1 /* Definitions for symbol file management in GDB.
2 Copyright (C) 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This file is part of GDB.
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.
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.
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. */
20 #if !defined (OBJFILES_H)
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.
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.
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).
46 Gdb also supports an alternate method to avoid running off the top/bottom
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
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.
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.
78 To use this method, define your FRAME_CHAIN_VALID macro like:
80 #define FRAME_CHAIN_VALID(chain, thisframe) \
82 && !(inside_main_func ((thisframe)->pc)) \
83 && !(inside_entry_func ((thisframe)->pc)))
85 and add initializations of the four scope controlling variables inside
86 the object file / debugging information processing modules. */
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. */
95 CORE_ADDR entry_point;
97 /* Start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) of function containing the
100 CORE_ADDR entry_func_lowpc;
101 CORE_ADDR entry_func_highpc;
103 /* Start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) of object file containing the
106 CORE_ADDR entry_file_lowpc;
107 CORE_ADDR entry_file_highpc;
109 /* Start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) of the user code main() function. */
111 CORE_ADDR main_func_lowpc;
112 CORE_ADDR main_func_highpc;
117 /* Master structure for keeping track of each input file from which
118 gdb reads symbols. One of these is allocated for each such file we
119 access, e.g. the exec_file, symbol_file, and any shared library object
125 /* All struct objfile's are chained together by their next pointers.
126 The global variable "object_files" points to the first link in this
129 struct objfile *next;
131 /* The object file's name. Malloc'd; free it if you free this struct. */
135 /* Some flag bits for this objfile. */
137 unsigned short flags;
139 /* Each objfile points to a linked list of symtabs derived from this file,
140 one symtab structure for each compilation unit (source file). Each link
141 in the symtab list contains a backpointer to this objfile. */
143 struct symtab *symtabs;
145 /* Each objfile points to a linked list of partial symtabs derived from
146 this file, one partial symtab structure for each compilation unit
149 struct partial_symtab *psymtabs;
151 /* List of freed partial symtabs, available for re-use */
153 struct partial_symtab *free_psymtabs;
155 /* The object file's BFD. Can be null, in which case bfd_open (name) and
156 put the result here. */
160 /* The modification timestamp of the object file, as of the last time
161 we read its symbols. */
165 /* Obstacks to hold objects that should be freed when we load a new symbol
166 table from this object file. */
168 struct obstack psymbol_obstack; /* Partial symbols */
169 struct obstack symbol_obstack; /* Full symbols */
170 struct obstack type_obstack; /* Types */
172 /* Vectors of all partial symbols read in from file. The actual data
173 is stored in the psymbol_obstack. */
175 struct psymbol_allocation_list global_psymbols;
176 struct psymbol_allocation_list static_psymbols;
178 /* Each file contains a pointer to an array of minimal symbols for all
179 global symbols that are defined within the file. The array is terminated
180 by a "null symbol", one that has a NULL pointer for the name and a zero
181 value for the address. This makes it easy to walk through the array
182 when passed a pointer to somewhere in the middle of it. There is also
183 a count of the number of symbols, which does include the terminating
184 null symbol. The array itself, as well as all the data that it points
185 to, should be allocated on the symbol_obstack for this file. */
187 struct minimal_symbol *msymbols;
188 int minimal_symbol_count;
190 /* For object file formats which don't specify fundamental types, gdb
191 can create such types. For now, it maintains a vector of pointers
192 to these internally created fundamental types on a per objfile basis,
193 however it really should ultimately keep them on a per-compilation-unit
194 basis, to account for linkage-units that consist of a number of
195 compilation units that may have different fundamental types, such as
196 linking C modules with ADA modules, or linking C modules that are
197 compiled with 32-bit ints with C modules that are compiled with 64-bit
198 ints (not inherently evil with a smarter linker). */
200 struct type **fundamental_types;
202 /* The mmalloc() malloc-descriptor for this objfile if we are using
203 the memory mapped malloc() package to manage storage for this objfile's
204 data. NULL if we are not. */
208 /* Structure which keeps track of functions that manipulate objfile's
209 of the same type as this objfile. I.E. the function to read partial
210 symbols for example. Note that this structure is in statically
211 allocated memory, and is shared by all objfiles that use the
212 object module reader of this type. */
216 /* The per-objfile information about the entry point, the scope (file/func)
217 containing the entry point, and the scope of the user's main() func. */
219 struct entry_info ei;
221 /* Hook for information which is shared by sym_init and sym_read for
222 this objfile. It is typically a pointer to malloc'd memory. */
228 /* Defines for the objfile flag word. */
230 /* Gdb can arrange to allocate storage for all objects related to a
231 particular objfile in a designated section of it's address space,
232 managed at a low level by mmap() and using a special version of
233 malloc that handles malloc/free/realloc on top of the mmap() interface.
