1 /* Generic symbol file reading for the GNU debugger, GDB.
2 Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Contributed by Cygnus Support, using pieces from other GDB modules.
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. */
31 #include "breakpoint.h"
33 #include "complaints.h"
35 #include "inferior.h" /* for write_pc */
40 #include <sys/types.h>
50 /* Global variables owned by this file */
51 int readnow_symbol_files; /* Read full symbols immediately */
53 struct complaint oldsyms_complaint = {
54 "Replacing old symbols for `%s'", 0, 0
57 struct complaint empty_symtab_complaint = {
58 "Empty symbol table found for `%s'", 0, 0
61 /* External variables and functions referenced. */
63 extern int info_verbose;
65 /* Functions this file defines */
68 set_initial_language PARAMS ((void));
71 load_command PARAMS ((char *, int));
74 add_symbol_file_command PARAMS ((char *, int));
77 add_shared_symbol_files_command PARAMS ((char *, int));
80 cashier_psymtab PARAMS ((struct partial_symtab *));
83 compare_psymbols PARAMS ((const void *, const void *));
86 compare_symbols PARAMS ((const void *, const void *));
89 symfile_bfd_open PARAMS ((char *));
92 find_sym_fns PARAMS ((struct objfile *));
94 /* List of all available sym_fns. On gdb startup, each object file reader
95 calls add_symtab_fns() to register information on each format it is
98 static struct sym_fns *symtab_fns = NULL;
100 /* Structures with which to manage partial symbol allocation. */
102 struct psymbol_allocation_list global_psymbols = {0}, static_psymbols = {0};
104 /* Flag for whether user will be reloading symbols multiple times.
105 Defaults to ON for VxWorks, otherwise OFF. */
107 #ifdef SYMBOL_RELOADING_DEFAULT
108 int symbol_reloading = SYMBOL_RELOADING_DEFAULT;
110 int symbol_reloading = 0;
114 /* Since this function is called from within qsort, in an ANSI environment
115 it must conform to the prototype for qsort, which specifies that the
116 comparison function takes two "void *" pointers. */
119 compare_symbols (s1p, s2p)
123 register struct symbol **s1, **s2;
125 s1 = (struct symbol **) s1p;
126 s2 = (struct symbol **) s2p;
128 return (STRCMP (SYMBOL_NAME (*s1), SYMBOL_NAME (*s2)));
135 compare_psymbols -- compare two partial symbols by name
139 Given pointer to two partial symbol table entries, compare
140 them by name and return -N, 0, or +N (ala strcmp). Typically
141 used by sorting routines like qsort().
145 Does direct compare of first two characters before punting
146 and passing to strcmp for longer compares. Note that the
147 original version had a bug whereby two null strings or two
148 identically named one character strings would return the
149 comparison of memory following the null byte.
154 compare_psymbols (s1p, s2p)
158 register char *st1 = SYMBOL_NAME ((struct partial_symbol *) s1p);
159 register char *st2 = SYMBOL_NAME ((struct partial_symbol *) s2p);
161 if ((st1[0] - st2[0]) || !st1[0])
163 return (st1[0] - st2[0]);
165 else if ((st1[1] - st2[1]) || !st1[1])
167 return (st1[1] - st2[1]);
171 return (STRCMP (st1 + 2, st2 + 2));
176 sort_pst_symbols (pst)
177 struct partial_symtab *pst;
179 /* Sort the global list; don't sort the static list */
181 qsort (pst -> objfile -> global_psymbols.list + pst -> globals_offset,
182 pst -> n_global_syms, sizeof (struct partial_symbol),
186 /* Call sort_block_syms to sort alphabetically the symbols of one block. */
190 register struct block *b;
192 qsort (&BLOCK_SYM (b, 0), BLOCK_NSYMS (b),
193 sizeof (struct symbol *), compare_symbols);
196 /* Call sort_symtab_syms to sort alphabetically
197 the symbols of each block of one symtab. */
201 register struct symtab *s;
203 register struct blockvector *bv;
206 register struct block *b;
210 bv = BLOCKVECTOR (s);
211 nbl = BLOCKVECTOR_NBLOCKS (bv);
212 for (i = 0; i < nbl; i++)
214 b = BLOCKVECTOR_BLOCK (bv, i);
215 if (BLOCK_SHOULD_SORT (b))
220 /* Make a copy of the string at PTR with SIZE characters in the symbol obstack
221 (and add a null character at the end in the copy).
222 Returns the address of the copy. */
225 obsavestring (ptr, size, obstackp)
228 struct obstack *obstackp;
230 register char *p = (char *) obstack_alloc (obstackp, size + 1);
231 /* Open-coded memcpy--saves function call time.
232 These strings are usually short. */
234 register char *p1 = ptr;
235 register char *p2 = p;
236 char *end = ptr + size;
244 /* Concatenate strings S1, S2 and S3; return the new string.
245 Space is found in the symbol_obstack. */
248 obconcat (obstackp, s1, s2, s3)
249 struct obstack *obstackp;
250 const char *s1, *s2, *s3;
252 register int len = strlen (s1) + strlen (s2) + strlen (s3) + 1;
253 register char *val = (char *) obstack_alloc (obstackp, len);
260 /* Get the symbol table that corresponds to a partial_symtab.
