1 /* Read ELF (Executable and Linking Format) object files for GDB.
2 Copyright 1991, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Written by Fred Fish at Cygnus Support.
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. */
21 /************************************************************************
25 * This file is still under construction. When it is complete, this *
26 * notice will be removed. Until then, direct any questions or changes *
29 * FIXME Still needs support for shared libraries. *
30 * FIXME Still needs support for core files. *
31 * FIXME The ".debug" and ".line" section names are hardwired. *
33 ************************************************************************/
36 #include "elf/common.h"
37 #include "elf/external.h"
38 #include "elf/internal.h"
40 #include "libbfd.h" /* For bfd_elf_find_section */
45 #include "gdb-stabs.h"
46 #include "complaints.h"
50 /* The struct elfinfo is available only during ELF symbol table and
51 psymtab reading. It is destroyed at the complation of psymtab-reading.
52 It's local to elf_symfile_read. */
55 file_ptr dboffset; /* Offset to dwarf debug section */
56 unsigned int dbsize; /* Size of dwarf debug section */
57 file_ptr lnoffset; /* Offset to dwarf line number section */
58 unsigned int lnsize; /* Size of dwarf line number section */
59 asection *stabsect; /* Section pointer for .stab section */
60 asection *stabindexsect; /* Section pointer for .stab.index section */
63 /* Various things we might complain about... */
65 struct complaint section_info_complaint =
66 {"elf/stab section information %s without a preceding file symbol", 0, 0};
68 struct complaint section_info_dup_complaint =
69 {"duplicated elf/stab section information for %s", 0, 0};
71 struct complaint stab_info_mismatch_complaint =
72 {"elf/stab section information missing for %s", 0, 0};
74 struct complaint stab_info_questionable_complaint =
75 {"elf/stab section information questionable for %s", 0, 0};
78 elf_symfile_init PARAMS ((struct objfile *));
81 elf_new_init PARAMS ((struct objfile *));
84 elf_symfile_read PARAMS ((struct objfile *, struct section_offsets *, int));
87 elf_symfile_finish PARAMS ((struct objfile *));
90 elf_symtab_read PARAMS ((bfd *, CORE_ADDR, struct objfile *));
93 free_elfinfo PARAMS ((PTR));
95 static struct section_offsets *
96 elf_symfile_offsets PARAMS ((struct objfile *, CORE_ADDR));
99 record_minimal_symbol_and_info PARAMS ((char *, CORE_ADDR,
100 enum minimal_symbol_type, char *,
104 elf_locate_sections PARAMS ((bfd *, asection *, PTR));
106 /* We are called once per section from elf_symfile_read. We
107 need to examine each section we are passed, check to see
108 if it is something we are interested in processing, and
109 if so, stash away some access information for the section.
111 For now we recognize the dwarf debug information sections and
112 line number sections from matching their section names. The
113 ELF definition is no real help here since it has no direct
114 knowledge of DWARF (by design, so any debugging format can be
117 We also recognize the ".stab" sections used by the Sun compilers
118 released with Solaris 2.
120 FIXME: The section names should not be hardwired strings. */
123 elf_locate_sections (ignore_abfd, sectp, eip)
128 register struct elfinfo *ei;
130 ei = (struct elfinfo *) eip;
131 if (STREQ (sectp -> name, ".debug"))
133 ei -> dboffset = sectp -> filepos;
134 ei -> dbsize = bfd_get_section_size_before_reloc (sectp);
136 else if (STREQ (sectp -> name, ".line"))
138 ei -> lnoffset = sectp -> filepos;
139 ei -> lnsize = bfd_get_section_size_before_reloc (sectp);
141 else if (STREQ (sectp -> name, ".stab"))
143 ei -> stabsect = sectp;
145 else if (STREQ (sectp -> name, ".stab.index"))
147 ei -> stabindexsect = sectp;
151 #if 0 /* Currently unused */
154 elf_interpreter (abfd)
161 interp_sec = bfd_get_section_by_name (abfd, ".interp");
164 size = bfd_section_size (abfd, interp_sec);
165 interp = alloca (size);
166 if (bfd_get_section_contents (abfd, interp_sec, interp, (file_ptr)0,
169 interp = savestring (interp, size - 1);
182 record_minimal_symbol_and_info (name, address, ms_type, info, objfile)
185 enum minimal_symbol_type ms_type;
186 char *info; /* FIXME, is this really char *? */
187 struct objfile *objfile;
189 name = obsavestring (name, strlen (name), &objfile -> symbol_obstack);
190 prim_record_minimal_symbol_and_info (name, address, ms_type, info);
197 elf_symtab_read -- read the symbol table of an ELF file
201 void elf_symtab_read (bfd *abfd, CORE_ADDR addr,
202 struct objfile *objfile)
206 Given an open bfd, a base address to relocate symbols to, and a
207 flag that specifies whether or not this bfd is for an executable
208 or not (may be shared library for example), add all the global
209 function and data symbols to the minimal symbol table.