234 This allows the "internal gdb state" for a particular objfile to be
235 dumped to a gdb state file and subsequently reloaded at a later time. */
237 #define OBJF_MAPPED (1 << 0) /* Objfile data is mmap'd */
239 /* The object file that the main symbol table was loaded from (e.g. the
240 argument to the "symbol-file" or "file" command). */
242 extern struct objfile *symfile_objfile;
244 /* When we need to allocate a new type, we need to know which type_obstack
245 to allocate the type on, since there is one for each objfile. The places
246 where types are allocated are deeply buried in function call hierarchies
247 which know nothing about objfiles, so rather than trying to pass a
248 particular objfile down to them, we just do an end run around them and
249 set current_objfile to be whatever objfile we expect to be using at the
250 time types are being allocated. For instance, when we start reading
251 symbols for a particular objfile, we set current_objfile to point to that
252 objfile, and when we are done, we set it back to NULL, to ensure that we
253 never put a type someplace other than where we are expecting to put it.
254 FIXME: Maybe we should review the entire type handling system and
255 see if there is a better way to avoid this problem. */
257 extern struct objfile *current_objfile;
259 /* All known objfiles are kept in a linked list. This points to the
260 root of this list. */
262 extern struct objfile *object_files;
264 /* Declarations for functions defined in objfiles.c */
266 extern struct objfile *
267 allocate_objfile PARAMS ((bfd *, int));
270 free_objfile PARAMS ((struct objfile *));
273 free_all_objfiles PARAMS ((void));
276 have_partial_symbols PARAMS ((void));
279 have_full_symbols PARAMS ((void));
281 /* Functions for dealing with the minimal symbol table, really a misc
282 address<->symbol mapping for things we don't have debug symbols for. */
285 have_minimal_symbols PARAMS ((void));
288 iterate_over_objfiles PARAMS ((PTR (*func) (struct objfile *,
289 PTR arg1, PTR arg2, PTR arg3),
290 PTR arg1, PTR arg2, PTR arg3));
293 iterate_over_symtabs PARAMS ((PTR (*func) (struct objfile *, struct symtab *,
294 PTR arg1, PTR arg2, PTR arg3),
295 PTR arg1, PTR arg2, PTR arg3));
298 iterate_over_psymtabs PARAMS ((PTR (*func) (struct objfile *,
299 struct partial_symtab *,
300 PTR arg1, PTR arg2, PTR arg3),
301 PTR arg1, PTR arg2, PTR arg3));
304 /* Traverse all object files. ALL_OBJFILES_SAFE works even if you delete
305 the objfile during the traversal. */
307 #define ALL_OBJFILES(obj) \
308 for ((obj)=object_files; (obj)!=NULL; (obj)=(obj)->next)
310 #define ALL_OBJFILES_SAFE(obj,nxt) \
311 for ((obj)=object_files; (obj)!=NULL?((nxt)=(obj)->next,1):0; (obj)=(nxt))
313 #endif /* !defined (OBJFILES_H) */