[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / gdb / regcache.h

/* Cache and manage the values of registers for GDB, the GNU debugger.

   Copyright 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000,
   2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   This file is part of GDB.

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
   Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
   Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */

#ifndef REGCACHE_H
#define REGCACHE_H

struct regcache;
struct gdbarch;

extern struct regcache *current_regcache;

void regcache_xfree (struct regcache *regcache);
struct cleanup *make_cleanup_regcache_xfree (struct regcache *regcache);
struct regcache *regcache_xmalloc (struct gdbarch *gdbarch);

/* Transfer a raw register [0..NUM_REGS) between core-gdb and the
   regcache. */

void regcache_raw_read (struct regcache *regcache, int rawnum, void *buf);
void regcache_raw_write (struct regcache *regcache, int rawnum,
			 const void *buf);
extern void regcache_raw_read_signed (struct regcache *regcache,
				      int regnum, LONGEST *val);
extern void regcache_raw_read_unsigned (struct regcache *regcache,
					int regnum, ULONGEST *val);
extern void regcache_raw_write_signed (struct regcache *regcache,
				       int regnum, LONGEST val);
extern void regcache_raw_write_unsigned (struct regcache *regcache,
					 int regnum, ULONGEST val);

/* Partial transfer of a raw registers.  These perform read, modify,
   write style operations.  */

void regcache_raw_read_part (struct regcache *regcache, int regnum,
			     int offset, int len, void *buf);
void regcache_raw_write_part (struct regcache *regcache, int regnum,
			      int offset, int len, const void *buf);

int regcache_valid_p (struct regcache *regcache, int regnum);

/* Transfer a cooked register [0..NUM_REGS+NUM_PSEUDO_REGS).  */
void regcache_cooked_read (struct regcache *regcache, int rawnum, void *buf);
void regcache_cooked_write (struct regcache *regcache, int rawnum,
			    const void *buf);

/* NOTE: cagney/2002-08-13: At present GDB has no reliable mechanism
   for indicating when a ``cooked'' register was constructed from
   invalid or unavailable ``raw'' registers.  One fairly easy way of
   adding such a mechanism would be for the cooked functions to return
   a register valid indication.  Given the possibility of such a
   change, the extract functions below use a reference parameter,
   rather than a function result.  */

/* Read a register as a signed/unsigned quantity.  */
extern void regcache_cooked_read_signed (struct regcache *regcache,
					 int regnum, LONGEST *val);
extern void regcache_cooked_read_unsigned (struct regcache *regcache,
					   int regnum, ULONGEST *val);
extern void regcache_cooked_write_signed (struct regcache *regcache,
					  int regnum, LONGEST val);
extern void regcache_cooked_write_unsigned (struct regcache *regcache,
					    int regnum, ULONGEST val);

/* Partial transfer of a cooked register.  These perform read, modify,
   write style operations.  */

void regcache_cooked_read_part (struct regcache *regcache, int regnum,
				int offset, int len, void *buf);
void regcache_cooked_write_part (struct regcache *regcache, int regnum,
				 int offset, int len, const void *buf);

/* Transfer a raw register [0..NUM_REGS) between the regcache and the
   target.  These functions are called by the target in response to a
   target_fetch_registers() or target_store_registers().  */

extern void supply_register (int regnum, const void *val);
extern void regcache_collect (int regnum, void *buf);
extern void regcache_raw_supply (struct regcache *regcache,
				 int regnum, const void *buf);
extern void regcache_raw_collect (const struct regcache *regcache,
				  int regnum, void *buf);


/* The register's ``offset''.

   FIXME: cagney/2002-11-07: The frame_register() function, when
   specifying the real location of a register, does so using that
   registers offset in the register cache.  That offset is then used
   by valops.c to determine the location of the register.  The code
   should instead use the register's number and a location expression
   to describe a value spread across multiple registers or memory.  */

extern int register_offset_hack (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, int regnum);


/* The type of a register.  This function is slightly more efficient
   then its gdbarch vector counterpart since it returns a precomputed
   value stored in a table.

   NOTE: cagney/2002-08-17: The original macro was called
   REGISTER_VIRTUAL_TYPE.  This was because the register could have
   different raw and cooked (nee virtual) representations.  The
   CONVERTABLE methods being used to convert between the two
   representations.  Current code does not do this.  Instead, the
   first [0..NUM_REGS) registers are 1:1 raw:cooked, and the type
   exactly describes the register's representation.  Consequently, the
   ``virtual'' has been dropped.

   FIXME: cagney/2002-08-17: A number of architectures, including the
   MIPS, are currently broken in this regard.  */

extern struct type *register_type (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, int regnum);


/* Return the size of register REGNUM.  All registers should have only
   one size.