211 In stabs-in-ELF, as implemented by Sun, there are some local symbols
212 defined in the ELF symbol table, which can be used to locate
213 the beginnings of sections from each ".o" file that was linked to
214 form the executable objfile. We gather any such info and record it
215 in data structures hung off the objfile's private data.
220 elf_symtab_read (abfd, addr, objfile)
223 struct objfile *objfile;
225 unsigned int storage_needed;
227 asymbol **symbol_table;
228 unsigned int number_of_symbols;
231 struct cleanup *back_to;
233 enum minimal_symbol_type ms_type;
234 /* If sectinfo is nonzero, it contains section info that should end up
235 filed in the objfile. */
236 struct stab_section_info *sectinfo = 0;
237 /* If filesym is nonzero, it points to a file symbol, but we haven't
238 seen any section info for it yet. */
239 asymbol *filesym = 0;
240 struct dbx_symfile_info *dbx = (struct dbx_symfile_info *)
241 objfile->sym_private;
243 storage_needed = get_symtab_upper_bound (abfd);
245 if (storage_needed > 0)
247 symbol_table = (asymbol **) xmalloc (storage_needed);
248 back_to = make_cleanup (free, symbol_table);
249 number_of_symbols = bfd_canonicalize_symtab (abfd, symbol_table);
251 for (i = 0; i < number_of_symbols; i++)
253 sym = symbol_table[i];
254 /* Select global/weak symbols that are defined in a specific section.
255 Note that bfd now puts abs symbols in their own section, so
256 all symbols we are interested in will have a section. */
257 if ((sym -> flags & (BSF_GLOBAL | BSF_WEAK))
258 && (sym -> section != NULL))
260 symaddr = sym -> value;
261 /* Relocate all non-absolute symbols by base address. */
262 if (sym -> section != &bfd_abs_section)
265 /* For non-absolute symbols, use the type of the section
266 they are relative to, to intuit text/data. Bfd provides
267 no way of figuring this out for absolute symbols. */
268 if (sym -> section -> flags & SEC_CODE)
272 else if (sym -> section -> flags & SEC_DATA)
278 /* FIXME: Solaris2 shared libraries include lots of
279 odd "absolute" and "undefined" symbols, that play
280 hob with actions like finding what function the PC
281 is in. Ignore them if they aren't text or data. */
282 /* ms_type = mst_unknown; */
283 continue; /* Skip this symbol. */
285 /* Pass symbol size field in via BFD. FIXME!!! */
286 record_minimal_symbol_and_info ((char *) sym -> name,
287 symaddr, ms_type, sym->udata, objfile);
290 /* See if this is a debugging symbol that helps Solaris
291 stabs-in-elf debugging. */
293 else if (sym->flags & BSF_FILE)
295 /* Chain any old one onto the objfile; remember new sym. */
298 sectinfo->next = dbx->stab_section_info;
299 dbx->stab_section_info = sectinfo;
304 else if ((sym->flags & BSF_LOCAL) &&
306 (sym->section->flags & SEC_DATA) &&
309 /* Named Local variable in a Data section. Check its name. */
311 switch (sym->name[1])
314 if (STREQ ("Bbss.bss", sym->name))
315 index = SECT_OFF_BSS;
318 if (STREQ ("Ddata.data", sym->name))
319 index = SECT_OFF_DATA;
322 if (STREQ ("Drodata.rodata", sym->name))
323 index = SECT_OFF_RODATA;
328 /* We have some new info. Allocate a sectinfo, if
329 needed, and fill it in. */
332 sectinfo = (struct stab_section_info *)
333 xmmalloc (objfile -> md,
335 memset ((PTR) sectinfo, 0, sizeof (*sectinfo));
337 complain (§ion_info_complaint, sym->name);
339 sectinfo->filename = (char *)filesym->name;
341 if (sectinfo->sections[index])
342 complain (§ion_info_dup_complaint, sectinfo->filename);
344 symaddr = sym -> value;
345 /* Relocate all non-absolute symbols by base address. */
346 if (sym -> section != &bfd_abs_section)
348 sectinfo->sections[index] = symaddr;
352 do_cleanups (back_to);
356 /* Scan and build partial symbols for a symbol file.
357 We have been initialized by a call to elf_symfile_init, which
358 currently does nothing.
360 SECTION_OFFSETS is a set of offsets to apply to relocate the symbols
361 in each section. We simplify it down to a single offset for all
364 MAINLINE is true if we are reading the main symbol
365 table (as opposed to a shared lib or dynamically loaded file).
