1 /* Definitions for symbol file management in GDB.
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3 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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19 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
20 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
22 #if !defined (OBJFILES_H)
25 /* This structure maintains information on a per-objfile basis about the
26 "entry point" of the objfile, and the scope within which the entry point
27 exists. It is possible that gdb will see more than one objfile that is
28 executable, each with its own entry point.
30 For example, for dynamically linked executables in SVR4, the dynamic linker
31 code is contained within the shared C library, which is actually executable
32 and is run by the kernel first when an exec is done of a user executable
33 that is dynamically linked. The dynamic linker within the shared C library
34 then maps in the various program segments in the user executable and jumps
35 to the user executable's recorded entry point, as if the call had been made
36 directly by the kernel.
38 The traditional gdb method of using this info is to use the recorded entry
39 point to set the variables entry_file_lowpc and entry_file_highpc from
40 the debugging information, where these values are the starting address
41 (inclusive) and ending address (exclusive) of the instruction space in the
42 executable which correspond to the "startup file", I.E. crt0.o in most
43 cases. This file is assumed to be a startup file and frames with pc's
44 inside it are treated as nonexistent. Setting these variables is necessary
45 so that backtraces do not fly off the bottom of the stack.
47 Gdb also supports an alternate method to avoid running off the bottom
50 There are two frames that are "special", the frame for the function
51 containing the process entry point, since it has no predecessor frame,
52 and the frame for the function containing the user code entry point
53 (the main() function), since all the predecessor frames are for the
54 process startup code. Since we have no guarantee that the linked
55 in startup modules have any debugging information that gdb can use,
56 we need to avoid following frame pointers back into frames that might
57 have been built in the startup code, as we might get hopelessly
58 confused. However, we almost always have debugging information
61 These variables are used to save the range of PC values which are valid
62 within the main() function and within the function containing the process
63 entry point. If we always consider the frame for main() as the outermost
64 frame when debugging user code, and the frame for the process entry
65 point function as the outermost frame when debugging startup code, then
66 all we have to do is have FRAME_CHAIN_VALID return false whenever a
67 frame's current PC is within the range specified by these variables.
68 In essence, we set "ceilings" in the frame chain beyond which we will
69 not proceed when following the frame chain back up the stack.
71 A nice side effect is that we can still debug startup code without
72 running off the end of the frame chain, assuming that we have usable
73 debugging information in the startup modules, and if we choose to not
74 use the block at main, or can't find it for some reason, everything
75 still works as before. And if we have no startup code debugging
76 information but we do have usable information for main(), backtraces
77 from user code don't go wandering off into the startup code.
79 To use this method, define your FRAME_CHAIN_VALID macro like:
81 #define FRAME_CHAIN_VALID(chain, thisframe) \
83 && !(inside_main_func ((thisframe)->pc)) \
84 && !(inside_entry_func ((thisframe)->pc)))
86 and add initializations of the four scope controlling variables inside
87 the object file / debugging information processing modules. */
92 /* The value we should use for this objects entry point.
93 The illegal/unknown value needs to be something other than 0, ~0
94 for instance, which is much less likely than 0. */
96 CORE_ADDR entry_point
;
98 #define INVALID_ENTRY_POINT (~0) /* ~0 will not be in any file, we hope. */
100 /* Start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) of function containing the
103 CORE_ADDR entry_func_lowpc
;
104 CORE_ADDR entry_func_highpc
;
106 /* Start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) of object file containing the
109 CORE_ADDR entry_file_lowpc
;
110 CORE_ADDR entry_file_highpc
;
112 /* Start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) of the user code main() function. */
114 CORE_ADDR main_func_lowpc
;
115 CORE_ADDR main_func_highpc
;
117 /* Use these values when any of the above ranges is invalid. */
119 /* We use these values because it guarantees that there is no number that is
120 both >= LOWPC && < HIGHPC. It is also highly unlikely that 3 is a valid
121 module or function start address (as opposed to 0). */
123 #define INVALID_ENTRY_LOWPC (3)
124 #define INVALID_ENTRY_HIGHPC (1)
128 /* Sections in an objfile.
130 It is strange that we have both this notion of "sections"
131 and the one used by section_offsets. Section as used
132 here, (currently at least) means a BFD section, and the sections
133 are set up from the BFD sections in allocate_objfile.
