/* Definitions for symbol file management in GDB.
- Copyright (C) 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GDB.
/* This structure maintains information on a per-objfile basis about the
"entry point" of the objfile, and the scope within which the entry point
exists. It is possible that gdb will see more than one objfile that is
- executable, each with it's own entry point.
+ executable, each with its own entry point.
For example, for dynamically linked executables in SVR4, the dynamic linker
code is contained within the shared C library, which is actually executable
executable which correspond to the "startup file", I.E. crt0.o in most
cases. This file is assumed to be a startup file and frames with pc's
inside it are treated as nonexistent. Setting these variables is necessary
- so that backtraces do not fly off the bottom of the stack (or top, depending
- upon your stack orientation).
+ so that backtraces do not fly off the bottom of the stack.
- Gdb also supports an alternate method to avoid running off the top/bottom
+ Gdb also supports an alternate method to avoid running off the bottom
of the stack.
There are two frames that are "special", the frame for the function
CORE_ADDR entry_point;
+#define INVALID_ENTRY_POINT (~0) /* ~0 will not be in any file, we hope. */
+
/* Start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) of function containing the
entry point. */
CORE_ADDR main_func_lowpc;
CORE_ADDR main_func_highpc;
-};
+/* Use these values when any of the above ranges is invalid. */
+
+/* We use these values because it guarantees that there is no number that is
+ both >= LOWPC && < HIGHPC. It is also highly unlikely that 3 is a valid
+ module or function start address (as opposed to 0). */
+#define INVALID_ENTRY_LOWPC (3)
+#define INVALID_ENTRY_HIGHPC (1)
+
+};
/* Sections in an objfile.
addresses", but that's not true; addr & endaddr are actual memory
addresses. */
CORE_ADDR offset;
-
- sec_ptr sec_ptr; /* BFD section pointer */
- /* Objfile this section is part of. Not currently used, but I'm sure
- that someone will want the bfd that the sec_ptr goes with or something
- like that before long. */
+ sec_ptr the_bfd_section; /* BFD section pointer */
+
+ /* Objfile this section is part of. */
struct objfile *objfile;
};
-/* Master structure for keeping track of each input file from which
- gdb reads symbols. One of these is allocated for each such file we
- access, e.g. the exec_file, symbol_file, and any shared library object
- files. */
+/* Master structure for keeping track of each file from which
+ gdb reads symbols. There are several ways these get allocated: 1.
+ The main symbol file, symfile_objfile, set by the symbol-file command,
+ 2. Additional symbol files added by the add-symbol-file command,
+ 3. Shared library objfiles, added by ADD_SOLIB, 4. symbol files
+ for modules that were loaded when GDB attached to a remote system
+ (see remote-vx.c). */
struct objfile
{
struct partial_symtab *free_psymtabs;
- /* The object file's BFD. Can be null, in which case bfd_open (name) and
- put the result here. */
+ /* The object file's BFD. Can be null if the objfile contains only
+ minimal symbols, e.g. the run time common symbols for SunOS4. */
bfd *obfd;
by a "null symbol", one that has a NULL pointer for the name and a zero
value for the address. This makes it easy to walk through the array
when passed a pointer to somewhere in the middle of it. There is also
- a count of the number of symbols, which does include the terminating
+ a count of the number of symbols, which does not include the terminating
null symbol. The array itself, as well as all the data that it points
to, should be allocated on the symbol_obstack for this file. */
struct entry_info ei;
- /* Hook for information which is shared by sym_init and sym_read for
- this objfile. It is typically a pointer to malloc'd memory. */
+ /* Information about stabs. Will be filled in with a dbx_symfile_info
+ struct by those readers that need it. */
+
+ PTR sym_stab_info;
+
+ /* Hook for information for use by the symbol reader (currently used
+ for information shared by sym_init and sym_read). It is
+ typically a pointer to malloc'd memory. The symbol reader's finish
+ function is responsible for freeing the memory thusly allocated. */
PTR sym_private;
- /* Hook for other info specific to this objfile. This must point to
- memory allocated on one of the obstacks in this objfile, so that it
- gets freed automatically when reading a new object file. */
+ /* Hook for target-architecture-specific information. This must
+ point to memory allocated on one of the obstacks in this objfile,
+ so that it gets freed automatically when reading a new object
+ file. */
PTR obj_private;
struct obj_section
*sections,
*sections_end;
+
+ /* two auxiliary fields, used to hold the fp of separate symbol files */
+ FILE *auxf1, *auxf2;
};
/* Defines for the objfile flag word. */
/* Gdb can arrange to allocate storage for all objects related to a
- particular objfile in a designated section of it's address space,
+ particular objfile in a designated section of its address space,
managed at a low level by mmap() and using a special version of
malloc that handles malloc/free/realloc on top of the mmap() interface.
This allows the "internal gdb state" for a particular objfile to be
#define OBJF_SYMS (1 << 1) /* Have tried to read symbols */
+/* When an object file has its functions reordered (currently Irix-5.2
+ shared libraries exhibit this behaviour), we will need an expensive
+ algorithm to locate a partial symtab or symtab via an address.
+ To avoid this penalty for normal object files, we use this flag,
+ whose setting is determined upon symbol table read in. */
+
+#define OBJF_REORDERED (2 << 1) /* Functions are reordered */
+
/* The object file that the main symbol table was loaded from (e.g. the
argument to the "symbol-file" or "file" command). */
extern struct objfile *symfile_objfile;
+/* The object file that contains the runtime common minimal symbols
+ for SunOS4. Note that this objfile has no associated BFD. */
+
+extern struct objfile *rt_common_objfile;
+
/* When we need to allocate a new type, we need to know which type_obstack
to allocate the type on, since there is one for each objfile. The places
where types are allocated are deeply buried in function call hierarchies
extern struct objfile *
allocate_objfile PARAMS ((bfd *, int));
+extern int
+build_objfile_section_table PARAMS ((struct objfile *));
+
+extern void objfile_to_front PARAMS ((struct objfile *));
+
extern void
unlink_objfile PARAMS ((struct objfile *));
(obj) != NULL? ((nxt)=(obj)->next,1) :0; \
(obj) = (nxt))
-
/* Traverse all symtabs in one objfile. */
#define ALL_OBJFILE_SYMTABS(objfile, s) \
#define ALL_OBJFILE_MSYMBOLS(objfile, m) \
for ((m) = (objfile) -> msymbols; SYMBOL_NAME(m) != NULL; (m)++)
-
/* Traverse all symtabs in all objfiles. */
#define ALL_SYMTABS(objfile, s) \