261 This is fast after the first time you do it. In fact, there
262 is an even faster macro PSYMTAB_TO_SYMTAB that does the fast
266 psymtab_to_symtab (pst)
267 register struct partial_symtab *pst;
269 /* If it's been looked up before, return it. */
273 /* If it has not yet been read in, read it. */
276 (*pst->read_symtab) (pst);
282 /* Initialize entry point information for this objfile. */
285 init_entry_point_info (objfile)
286 struct objfile *objfile;
288 /* Save startup file's range of PC addresses to help blockframe.c
289 decide where the bottom of the stack is. */
291 if (bfd_get_file_flags (objfile -> obfd) & EXEC_P)
293 /* Executable file -- record its entry point so we'll recognize
294 the startup file because it contains the entry point. */
295 objfile -> ei.entry_point = bfd_get_start_address (objfile -> obfd);
299 /* Examination of non-executable.o files. Short-circuit this stuff. */
300 objfile -> ei.entry_point = INVALID_ENTRY_POINT;
301 objfile -> ei.entry_file_lowpc = INVALID_ENTRY_LOWPC;
302 objfile -> ei.entry_file_highpc = INVALID_ENTRY_HIGHPC;
306 /* Get current entry point address. */
309 entry_point_address()
311 return symfile_objfile ? symfile_objfile->ei.entry_point : 0;
314 /* Remember the lowest-addressed loadable section we've seen.
315 This function is called via bfd_map_over_sections. */
317 #if 0 /* Not used yet */
319 find_lowest_section (abfd, sect, obj)
324 asection **lowest = (asection **)obj;
326 if (0 == (bfd_get_section_flags (abfd, sect) & SEC_LOAD))
329 *lowest = sect; /* First loadable section */
330 else if (bfd_section_vma (abfd, *lowest) >= bfd_section_vma (abfd, sect))
331 *lowest = sect; /* A lower loadable section */
335 /* Process a symbol file, as either the main file or as a dynamically
338 NAME is the file name (which will be tilde-expanded and made
339 absolute herein) (but we don't free or modify NAME itself).
340 FROM_TTY says how verbose to be. MAINLINE specifies whether this
341 is the main symbol file, or whether it's an extra symbol file such
342 as dynamically loaded code. If !mainline, ADDR is the address
343 where the text segment was loaded. If VERBO, the caller has printed
344 a verbose message about the symbol reading (and complaints can be
345 more terse about it). */
348 syms_from_objfile (objfile, addr, mainline, verbo)
349 struct objfile *objfile;
354 struct section_offsets *section_offsets;
355 asection *lowest_sect;
356 struct cleanup *old_chain;
358 init_entry_point_info (objfile);
359 find_sym_fns (objfile);
361 /* Make sure that partially constructed symbol tables will be cleaned up
362 if an error occurs during symbol reading. */
363 old_chain = make_cleanup (free_objfile, objfile);
367 /* We will modify the main symbol table, make sure that all its users
368 will be cleaned up if an error occurs during symbol reading. */
369 make_cleanup (clear_symtab_users, 0);
371 /* Since no error yet, throw away the old symbol table. */
373 if (symfile_objfile != NULL)
375 free_objfile (symfile_objfile);
376 symfile_objfile = NULL;
379 /* Currently we keep symbols from the add-symbol-file command.
380 If the user wants to get rid of them, they should do "symbol-file"
381 without arguments first. Not sure this is the best behavior
384 (*objfile -> sf -> sym_new_init) (objfile);
387 /* Convert addr into an offset rather than an absolute address.
388 We find the lowest address of a loaded segment in the objfile,
389 and assume that <addr> is where that got loaded. Due to historical
390 precedent, we warn if that doesn't happen to be the ".text"
395 addr = 0; /* No offset from objfile addresses. */
399 lowest_sect = bfd_get_section_by_name (objfile->obfd, ".text");
402 bfd_map_over_sections (objfile->obfd, find_lowest_section,
406 if (lowest_sect == 0)
407 warning ("no loadable sections found in added symbol-file %s",
409 else if (0 == bfd_get_section_name (objfile->obfd, lowest_sect)
411 bfd_get_section_name (objfile->obfd, lowest_sect)))
412 /* FIXME-32x64--assumes bfd_vma fits in long. */
413 warning ("Lowest section in %s is %s at 0x%lx",
415 bfd_section_name (objfile->obfd, lowest_sect),
416 (unsigned long) bfd_section_vma (objfile->obfd, lowest_sect));
419 addr -= bfd_section_vma (objfile->obfd, lowest_sect);
422 /* Initialize symbol reading routines for this objfile, allow complaints to
423 appear for this new file, and record how verbose to be, then do the
424 initial symbol reading for this file. */
426 (*objfile -> sf -> sym_init) (objfile);
427 clear_complaints (1, verbo);
429 section_offsets = (*objfile -> sf -> sym_offsets) (objfile, addr);
430 objfile->section_offsets = section_offsets;
432 #ifndef IBM6000_TARGET
433 /* This is a SVR4/SunOS specific hack, I think. In any event, it
434 screws RS/6000. sym_offsets should be doing this sort of thing,
435 because it knows the mapping between bfd sections and
437 /* This is a hack. As far as I can tell, section offsets are not
438 target dependent. They are all set to addr with a couple of
439 exceptions. The exceptions are sysvr4 shared libraries, whose
440 offsets are kept in solib structures anyway and rs6000 xcoff
441 which handles shared libraries in a completely unique way.
443 Section offsets are built similarly, except that they are built
444 by adding addr in all cases because there is no clear mapping
445 from section_offsets into actual sections. Note that solib.c
446 has a different algorythm for finding section offsets.
448 These should probably all be collapsed into some target
449 independent form of shared library support. FIXME. */
453 struct obj_section *s;
455 for (s = objfile->sections; s < objfile->sections_end; ++s)
457 s->addr -= s->offset;
459 s->endaddr -= s->offset;
464 #endif /* not IBM6000_TARGET */
466 (*objfile -> sf -> sym_read) (objfile, section_offsets, mainline);
468 if (!have_partial_symbols () && !have_full_symbols ())
471 printf_filtered ("(no debugging symbols found)...");
475 /* Don't allow char * to have a typename (else would get caddr_t).
