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
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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.
45 Gdb also supports an alternate method to avoid running off the bottom
48 There are two frames that are "special", the frame for the function
49 containing the process entry point, since it has no predecessor frame,
50 and the frame for the function containing the user code entry point
51 (the main() function), since all the predecessor frames are for the
52 process startup code. Since we have no guarantee that the linked
53 in startup modules have any debugging information that gdb can use,
54 we need to avoid following frame pointers back into frames that might
55 have been built in the startup code, as we might get hopelessly
56 confused. However, we almost always have debugging information
59 These variables are used to save the range of PC values which are valid
60 within the main() function and within the function containing the process
61 entry point. If we always consider the frame for main() as the outermost
62 frame when debugging user code, and the frame for the process entry
63 point function as the outermost frame when debugging startup code, then
64 all we have to do is have FRAME_CHAIN_VALID return false whenever a
65 frame's current PC is within the range specified by these variables.
66 In essence, we set "ceilings" in the frame chain beyond which we will
67 not proceed when following the frame chain back up the stack.
69 A nice side effect is that we can still debug startup code without
70 running off the end of the frame chain, assuming that we have usable
71 debugging information in the startup modules, and if we choose to not
72 use the block at main, or can't find it for some reason, everything
73 still works as before. And if we have no startup code debugging
74 information but we do have usable information for main(), backtraces
75 from user code don't go wandering off into the startup code.
77 To use this method, define your FRAME_CHAIN_VALID macro like:
79 #define FRAME_CHAIN_VALID(chain, thisframe) \
81 && !(inside_main_func ((thisframe)->pc)) \
82 && !(inside_entry_func ((thisframe)->pc)))
84 and add initializations of the four scope controlling variables inside
85 the object file / debugging information processing modules. */
90 /* The value we should use for this objects entry point.
91 The illegal/unknown value needs to be something other than 0, ~0
92 for instance, which is much less likely than 0. */
94 CORE_ADDR entry_point;
96 /* Start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) of function containing the
99 CORE_ADDR entry_func_lowpc;
100 CORE_ADDR entry_func_highpc;
102 /* Start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) of object file containing the
105 CORE_ADDR entry_file_lowpc;
106 CORE_ADDR entry_file_highpc;
108 /* Start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) of the user code main() function. */
110 CORE_ADDR main_func_lowpc;
111 CORE_ADDR main_func_highpc;
116 /* Sections in an objfile.
118 It is strange that we have both this notion of "sections"
119 and the one used by section_offsets. Section as used
120 here, (currently at least) means a BFD section, and the sections
121 are set up from the BFD sections in allocate_objfile.
123 The sections in section_offsets have their meaning determined by
124 the symbol format, and they are set up by the sym_offsets function
125 for that symbol file format.
127 I'm not sure this could or should be changed, however. */
130 CORE_ADDR addr; /* lowest address in section */
131 CORE_ADDR endaddr; /* 1+highest address in section */
133 /* This field is being used for nefarious purposes by syms_from_objfile.
134 It is said to be redundant with section_offsets; it's not really being
135 used that way, however, it's some sort of hack I don't understand
136 and am not going to try to eliminate (yet, anyway). FIXME.
138 It was documented as "offset between (end)addr and actual memory
139 addresses", but that's not true; addr & endaddr are actual memory
143 sec_ptr the_bfd_section; /* BFD section pointer */
145 /* Objfile this section is part of. */
146 struct objfile *objfile;
149 /* Master structure for keeping track of each file from which
150 gdb reads symbols. There are several ways these get allocated: 1.
151 The main symbol file, symfile_objfile, set by the symbol-file command,
152 2. Additional symbol files added by the add-symbol-file command,
153 3. Shared library objfiles, added by ADD_SOLIB, 4. symbol files
154 for modules that were loaded when GDB attached to a remote system
155 (see remote-vx.c). */
160 /* All struct objfile's are chained together by their next pointers.
