1 /* Cache and manage the values of registers for GDB, the GNU debugger.
3 Copyright 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000,
4 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
6 This file is part of GDB.
8 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
9 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
10 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
11 (at your option) any later version.
13 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
14 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
15 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
16 GNU General Public License for more details.
18 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
19 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
20 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
21 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
29 extern struct regcache *current_regcache;
31 void regcache_xfree (struct regcache *regcache);
32 struct cleanup *make_cleanup_regcache_xfree (struct regcache *regcache);
33 struct regcache *regcache_xmalloc (struct gdbarch *gdbarch);
35 /* Transfer a raw register [0..NUM_REGS) between core-gdb and the
38 void regcache_raw_read (struct regcache *regcache, int rawnum, void *buf);
39 void regcache_raw_write (struct regcache *regcache, int rawnum,
41 extern void regcache_raw_read_signed (struct regcache *regcache,
42 int regnum, LONGEST *val);
43 extern void regcache_raw_read_unsigned (struct regcache *regcache,
44 int regnum, ULONGEST *val);
45 extern void regcache_raw_write_signed (struct regcache *regcache,
46 int regnum, LONGEST val);
47 extern void regcache_raw_write_unsigned (struct regcache *regcache,
48 int regnum, ULONGEST val);
50 /* Partial transfer of a raw registers. These perform read, modify,
51 write style operations. */
53 void regcache_raw_read_part (struct regcache *regcache, int regnum,
54 int offset, int len, void *buf);
55 void regcache_raw_write_part (struct regcache *regcache, int regnum,
56 int offset, int len, const void *buf);
58 int regcache_valid_p (struct regcache *regcache, int regnum);
60 /* Transfer a cooked register [0..NUM_REGS+NUM_PSEUDO_REGS). */
61 void regcache_cooked_read (struct regcache *regcache, int rawnum, void *buf);
62 void regcache_cooked_write (struct regcache *regcache, int rawnum,
65 /* NOTE: cagney/2002-08-13: At present GDB has no reliable mechanism
66 for indicating when a ``cooked'' register was constructed from
67 invalid or unavailable ``raw'' registers. One fairly easy way of
68 adding such a mechanism would be for the cooked functions to return
69 a register valid indication. Given the possibility of such a
70 change, the extract functions below use a reference parameter,
71 rather than a function result. */
73 /* Read a register as a signed/unsigned quantity. */
74 extern void regcache_cooked_read_signed (struct regcache *regcache,
75 int regnum, LONGEST *val);
76 extern void regcache_cooked_read_unsigned (struct regcache *regcache,
77 int regnum, ULONGEST *val);
78 extern void regcache_cooked_write_signed (struct regcache *regcache,
79 int regnum, LONGEST val);
80 extern void regcache_cooked_write_unsigned (struct regcache *regcache,
81 int regnum, ULONGEST val);
83 /* Partial transfer of a cooked register. These perform read, modify,
84 write style operations. */
86 void regcache_cooked_read_part (struct regcache *regcache, int regnum,
87 int offset, int len, void *buf);
88 void regcache_cooked_write_part (struct regcache *regcache, int regnum,
89 int offset, int len, const void *buf);
91 /* Transfer a raw register [0..NUM_REGS) between the regcache and the
92 target. These functions are called by the target in response to a
93 target_fetch_registers() or target_store_registers(). */
95 extern void supply_register (int regnum, const void *val);
96 extern void regcache_collect (int regnum, void *buf);
99 /* The register's ``offset''.
101 FIXME: cagney/2002-11-07: The frame_register() function, when
102 specifying the real location of a register, does so using that
103 registers offset in the register cache. That offset is then used
104 by valops.c to determine the location of the register. The code
105 should instead use the register's number and a location expression
106 to describe a value spread across multiple registers or memory. */
108 extern int register_offset_hack (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, int regnum);
111 /* The type of a register. This function is slightly more efficient
112 then its gdbarch vector counterpart since it returns a precomputed
113 value stored in a table.
115 NOTE: cagney/2002-08-17: The original macro was called
116 REGISTER_VIRTUAL_TYPE. This was because the register could have
117 different raw and cooked (nee virtual) representations. The
118 CONVERTABLE methods being used to convert between the two
119 representations. Current code does not do this. Instead, the
120 first [0..NUM_REGS) registers are 1:1 raw:cooked, and the type
121 exactly describes the register's representation. Consequently, the
122 ``virtual'' has been dropped.
124 FIXME: cagney/2002-08-17: A number of architectures, including the
125 MIPS, are currently broken in this regard. */
127 extern struct type *register_type (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, int regnum);
130 /* Return the size of the largest register. Used when allocating
131 space for an aribtrary register value. */
133 extern int max_register_size (struct gdbarch *gdbarch);
136 /* Return the size of register REGNUM. All registers should have only
139 FIXME: cagney/2003-02-28:
141 Unfortunatly, thanks to some legacy architectures, this doesn't
142 hold. A register's cooked (nee virtual) and raw size can differ
143 (see MIPS). Such architectures should be using different register
144 numbers for the different sized views of identical registers.
