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1 /* Minimal symbol table definitions for GDB.
2
3 Copyright (C) 2011-2019 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 MINSYMS_H
21 #define MINSYMS_H
22
23 struct type;
24
25 /* Several lookup functions return both a minimal symbol and the
26 objfile in which it is found. This structure is used in these
27 cases. */
28
29 struct bound_minimal_symbol
30 {
31 /* The minimal symbol that was found, or NULL if no minimal symbol
32 was found. */
33
34 struct minimal_symbol *minsym;
35
36 /* If MINSYM is not NULL, then this is the objfile in which the
37 symbol is defined. */
38
39 struct objfile *objfile;
40 };
41
42 /* This header declares most of the API for dealing with minimal
43 symbols and minimal symbol tables. A few things are declared
44 elsewhere; see below.
45
46 A minimal symbol is a symbol for which there is no direct debug
47 information. For example, for an ELF binary, minimal symbols are
48 created from the ELF symbol table.
49
50 For the definition of the minimal symbol structure, see struct
51 minimal_symbol in symtab.h.
52
53 Minimal symbols are stored in tables attached to an objfile; see
54 objfiles.h for details. Code should generally treat these tables
55 as opaque and use functions provided by minsyms.c to inspect them.
56 */
57
58 struct msym_bunch;
59
60 /* An RAII-based object that is used to record minimal symbols while
61 they are being read. */
62 class minimal_symbol_reader
63 {
64 public:
65
66 /* Prepare to start collecting minimal symbols. This should be
67 called by a symbol reader to initialize the minimal symbol
68 module. */
69
70 explicit minimal_symbol_reader (struct objfile *);
71
72 ~minimal_symbol_reader ();
73
74 /* Install the minimal symbols that have been collected into the
75 given objfile. */
76
77 void install ();
78
79 /* Record a new minimal symbol. This is the "full" entry point;
80 simpler convenience entry points are also provided below.
81
82 This returns a new minimal symbol. It is ok to modify the returned
83 minimal symbol (though generally not necessary). It is not ok,
84 though, to stash the pointer anywhere; as minimal symbols may be
85 moved after creation. The memory for the returned minimal symbol
86 is still owned by the minsyms.c code, and should not be freed.
87
88 Arguments are:
89
90 NAME - the symbol's name
91 NAME_LEN - the length of the name
92 COPY_NAME - if true, the minsym code must make a copy of NAME. If
93 false, then NAME must be NUL-terminated, and must have a lifetime
94 that is at least as long as OBJFILE's lifetime.
95 ADDRESS - the address of the symbol
96 MS_TYPE - the type of the symbol
97 SECTION - the symbol's section
98 */
99
100 struct minimal_symbol *record_full (const char *name,
101 int name_len,
102 bool copy_name,
103 CORE_ADDR address,
104 enum minimal_symbol_type ms_type,
105 int section);
106
107 /* Like record_full, but:
108 - uses strlen to compute NAME_LEN,
109 - passes COPY_NAME = true,
110 - and passes a default SECTION, depending on the type
111
112 This variant does not return the new symbol. */
113
114 void record (const char *name, CORE_ADDR address,
115 enum minimal_symbol_type ms_type);
116
117 /* Like record_full, but:
118 - uses strlen to compute NAME_LEN,
119 - passes COPY_NAME = true.
120
121 This variant does not return the new symbol. */
122
123 void record_with_info (const char *name, CORE_ADDR address,
124 enum minimal_symbol_type ms_type,
125 int section)
126 {
127 record_full (name, strlen (name), true, address, ms_type, section);
128 }
129
130 private:
131
132 DISABLE_COPY_AND_ASSIGN (minimal_symbol_reader);
133
134 struct objfile *m_objfile;
135
136 /* Bunch currently being filled up.
