/* Interface between gdb and its extension languages.
Copyright (C) 2014-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GDB.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see . */
#ifndef EXTENSION_H
#define EXTENSION_H
#include "mi/mi-cmds.h" /* For PRINT_NO_VALUES, etc. */
#include "gdbsupport/array-view.h"
#include "gdbsupport/gdb_optional.h"
struct breakpoint;
struct command_line;
struct frame_info;
struct language_defn;
struct objfile;
struct extension_language_defn;
struct type;
struct ui_file;
struct ui_out;
struct value;
struct value_print_options;
/* A function to load and process a script file.
The file has been opened and is ready to be read from the beginning.
Any exceptions are not caught, and are passed to the caller. */
typedef void script_sourcer_func (const struct extension_language_defn *,
FILE *stream, const char *filename);
/* A function to load and process a script for an objfile.
The file has been opened and is ready to be read from the beginning.
Any exceptions are not caught, and are passed to the caller. */
typedef void objfile_script_sourcer_func
(const struct extension_language_defn *,
struct objfile *, FILE *stream, const char *filename);
/* A function to execute a script for an objfile.
Any exceptions are not caught, and are passed to the caller. */
typedef void objfile_script_executor_func
(const struct extension_language_defn *,
struct objfile *, const char *name, const char *script);
/* Enum of each extension(/scripting) language. */
enum extension_language
{
EXT_LANG_NONE,
EXT_LANG_GDB,
EXT_LANG_PYTHON,
EXT_LANG_GUILE
};
/* Extension language frame-filter status return values. */
enum ext_lang_bt_status
{
/* Return when an error has occurred in processing frame filters,
or when printing the stack. */
EXT_LANG_BT_ERROR = -1,
/* Return from internal routines to indicate that the function
succeeded. */
EXT_LANG_BT_OK = 1,
/* Return when the frame filter process is complete, but there
were no filter registered and enabled to process. */
EXT_LANG_BT_NO_FILTERS = 2
};
/* Flags to pass to apply_extlang_frame_filter. */
enum frame_filter_flag
{
/* Set this flag if frame level is to be printed. */
PRINT_LEVEL = 1 << 0,
/* Set this flag if frame information is to be printed. */
PRINT_FRAME_INFO = 1 << 1,
/* Set this flag if frame arguments are to be printed. */
PRINT_ARGS = 1 << 2,
/* Set this flag if frame locals are to be printed. */
PRINT_LOCALS = 1 << 3,
/* Set this flag if a "More frames" message is to be printed. */
PRINT_MORE_FRAMES = 1 << 4,
/* Set this flag if elided frames should not be printed. */
PRINT_HIDE = 1 << 5,
};
DEF_ENUM_FLAGS_TYPE (enum frame_filter_flag, frame_filter_flags);
/* A choice of the different frame argument printing strategies that
can occur in different cases of frame filter instantiation. */
enum ext_lang_frame_args
{
/* Print no values for arguments when invoked from the MI. */
NO_VALUES = PRINT_NO_VALUES,
MI_PRINT_ALL_VALUES = PRINT_ALL_VALUES,
/* Print only simple values (what MI defines as "simple") for
arguments when invoked from the MI. */
MI_PRINT_SIMPLE_VALUES = PRINT_SIMPLE_VALUES,
/* Print only scalar values for arguments when invoked from the CLI. */
CLI_SCALAR_VALUES,
/* Print all values for arguments when invoked from the CLI. */
CLI_ALL_VALUES,
/* Only indicate the presence of arguments when invoked from the CLI. */
CLI_PRESENCE
};
/* The possible results of
extension_language_ops.breakpoint_cond_says_stop. */
enum ext_lang_bp_stop
{
/* No "stop" condition is set. */
EXT_LANG_BP_STOP_UNSET,
/* A "stop" condition is set, and it says "don't stop". */
EXT_LANG_BP_STOP_NO,
/* A "stop" condition is set, and it says "stop". */
EXT_LANG_BP_STOP_YES
};
/* Table of type printers associated with the global typedef table. */
struct ext_lang_type_printers
{
ext_lang_type_printers ();
~ext_lang_type_printers ();
DISABLE_COPY_AND_ASSIGN (ext_lang_type_printers);
/* Type-printers from Python. */
void *py_type_printers = nullptr;
};
/* The return code for some API calls. */
enum ext_lang_rc
{
/* The operation completed successfully. */
EXT_LANG_RC_OK,
/* The operation was not performed (e.g., no pretty-printer). */
EXT_LANG_RC_NOP,
/* There was an error (e.g., Python error while printing a value).
When an error occurs no further extension languages are tried.
This is to preserve existing behaviour, and because it's convenient
for Python developers.
