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b5a0ac70 1/* Definitions used by the GDB event loop.
42a4f53d 2 Copyright (C) 1999-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3 Written by Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@cygnus.com> of Cygnus Solutions.
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5 This file is part of GDB.
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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
a9762ec7 9 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
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10 (at your option) any later version.
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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.
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17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
a9762ec7 18 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
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20#ifndef EVENT_LOOP_H
21#define EVENT_LOOP_H
22
371d5dec 23/* An event loop listens for events from multiple event sources. When
b5a0ac70 24 an event arrives, it is queued and processed by calling the
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25 appropriate event handler. The event loop then continues to listen
26 for more events. An event loop completes when there are no event
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27 sources to listen on. External event sources can be plugged into
28 the loop.
29
50d01748 30 There are 4 main components:
371d5dec 31 - a list of file descriptors to be monitored, GDB_NOTIFIER.
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32 - a list of asynchronous event sources to be monitored,
33 ASYNC_EVENT_HANDLER_LIST.
371d5dec 34 - a list of events that have occurred, EVENT_QUEUE.
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35 - a list of signal handling functions, SIGHANDLER_LIST.
36
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37 GDB_NOTIFIER keeps track of the file descriptor based event
38 sources. ASYNC_EVENT_HANDLER_LIST keeps track of asynchronous
39 event sources that are signalled by some component of gdb, usually
40 a target_ops instance. Event sources for gdb are currently the UI
41 and the target. Gdb communicates with the command line user
42 interface via the readline library and usually communicates with
43 remote targets via a serial port. Serial ports are represented in
44 GDB as file descriptors and select/poll calls. For native targets
45 instead, the communication varies across operating system debug
46 APIs, but usually consists of calls to ptrace and waits (via
47 signals) or calls to poll/select (via file descriptors). In the
48 current gdb, the code handling events related to the target resides
49 in wait_for_inferior for synchronous targets; or, for asynchronous
50 capable targets, by having the target register either a target
51 controlled file descriptor and/or an asynchronous event source in
52 the event loop, with the fetch_inferior_event function as the event
53 callback. In both the synchronous and asynchronous cases, usually
54 the target event is collected through the target_wait interface.
55 The target is free to install other event sources in the event loop
56 if it so requires.
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58 EVENT_QUEUE keeps track of the events that have happened during the
59 last iteration of the event loop, and need to be processed. An
60 event is represented by a procedure to be invoked in order to
61 process the event. The queue is scanned head to tail. If the
62 event of interest is a change of state in a file descriptor, then a
63 call to poll or select will be made to detect it.
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65 If the events generate signals, they are also queued by special
66 functions that are invoked through traditional signal handlers.
67 The actions to be taken is response to such events will be executed
68 when the SIGHANDLER_LIST is scanned, the next time through the
371d5dec 69 infinite loop.
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371d5dec 71 Corollary tasks are the creation and deletion of event sources. */
b5a0ac70 72
97bb9d91 73typedef void *gdb_client_data;
c2c6d25f 74struct async_signal_handler;
50d01748 75struct async_event_handler;
2acceee2 76typedef void (handler_func) (int, gdb_client_data);
c2c6d25f 77typedef void (sig_handler_func) (gdb_client_data);
50d01748 78typedef void (async_event_handler_func) (gdb_client_data);
c2c6d25f 79typedef void (timer_handler_func) (gdb_client_data);
b5a0ac70 80
085dd6e6 81/* Exported functions from event-loop.c */
0f71a2f6 82
c2c6d25f 83extern void start_event_loop (void);
e0dd0826 84extern int gdb_do_one_event (void);
c2c6d25f 85extern void delete_file_handler (int fd);
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86extern void add_file_handler (int fd, handler_func *proc,
87 gdb_client_data client_data);
6426a772 88extern struct async_signal_handler *
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89 create_async_signal_handler (sig_handler_func *proc,
90 gdb_client_data client_data);
3e43a32a 91extern void delete_async_signal_handler (struct async_signal_handler **);
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92extern int create_timer (int milliseconds,
93 timer_handler_func *proc,
94 gdb_client_data client_data);
c2c6d25f 95extern void delete_timer (int id);
b803fb0f 96
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97/* Call the handler from HANDLER the next time through the event
98 loop. */
99extern void mark_async_signal_handler (struct async_signal_handler *handler);
b803fb0f 100
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101/* Returns true if HANDLER is marked ready. */
102
103extern int
104 async_signal_handler_is_marked (struct async_signal_handler *handler);
105
106/* Mark HANDLER as NOT ready. */
107
108extern void clear_async_signal_handler (struct async_signal_handler *handler);
109
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110/* Create and register an asynchronous event source in the event loop,
111 and set PROC as its callback. CLIENT_DATA is passed as argument to
112 PROC upon its invocation. Returns a pointer to an opaque structure
113 used to mark as ready and to later delete this event source from
114 the event loop. */
115extern struct async_event_handler *
116 create_async_event_handler (async_event_handler_func *proc,
117 gdb_client_data client_data);
118
119/* Remove the event source pointed by HANDLER_PTR created by
120 CREATE_ASYNC_EVENT_HANDLER from the event loop, and release it. */
121extern void
122 delete_async_event_handler (struct async_event_handler **handler_ptr);
123
124/* Call the handler from HANDLER the next time through the event
125 loop. */
126extern void mark_async_event_handler (struct async_event_handler *handler);
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127
128/* Mark the handler (ASYNC_HANDLER_PTR) as NOT ready. */
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130extern void clear_async_event_handler (struct async_event_handler *handler);
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132extern void initialize_async_signal_handlers (void);
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134#endif /* EVENT_LOOP_H */
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