135 The sections in section_offsets have their meaning determined by
136 the symbol format, and they are set up by the sym_offsets function
137 for that symbol file format.
139 I'm not sure this could or should be changed, however. */
143 CORE_ADDR addr
; /* lowest address in section */
144 CORE_ADDR endaddr
; /* 1+highest address in section */
146 /* This field is being used for nefarious purposes by syms_from_objfile.
147 It is said to be redundant with section_offsets; it's not really being
148 used that way, however, it's some sort of hack I don't understand
149 and am not going to try to eliminate (yet, anyway). FIXME.
151 It was documented as "offset between (end)addr and actual memory
152 addresses", but that's not true; addr & endaddr are actual memory
156 sec_ptr the_bfd_section
; /* BFD section pointer */
158 /* Objfile this section is part of. */
159 struct objfile
*objfile
;
161 /* True if this "overlay section" is mapped into an "overlay region". */
165 /* An import entry contains information about a symbol that
166 is used in this objfile but not defined in it, and so needs
167 to be imported from some other objfile */
168 /* Currently we just store the name; no attributes. 1997-08-05 */
169 typedef char *ImportEntry
;
172 /* An export entry contains information about a symbol that
173 is defined in this objfile and available for use in other
177 char *name
; /* name of exported symbol */
178 int address
; /* offset subject to relocation */
179 /* Currently no other attributes 1997-08-05 */
184 /* The "objstats" structure provides a place for gdb to record some
185 interesting information about its internal state at runtime, on a
186 per objfile basis, such as information about the number of symbols
187 read, size of string table (if any), etc. */
191 int n_minsyms
; /* Number of minimal symbols read */
192 int n_psyms
; /* Number of partial symbols read */
193 int n_syms
; /* Number of full symbols read */
194 int n_stabs
; /* Number of ".stabs" read (if applicable) */
195 int n_types
; /* Number of types */
196 int sz_strtab
; /* Size of stringtable, (if applicable) */
199 #define OBJSTAT(objfile, expr) (objfile -> stats.expr)
200 #define OBJSTATS struct objstats stats
201 extern void print_objfile_statistics (void);
202 extern void print_symbol_bcache_statistics (void);
204 /* Number of entries in the minimal symbol hash table. */
205 #define MINIMAL_SYMBOL_HASH_SIZE 349
207 /* Master structure for keeping track of each file from which
208 gdb reads symbols. There are several ways these get allocated: 1.
209 The main symbol file, symfile_objfile, set by the symbol-file command,
210 2. Additional symbol files added by the add-symbol-file command,
211 3. Shared library objfiles, added by ADD_SOLIB, 4. symbol files
212 for modules that were loaded when GDB attached to a remote system
213 (see remote-vx.c). */
218 /* All struct objfile's are chained together by their next pointers.
219 The global variable "object_files" points to the first link in this
222 FIXME: There is a problem here if the objfile is reusable, and if
223 multiple users are to be supported. The problem is that the objfile
224 list is linked through a member of the objfile struct itself, which
225 is only valid for one gdb process. The list implementation needs to
226 be changed to something like:
228 struct list {struct list *next; struct objfile *objfile};
230 where the list structure is completely maintained separately within
233 struct objfile
*next
;
235 /* The object file's name. Malloc'd; free it if you free this struct. */
239 /* Some flag bits for this objfile. */
241 unsigned short flags
;
243 /* Each objfile points to a linked list of symtabs derived from this file,
244 one symtab structure for each compilation unit (source file). Each link
245 in the symtab list contains a backpointer to this objfile. */
247 struct symtab
*symtabs
;
249 /* Each objfile points to a linked list of partial symtabs derived from
250 this file, one partial symtab structure for each compilation unit
253 struct partial_symtab
*psymtabs
;
255 /* List of freed partial symtabs, available for re-use */
257 struct partial_symtab
*free_psymtabs
;
259 /* The object file's BFD. Can be null if the objfile contains only
260 minimal symbols, e.g. the run time common symbols for SunOS4. */
264 /* The modification timestamp of the object file, as of the last time
265 we read its symbols. */
269 /* Obstacks to hold objects that should be freed when we load a new symbol
270 table from this object file. */
272 struct obstack psymbol_obstack