   FIXME: cagney/2003-02-28:

   Unfortunatly, thanks to some legacy architectures, this doesn't
   hold.  A register's cooked (nee virtual) and raw size can differ
   (see MIPS).  Such architectures should be using different register
   numbers for the different sized views of identical registers.

   Anyway, the up-shot is that, until that mess is fixed, core code
   can end up being very confused - should the RAW or VIRTUAL size be
   used?  As a rule of thumb, use REGISTER_VIRTUAL_SIZE in cooked
   code, but with the comment:

   OK: REGISTER_VIRTUAL_SIZE

   or just

   OK

   appended to the end of the line.  */
   
extern int register_size (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, int regnum);


/* Save/restore a register cache.  The set of registers saved /
   restored into the DST regcache determined by the save_reggroup /
   restore_reggroup respectively.  COOKED_READ returns zero iff the
   register's value can't be returned.  */

typedef int (regcache_cooked_read_ftype) (void *src, int regnum, void *buf);

extern void regcache_save (struct regcache *dst,
			   regcache_cooked_read_ftype *cooked_read,
			   void *src);
extern void regcache_restore (struct regcache *dst,
			      regcache_cooked_read_ftype *cooked_read,
			      void *src);

/* Copy/duplicate the contents of a register cache.  By default, the
   operation is pass-through.  Writes to DST and reads from SRC will
   go through to the target.

   The ``cpy'' functions can not have overlapping SRC and DST buffers.

   ``no passthrough'' versions do not go through to the target.  They
   only transfer values already in the cache.  */

extern struct regcache *regcache_dup (struct regcache *regcache);
extern struct regcache *regcache_dup_no_passthrough (struct regcache *regcache);
extern void regcache_cpy (struct regcache *dest, struct regcache *src);
extern void regcache_cpy_no_passthrough (struct regcache *dest, struct regcache *src);

/* NOTE: cagney/2002-11-02: The below have been superseded by the
   regcache_cooked_*() functions found above, and the frame_*()
   functions found in "frame.h".  Take care though, often more than a
   simple substitution is required when updating the code.  The
   change, as far as practical, should avoid adding references to
   global variables (e.g., current_regcache, current_frame,
   current_gdbarch or deprecated_selected_frame) and instead refer to
   the FRAME or REGCACHE that has been passed into the containing
   function as parameters.  Consequently, the change typically
   involves modifying the containing function so that it takes a FRAME
   or REGCACHE parameter.  In the case of an architecture vector
   method, there should already be a non-deprecated variant that is
   parameterized with FRAME or REGCACHE.  */

extern char *deprecated_grub_regcache_for_registers (struct regcache *);
extern void deprecated_read_register_gen (int regnum, char *myaddr);
extern void deprecated_write_register_gen (int regnum, char *myaddr);
extern void deprecated_read_register_bytes (int regbyte, char *myaddr,
					    int len);
extern void deprecated_write_register_bytes (int regbyte, char *myaddr,
					     int len);

/* Character array containing the current state of each register
   (unavailable<0, invalid=0, valid>0) for the most recently
   referenced thread.  This global is often found in close proximity
   to code that is directly manipulating the deprecated_registers[]
   array.  In such cases, it should be possible to replace the lot
   with a call to supply_register().  If you find yourself in dire
   straits, still needing access to the cache status bit, the
   regcache_valid_p() and set_register_cached() functions are
   available.  */
extern signed char *deprecated_register_valid;

/* Character array containing an image of the inferior programs'
   registers for the most recently referenced thread.

   NOTE: cagney/2002-11-14: Target side code should be using
   supply_register() and/or regcache_collect() while architecture side
   code should use the more generic regcache methods.  */

extern char *deprecated_registers;

/* NOTE: cagney/2002-11-05: This function, and its co-conspirator
   deprecated_registers[], have been superseeded by supply_register().  */
extern void deprecated_registers_fetched (void);

extern int register_cached (int regnum);

extern void set_register_cached (int regnum, int state);

extern void registers_changed (void);


/* Rename to read_unsigned_register()? */
extern ULONGEST read_register (int regnum);

/* Rename to read_unsigned_register_pid()? */
extern ULONGEST read_register_pid (int regnum, ptid_t ptid);

extern void write_register (int regnum, LONGEST val);

extern void write_register_pid (int regnum, CORE_ADDR val, ptid_t ptid);

