraries. *
30 * FIXME Still needs support for core files. *
31 * FIXME The ".debug" and ".line" section names are hardwired. *
33 ************************************************************************/
36 #include "elf/common.h"
37 #include "elf/external.h"
38 #include "elf/internal.h"
40 #include "libbfd.h" /* For bfd_elf_find_section */
46 #define STREQ(a,b) (strcmp((a),(b))==0)
49 unsigned int dboffset; /* Offset to dwarf debug section */
50 unsigned int dbsize; /* Size of dwarf debug section */
51 unsigned int lnoffset; /* Offset to dwarf line number section */
52 unsigned int lnsize; /* Size of dwarf line number section */
53 asection *stabsect; /* Section pointer for .stab section */
54 asection *stabindexsect; /* Section pointer for .stab.index section */
58 elf_symfile_init PARAMS ((struct objfile *));
61 elf_new_init PARAMS ((struct objfile *));
64 elf_symfile_read PARAMS ((struct objfile *, CORE_ADDR, int));
67 elf_symfile_finish PARAMS ((struct objfile *));
70 elf_symtab_read PARAMS ((bfd *, CORE_ADDR, struct objfile *));
73 record_minimal_symbol PARAMS ((char *, CORE_ADDR, enum minimal_symbol_type,
77 elf_locate_sections PARAMS ((bfd *, asection *, PTR));
79 /* We are called once per section from elf_symfile_read. We
80 need to examine each section we are passed, check to see
81 if it is something we are interested in processing, and
82 if so, stash away some access information for the section.
84 For now we recognize the dwarf debug information sections and
85 line number sections from matching their section names. The
86 ELF definition is no real help here since it has no direct
87 knowledge of DWARF (by design, so any debugging format can be
90 We also recognize the ".stab" sections used by the Sun compilers
91 released with Solaris 2.
93 FIXME: The section names should not be hardwired strings. */
96 elf_locate_sections (ignore_abfd, sectp, eip)
101 register struct elfinfo *ei;
103 ei = (struct elfinfo *) eip;
104 if (STREQ (sectp -> name, ".debug"))
106 ei -> dboffset = sectp -> filepos;
107 ei -> dbsize = bfd_get_section_size_before_reloc (sectp);
109 else if (STREQ (sectp -> name, ".line"))
111 ei -> lnoffset = sectp -> filepos;
112 ei -> lnsize = bfd_get_section_size_before_reloc (sectp);
114 else if (STREQ (sectp -> name, ".stab"))
116 ei -> stabsect = sectp;
118 else if (STREQ (sectp -> name, ".stab.index"))
120 ei -> stabindexsect = sectp;
124 #if 0 /* Currently unused */
127 elf_interpreter (abfd)
134 interp_sec = bfd_get_section_by_name (abfd, ".interp");
137 size = bfd_section_size (abfd, interp_sec);
138 interp = alloca (size);
139 if (bfd_get_section_contents (abfd, interp_sec, interp, (file_ptr)0,
142 interp = savestring (interp, size - 1);
158 record_minimal_symbol -- add entry to minimal symbol table
162 static void record_minimal_symbol (char *name, CORE_ADDR address)
166 Given a pointer to the name of a symbol that should be added to the
167 minimal symbol table and the address associated with that symbol, records
168 this information for later use in building the minimal symbol table.
173 record_minimal_symbol (name, address, ms_type, objfile)
176 enum minimal_symbol_type ms_type;
177 struct objfile *objfile;
179 name = obsavestring (name, strlen (name), &objfile -> symbol_obstack);
180 prim_record_minimal_symbol (name, address, ms_type);
184 record_minimal_symbol_and_info (name, address, ms_type, info, objfile)
187 enum minimal_symbol_type ms_type;
188 char *info; /* FIXME, is this really char *? */
189 struct objfile *objfile;
191 name = obsavestring (name, strlen (name), &objfile -> symbol_obstack);
192 prim_record_minimal_symbol_and_info (name, address, ms_type, info);
199 elf_symtab_read -- read the symbol table of an ELF file
203 void elf_symtab_read (bfd *abfd, CORE_ADDR addr,
204 struct objfile *objfile)
208 Given an open bfd, a base address to relocate symbols to, and a
209 flag that specifies whether or not this bfd is for an executable
210 or not (may be shared library for example), add all the global
211 function and data symbols to the minimal symbol table.