161 The global variable "object_files" points to the first link in this
164 FIXME: There is a problem here if the objfile is reusable, and if
165 multiple users are to be supported. The problem is that the objfile
166 list is linked through a member of the objfile struct itself, which
167 is only valid for one gdb process. The list implementation needs to
168 be changed to something like:
170 struct list {struct list *next; struct objfile *objfile};
172 where the list structure is completely maintained separately within
175 struct objfile *next;
177 /* The object file's name. Malloc'd; free it if you free this struct. */
181 /* Some flag bits for this objfile. */
183 unsigned short flags;
185 /* Each objfile points to a linked list of symtabs derived from this file,
186 one symtab structure for each compilation unit (source file). Each link
187 in the symtab list contains a backpointer to this objfile. */
189 struct symtab *symtabs;
191 /* Each objfile points to a linked list of partial symtabs derived from
192 this file, one partial symtab structure for each compilation unit
195 struct partial_symtab *psymtabs;
197 /* List of freed partial symtabs, available for re-use */
199 struct partial_symtab *free_psymtabs;
201 /* The object file's BFD. Can be null, in which case bfd_open (name) and
202 put the result here. */
206 /* The modification timestamp of the object file, as of the last time
207 we read its symbols. */
211 /* Obstacks to hold objects that should be freed when we load a new symbol
212 table from this object file. */
214 struct obstack psymbol_obstack; /* Partial symbols */
215 struct obstack symbol_obstack; /* Full symbols */
216 struct obstack type_obstack; /* Types */
218 /* Vectors of all partial symbols read in from file. The actual data
219 is stored in the psymbol_obstack. */
221 struct psymbol_allocation_list global_psymbols;
222 struct psymbol_allocation_list static_psymbols;
224 /* Each file contains a pointer to an array of minimal symbols for all
225 global symbols that are defined within the file. The array is terminated
226 by a "null symbol", one that has a NULL pointer for the name and a zero
227 value for the address. This makes it easy to walk through the array
228 when passed a pointer to somewhere in the middle of it. There is also
229 a count of the number of symbols, which does include the terminating
230 null symbol. The array itself, as well as all the data that it points
231 to, should be allocated on the symbol_obstack for this file. */
233 struct minimal_symbol *msymbols;
234 int minimal_symbol_count;
236 /* For object file formats which don't specify fundamental types, gdb
237 can create such types. For now, it maintains a vector of pointers
238 to these internally created fundamental types on a per objfile basis,
239 however it really should ultimately keep them on a per-compilation-unit
240 basis, to account for linkage-units that consist of a number of
241 compilation units that may have different fundamental types, such as
242 linking C modules with ADA modules, or linking C modules that are
243 compiled with 32-bit ints with C modules that are compiled with 64-bit
244 ints (not inherently evil with a smarter linker). */
246 struct type **fundamental_types;
248 /* The mmalloc() malloc-descriptor for this objfile if we are using
249 the memory mapped malloc() package to manage storage for this objfile's
250 data. NULL if we are not. */
254 /* The file descriptor that was used to obtain the mmalloc descriptor
255 for this objfile. If we call mmalloc_detach with the malloc descriptor
256 we should then close this file descriptor. */
260 /* Structure which keeps track of functions that manipulate objfile's
261 of the same type as this objfile. I.E. the function to read partial
262 symbols for example. Note that this structure is in statically
263 allocated memory, and is shared by all objfiles that use the
264 object module reader of this type. */
268 /* The per-objfile information about the entry point, the scope (file/func)
269 containing the entry point, and the scope of the user's main() func. */
271 struct entry_info ei;
273 /* Information about stabs. Will be filled in with a dbx_symfile_info
274 struct by those readers that need it. */
278 /* Hook for information for use by the symbol reader (currently used
279 for information shared by sym_init and sym_read). It is
280 typically a pointer to malloc'd memory. The symbol reader's finish
281 function is responsible for freeing the memory thusly allocated. */
285 /* Hook for target-architecture-specific information. This must
286 point to memory allocated on one of the obstacks in this objfile,
287 so that it gets freed automatically when reading a new object
292 /* Set of relocation offsets to apply to each section.
293 Currently on the psymbol_obstack (which makes no sense, but I'm
294 not sure it's harming anything).
296 These offsets indicate that all symbols (including partial and
297 minimal symbols) which have been read have been relocated by this
298 much. Symbols which are yet to be read need to be relocated by
301 struct section_offsets *section_offsets;
304 /* set of section begin and end addresses used to map pc addresses
305 into sections. Currently on the psymbol_obstack (which makes no
306 sense, but I'm not sure it's harming anything). */
312 /* two auxiliary fields, used to hold the fp of separate symbol files */
316 /* Defines for the objfile flag word. */
318 /* Gdb can arrange to allocate storage for all objects related to a
319 particular objfile in a designated section of it's address space,
320 managed at a low level by mmap() and using a special version of
321 malloc that handles malloc/free/realloc on top of the mmap() interface.