476 Ditto void *. FIXME: Check whether this is now done by all the
477 symbol readers themselves (many of them now do), and if so remove
480 TYPE_NAME (lookup_pointer_type (builtin_type_char)) = 0;
481 TYPE_NAME (lookup_pointer_type (builtin_type_void)) = 0;
483 /* Mark the objfile has having had initial symbol read attempted. Note
484 that this does not mean we found any symbols... */
486 objfile -> flags |= OBJF_SYMS;
488 /* Discard cleanups as symbol reading was successful. */
490 discard_cleanups (old_chain);
493 /* Perform required actions after either reading in the initial
494 symbols for a new objfile, or mapping in the symbols from a reusable
498 new_symfile_objfile (objfile, mainline, verbo)
499 struct objfile *objfile;
504 /* If this is the main symbol file we have to clean up all users of the
505 old main symbol file. Otherwise it is sufficient to fixup all the
506 breakpoints that may have been redefined by this symbol file. */
509 /* OK, make it the "real" symbol file. */
510 symfile_objfile = objfile;
512 clear_symtab_users ();
516 breakpoint_re_set ();
519 /* We're done reading the symbol file; finish off complaints. */
520 clear_complaints (0, verbo);
523 /* Process a symbol file, as either the main file or as a dynamically
526 NAME is the file name (which will be tilde-expanded and made
527 absolute herein) (but we don't free or modify NAME itself).
528 FROM_TTY says how verbose to be. MAINLINE specifies whether this
529 is the main symbol file, or whether it's an extra symbol file such
530 as dynamically loaded code. If !mainline, ADDR is the address
531 where the text segment was loaded.
533 Upon success, returns a pointer to the objfile that was added.
534 Upon failure, jumps back to command level (never returns). */
537 symbol_file_add (name, from_tty, addr, mainline, mapped, readnow)
545 struct objfile *objfile;
546 struct partial_symtab *psymtab;
549 /* Open a bfd for the file, and give user a chance to burp if we'd be
550 interactively wiping out any existing symbols. */
552 abfd = symfile_bfd_open (name);
554 if ((have_full_symbols () || have_partial_symbols ())
557 && !query ("Load new symbol table from \"%s\"? ", name))
558 error ("Not confirmed.");
560 objfile = allocate_objfile (abfd, mapped);
562 /* If the objfile uses a mapped symbol file, and we have a psymtab for
563 it, then skip reading any symbols at this time. */
565 if ((objfile -> flags & OBJF_MAPPED) && (objfile -> flags & OBJF_SYMS))
567 /* We mapped in an existing symbol table file that already has had
568 initial symbol reading performed, so we can skip that part. Notify
569 the user that instead of reading the symbols, they have been mapped.
571 if (from_tty || info_verbose)
573 printf_filtered ("Mapped symbols for %s...", name);
575 gdb_flush (gdb_stdout);
577 init_entry_point_info (objfile);
578 find_sym_fns (objfile);
582 /* We either created a new mapped symbol table, mapped an existing
583 symbol table file which has not had initial symbol reading
584 performed, or need to read an unmapped symbol table. */
585 if (from_tty || info_verbose)
587 printf_filtered ("Reading symbols from %s...", name);
589 gdb_flush (gdb_stdout);
591 syms_from_objfile (objfile, addr, mainline, from_tty);
594 /* We now have at least a partial symbol table. Check to see if the
595 user requested that all symbols be read on initial access via either
596 the gdb startup command line or on a per symbol file basis. Expand
597 all partial symbol tables for this objfile if so. */
599 if (readnow || readnow_symbol_files)
601 if (from_tty || info_verbose)
603 printf_filtered ("expanding to full symbols...");
605 gdb_flush (gdb_stdout);
608 for (psymtab = objfile -> psymtabs;
610 psymtab = psymtab -> next)
612 psymtab_to_symtab (psymtab);
616 if (from_tty || info_verbose)
618 printf_filtered ("done.\n");
619 gdb_flush (gdb_stdout);
622 new_symfile_objfile (objfile, mainline, from_tty);
627 /* This is the symbol-file command. Read the file, analyze its
628 symbols, and add a struct symtab to a symtab list. The syntax of
629 the command is rather bizarre--(1) buildargv implements various
630 quoting conventions which are undocumented and have little or
631 nothing in common with the way things are quoted (or not quoted)
632 elsewhere in GDB, (2) options are used, which are not generally
633 used in GDB (perhaps "set mapped on", "set readnow on" would be
634 better), (3) the order of options matters, which is contrary to GNU
635 conventions (because it is confusing and inconvenient). */
638 symbol_file_command (args, from_tty)
644 CORE_ADDR text_relocation = 0; /* text_relocation */
645 struct cleanup *cleanups;
653 if ((have_full_symbols () || have_partial_symbols ())
655 && !query ("Discard symbol table from `%s'? ",
656 symfile_objfile -> name))
657 error ("Not confirmed.");
658 free_all_objfiles ();
659 symfile_objfile = NULL;
662 printf_unfiltered ("No symbol file now.\n");
667 if ((argv = buildargv (args)) == NULL)
671 cleanups = make_cleanup (freeargv, (char *) argv);
672 while (*argv != NULL)
674 if (STREQ (*argv, "-mapped"))
678 else if (STREQ (*argv, "-readnow"))
682 else if (**argv == '-')
684 error ("unknown option `%s'", *argv);
692 /* this is for rombug remote only, to get the text relocation by
693 using link command */
694 p = strrchr(name, '/');
698 target_link(p, &text_relocation);
700 if (text_relocation == (CORE_ADDR)0)
702 else if (text_relocation == (CORE_ADDR)-1)
703 symbol_file_add (name, from_tty, (CORE_ADDR)0, 1, mapped,
706 symbol_file_add (name, from_tty, (CORE_ADDR)text_relocation,
709 /* Getting new symbols may change our opinion about what is
711 reinit_frame_cache ();
713 set_initial_language ();
720 error ("no symbol file name was specified");
722 do_cleanups (cleanups);
726 /* Set the initial language.
