[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);


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