216 elf_symtab_read (abfd, addr, objfile)
219 struct objfile *objfile;
221 unsigned int storage_needed;
223 asymbol **symbol_table;
224 unsigned int number_of_symbols;
226 struct cleanup *back_to;
228 enum minimal_symbol_type ms_type;
230 storage_needed = get_symtab_upper_bound (abfd);
232 if (storage_needed > 0)
234 symbol_table = (asymbol **) xmalloc (storage_needed);
235 back_to = make_cleanup (free, symbol_table);
236 number_of_symbols = bfd_canonicalize_symtab (abfd, symbol_table);
238 for (i = 0; i < number_of_symbols; i++)
240 sym = *symbol_table++;
241 /* Select global/weak symbols that are defined in a specific section.
242 Note that bfd now puts abs symbols in their own section, so
243 all symbols we are interested in will have a section. */
244 if ((sym -> flags & (BSF_GLOBAL | BSF_WEAK))
245 && (sym -> section != NULL))
247 symaddr = sym -> value;
248 /* Relocate all non-absolute symbols by base address. */
249 if (sym -> section != &bfd_abs_section)
253 /* For non-absolute symbols, use the type of the section
254 they are relative to, to intuit text/data. Bfd provides
255 no way of figuring this out for absolute symbols. */
256 if (sym -> section -> flags & SEC_CODE)
260 else if (sym -> section -> flags & SEC_DATA)
266 ms_type = mst_unknown;
268 /* Pass symbol size field in via BFD. FIXME!!! */
269 record_minimal_symbol_and_info ((char *) sym -> name,
270 symaddr, ms_type, sym->udata, objfile);
273 do_cleanups (back_to);
277 /* Scan and build partial symbols for a symbol file.
278 We have been initialized by a call to elf_symfile_init, which
279 currently does nothing.
281 ADDR is the address relative to which the symbols in it are (e.g.
282 the base address of the text segment).
284 MAINLINE is true if we are reading the main symbol
285 table (as opposed to a shared lib or dynamically loaded file).
287 This function only does the minimum work necessary for letting the
288 user "name" things symbolically; it does not read the entire symtab.
289 Instead, it reads the external and static symbols and puts them in partial
290 symbol tables. When more extensive information is requested of a
291 file, the corresponding partial symbol table is mutated into a full
292 fledged symbol table by going back and reading the symbols
295 We look for sections with specific names, to tell us what debug
296 format to look for: FIXME!!!
298 dwarf_build_psymtabs() builds psymtabs for DWARF symbols;
299 elfstab_build_psymtabs() handles STABS symbols.
301 Note that ELF files have a "minimal" symbol table, which looks a lot
302 like a COFF symbol table, but has only the minimal information necessary
303 for linking. We process this also, and use the information to
304 build gdb's minimal symbol table. This gives us some minimal debugging
305 capability even for files compiled without -g. */
308 elf_symfile_read (objfile, addr, mainline)
309 struct objfile *objfile;
313 bfd *abfd = objfile->obfd;
315 struct cleanup *back_to;
319 init_minimal_symbol_collection ();
320 back_to = make_cleanup (discard_minimal_symbols, 0);
322 /* Compute the amount to relocate all symbols by. The value passed in
323 as ADDR is typically either the actual address of the text section,
324 or a user specified address. By subtracting off the actual address
325 of the text section, we can compute the relocation amount. */
327 text_sect = bfd_get_section_by_name (objfile -> obfd, ".text");
328 offset = addr - bfd_section_vma (objfile -> obfd, text_sect);
330 /* Process the normal ELF symbol table first. */
332 elf_symtab_read (abfd, offset, objfile);
334 /* Now process debugging information, which is contained in
335 special ELF sections. We first have to find them... */
337 (void) memset ((char *) &ei, 0, sizeof (ei));
338 bfd_map_over_sections (abfd, elf_locate_sections, (PTR) &ei);
339 if (ei.dboffset && ei.lnoffset)
342 dwarf_build_psymtabs (fileno ((FILE *)(abfd -> iostream)),
343 bfd_get_filename (abfd),
345 ei.dboffset, ei.dbsize,
346 ei.lnoffset, ei.lnsize, objfile);
352 /* FIXME: Sun didn't really know how to implement this well.