728 A better solution would be to record the language in the psymtab when reading
729 partial symbols, and then use it (if known) to set the language. This would
730 be a win for formats that encode the language in an easily discoverable place,
731 such as DWARF. For stabs, we can jump through hoops looking for specially
732 named symbols or try to intuit the language from the specific type of stabs
733 we find, but we can't do that until later when we read in full symbols.
737 set_initial_language ()
739 struct partial_symtab *pst;
740 enum language lang = language_unknown;
742 pst = find_main_psymtab ();
745 if (pst -> filename != NULL)
747 lang = deduce_language_from_filename (pst -> filename);
749 if (lang == language_unknown)
751 /* Make C the default language */
755 expected_language = current_language; /* Don't warn the user */
759 /* Open file specified by NAME and hand it off to BFD for preliminary
760 analysis. Result is a newly initialized bfd *, which includes a newly
761 malloc'd` copy of NAME (tilde-expanded and made absolute).
762 In case of trouble, error() is called. */
765 symfile_bfd_open (name)
772 name = tilde_expand (name); /* Returns 1st new malloc'd copy */
774 /* Look down path for it, allocate 2nd new malloc'd copy. */
775 desc = openp (getenv ("PATH"), 1, name, O_RDONLY | O_BINARY, 0, &absolute_name);
778 make_cleanup (free, name);
779 perror_with_name (name);
781 free (name); /* Free 1st new malloc'd copy */
782 name = absolute_name; /* Keep 2nd malloc'd copy in bfd */
783 /* It'll be freed in free_objfile(). */
785 sym_bfd = bfd_fdopenr (name, gnutarget, desc);
789 make_cleanup (free, name);
790 error ("\"%s\": can't open to read symbols: %s.", name,
791 bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
793 sym_bfd->cacheable = true;
795 if (!bfd_check_format (sym_bfd, bfd_object))
797 bfd_close (sym_bfd); /* This also closes desc */
798 make_cleanup (free, name);
799 error ("\"%s\": can't read symbols: %s.", name,
800 bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
806 /* Link a new symtab_fns into the global symtab_fns list. Called on gdb
807 startup by the _initialize routine in each object file format reader,
808 to register information about each format the the reader is prepared
815 sf->next = symtab_fns;
820 /* Initialize to read symbols from the symbol file sym_bfd. It either
821 returns or calls error(). The result is an initialized struct sym_fns
822 in the objfile structure, that contains cached information about the
826 find_sym_fns (objfile)
827 struct objfile *objfile;
830 enum bfd_flavour our_flavour = bfd_get_flavour (objfile -> obfd);
831 char *our_target = bfd_get_target (objfile -> obfd);
833 /* Special kludge for RS/6000. See xcoffread.c. */
834 if (STREQ (our_target, "aixcoff-rs6000"))
835 our_flavour = (enum bfd_flavour)-1;
837 /* Special kludge for apollo. See dstread.c. */
838 if (STREQN (our_target, "apollo", 6))
839 our_flavour = (enum bfd_flavour)-2;
841 for (sf = symtab_fns; sf != NULL; sf = sf -> next)
843 if (our_flavour == sf -> sym_flavour)
849 error ("I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that. Symbol format `%s' unknown.",
850 bfd_get_target (objfile -> obfd));
853 /* This function runs the load command of our current target. */
856 load_command (arg, from_tty)
861 arg = get_exec_file (1);
862 target_load (arg, from_tty);
865 /* This version of "load" should be usable for any target. Currently
866 it is just used for remote targets, not inftarg.c or core files,
867 on the theory that only in that case is it useful.
869 Avoiding xmodem and the like seems like a win (a) because we don't have
870 to worry about finding it, and (b) On VMS, fork() is very slow and so
871 we don't want to run a subprocess. On the other hand, I'm not sure how
872 performance compares. */
874 generic_load (filename, from_tty)
878 struct cleanup *old_cleanups;
882 loadfile_bfd = bfd_openr (filename, gnutarget);
883 if (loadfile_bfd == NULL)
885 perror_with_name (filename);
888 old_cleanups = make_cleanup (bfd_close, loadfile_bfd);
890 if (!bfd_check_format (loadfile_bfd, bfd_object))
892 error ("\"%s\" is not an object file: %s", filename,
893 bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
896 for (s = loadfile_bfd->sections; s; s = s->next)
898 if (s->flags & SEC_LOAD)
902 size = bfd_get_section_size_before_reloc (s);
906 struct cleanup *old_chain;
909 buffer = xmalloc (size);
910 old_chain = make_cleanup (free, buffer);
912 vma = bfd_get_section_vma (loadfile_bfd, s);
914 /* Is this really necessary? I guess it gives the user something
915 to look at during a long download. */
916 printf_filtered ("Loading section %s, size 0x%lx vma ",
917 bfd_get_section_name (loadfile_bfd, s),
918 (unsigned long) size);
919 print_address_numeric (vma, 1, gdb_stdout);
920 printf_filtered ("\n");
922 bfd_get_section_contents (loadfile_bfd, s, buffer, 0, size);
924 target_write_memory (vma, buffer, size);
926 do_cleanups (old_chain);
931 /* We were doing this in remote-mips.c, I suspect it is right
932 for other targets too. */
933 write_pc (loadfile_bfd->start_address);
935 /* FIXME: are we supposed to call symbol_file_add or not? According to
936 a comment from remote-mips.c (where a call to symbol_file_add was
937 commented out), making the call confuses GDB if more than one file is
938 loaded in. remote-nindy.c had no call to symbol_file_add, but remote-vx.c
941 do_cleanups (old_cleanups);
944 /* This function allows the addition of incrementally linked object files.
