1 /* Code dealing with dummy stack frames, for GDB, the GNU debugger.
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24 #include "dummy-frame.h"
28 #include "gdb_assert.h"
29 #include "frame-unwind.h"
32 #include "gdb_string.h"
34 /* Dummy frame. This saves the processor state just prior to setting
35 up the inferior function call. Older targets save the registers
36 on the target stack (but that really slows down function calls). */
40 struct dummy_frame *next;
41 /* This frame's ID. Must match the value returned by
44 /* The caller's regcache. */
45 struct regcache *regcache;
48 static struct dummy_frame *dummy_frame_stack = NULL;
50 /* Function: deprecated_pc_in_call_dummy (pc)
52 Return non-zero if the PC falls in a dummy frame created by gdb for
53 an inferior call. The code below which allows gdbarch_decr_pc_after_break
54 is for infrun.c, which may give the function a PC without that
57 FIXME: cagney/2002-11-23: This is silly. Surely "infrun.c" can
58 figure out what the real PC (as in the resume address) is BEFORE
59 calling this function.
61 NOTE: cagney/2004-08-02: I'm pretty sure that, with the introduction of
62 infrun.c:adjust_pc_after_break (thanks), this function is now
63 always called with a correctly adjusted PC!
65 NOTE: cagney/2004-08-02: Code should not need to call this. */
68 deprecated_pc_in_call_dummy (CORE_ADDR pc)
70 struct dummy_frame *dummyframe;
71 for (dummyframe = dummy_frame_stack;
73 dummyframe = dummyframe->next)
75 if ((pc >= dummyframe->id.code_addr)
76 && (pc <= dummyframe->id.code_addr
77 + gdbarch_decr_pc_after_break (current_gdbarch)))
83 /* Push the caller's state, along with the dummy frame info, onto a
87 dummy_frame_push (struct regcache *caller_regcache,
88 const struct frame_id *dummy_id)
90 struct gdbarch *gdbarch = get_regcache_arch (caller_regcache);
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 (gdbarch, 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 *this_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. */
141 /* Don't bother unles there is at least one dummy frame. */
142 if (dummy_frame_stack != NULL)
144 /* Use an architecture specific method to extract this frame's
145 dummy ID, assuming it is a dummy frame. */
146 this_id = gdbarch_dummy_id (get_frame_arch (this_frame), this_frame);
148 /* Use that ID to find the corresponding cache entry. */
149 for (dummyframe = dummy_frame_stack;
151 dummyframe = dummyframe->next)
153 if (frame_id_eq (dummyframe->id, this_id))
155 struct dummy_frame_cache *cache;
156 cache = FRAME_OBSTACK_ZALLOC (struct dummy_frame_cache);
157 cache->prev_regcache = dummyframe->regcache;
158 cache->this_id = this_id;
159 (*this_prologue_cache) = cache;
167 /* Given a call-dummy dummy-frame, return the registers. Here the
168 register value is taken from the local copy of the register buffer. */
170 static struct value *
171 dummy_frame_prev_register (struct frame_info *this_frame,
172 void **this_prologue_cache,
175 struct dummy_frame_cache *cache = (*this_prologue_cache);
176 struct gdbarch *gdbarch = get_frame_arch (this_frame);
177 struct value *reg_val;
179 /* The dummy-frame sniffer always fills in the cache. */
180 gdb_assert (cache != NULL);
182 /* Describe the register's location. Generic dummy frames always
183 have the register value in an ``expression''. */
184 reg_val = value_zero (register_type (gdbarch, regnum), not_lval);
186 /* Use the regcache_cooked_read() method so that it, on the fly,
187 constructs either a raw or pseudo register from the raw
189 regcache_cooked_read (cache->prev_regcache, regnum,
190 value_contents_writeable (reg_val));
194 /* Assuming that THIS frame is a dummy, return the ID of THIS frame. That ID is
195 determined by examining the NEXT frame's unwound registers using
196 the method dummy_id(). As a side effect, THIS dummy frame's
197 dummy cache is located and and saved in THIS_PROLOGUE_CACHE. */
200 dummy_frame_this_id (struct frame_info *this_frame,
201 void **this_prologue_cache,
202 struct frame_id *this_id)
204 /* The dummy-frame sniffer always fills in the cache. */
205 struct dummy_frame_cache *cache = (*this_prologue_cache);
206 gdb_assert (cache != NULL);
207 (*this_id) = cache->this_id;
210 static const struct frame_unwind dummy_frame_unwinder =
214 dummy_frame_prev_register,
219 const struct frame_unwind *const dummy_frame_unwind = {
220 &dummy_frame_unwinder
224 fprint_dummy_frames (struct ui_file *file)
226 struct dummy_frame *s;
227 for (s = dummy_frame_stack; s != NULL; s = s->next)
229 gdb_print_host_address (s, file);
230 fprintf_unfiltered (file, ":");
231 fprintf_unfiltered (file, " id=");
232 fprint_frame_id (file, s->id);
233 fprintf_unfiltered (file, "\n");
238 maintenance_print_dummy_frames (char *args, int from_tty)
241 fprint_dummy_frames (gdb_stdout);
244 struct ui_file *file = gdb_fopen (args, "w");
246 perror_with_name (_("maintenance print dummy-frames"));
247 fprint_dummy_frames (file);
248 ui_file_delete (file);
252 extern void _initialize_dummy_frame (void);
255 _initialize_dummy_frame (void)
257 add_cmd ("dummy-frames", class_maintenance, maintenance_print_dummy_frames,
258 _("Print the contents of the internal dummy-frame stack."),
259 &maintenanceprintlist);