#endif /* REGCACHE_H */
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4e052eda	1	/* Cache and manage the values of registers for GDB, the GNU debugger.
3fadccb3 AC	2
	3	Copyright 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000,
	4	2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4e052eda AC	5
	6	This file is part of GDB.
	7
	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.
	12
	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.
	17
	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. */
	22
	23	#ifndef REGCACHE_H
	24	#define REGCACHE_H
	25
3fadccb3 AC	26	struct regcache;
	27	struct gdbarch;
	28
	29	extern struct regcache *current_regcache;
	30
	31	void regcache_xfree (struct regcache *regcache);
36160dc4	32	struct cleanup make_cleanup_regcache_xfree (struct regcache regcache);
3fadccb3 AC	33	struct regcache regcache_xmalloc (struct gdbarch gdbarch);
3fadccb3 AC	34
61a0eb5b AC	35	/* Transfer a raw register [0..NUM_REGS) between core-gdb and the
	36	regcache. */
	37
1aaa5f99 AC	38	void regcache_raw_read (struct regcache regcache, int rawnum, void buf);
	39	void regcache_raw_write (struct regcache *regcache, int rawnum,
	40	const void *buf);
28fc6740 AC	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);
c00dcbe9 MK	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);
06c0b04e AC	49
	50	/* Partial transfer of a raw registers. These perform read, modify,
	51	write style operations. */
	52
	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);
	57
3fadccb3	58	int regcache_valid_p (struct regcache *regcache, int regnum);
61a0eb5b	59
68365089 AC	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,
	63	const void *buf);
	64
a378f419 AC	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. */
	72
	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);
a66a9c23 AC	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);
a378f419	82
06c0b04e AC	83	/* Partial transfer of a cooked register. These perform read, modify,
	84	write style operations. */
	85
	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);
	90
193cb69f AC	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(). */
	94
1aaa5f99	95	extern void supply_register (int regnum, const void *val);
193cb69f	96	extern void regcache_collect (int regnum, void *buf);
9a661b68 MK	97	extern void regcache_raw_supply (struct regcache *regcache,
	98	int regnum, const void *buf);
	99	extern void regcache_raw_collect (const struct regcache *regcache,
	100	int regnum, void *buf);
193cb69f AC	101
193cb69f AC	102
d3b22ed5 AC	103	/* The register's ``offset''.
d3b22ed5 AC	104
ac2adee5	105	FIXME: cagney/2002-11-07: The frame_register() function, when
e600bd34 AC	106	specifying the real location of a register, does so using that
	107	registers offset in the register cache. That offset is then used
	108	by valops.c to determine the location of the register. The code
	109	should instead use the register's number and a location expression
	110	to describe a value spread across multiple registers or memory. */
d3b22ed5 AC	111
d3b22ed5 AC	112	extern int register_offset_hack (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, int regnum);
d3b22ed5 AC	113
d3b22ed5 AC	114
bb425013 AC	115	/* The type of a register. This function is slightly more efficient
	116	then its gdbarch vector counterpart since it returns a precomputed
	117	value stored in a table.
	118
	119	NOTE: cagney/2002-08-17: The original macro was called
	120	REGISTER_VIRTUAL_TYPE. This was because the register could have
	121	different raw and cooked (nee virtual) representations. The
	122	CONVERTABLE methods being used to convert between the two
	123	representations. Current code does not do this. Instead, the
	124	first [0..NUM_REGS) registers are 1:1 raw:cooked, and the type
	125	exactly describes the register's representation. Consequently, the
	126	``virtual'' has been dropped.
	127
	128	FIXME: cagney/2002-08-17: A number of architectures, including the
	129	MIPS, are currently broken in this regard. */
	130
	131	extern struct type register_type (struct gdbarch gdbarch, int regnum);
	132
	133
08a617da AC	134	/* Return the size of register REGNUM. All registers should have only
	135	one size.
	136
	137	FIXME: cagney/2003-02-28:
	138
	139	Unfortunatly, thanks to some legacy architectures, this doesn't
	140	hold. A register's cooked (nee virtual) and raw size can differ
	141	(see MIPS). Such architectures should be using different register
	142	numbers for the different sized views of identical registers.
	143
	144	Anyway, the up-shot is that, until that mess is fixed, core code
	145	can end up being very confused - should the RAW or VIRTUAL size be
	146	used? As a rule of thumb, use REGISTER_VIRTUAL_SIZE in cooked
	147	code, but with the comment:
	148
	149	OK: REGISTER_VIRTUAL_SIZE
	150
	151	or just