945 It does not modify any state in the target, only in the debugger. */
949 add_symbol_file_command (args, from_tty)
963 error ("add-symbol-file takes a file name and an address");
966 /* Make a copy of the string that we can safely write into. */
968 args = strdup (args);
969 make_cleanup (free, args);
971 /* Pick off any -option args and the file name. */
973 while ((*args != '\000') && (name == NULL))
975 while (isspace (*args)) {args++;}
977 while ((*args != '\000') && !isspace (*args)) {args++;}
986 else if (STREQ (arg, "-mapped"))
990 else if (STREQ (arg, "-readnow"))
996 error ("unknown option `%s'", arg);
1000 /* After picking off any options and the file name, args should be
1001 left pointing at the remainder of the command line, which should
1002 be the address expression to evaluate. */
1006 error ("add-symbol-file takes a file name");
1008 name = tilde_expand (name);
1009 make_cleanup (free, name);
1011 if (*args != '\000')
1013 text_addr = parse_and_eval_address (args);
1017 target_link(name, &text_addr);
1018 if (text_addr == (CORE_ADDR)-1)
1019 error("Don't know how to get text start location for this file");
1022 /* FIXME-32x64: Assumes text_addr fits in a long. */
1023 if (!query ("add symbol table from file \"%s\" at text_addr = %s?\n",
1024 name, local_hex_string ((unsigned long)text_addr)))
1025 error ("Not confirmed.");
1027 symbol_file_add (name, 0, text_addr, 0, mapped, readnow);
1029 /* Getting new symbols may change our opinion about what is
1031 reinit_frame_cache ();
1035 add_shared_symbol_files_command (args, from_tty)
1039 #ifdef ADD_SHARED_SYMBOL_FILES
1040 ADD_SHARED_SYMBOL_FILES (args, from_tty);
1042 error ("This command is not available in this configuration of GDB.");
1046 /* Re-read symbols if a symbol-file has changed. */
1050 struct objfile *objfile;
1053 struct stat new_statbuf;
1056 /* With the addition of shared libraries, this should be modified,
1057 the load time should be saved in the partial symbol tables, since
1058 different tables may come from different source files. FIXME.
1059 This routine should then walk down each partial symbol table
1060 and see if the symbol table that it originates from has been changed */
1062 for (objfile = object_files; objfile; objfile = objfile->next) {
1063 if (objfile->obfd) {
1064 #ifdef IBM6000_TARGET
1065 /* If this object is from a shared library, then you should
1066 stat on the library name, not member name. */
1068 if (objfile->obfd->my_archive)
1069 res = stat (objfile->obfd->my_archive->filename, &new_statbuf);
1072 res = stat (objfile->name, &new_statbuf);
1074 /* FIXME, should use print_sys_errmsg but it's not filtered. */
1075 printf_filtered ("`%s' has disappeared; keeping its symbols.\n",
1079 new_modtime = new_statbuf.st_mtime;
1080 if (new_modtime != objfile->mtime)
1082 struct cleanup *old_cleanups;
1083 struct section_offsets *offsets;
1085 int section_offsets_size;
1086 char *obfd_filename;
1088 printf_filtered ("`%s' has changed; re-reading symbols.\n",
1091 /* There are various functions like symbol_file_add,
1092 symfile_bfd_open, syms_from_objfile, etc., which might
1093 appear to do what we want. But they have various other
1094 effects which we *don't* want. So we just do stuff
1095 ourselves. We don't worry about mapped files (for one thing,
1096 any mapped file will be out of date). */
1098 /* If we get an error, blow away this objfile (not sure if
1099 that is the correct response for things like shared
1101 old_cleanups = make_cleanup (free_objfile, objfile);
1102 /* We need to do this whenever any symbols go away. */
1103 make_cleanup (clear_symtab_users, 0);
1105 /* Clean up any state BFD has sitting around. We don't need
1106 to close the descriptor but BFD lacks a way of closing the
1107 BFD without closing the descriptor. */
1108 obfd_filename = bfd_get_filename (objfile->obfd);
1109 if (!bfd_close (objfile->obfd))
1110 error ("Can't close BFD for %s.", objfile->name);
1111 objfile->obfd = bfd_openr (obfd_filename, gnutarget);
1112 if (objfile->obfd == NULL)
1113 error ("Can't open %s to read symbols.", objfile->name);
1114 /* bfd_openr sets cacheable to true, which is what we want. */
1115 if (!bfd_check_format (objfile->obfd, bfd_object))
1116 error ("Can't read symbols from %s: %s.", objfile->name,
1117 bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
1119 /* Save the offsets, we will nuke them with the rest of the
1121 num_offsets = objfile->num_sections;
1122 section_offsets_size =
1123 sizeof (struct section_offsets)
1124 + sizeof (objfile->section_offsets->offsets) * num_offsets;
1125 offsets = (struct section_offsets *) alloca (section_offsets_size);
1126 memcpy (offsets, objfile->section_offsets, section_offsets_size);
1128 /* Nuke all the state that we will re-read. Much of the following
1129 code which sets things to NULL really is necessary to tell
1130 other parts of GDB that there is nothing currently there. */
1132 /* FIXME: Do we have to free a whole linked list, or is this
1134 if (objfile->global_psymbols.list)
1135 mfree (objfile->md, objfile->global_psymbols.list);
1136 objfile->global_psymbols.list = NULL;
1137 objfile->global_psymbols.next = NULL;
1138 objfile->global_psymbols.size = 0;
1139 if (objfile->static_psymbols.list)
1140 mfree (objfile->md, objfile->static_psymbols.list);
1141 objfile->static_psymbols.list = NULL;
1142 objfile->static_psymbols.next = NULL;
1143 objfile->static_psymbols.size = 0;