353 They made .stab sections that don't point to the .stabstr
354 section with the sh_link field. BFD doesn't make string table
355 sections visible to the caller. So we have to search the
356 ELF section table, not the BFD section table, for the string
358 struct elf_internal_shdr *elf_sect;
360 elf_sect = bfd_elf_find_section (abfd, ".stabstr");
362 elfstab_build_psymtabs (objfile,
363 addr, /* We really pass the text seg addr, not the offset, here. */
365 ei.stabsect->filepos, /* .stab offset */
366 bfd_get_section_size_before_reloc (ei.stabsect),/* .stab size */
367 elf_sect->sh_offset, /* .stabstr offset */
368 elf_sect->sh_size); /* .stabstr size */
371 if (!have_partial_symbols ())
374 printf_filtered ("(no debugging symbols found)...");
378 /* Install any minimal symbols that have been collected as the current
379 minimal symbols for this objfile. */
381 install_minimal_symbols (objfile);
383 do_cleanups (back_to);
386 /* Initialize anything that needs initializing when a completely new symbol
387 file is specified (not just adding some symbols from another file, e.g. a
390 We reinitialize buildsym, since we may be reading stabs from an ELF file. */
393 elf_new_init (ignore)
394 struct objfile *ignore;
396 buildsym_new_init ();
399 /* Perform any local cleanups required when we are done with a particular
400 objfile. I.E, we are in the process of discarding all symbol information
401 for an objfile, freeing up all memory held for it, and unlinking the
402 objfile struct from the global list of known objfiles. */
405 elf_symfile_finish (objfile)
406 struct objfile *objfile;
408 if (objfile -> sym_private != NULL)
410 mfree (objfile -> md, objfile -> sym_private);
414 /* ELF specific initialization routine for reading symbols.
416 It is passed a pointer to a struct sym_fns which contains, among other
417 things, the BFD for the file whose symbols are being read, and a slot for
418 a pointer to "private data" which we can fill with goodies.
420 For now at least, we have nothing in particular to do, so this function is
424 elf_symfile_init (ignore)
425 struct objfile *ignore;
430 /* Register that we are able to handle ELF object file formats and DWARF
433 Unlike other object file formats, where the debugging information format
434 is implied by the object file format, the ELF object file format and the
435 DWARF debugging information format are two distinct, and potentially
436 separate entities. I.E. it is perfectly possible to have ELF objects
437 with debugging formats other than DWARF. And it is conceivable that the
438 DWARF debugging format might be used with another object file format,
439 like COFF, by simply using COFF's custom section feature.
441 GDB, and to a lesser extent BFD, should support the notion of separate
442 object file formats and debugging information formats. For now, we just
443 use "elf" in the same sense as "a.out" or "coff", to imply both the ELF
444 object file format and the DWARF debugging format. */
446 static struct sym_fns elf_sym_fns =
448 "elf", /* sym_name: name or name prefix of BFD target type */
449 3, /* sym_namelen: number of significant sym_name chars */
450 elf_new_init, /* sym_new_init: init anything gbl to entire symtab */
451 elf_symfile_init, /* sym_init: read initial info, setup for sym_read() */
452 elf_symfile_read, /* sym_read: read a symbol file into symtab */
453 elf_symfile_finish, /* sym_finish: finished with file, cleanup */
454 NULL /* next: pointer to next struct sym_fns */
458 _initialize_elfread ()
460 add_symtab_fns (&elf_sym_fns);