367 This function only does the minimum work necessary for letting the
368 user "name" things symbolically; it does not read the entire symtab.
369 Instead, it reads the external and static symbols and puts them in partial
370 symbol tables. When more extensive information is requested of a
371 file, the corresponding partial symbol table is mutated into a full
372 fledged symbol table by going back and reading the symbols
375 We look for sections with specific names, to tell us what debug
376 format to look for: FIXME!!!
378 dwarf_build_psymtabs() builds psymtabs for DWARF symbols;
379 elfstab_build_psymtabs() handles STABS symbols.
381 Note that ELF files have a "minimal" symbol table, which looks a lot
382 like a COFF symbol table, but has only the minimal information necessary
383 for linking. We process this also, and use the information to
384 build gdb's minimal symbol table. This gives us some minimal debugging
385 capability even for files compiled without -g. */
388 elf_symfile_read (objfile, section_offsets, mainline)
389 struct objfile *objfile;
390 struct section_offsets *section_offsets;
393 bfd *abfd = objfile->obfd;
395 struct cleanup *back_to;
398 init_minimal_symbol_collection ();
399 back_to = make_cleanup (discard_minimal_symbols, 0);
401 memset ((char *) &ei, 0, sizeof (ei));
403 /* Allocate struct to keep track of the symfile */
404 objfile->sym_private = (PTR)
405 xmmalloc (objfile -> md, sizeof (struct dbx_symfile_info));
406 memset ((char *) objfile->sym_private, 0, sizeof (struct dbx_symfile_info));
407 make_cleanup (free_elfinfo, (PTR) objfile);
409 /* Process the normal ELF symbol table first. This may write some
410 chain of info into the dbx_symfile_info in objfile->sym_private,
411 which can later be used by elfstab_offset_sections. */
413 /* FIXME, should take a section_offsets param, not just an offset. */
414 offset = ANOFFSET (section_offsets, 0);
415 elf_symtab_read (abfd, offset, objfile);
417 /* Now process debugging information, which is contained in
418 special ELF sections. We first have to find them... */
420 bfd_map_over_sections (abfd, elf_locate_sections, (PTR) &ei);
421 if (ei.dboffset && ei.lnoffset)
424 dwarf_build_psymtabs (objfile,
425 section_offsets, mainline,
426 ei.dboffset, ei.dbsize,
427 ei.lnoffset, ei.lnsize);
433 /* FIXME: Sun didn't really know how to implement this well.
434 They made .stab sections that don't point to the .stabstr
435 section with the sh_link field. BFD doesn't make string table
436 sections visible to the caller. So we have to search the
437 ELF section table, not the BFD section table, for the string
439 struct elf_internal_shdr *elf_sect;
441 elf_sect = bfd_elf_find_section (abfd, ".stabstr");
443 elfstab_build_psymtabs (objfile,
446 ei.stabsect->filepos, /* .stab offset */
447 bfd_get_section_size_before_reloc (ei.stabsect),/* .stab size */
448 (file_ptr) elf_sect->sh_offset, /* .stabstr offset */
449 elf_sect->sh_size); /* .stabstr size */
452 if (!have_partial_symbols ())
455 printf_filtered ("(no debugging symbols found)...");
459 /* Install any minimal symbols that have been collected as the current
460 minimal symbols for this objfile. */
462 install_minimal_symbols (objfile);
464 do_cleanups (back_to);
467 /* This cleans up the objfile's sym_private pointer, and the chain of
468 stab_section_info's, that might be dangling from it. */
474 struct objfile *objfile = (struct objfile *)objp;
475 struct dbx_symfile_info *dbxinfo = (struct dbx_symfile_info *)
476 objfile->sym_private;
477 struct stab_section_info *ssi, *nssi;
479 ssi = dbxinfo->stab_section_info;
483 mfree (objfile->md, ssi);
487 dbxinfo->stab_section_info = 0; /* Just say No mo info about this. */
491 /* Initialize anything that needs initializing when a completely new symbol
492 file is specified (not just adding some symbols from another file, e.g. a
495 We reinitialize buildsym, since we may be reading stabs from an ELF file. */
498 elf_new_init (ignore)
499 struct objfile *ignore;
501 stabsread_new_init ();
502 buildsym_new_init ();
505 /* Perform any local cleanups required when we are done with a particular
506 objfile. I.E, we are in the process of discarding all symbol information
507 for an objfile, freeing up all memory held for it, and unlinking the
508 objfile struct from the global list of known objfiles. */
511 elf_symfile_finish (objfile)
512 struct objfile *objfile;
514 if (objfile -> sym_private != NULL)
516 mfree (objfile -> md, objfile -> sym_private);
520 /* ELF specific initialization routine for reading symbols.