1145 /* Free the obstacks for non-reusable objfiles */
1146 obstack_free (&objfile -> psymbol_obstack, 0);
1147 obstack_free (&objfile -> symbol_obstack, 0);
1148 obstack_free (&objfile -> type_obstack, 0);
1149 objfile->sections = NULL;
1150 objfile->symtabs = NULL;
1151 objfile->psymtabs = NULL;
1152 objfile->free_psymtabs = NULL;
1153 objfile->msymbols = NULL;
1154 objfile->minimal_symbol_count= 0;
1155 objfile->fundamental_types = NULL;
1156 if (objfile -> sf != NULL)
1158 (*objfile -> sf -> sym_finish) (objfile);
1161 /* We never make this a mapped file. */
1162 objfile -> md = NULL;
1163 /* obstack_specify_allocation also initializes the obstack so
1165 obstack_specify_allocation (&objfile -> psymbol_obstack, 0, 0,
1167 obstack_specify_allocation (&objfile -> symbol_obstack, 0, 0,
1169 obstack_specify_allocation (&objfile -> type_obstack, 0, 0,
1171 if (build_objfile_section_table (objfile))
1173 error ("Can't find the file sections in `%s': %s",
1174 objfile -> name, bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
1177 /* We use the same section offsets as from last time. I'm not
1178 sure whether that is always correct for shared libraries. */
1179 objfile->section_offsets = (struct section_offsets *)
1180 obstack_alloc (&objfile -> psymbol_obstack, section_offsets_size);
1181 memcpy (objfile->section_offsets, offsets, section_offsets_size);
1182 objfile->num_sections = num_offsets;
1184 /* What the hell is sym_new_init for, anyway? The concept of
1185 distinguishing between the main file and additional files
1186 in this way seems rather dubious. */
1187 if (objfile == symfile_objfile)
1188 (*objfile->sf->sym_new_init) (objfile);
1190 (*objfile->sf->sym_init) (objfile);
1191 clear_complaints (1, 1);
1192 /* The "mainline" parameter is a hideous hack; I think leaving it
1193 zero is OK since dbxread.c also does what it needs to do if
1194 objfile->global_psymbols.size is 0. */
1195 (*objfile->sf->sym_read) (objfile, objfile->section_offsets, 0);
1196 if (!have_partial_symbols () && !have_full_symbols ())
1199 printf_filtered ("(no debugging symbols found)\n");
1202 objfile -> flags |= OBJF_SYMS;
1204 /* We're done reading the symbol file; finish off complaints. */
1205 clear_complaints (0, 1);
1207 /* Getting new symbols may change our opinion about what is
1210 reinit_frame_cache ();
1212 /* Discard cleanups as symbol reading was successful. */
1213 discard_cleanups (old_cleanups);
1215 /* If the mtime has changed between the time we set new_modtime
1216 and now, we *want* this to be out of date, so don't call stat
1218 objfile->mtime = new_modtime;
1225 clear_symtab_users ();
1230 deduce_language_from_filename (filename)
1237 else if (0 == (c = strrchr (filename, '.')))
1238 ; /* Get default. */
1239 else if (STREQ (c, ".c"))
1241 else if (STREQ (c, ".cc") || STREQ (c, ".C") || STREQ (c, ".cxx")
1242 || STREQ (c, ".cpp") || STREQ (c, ".cp"))
1243 return language_cplus;
1244 else if (STREQ (c, ".ch") || STREQ (c, ".c186") || STREQ (c, ".c286"))
1245 return language_chill;
1246 else if (STREQ (c, ".f") || STREQ (c, ".F"))
1247 return language_fortran;
1248 else if (STREQ (c, ".mod"))
1250 else if (STREQ (c, ".s") || STREQ (c, ".S"))
1251 return language_asm;
1253 return language_unknown; /* default */
1258 Allocate and partly initialize a new symbol table. Return a pointer
1259 to it. error() if no space.
1261 Caller must set these fields:
1267 initialize any EXTRA_SYMTAB_INFO
1268 possibly free_named_symtabs (symtab->filename);
1272 allocate_symtab (filename, objfile)
1274 struct objfile *objfile;
1276 register struct symtab *symtab;
1278 symtab = (struct symtab *)
1279 obstack_alloc (&objfile -> symbol_obstack, sizeof (struct symtab));
1280 memset (symtab, 0, sizeof (*symtab));
1281 symtab -> filename = obsavestring (filename, strlen (filename),
1282 &objfile -> symbol_obstack);
1283 symtab -> fullname = NULL;
1284 symtab -> language = deduce_language_from_filename (filename);
1286 /* Hook it to the objfile it comes from */
1288 symtab -> objfile = objfile;
1289 symtab -> next = objfile -> symtabs;
1290 objfile -> symtabs = symtab;
1292 #ifdef INIT_EXTRA_SYMTAB_INFO
1293 INIT_EXTRA_SYMTAB_INFO (symtab);
1299 struct partial_symtab *
1300 allocate_psymtab (filename, objfile)
1302 struct objfile *objfile;
1304 struct partial_symtab *psymtab;
1306 if (objfile -> free_psymtabs)
1308 psymtab = objfile -> free_psymtabs;
1309 objfile -> free_psymtabs = psymtab -> next;
1312 psymtab = (struct partial_symtab *)
1313 obstack_alloc (&objfile -> psymbol_obstack,
1314 sizeof (struct partial_symtab));
1316 memset (psymtab, 0, sizeof (struct partial_symtab));
1317 psymtab -> filename = obsavestring (filename, strlen (filename),
1318 &objfile -> psymbol_obstack);
1319 psymtab -> symtab = NULL;
1321 /* Hook it to the objfile it comes from */
1323 psymtab -> objfile = objfile;
1324 psymtab -> next = objfile -> psymtabs;
1325 objfile -> psymtabs = psymtab;
1331 /* Reset all data structures in gdb which may contain references to symbol
1335 clear_symtab_users ()
1337 /* Someday, we should do better than this, by only blowing away
1338 the things that really need to be blown. */
1339 clear_value_history ();
1341 clear_internalvars ();
1342 breakpoint_re_set ();
1343 set_default_breakpoint (0, 0, 0, 0);
1344 current_source_symtab = 0;
1345 current_source_line = 0;
1346 clear_pc_function_cache ();
1349 /* clear_symtab_users_once:
