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1 /* Definitions for BFD wrappers used by GDB.
2
3 Copyright (C) 2011-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4
5 This file is part of GDB.
6
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 3 of the License, or
10 (at your option) any later version.
11
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.
16
17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
19
20 #ifndef GDB_BFD_H
21 #define GDB_BFD_H
22
23 #include "registry.h"
24
25 DECLARE_REGISTRY (bfd);
26
27 /* Open a read-only (FOPEN_RB) BFD given arguments like bfd_fopen.
28 Returns NULL on error. On success, returns a new reference to the
29 BFD, which must be freed with gdb_bfd_unref. BFDs returned by this
30 call are shared among all callers opening the same file. If FD is
31 not -1, then after this call it is owned by BFD. */
32
33 struct bfd *gdb_bfd_open (const char *name, const char *target, int fd);
34
35 /* Increment the reference count of ABFD. It is fine for ABFD to be
36 NULL; in this case the function does nothing. */
37
38 void gdb_bfd_ref (struct bfd *abfd);
39
40 /* Decrement the reference count of ABFD. If this is the last
41 reference, ABFD will be freed. If ABFD is NULL, this function does
42 nothing. */
43
44 void gdb_bfd_unref (struct bfd *abfd);
45
46 /* Mark the CHILD BFD as being a member of PARENT. Also, increment
47 the reference count of CHILD. Calling this function ensures that
48 as along as CHILD remains alive, PARENT will as well. Both CHILD
49 and PARENT must be non-NULL. This can be called more than once
50 with the same arguments; but it is not allowed to call it for a
51 single CHILD with different values for PARENT. */
52
53 void gdb_bfd_mark_parent (bfd *child, bfd *parent);
54
55 /* Mark INCLUDEE as being included by INCLUDER.
56 This is used to associate the life time of INCLUDEE with INCLUDER.
57 For example, with Fission, one file can refer to debug info in another
58 file, and internal tables we build for the main file (INCLUDER) may refer
59 to data contained in INCLUDEE. Therefore we want to keep INCLUDEE around
60 at least as long as INCLUDER exists.
61
62 Note that this is different than gdb_bfd_mark_parent because in our case
63 lifetime tracking is based on the "parent" whereas in gdb_bfd_mark_parent
64 lifetime tracking is based on the "child". Plus in our case INCLUDEE could
65 have multiple different "parents". */
66
67 void gdb_bfd_record_inclusion (bfd *includer, bfd *includee);
68
69 /* Try to read or map the contents of the section SECT. If
70 successful, the section data is returned and *SIZE is set to the
71 size of the section data; this may not be the same as the size
72 according to bfd_get_section_size if the section was compressed.
73 The returned section data is associated with the BFD and will be
74 destroyed when the BFD is destroyed. There is no other way to free
75 it; for temporary uses of section data, see
76 bfd_malloc_and_get_section. SECT may not have relocations. This
77 function will throw on error. */
78
79 const gdb_byte *gdb_bfd_map_section (asection *section, bfd_size_type *size);
80
81 /* Compute the CRC for ABFD. The CRC is used to find and verify
82 separate debug files. When successful, this fills in *CRC_OUT and
83 returns 1. Otherwise, this issues a warning and returns 0. */
84
85 int gdb_bfd_crc (struct bfd *abfd, unsigned long *crc_out);
86
87 \f
88
89 /* A wrapper for bfd_fopen that initializes the gdb-specific reference
90 count. */
91
92 bfd *gdb_bfd_fopen (const char *, const char *, const char *, int);
93
94 /* A wrapper for bfd_openr that initializes the gdb-specific reference
95 count. */
96
97 bfd *gdb_bfd_openr (const char *, const char *);
98
99 /* A wrapper for bfd_openw that initializes the gdb-specific reference
100 count. */
101
102 bfd *gdb_bfd_openw (const char *, const char *);
103
104 /* A wrapper for bfd_openr_iovec that initializes the gdb-specific
105 reference count. */
106
107 bfd *gdb_bfd_openr_iovec (const char *filename, const char *target,
108 void *(*open_func) (struct bfd *nbfd,
109 void *open_closure),
110 void *open_closure,
111 file_ptr (*pread_func) (struct bfd *nbfd,
112 void *stream,
113 void *buf,
114 file_ptr nbytes,
115 file_ptr offset),
116 int (*close_func) (struct bfd *nbfd,
117 void *stream),
118 int (*stat_func) (struct bfd *abfd,
119 void *stream,
120 struct stat *sb));
121
122 /* A wrapper for bfd_openr_next_archived_file that initializes the
123 gdb-specific reference count. */
124
125 bfd *gdb_bfd_openr_next_archived_file (bfd *archive, bfd *previous);
126
127 /* A wrapper for bfd_fdopenr that initializes the gdb-specific
128 reference count. */
129
130 bfd *gdb_bfd_fdopenr (const char *filename, const char *target, int fd);
131
132 \f
133
134 /* Return the index of the BFD section SECTION. Ordinarily this is
135 just the section's index, but for some special sections, like
136 bfd_com_section_ptr, it will be a synthesized value. */
137
138 int gdb_bfd_section_index (bfd *abfd, asection *section);
139
140
141 /* Like bfd_count_sections, but include any possible global sections,
142 like bfd_com_section_ptr. */
143
144 int gdb_bfd_count_sections (bfd *abfd);
145
146 /* Return true if any section requires relocations, false
147 otherwise. */
148
149 int gdb_bfd_requires_relocations (bfd *abfd);
150
151 #endif /* GDB_BFD_H */
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