137 The next field points to chain of filled bunches. */
138
139 struct msym_bunch *m_msym_bunch;
140
141 /* Number of slots filled in current bunch. */
142
143 int m_msym_bunch_index;
144
145 /* Total number of minimal symbols recorded so far for the
146 objfile. */
147
148 int m_msym_count;
149 };
150
151 \f
152
153 /* Return whether MSYMBOL is a function/method. If FUNC_ADDRESS_P is
154 non-NULL, and the MSYMBOL is a function, then *FUNC_ADDRESS_P is
155 set to the function's address, already resolved if MINSYM points to
156 a function descriptor. */
157
158 bool msymbol_is_function (struct objfile *objfile,
159 minimal_symbol *minsym,
160 CORE_ADDR *func_address_p = NULL);
161
162 /* Compute a hash code for the string argument. Unlike htab_hash_string,
163 this is a case-insensitive hash to support "set case-sensitive off". */
164
165 unsigned int msymbol_hash (const char *);
166
167 /* Like msymbol_hash, but compute a hash code that is compatible with
168 strcmp_iw. */
169
170 unsigned int msymbol_hash_iw (const char *);
171
172 /* Compute the next hash value from previous HASH and the character C. This
173 is only a GDB in-memory computed value with no external files compatibility
174 requirements. */
175
176 #define SYMBOL_HASH_NEXT(hash, c) \
177 ((hash) * 67 + TOLOWER ((unsigned char) (c)) - 113)
178
179 \f
180
181 /* Look through all the current minimal symbol tables and find the
182 first minimal symbol that matches NAME. If OBJF is non-NULL, limit
183 the search to that objfile. If SFILE is non-NULL, the only
184 file-scope symbols considered will be from that source file (global
185 symbols are still preferred). Returns a bound minimal symbol that
186 matches, or an empty bound minimal symbol if no match is found. */
187
188 struct bound_minimal_symbol lookup_minimal_symbol (const char *,
189 const char *,
190 struct objfile *);
191
192 /* Like lookup_minimal_symbol, but searches all files and
193 objfiles. */
194
195 struct bound_minimal_symbol lookup_bound_minimal_symbol (const char *);
196
197 /* Look through all the current minimal symbol tables and find the
198 first minimal symbol that matches NAME and has text type. If OBJF
199 is non-NULL, limit the search to that objfile. Returns a bound
200 minimal symbol that matches, or an "empty" bound minimal symbol
201 otherwise.
202
203 This function only searches the mangled (linkage) names. */
204
205 struct bound_minimal_symbol lookup_minimal_symbol_text (const char *,
206 struct objfile *);
207
208 /* Look through all the current minimal symbol tables and find the
209 first minimal symbol that matches NAME and PC. If OBJF is non-NULL,
210 limit the search to that objfile. Returns a pointer to the minimal
211 symbol that matches, or NULL if no match is found. */
212
213 struct minimal_symbol *lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc_name
214 (CORE_ADDR, const char *, struct objfile *);
215
216 enum class lookup_msym_prefer
217 {
218 /* Prefer mst_text symbols. */
219 TEXT,
220
221 /* Prefer mst_solib_trampoline symbols when there are text and
222 trampoline symbols at the same address. Otherwise prefer
223 mst_text symbols. */
224 TRAMPOLINE,
225
226 /* Prefer mst_text_gnu_ifunc symbols when there are text and ifunc
227 symbols at the same address. Otherwise prefer mst_text
228 symbols. */
229 GNU_IFUNC,
230 };
231
232 /* Search through the minimal symbol table for each objfile and find
233 the symbol whose address is the largest address that is still less
234 than or equal to PC, and which matches SECTION.
235
236 If SECTION is NULL, this uses the result of find_pc_section
237 instead.
238
239 The result has a non-NULL 'minsym' member if such a symbol is
240 found, or NULL if PC is not in a suitable range.
241
242 See definition of lookup_msym_prefer for description of PREFER. By
243 default mst_text symbols are preferred. */
244
245 struct bound_minimal_symbol lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc_section
246 (CORE_ADDR,
247 struct obj_section *,
248 lookup_msym_prefer prefer = lookup_msym_prefer::TEXT);
249
250 /* Backward compatibility: search through the minimal symbol table
251 for a matching PC (no section given).
252
253 This is a wrapper that calls lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc_section
254 with a NULL section argument. */
255
256 struct bound_minimal_symbol lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc (CORE_ADDR);
257
258 /* Iterate over all the minimal symbols in the objfile OBJF which
259 match NAME. Both the ordinary and demangled names of each symbol
260 are considered. The caller is responsible for canonicalizing NAME,
261 should that need to be done.
262
263 For each matching symbol, CALLBACK is called with the symbol. */
264
265 void iterate_over_minimal_symbols
266 (struct objfile *objf, const lookup_name_info &name,
267 gdb::function_view<bool (struct minimal_symbol *)> callback);
268
269 /* Compute the upper bound of MINSYM. The upper bound is the last
270 address thought to be part of the symbol. If the symbol has a
271 size, it is used. Otherwise use the lesser of the next minimal
272 symbol in the same section, or the end of the section, as the end
273 of the function. */
274
275 CORE_ADDR minimal_symbol_upper_bound (struct bound_minimal_symbol minsym);
276
277 /* Return the type of MSYMBOL, a minimal symbol of OBJFILE. If
278 ADDRESS_P is not NULL, set it to the MSYMBOL's resolved
279 address. */
280
281 type *find_minsym_type_and_address (minimal_symbol *msymbol, objfile *objf,
282 CORE_ADDR *address_p);
283
284 #endif /* MINSYMS_H */
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