; /* Partial symbols */
273 struct obstack symbol_obstack
; /* Full symbols */
274 struct obstack type_obstack
; /* Types */
276 /* A byte cache where we can stash arbitrary "chunks" of bytes that
279 struct bcache psymbol_cache
; /* Byte cache for partial syms */
281 /* Vectors of all partial symbols read in from file. The actual data
282 is stored in the psymbol_obstack. */
284 struct psymbol_allocation_list global_psymbols
;
285 struct psymbol_allocation_list static_psymbols
;
287 /* Each file contains a pointer to an array of minimal symbols for all
288 global symbols that are defined within the file. The array is terminated
289 by a "null symbol", one that has a NULL pointer for the name and a zero
290 value for the address. This makes it easy to walk through the array
291 when passed a pointer to somewhere in the middle of it. There is also
292 a count of the number of symbols, which does not include the terminating
293 null symbol. The array itself, as well as all the data that it points
294 to, should be allocated on the symbol_obstack for this file. */
296 struct minimal_symbol
*msymbols
;
297 int minimal_symbol_count
;
299 /* This is a hash table used to index the minimal symbols by name. */
301 struct minimal_symbol
*msymbol_hash
[MINIMAL_SYMBOL_HASH_SIZE
];
303 /* This hash table is used to index the minimal symbols by their
306 struct minimal_symbol
*msymbol_demangled_hash
[MINIMAL_SYMBOL_HASH_SIZE
];
308 /* For object file formats which don't specify fundamental types, gdb
309 can create such types. For now, it maintains a vector of pointers
310 to these internally created fundamental types on a per objfile basis,
311 however it really should ultimately keep them on a per-compilation-unit
312 basis, to account for linkage-units that consist of a number of
313 compilation units that may have different fundamental types, such as
314 linking C modules with ADA modules, or linking C modules that are
315 compiled with 32-bit ints with C modules that are compiled with 64-bit
316 ints (not inherently evil with a smarter linker). */
318 struct type
**fundamental_types
;
320 /* The mmalloc() malloc-descriptor for this objfile if we are using
321 the memory mapped malloc() package to manage storage for this objfile's
322 data. NULL if we are not. */
326 /* The file descriptor that was used to obtain the mmalloc descriptor
327 for this objfile. If we call mmalloc_detach with the malloc descriptor
328 we should then close this file descriptor. */
332 /* Structure which keeps track of functions that manipulate objfile's
333 of the same type as this objfile. I.E. the function to read partial
334 symbols for example. Note that this structure is in statically
335 allocated memory, and is shared by all objfiles that use the
336 object module reader of this type. */
340 /* The per-objfile information about the entry point, the scope (file/func)
341 containing the entry point, and the scope of the user's main() func. */
343 struct entry_info ei
;
345 /* Information about stabs. Will be filled in with a dbx_symfile_info
346 struct by those readers that need it. */
348 struct dbx_symfile_info
*sym_stab_info
;
350 /* Hook for information for use by the symbol reader (currently used
351 for information shared by sym_init and sym_read). It is
352 typically a pointer to malloc'd memory. The symbol reader's finish
353 function is responsible for freeing the memory thusly allocated. */
357 /* Hook for target-architecture-specific information. This must
358 point to memory allocated on one of the obstacks in this objfile,
359 so that it gets freed automatically when reading a new object
364 /* Set of relocation offsets to apply to each section.
365 Currently on the psymbol_obstack (which makes no sense, but I'm
366 not sure it's harming anything).
368 These offsets indicate that all symbols (including partial and
369 minimal symbols) which have been read have been relocated by this
370 much. Symbols which are yet to be read need to be relocated by
373 struct section_offsets
*section_offsets
;
376 /* Indexes in the section_offsets array. These are initialized by the
377 *_symfile_offsets() family of functions (som_symfile_offsets,
378 xcoff_symfile_offsets, default_symfile_offsets). In theory they
379 should correspond to the section indexes used by bfd for the
380 current objfile. The exception to this for the time being is the
386 int sect_index_rodata
;
388 /* These pointers are used to locate the section table, which
389 among other things, is used to map pc addresses into sections.