	152
	153	OK
	154
	155	appended to the end of the line. */
	156
	157	extern int register_size (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, int regnum);
	158
	159
5602984a AC	160	/* Save/restore a register cache. The set of registers saved /
	161	restored into the DST regcache determined by the save_reggroup /
	162	restore_reggroup respectively. COOKED_READ returns zero iff the
	163	register's value can't be returned. */
	164
	165	typedef int (regcache_cooked_read_ftype) (void src, int regnum, void buf);
	166
	167	extern void regcache_save (struct regcache *dst,
	168	regcache_cooked_read_ftype *cooked_read,
	169	void *src);
	170	extern void regcache_restore (struct regcache *dst,
	171	regcache_cooked_read_ftype *cooked_read,
	172	void *src);
2d28509a	173
37e71372 AC	174	/* Copy/duplicate the contents of a register cache. By default, the
	175	operation is pass-through. Writes to DST and reads from SRC will
	176	go through to the target.
	177
	178	The ``cpy'' functions can not have overlapping SRC and DST buffers.
3fadccb3 AC	179
3fadccb3 AC	180	``no passthrough'' versions do not go through to the target. They
37e71372	181	only transfer values already in the cache. */
3fadccb3	182
3fadccb3	183	extern struct regcache regcache_dup (struct regcache regcache);
3fadccb3 AC	184	extern struct regcache regcache_dup_no_passthrough (struct regcache regcache);
	185	extern void regcache_cpy (struct regcache dest, struct regcache src);
	186	extern void regcache_cpy_no_passthrough (struct regcache dest, struct regcache src);
	187
192dbe33 AC	188	/* NOTE: cagney/2002-11-02: The below have been superseded by the
	189	regcache_cooked_() functions found above, and the frame_()
	190	functions found in "frame.h". Take care though, often more than a
	191	simple substitution is required when updating the code. The
	192	change, as far as practical, should avoid adding references to
	193	global variables (e.g., current_regcache, current_frame,
6e7f8b9c AC	194	current_gdbarch or deprecated_selected_frame) and instead refer to
	195	the FRAME or REGCACHE that has been passed into the containing
	196	function as parameters. Consequently, the change typically
	197	involves modifying the containing function so that it takes a FRAME
	198	or REGCACHE parameter. In the case of an architecture vector
	199	method, there should already be a non-deprecated variant that is
	200	parameterized with FRAME or REGCACHE. */
192dbe33	201
3fadccb3	202	extern char deprecated_grub_regcache_for_registers (struct regcache );
192dbe33 AC	203	extern void deprecated_read_register_gen (int regnum, char *myaddr);
192dbe33 AC	204	extern void deprecated_write_register_gen (int regnum, char *myaddr);
73937e03 AC	205	extern void deprecated_read_register_bytes (int regbyte, char *myaddr,
	206	int len);
	207	extern void deprecated_write_register_bytes (int regbyte, char *myaddr,
	208	int len);
3fadccb3	209
8262ee23 AC	210	/* Character array containing the current state of each register
	211	(unavailable<0, invalid=0, valid>0) for the most recently
	212	referenced thread. This global is often found in close proximity
	213	to code that is directly manipulating the deprecated_registers[]
	214	array. In such cases, it should be possible to replace the lot
	215	with a call to supply_register(). If you find yourself in dire
	216	straits, still needing access to the cache status bit, the
	217	regcache_valid_p() and set_register_cached() functions are
	218	available. */
	219	extern signed char *deprecated_register_valid;
	220
524d7c18 AC	221	/* Character array containing an image of the inferior programs'
	222	registers for the most recently referenced thread.
	223
	224	NOTE: cagney/2002-11-14: Target side code should be using
	225	supply_register() and/or regcache_collect() while architecture side
	226	code should use the more generic regcache methods. */
	227
	228	extern char *deprecated_registers;
	229
2b9e5f3f AC	230	/* NOTE: cagney/2002-11-05: This function, and its co-conspirator
	231	deprecated_registers[], have been superseeded by supply_register(). */
	232	extern void deprecated_registers_fetched (void);
	233
4e052eda AC	234	extern int register_cached (int regnum);
	235
	236	extern void set_register_cached (int regnum, int state);
	237
4e052eda AC	238	extern void registers_changed (void);
4e052eda AC	239
4e052eda	240
4e052eda AC	241	/* Rename to read_unsigned_register()? */
	242	extern ULONGEST read_register (int regnum);
	243
	244	/* Rename to read_unsigned_register_pid()? */
39f77062	245	extern ULONGEST read_register_pid (int regnum, ptid_t ptid);
4e052eda	246
4e052eda AC	247	extern void write_register (int regnum, LONGEST val);
4e052eda AC	248
39f77062	249	extern void write_register_pid (int regnum, CORE_ADDR val, ptid_t ptid);
4e052eda	250
4e052eda	251	#endif /* REGCACHE_H */