1351 This function is run after symbol reading, or from a cleanup.
1352 If an old symbol table was obsoleted, the old symbol table
1353 has been blown away, but the other GDB data structures that may
1354 reference it have not yet been cleared or re-directed. (The old
1355 symtab was zapped, and the cleanup queued, in free_named_symtab()
1358 This function can be queued N times as a cleanup, or called
1359 directly; it will do all the work the first time, and then will be a
1360 no-op until the next time it is queued. This works by bumping a
1361 counter at queueing time. Much later when the cleanup is run, or at
1362 the end of symbol processing (in case the cleanup is discarded), if
1363 the queued count is greater than the "done-count", we do the work
1364 and set the done-count to the queued count. If the queued count is
1365 less than or equal to the done-count, we just ignore the call. This
1366 is needed because reading a single .o file will often replace many
1367 symtabs (one per .h file, for example), and we don't want to reset
1368 the breakpoints N times in the user's face.
1370 The reason we both queue a cleanup, and call it directly after symbol
1371 reading, is because the cleanup protects us in case of errors, but is
1372 discarded if symbol reading is successful. */
1375 /* FIXME: As free_named_symtabs is currently a big noop this function
1376 is no longer needed. */
1378 clear_symtab_users_once PARAMS ((void));
1380 static int clear_symtab_users_queued;
1381 static int clear_symtab_users_done;
1384 clear_symtab_users_once ()
1386 /* Enforce once-per-`do_cleanups'-semantics */
1387 if (clear_symtab_users_queued <= clear_symtab_users_done)
1389 clear_symtab_users_done = clear_symtab_users_queued;
1391 clear_symtab_users ();
1395 /* Delete the specified psymtab, and any others that reference it. */
1398 cashier_psymtab (pst)
1399 struct partial_symtab *pst;
1401 struct partial_symtab *ps, *pprev = NULL;
1404 /* Find its previous psymtab in the chain */
1405 for (ps = pst->objfile->psymtabs; ps; ps = ps->next) {
1412 /* Unhook it from the chain. */
1413 if (ps == pst->objfile->psymtabs)
1414 pst->objfile->psymtabs = ps->next;
1416 pprev->next = ps->next;
1418 /* FIXME, we can't conveniently deallocate the entries in the
1419 partial_symbol lists (global_psymbols/static_psymbols) that
1420 this psymtab points to. These just take up space until all
1421 the psymtabs are reclaimed. Ditto the dependencies list and
1422 filename, which are all in the psymbol_obstack. */
1424 /* We need to cashier any psymtab that has this one as a dependency... */
1426 for (ps = pst->objfile->psymtabs; ps; ps = ps->next) {
1427 for (i = 0; i < ps->number_of_dependencies; i++) {
1428 if (ps->dependencies[i] == pst) {
1429 cashier_psymtab (ps);
1430 goto again; /* Must restart, chain has been munged. */
1437 /* If a symtab or psymtab for filename NAME is found, free it along
1438 with any dependent breakpoints, displays, etc.
1439 Used when loading new versions of object modules with the "add-file"
1440 command. This is only called on the top-level symtab or psymtab's name;
1441 it is not called for subsidiary files such as .h files.
1443 Return value is 1 if we blew away the environment, 0 if not.
1444 FIXME. The return valu appears to never be used.
1446 FIXME. I think this is not the best way to do this. We should
1447 work on being gentler to the environment while still cleaning up
1448 all stray pointers into the freed symtab. */
1451 free_named_symtabs (name)
1455 /* FIXME: With the new method of each objfile having it's own
1456 psymtab list, this function needs serious rethinking. In particular,
1457 why was it ever necessary to toss psymtabs with specific compilation
1458 unit filenames, as opposed to all psymtabs from a particular symbol
1460 Well, the answer is that some systems permit reloading of particular
1461 compilation units. We want to blow away any old info about these
1462 compilation units, regardless of which objfiles they arrived in. --gnu. */
1464 register struct symtab *s;
1465 register struct symtab *prev;
1466 register struct partial_symtab *ps;
1467 struct blockvector *bv;
1470 /* We only wack things if the symbol-reload switch is set. */
1471 if (!symbol_reloading)
1474 /* Some symbol formats have trouble providing file names... */
1475 if (name == 0 || *name == '\0')
1478 /* Look for a psymtab with the specified name. */
1481 for (ps = partial_symtab_list; ps; ps = ps->next) {
1482 if (STREQ (name, ps->filename)) {
1483 cashier_psymtab (ps); /* Blow it away...and its little dog, too. */
1484 goto again2; /* Must restart, chain has been munged */
1488 /* Look for a symtab with the specified name. */
1490 for (s = symtab_list; s; s = s->next)
1492 if (STREQ (name, s->filename))
1499 if (s == symtab_list)
1500 symtab_list = s->next;
1502 prev->next = s->next;
1504 /* For now, queue a delete for all breakpoints, displays, etc., whether
1505 or not they depend on the symtab being freed. This should be
1506 changed so that only those data structures affected are deleted. */
1508 /* But don't delete anything if the symtab is empty.