390 SECTIONS points to the first entry in the table, and
391 SECTIONS_END points to the first location past the last entry
392 in the table. Currently the table is stored on the
393 psymbol_obstack (which makes no sense, but I'm not sure it's
394 harming anything). */
397 *sections
, *sections_end
;
399 /* two auxiliary fields, used to hold the fp of separate symbol files */
402 /* Imported symbols */
403 ImportEntry
*import_list
;
404 int import_list_size
;
406 /* Exported symbols */
407 ExportEntry
*export_list
;
408 int export_list_size
;
410 /* Place to stash various statistics about this objfile */
414 /* Defines for the objfile flag word. */
416 /* Gdb can arrange to allocate storage for all objects related to a
417 particular objfile in a designated section of its address space,
418 managed at a low level by mmap() and using a special version of
419 malloc that handles malloc/free/realloc on top of the mmap() interface.
420 This allows the "internal gdb state" for a particular objfile to be
421 dumped to a gdb state file and subsequently reloaded at a later time. */
423 #define OBJF_MAPPED (1 << 0) /* Objfile data is mmap'd */
425 /* When using mapped/remapped predigested gdb symbol information, we need
426 a flag that indicates that we have previously done an initial symbol
427 table read from this particular objfile. We can't just look for the
428 absence of any of the three symbol tables (msymbols, psymtab, symtab)
429 because if the file has no symbols for example, none of these will
432 #define OBJF_SYMS (1 << 1) /* Have tried to read symbols */
434 /* When an object file has its functions reordered (currently Irix-5.2
435 shared libraries exhibit this behaviour), we will need an expensive
436 algorithm to locate a partial symtab or symtab via an address.
437 To avoid this penalty for normal object files, we use this flag,
438 whose setting is determined upon symbol table read in. */
440 #define OBJF_REORDERED (1 << 2) /* Functions are reordered */
442 /* Distinguish between an objfile for a shared library and a "vanilla"
443 objfile. (If not set, the objfile may still actually be a solib.
444 This can happen if the user created the objfile by using the
445 add-symbol-file command. GDB doesn't in that situation actually
446 check whether the file is a solib. Rather, the target's
447 implementation of the solib interface is responsible for setting
448 this flag when noticing solibs used by an inferior.) */
450 #define OBJF_SHARED (1 << 3) /* From a shared library */
452 /* User requested that this objfile be read in it's entirety. */
454 #define OBJF_READNOW (1 << 4) /* Immediate full read */
456 /* This objfile was created because the user explicitly caused it
457 (e.g., used the add-symbol-file command). This bit offers a way
458 for run_command to remove old objfile entries which are no longer
459 valid (i.e., are associated with an old inferior), but to preserve
460 ones that the user explicitly loaded via the add-symbol-file
463 #define OBJF_USERLOADED (1 << 5) /* User loaded */
465 /* The object file that the main symbol table was loaded from (e.g. the
466 argument to the "symbol-file" or "file" command). */
468 extern struct objfile
*symfile_objfile
;
470 /* The object file that contains the runtime common minimal symbols
471 for SunOS4. Note that this objfile has no associated BFD. */
473 extern struct objfile
*rt_common_objfile
;
475 /* When we need to allocate a new type, we need to know which type_obstack
476 to allocate the type on, since there is one for each objfile. The places
477 where types are allocated are deeply buried in function call hierarchies
478 which know nothing about objfiles, so rather than trying to pass a
479 particular objfile down to them, we just do an end run around them and
480 set current_objfile to be whatever objfile we expect to be using at the
481 time types are being allocated. For instance, when we start reading
482 symbols for a particular objfile, we set current_objfile to point to that
483 objfile, and when we are done, we set it back to NULL, to ensure that we
484 never put a type someplace other than where we are expecting to put it.