522 It is passed a pointer to a struct sym_fns which contains, among other
523 things, the BFD for the file whose symbols are being read, and a slot for
524 a pointer to "private data" which we can fill with goodies.
526 For now at least, we have nothing in particular to do, so this function is
530 elf_symfile_init (ignore)
531 struct objfile *ignore;
535 /* ELF specific parsing routine for section offsets.
537 Plain and simple for now. */
540 struct section_offsets *
541 elf_symfile_offsets (objfile, addr)
542 struct objfile *objfile;
545 struct section_offsets *section_offsets;
548 section_offsets = (struct section_offsets *)
549 obstack_alloc (&objfile -> psymbol_obstack,
550 sizeof (struct section_offsets) +
551 sizeof (section_offsets->offsets) * (SECT_OFF_MAX-1));
553 for (i = 0; i < SECT_OFF_MAX; i++)
554 ANOFFSET (section_offsets, i) = addr;
556 return section_offsets;
559 /* When handling an ELF file that contains Sun STABS debug info,
560 some of the debug info is relative to the particular chunk of the
561 section that was generated in its individual .o file. E.g.
562 offsets to static variables are relative to the start of the data
563 segment *for that module before linking*. This information is
564 painfully squirreled away in the ELF symbol table as local symbols
565 with wierd names. Go get 'em when needed. */
568 elfstab_offset_sections (objfile, pst)
569 struct objfile *objfile;
570 struct partial_symtab *pst;
572 char *filename = pst->filename;
573 struct dbx_symfile_info *dbx = (struct dbx_symfile_info *)
574 objfile->sym_private;
575 struct stab_section_info *maybe = dbx->stab_section_info;
576 struct stab_section_info *questionable = 0;
580 /* The ELF symbol info doesn't include path names, so strip the path
581 (if any) from the psymtab filename. */
582 while (0 != (p = strchr (filename, '/')))
585 /* FIXME: This linear search could speed up significantly
586 if it was chained in the right order to match how we search it,
587 and if we unchained when we found a match. */
588 for (; maybe; maybe = maybe->next)
590 if (filename[0] == maybe->filename[0]
591 && STREQ (filename, maybe->filename))
593 /* We found a match. But there might be several source files
594 (from different directories) with the same name. */
595 if (0 == maybe->found)
597 questionable = maybe; /* Might use it later. */
601 if (maybe == 0 && questionable != 0)
603 complain (&stab_info_questionable_complaint, filename);
604 maybe = questionable;
609 /* Found it! Allocate a new psymtab struct, and fill it in. */
611 pst->section_offsets = (struct section_offsets *)
612 obstack_alloc (&objfile -> psymbol_obstack,
613 sizeof (struct section_offsets) +
614 sizeof (pst->section_offsets->offsets) * (SECT_OFF_MAX-1));
616 for (i = 0; i < SECT_OFF_MAX; i++)
617 ANOFFSET (pst->section_offsets, i) = maybe->sections[i];
621 /* We were unable to find any offsets for this file. Complain. */
622 if (dbx->stab_section_info) /* If there *is* any info, */
623 complain (&stab_info_mismatch_complaint, filename);
626 /* Register that we are able to handle ELF object file formats and DWARF
629 Unlike other object file formats, where the debugging information format
630 is implied by the object file format, the ELF object file format and the
631 DWARF debugging information format are two distinct, and potentially
632 separate entities. I.E. it is perfectly possible to have ELF objects
633 with debugging formats other than DWARF. And it is conceivable that the
634 DWARF debugging format might be used with another object file format,
635 like COFF, by simply using COFF's custom section feature.
637 GDB, and to a lesser extent BFD, should support the notion of separate
638 object file formats and debugging information formats. For now, we just
639 use "elf" in the same sense as "a.out" or "coff", to imply both the ELF
640 object file format and the DWARF debugging format. */
642 static struct sym_fns elf_sym_fns =
644 "elf", /* sym_name: name or name prefix of BFD target type */
645 3, /* sym_namelen: number of significant sym_name chars */
646 elf_new_init, /* sym_new_init: init anything gbl to entire symtab */
647 elf_symfile_init, /* sym_init: read initial info, setup for sym_read() */
648 elf_symfile_read, /* sym_read: read a symbol file into symtab */
649 elf_symfile_finish, /* sym_finish: finished with file, cleanup */
650 elf_symfile_offsets, /* sym_offsets: Translate ext. to int. relocation */
651 NULL /* next: pointer to next struct sym_fns */
655 _initialize_elfread ()
657 add_symtab_fns (&elf_sym_fns);