146 Anyway, the up-shot is that, until that mess is fixed, core code
147 can end up being very confused - should the RAW or VIRTUAL size be
148 used? As a rule of thumb, use REGISTER_VIRTUAL_SIZE in cooked
149 code, but with the comment:
151 OK: REGISTER_VIRTUAL_SIZE
157 appended to the end of the line. */
159 extern int register_size (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, int regnum);
162 /* Save/restore a register cache. The set of registers saved /
163 restored into the DST regcache determined by the save_reggroup /
164 restore_reggroup respectively. COOKED_READ returns zero iff the
165 register's value can't be returned. */
167 typedef int (regcache_cooked_read_ftype) (void *src, int regnum, void *buf);
169 extern void regcache_save (struct regcache *dst,
170 regcache_cooked_read_ftype *cooked_read,
172 extern void regcache_restore (struct regcache *dst,
173 regcache_cooked_read_ftype *cooked_read,
176 /* Copy/duplicate the contents of a register cache. By default, the
177 operation is pass-through. Writes to DST and reads from SRC will
178 go through to the target.
180 The ``cpy'' functions can not have overlapping SRC and DST buffers.
182 ``no passthrough'' versions do not go through to the target. They
183 only transfer values already in the cache. */
185 extern struct regcache *regcache_dup (struct regcache *regcache);
186 extern struct regcache *regcache_dup_no_passthrough (struct regcache *regcache);
187 extern void regcache_cpy (struct regcache *dest, struct regcache *src);
188 extern void regcache_cpy_no_passthrough (struct regcache *dest, struct regcache *src);
190 /* NOTE: cagney/2002-11-02: The below have been superseded by the
191 regcache_cooked_*() functions found above, and the frame_*()
192 functions found in "frame.h". Take care though, often more than a
193 simple substitution is required when updating the code. The
194 change, as far as practical, should avoid adding references to
195 global variables (e.g., current_regcache, current_frame,
196 current_gdbarch or deprecated_selected_frame) and instead refer to
197 the FRAME or REGCACHE that has been passed into the containing
198 function as parameters. Consequently, the change typically
199 involves modifying the containing function so that it takes a FRAME
200 or REGCACHE parameter. In the case of an architecture vector
201 method, there should already be a non-deprecated variant that is
202 parameterized with FRAME or REGCACHE. */
204 extern char *deprecated_grub_regcache_for_registers (struct regcache *);
205 extern char *deprecated_grub_regcache_for_register_valid (struct regcache *);
206 extern void deprecated_read_register_gen (int regnum, char *myaddr);
207 extern void deprecated_write_register_gen (int regnum, char *myaddr);
208 extern void deprecated_read_register_bytes (int regbyte, char *myaddr,
210 extern void deprecated_write_register_bytes (int regbyte, char *myaddr,
213 /* Character array containing the current state of each register
214 (unavailable<0, invalid=0, valid>0) for the most recently
215 referenced thread. This global is often found in close proximity
216 to code that is directly manipulating the deprecated_registers[]
217 array. In such cases, it should be possible to replace the lot
218 with a call to supply_register(). If you find yourself in dire
219 straits, still needing access to the cache status bit, the
220 regcache_valid_p() and set_register_cached() functions are
222 extern signed char *deprecated_register_valid;
224 /* Character array containing an image of the inferior programs'
225 registers for the most recently referenced thread.
227 NOTE: cagney/2002-11-14: Target side code should be using
228 supply_register() and/or regcache_collect() while architecture side
229 code should use the more generic regcache methods. */
231 extern char *deprecated_registers;
233 /* NOTE: cagney/2002-11-05: This function, and its co-conspirator
234 deprecated_registers[], have been superseeded by supply_register(). */
235 extern void deprecated_registers_fetched (void);
237 extern int register_cached (int regnum);
239 extern void set_register_cached (int regnum, int state);
241 extern void registers_changed (void);
244 /* Rename to read_unsigned_register()? */
245 extern ULONGEST read_register (int regnum);
247 /* Rename to read_unsigned_register_pid()? */
248 extern ULONGEST read_register_pid (int regnum, ptid_t ptid);
250 extern LONGEST read_signed_register (int regnum);
252 extern LONGEST read_signed_register_pid (int regnum, ptid_t ptid);
254 extern void write_register (int regnum, LONGEST val);
256 extern void write_register_pid (int regnum, CORE_ADDR val, ptid_t ptid);
258 #endif /* REGCACHE_H */