1509 This test is necessary due to a bug in "dbxread.c" that
1510 causes empty symtabs to be created for N_SO symbols that
1511 contain the pathname of the object file. (This problem
1512 has been fixed in GDB 3.9x). */
1514 bv = BLOCKVECTOR (s);
1515 if (BLOCKVECTOR_NBLOCKS (bv) > 2
1516 || BLOCK_NSYMS (BLOCKVECTOR_BLOCK (bv, GLOBAL_BLOCK))
1517 || BLOCK_NSYMS (BLOCKVECTOR_BLOCK (bv, STATIC_BLOCK)))
1519 complain (&oldsyms_complaint, name);
1521 clear_symtab_users_queued++;
1522 make_cleanup (clear_symtab_users_once, 0);
1525 complain (&empty_symtab_complaint, name);
1532 /* It is still possible that some breakpoints will be affected
1533 even though no symtab was found, since the file might have
1534 been compiled without debugging, and hence not be associated
1535 with a symtab. In order to handle this correctly, we would need
1536 to keep a list of text address ranges for undebuggable files.
1537 For now, we do nothing, since this is a fairly obscure case. */
1541 /* FIXME, what about the minimal symbol table? */
1548 /* Allocate and partially fill a partial symtab. It will be
1549 completely filled at the end of the symbol list.
1551 SYMFILE_NAME is the name of the symbol-file we are reading from, and ADDR
1552 is the address relative to which its symbols are (incremental) or 0
1556 struct partial_symtab *
1557 start_psymtab_common (objfile, section_offsets,
1558 filename, textlow, global_syms, static_syms)
1559 struct objfile *objfile;
1560 struct section_offsets *section_offsets;
1563 struct partial_symbol *global_syms;
1564 struct partial_symbol *static_syms;
1566 struct partial_symtab *psymtab;
1568 psymtab = allocate_psymtab (filename, objfile);
1569 psymtab -> section_offsets = section_offsets;
1570 psymtab -> textlow = textlow;
1571 psymtab -> texthigh = psymtab -> textlow; /* default */
1572 psymtab -> globals_offset = global_syms - objfile -> global_psymbols.list;
1573 psymtab -> statics_offset = static_syms - objfile -> static_psymbols.list;
1577 /* Debugging versions of functions that are usually inline macros
1580 #if !INLINE_ADD_PSYMBOL
1582 /* Add a symbol with a long value to a psymtab.
1583 Since one arg is a struct, we pass in a ptr and deref it (sigh). */
1586 add_psymbol_to_list (name, namelength, namespace, class, list, val, language,
1590 enum namespace namespace;
1591 enum address_class class;
1592 struct psymbol_allocation_list *list;
1594 enum language language;
1595 struct objfile *objfile;
1597 register struct partial_symbol *psym;
1598 register char *demangled_name;
1600 if (list->next >= list->list + list->size)
1602 extend_psymbol_list (list,objfile);
1604 psym = list->next++;
1606 SYMBOL_NAME (psym) =
1607 (char *) obstack_alloc (&objfile->psymbol_obstack, namelength + 1);
1608 memcpy (SYMBOL_NAME (psym), name, namelength);
1609 SYMBOL_NAME (psym)[namelength] = '\0';
1610 SYMBOL_VALUE (psym) = val;
1611 SYMBOL_LANGUAGE (psym) = language;
1612 PSYMBOL_NAMESPACE (psym) = namespace;
1613 PSYMBOL_CLASS (psym) = class;
1614 SYMBOL_INIT_LANGUAGE_SPECIFIC (psym, language);
1617 /* Add a symbol with a CORE_ADDR value to a psymtab. */
1620 add_psymbol_addr_to_list (name, namelength, namespace, class, list, val,
1624 enum namespace namespace;
1625 enum address_class class;
1626 struct psymbol_allocation_list *list;
1628 enum language language;
1629 struct objfile *objfile;
1631 register struct partial_symbol *psym;
1632 register char *demangled_name;
1634 if (list->next >= list->list + list->size)
1636 extend_psymbol_list (list,objfile);
1638 psym = list->next++;
1640 SYMBOL_NAME (psym) =
1641 (char *) obstack_alloc (&objfile->psymbol_obstack, namelength + 1);
1642 memcpy (SYMBOL_NAME (psym), name, namelength);
1643 SYMBOL_NAME (psym)[namelength] = '\0';
1644 SYMBOL_VALUE_ADDRESS (psym) = val;
1645 SYMBOL_LANGUAGE (psym) = language;
1646 PSYMBOL_NAMESPACE (psym) = namespace;
1647 PSYMBOL_CLASS (psym) = class;
1648 SYMBOL_INIT_LANGUAGE_SPECIFIC (psym, language);
1651 #endif /* !INLINE_ADD_PSYMBOL */
1655 _initialize_symfile ()
1657 struct cmd_list_element *c;
1659 c = add_cmd ("symbol-file", class_files, symbol_file_command,
1660 "Load symbol table from executable file FILE.\n\
1661 The `file' command can also load symbol tables, as well as setting the file\n\
1662 to execute.", &cmdlist);
1663 c->completer = filename_completer;
1665 c = add_cmd ("add-symbol-file", class_files, add_symbol_file_command,
1666 "Usage: add-symbol-file FILE ADDR\n\
1667 Load the symbols from FILE, assuming FILE has been dynamically loaded.\n\
1668 ADDR is the starting address of the file's text.",
1670 c->completer = filename_completer;
1672 c = add_cmd ("add-shared-symbol-files", class_files,
1673 add_shared_symbol_files_command,
1674 "Load the symbols from shared objects in the dynamic linker's link map.",
1676 c = add_alias_cmd ("assf", "add-shared-symbol-files", class_files, 1,
1679 c = add_cmd ("load", class_files, load_command,
1680 "Dynamically load FILE into the running program, and record its symbols\n\
1681 for access from GDB.", &cmdlist);
1682 c->completer = filename_completer;
1685 (add_set_cmd ("symbol-reloading", class_support, var_boolean,
1686 (char *)&symbol_reloading,
1687 "Set dynamic symbol table reloading multiple times in one run.",