322 This allows the "internal gdb state" for a particular objfile to be
323 dumped to a gdb state file and subsequently reloaded at a later time. */
325 #define OBJF_MAPPED (1 << 0) /* Objfile data is mmap'd */
327 /* When using mapped/remapped predigested gdb symbol information, we need
328 a flag that indicates that we have previously done an initial symbol
329 table read from this particular objfile. We can't just look for the
330 absence of any of the three symbol tables (msymbols, psymtab, symtab)
331 because if the file has no symbols for example, none of these will
334 #define OBJF_SYMS (1 << 1) /* Have tried to read symbols */
336 /* The object file that the main symbol table was loaded from (e.g. the
337 argument to the "symbol-file" or "file" command). */
339 extern struct objfile *symfile_objfile;
341 /* When we need to allocate a new type, we need to know which type_obstack
342 to allocate the type on, since there is one for each objfile. The places
343 where types are allocated are deeply buried in function call hierarchies
344 which know nothing about objfiles, so rather than trying to pass a
345 particular objfile down to them, we just do an end run around them and
346 set current_objfile to be whatever objfile we expect to be using at the
347 time types are being allocated. For instance, when we start reading
348 symbols for a particular objfile, we set current_objfile to point to that
349 objfile, and when we are done, we set it back to NULL, to ensure that we
350 never put a type someplace other than where we are expecting to put it.
351 FIXME: Maybe we should review the entire type handling system and
352 see if there is a better way to avoid this problem. */
354 extern struct objfile *current_objfile;
356 /* All known objfiles are kept in a linked list. This points to the
357 root of this list. */
359 extern struct objfile *object_files;
361 /* Declarations for functions defined in objfiles.c */
363 extern struct objfile *allocate_objfile PARAMS ((bfd *, int));
365 int build_objfile_section_table PARAMS ((struct objfile *));
367 extern void unlink_objfile PARAMS ((struct objfile *));
369 extern void free_objfile PARAMS ((struct objfile *));
372 free_all_objfiles PARAMS ((void));
375 objfile_relocate PARAMS ((struct objfile *, struct section_offsets *));
378 have_partial_symbols PARAMS ((void));
381 have_full_symbols PARAMS ((void));
383 /* Functions for dealing with the minimal symbol table, really a misc
384 address<->symbol mapping for things we don't have debug symbols for. */
387 have_minimal_symbols PARAMS ((void));
389 extern struct obj_section *
390 find_pc_section PARAMS((CORE_ADDR pc));
392 /* Traverse all object files. ALL_OBJFILES_SAFE works even if you delete
393 the objfile during the traversal. */
395 #define ALL_OBJFILES(obj) \
396 for ((obj) = object_files; (obj) != NULL; (obj) = (obj)->next)
398 #define ALL_OBJFILES_SAFE(obj,nxt) \
399 for ((obj) = object_files; \
400 (obj) != NULL? ((nxt)=(obj)->next,1) :0; \
404 /* Traverse all symtabs in one objfile. */
406 #define ALL_OBJFILE_SYMTABS(objfile, s) \
407 for ((s) = (objfile) -> symtabs; (s) != NULL; (s) = (s) -> next)
409 /* Traverse all psymtabs in one objfile. */
411 #define ALL_OBJFILE_PSYMTABS(objfile, p) \
412 for ((p) = (objfile) -> psymtabs; (p) != NULL; (p) = (p) -> next)
414 /* Traverse all minimal symbols in one objfile. */
416 #define ALL_OBJFILE_MSYMBOLS(objfile, m) \
417 for ((m) = (objfile) -> msymbols; SYMBOL_NAME(m) != NULL; (m)++)
420 /* Traverse all symtabs in all objfiles. */
422 #define ALL_SYMTABS(objfile, s) \
423 ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
424 ALL_OBJFILE_SYMTABS (objfile, s)
426 /* Traverse all psymtabs in all objfiles. */
428 #define ALL_PSYMTABS(objfile, p) \
429 ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
430 ALL_OBJFILE_PSYMTABS (objfile, p)
432 /* Traverse all minimal symbols in all objfiles. */
434 #define ALL_MSYMBOLS(objfile, m) \
435 ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
436 if ((objfile)->msymbols) \
437 ALL_OBJFILE_MSYMBOLS (objfile, m)
439 #endif /* !defined (OBJFILES_H) */