485 FIXME: Maybe we should review the entire type handling system and
486 see if there is a better way to avoid this problem. */
488 extern struct objfile
*current_objfile
;
490 /* All known objfiles are kept in a linked list. This points to the
491 root of this list. */
493 extern struct objfile
*object_files
;
495 /* Declarations for functions defined in objfiles.c */
497 extern struct objfile
*allocate_objfile (bfd
*, int);
499 extern int build_objfile_section_table (struct objfile
*);
501 extern void objfile_to_front (struct objfile
*);
503 extern void unlink_objfile (struct objfile
*);
505 extern void free_objfile (struct objfile
*);
507 extern struct cleanup
*make_cleanup_free_objfile (struct objfile
*);
509 extern void free_all_objfiles (void);
511 extern void objfile_relocate (struct objfile
*, struct section_offsets
*);
513 extern int have_partial_symbols (void);
515 extern int have_full_symbols (void);
517 /* This operation deletes all objfile entries that represent solibs that
518 weren't explicitly loaded by the user, via e.g., the add-symbol-file
521 extern void objfile_purge_solibs (void);
523 /* Functions for dealing with the minimal symbol table, really a misc
524 address<->symbol mapping for things we don't have debug symbols for. */
526 extern int have_minimal_symbols (void);
528 extern struct obj_section
*find_pc_section (CORE_ADDR pc
);
530 extern struct obj_section
*find_pc_sect_section (CORE_ADDR pc
,
533 extern int in_plt_section (CORE_ADDR
, char *);
535 extern int is_in_import_list (char *, struct objfile
*);
537 /* Traverse all object files. ALL_OBJFILES_SAFE works even if you delete
538 the objfile during the traversal. */
540 #define ALL_OBJFILES(obj) \
541 for ((obj) = object_files; (obj) != NULL; (obj) = (obj)->next)
543 #define ALL_OBJFILES_SAFE(obj,nxt) \
544 for ((obj) = object_files; \
545 (obj) != NULL? ((nxt)=(obj)->next,1) :0; \
548 /* Traverse all symtabs in one objfile. */
550 #define ALL_OBJFILE_SYMTABS(objfile, s) \
551 for ((s) = (objfile) -> symtabs; (s) != NULL; (s) = (s) -> next)
553 /* Traverse all psymtabs in one objfile. */
555 #define ALL_OBJFILE_PSYMTABS(objfile, p) \
556 for ((p) = (objfile) -> psymtabs; (p) != NULL; (p) = (p) -> next)
558 /* Traverse all minimal symbols in one objfile. */
560 #define ALL_OBJFILE_MSYMBOLS(objfile, m) \
561 for ((m) = (objfile) -> msymbols; SYMBOL_NAME(m) != NULL; (m)++)
563 /* Traverse all symtabs in all objfiles. */
565 #define ALL_SYMTABS(objfile, s) \
566 ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
567 ALL_OBJFILE_SYMTABS (objfile, s)
569 /* Traverse all psymtabs in all objfiles. */
571 #define ALL_PSYMTABS(objfile, p) \
572 ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
573 ALL_OBJFILE_PSYMTABS (objfile, p)
575 /* Traverse all minimal symbols in all objfiles. */
577 #define ALL_MSYMBOLS(objfile, m) \
578 ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
579 if ((objfile)->msymbols) \
580 ALL_OBJFILE_MSYMBOLS (objfile, m)
582 #define ALL_OBJFILE_OSECTIONS(objfile, osect) \
583 for (osect = objfile->sections; osect < objfile->sections_end; osect++)
585 #define ALL_OBJSECTIONS(objfile, osect) \
586 ALL_OBJFILES (objfile) \
587 ALL_OBJFILE_OSECTIONS (objfile, osect)
589 #define SECT_OFF_DATA(objfile) \
590 ((objfile->sect_index_data == -1) \
591 ? (internal_error (__FILE__, __LINE__, "sect_index_data not initialized"), -1) \
592 : objfile->sect_index_data)
594 #define SECT_OFF_RODATA(objfile) \
595 ((objfile->sect_index_rodata == -1) \
596 ? (internal_error (__FILE__, __LINE__, "sect_index_rodata not initialized"), -1) \
597 : objfile->sect_index_rodata)
599 #define SECT_OFF_TEXT(objfile) \
600 ((objfile->sect_index_text == -1) \
601 ? (internal_error (__FILE__, __LINE__, "sect_index_text not initialized"), -1) \
602 : objfile->sect_index_text)
604 /* Sometimes the .bss section is missing from the objfile, so we don't
605 want to die here. Let the users of SECT_OFF_BSS deal with an
606 uninitialized section index. */
607 #define SECT_OFF_BSS(objfile) (objfile)->sect_index_bss
609 #endif /* !defined (OBJFILES_H) */