/* Minimal symbol table definitions for GDB.
- Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 2011-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GDB.
#ifndef MINSYMS_H
#define MINSYMS_H
+/* Several lookup functions return both a minimal symbol and the
+ objfile in which it is found. This structure is used in these
+ cases. */
+
+struct bound_minimal_symbol
+{
+ /* The minimal symbol that was found, or NULL if no minimal symbol
+ was found. */
+
+ struct minimal_symbol *minsym;
+
+ /* If MINSYM is not NULL, then this is the objfile in which the
+ symbol is defined. */
+
+ struct objfile *objfile;
+};
+
/* This header declares most of the API for dealing with minimal
symbols and minimal symbol tables. A few things are declared
elsewhere; see below.
ADDRESS - the address of the symbol
MS_TYPE - the type of the symbol
SECTION - the symbol's section
- BFD_SECTION - the symbol's BFD section; used to find the
appropriate obj_section for the minimal symbol. This can be NULL.
OBJFILE - the objfile associated with the minimal symbol. */
CORE_ADDR address,
enum minimal_symbol_type ms_type,
int section,
- asection *bfd_section,
struct objfile *objfile);
/* Like prim_record_minimal_symbol_full, but:
- uses strlen to compute NAME_LEN,
- passes COPY_NAME = 0,
- - passes SECTION = 0,
- - and passes BFD_SECTION = NULL.
+ - and passes a default SECTION, depending on the type
This variant does not return the new symbol. */
CORE_ADDR,
enum minimal_symbol_type,
int section,
- asection *bfd_section,
struct objfile *);
/* Install the minimal symbols that have been collected into the given
\f
-/* Return the objfile that holds the minimal symbol SYM. Every
- minimal symbols is held by some objfile; this will never return
- NULL. */
-
-struct objfile *msymbol_objfile (struct minimal_symbol *sym);
-
-\f
-
/* Look through all the current minimal symbol tables and find the
first minimal symbol that matches NAME. If OBJF is non-NULL, limit
the search to that objfile. If SFILE is non-NULL, the only file-scope
const char *,
struct objfile *);
+/* Like lookup_minimal_symbol, but searches all files and objfiles
+ and returns a bound minimal symbol. */
+
+struct bound_minimal_symbol lookup_bound_minimal_symbol (const char *);
+
/* Find the minimal symbol named NAME, and return both the minsym
- struct and its objfile. This only checks the linkage name. Sets
- *OBJFILE_P and returns the minimal symbol, if it is found. If it
- is not found, returns NULL. */
+ struct and its objfile. This only checks the linkage name. */
-struct minimal_symbol *lookup_minimal_symbol_and_objfile (const char *,
- struct objfile **);
+struct bound_minimal_symbol lookup_minimal_symbol_and_objfile (const char *);
/* Look through all the current minimal symbol tables and find the
first minimal symbol that matches NAME and has text type. If OBJF
If SECTION is NULL, this uses the result of find_pc_section
instead.
- Returns a pointer to the minimal symbol if such a symbol is found,
- or NULL if PC is not in a suitable range. */
+ The result has a non-NULL 'minsym' member if such a symbol is
+ found, or NULL if PC is not in a suitable range. */
-struct minimal_symbol *lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc_section
+struct bound_minimal_symbol lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc_section
(CORE_ADDR,
struct obj_section *);
This is a wrapper that calls lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc_section
with a NULL section argument. */
-struct minimal_symbol *lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc (CORE_ADDR);
+struct bound_minimal_symbol lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc (CORE_ADDR);
/* Iterate over all the minimal symbols in the objfile OBJF which
match NAME. Both the ordinary and demangled names of each symbol