Note: This is different than encountering a memory error trying to read
a value for pretty-printing. Here we're referring to, e.g., programming
errors that trigger an exception in the extension language. */
EXT_LANG_RC_ERROR
};
/* A type which holds its extension language specific xmethod worker data. */
struct xmethod_worker
{
xmethod_worker (const extension_language_defn *extlang)
: m_extlang (extlang)
{}
virtual ~xmethod_worker () = default;
/* Invoke the xmethod encapsulated in this worker and return the result.
The method is invoked on OBJ with arguments in the ARGS array. */
virtual value *invoke (value *obj, gdb::array_view args) = 0;
/* Return the arg types of the xmethod encapsulated in this worker.
The type of the 'this' object is returned as the first element of
the vector. */
std::vector get_arg_types ();
/* Return the type of the result of the xmethod encapsulated in this worker.
OBJECT and ARGS are the same as for invoke. */
type *get_result_type (value *object, gdb::array_view args);
private:
/* Return the types of the arguments the method takes. The types
are returned in TYPE_ARGS, one per argument. */
virtual enum ext_lang_rc do_get_arg_types
(std::vector *type_args) = 0;
/* Fetch the type of the result of the method implemented by this
worker. OBJECT and ARGS are the same as for the invoked method.
The result type is stored in *RESULT_TYPE. */
virtual enum ext_lang_rc do_get_result_type
(struct value *obj, gdb::array_view args,
struct type **result_type_ptr) = 0;
/* The language the xmethod worker is implemented in. */
const extension_language_defn *m_extlang;
};
typedef std::unique_ptr xmethod_worker_up;
/* The interface for gdb's own extension(/scripting) language. */
extern const struct extension_language_defn extension_language_gdb;
extern const struct extension_language_defn *get_ext_lang_defn
(enum extension_language lang);
extern const struct extension_language_defn *get_ext_lang_of_file
(const char *file);
extern int ext_lang_present_p (const struct extension_language_defn *);
extern int ext_lang_initialized_p (const struct extension_language_defn *);
extern void throw_ext_lang_unsupported
(const struct extension_language_defn *);
/* Accessors for "public" attributes of the extension language definition. */
extern enum extension_language ext_lang_kind
(const struct extension_language_defn *);
extern const char *ext_lang_name (const struct extension_language_defn *);
extern const char *ext_lang_capitalized_name
(const struct extension_language_defn *);
extern const char *ext_lang_suffix (const struct extension_language_defn *);
extern const char *ext_lang_auto_load_suffix
(const struct extension_language_defn *);
extern script_sourcer_func *ext_lang_script_sourcer
(const struct extension_language_defn *);
extern objfile_script_sourcer_func *ext_lang_objfile_script_sourcer
(const struct extension_language_defn *);
extern objfile_script_executor_func *ext_lang_objfile_script_executor
(const struct extension_language_defn *);
/* Return true if auto-loading of EXTLANG scripts is enabled.
False is returned if support for this language isn't compiled in. */
extern bool ext_lang_auto_load_enabled (const struct extension_language_defn *);
/* Wrappers for each extension language API function that iterate over all
extension languages. */
extern void ext_lang_initialization (void);
extern void eval_ext_lang_from_control_command (struct command_line *cmd);
extern void auto_load_ext_lang_scripts_for_objfile (struct objfile *);
extern char *apply_ext_lang_type_printers (struct ext_lang_type_printers *,
struct type *);
extern int apply_ext_lang_val_pretty_printer
(struct value *value, struct ui_file *stream, int recurse,
const struct value_print_options *options,
const struct language_defn *language);
extern enum ext_lang_bt_status apply_ext_lang_frame_filter
(struct frame_info *frame, frame_filter_flags flags,
enum ext_lang_frame_args args_type,
struct ui_out *out, int frame_low, int frame_high);
extern void preserve_ext_lang_values (struct objfile *, htab_t copied_types);
extern const struct extension_language_defn *get_breakpoint_cond_ext_lang
(struct breakpoint *b, enum extension_language skip_lang);
extern int breakpoint_ext_lang_cond_says_stop (struct breakpoint *);
/* If a method with name METHOD_NAME is to be invoked on an object of type
TYPE, then all extension languages are searched for implementations of
methods with name METHOD_NAME. All matches found are appended to the WORKERS
vector. */
extern void get_matching_xmethod_workers
(struct type *type, const char *method_name,
std::vector *workers);
/* Try to colorize some source code. FILENAME is the name of the file
holding the code. CONTENTS is the source code itself. This will
either a colorized (using ANSI terminal escapes) version of the
source code, or an empty value if colorizing could not be done. */
extern gdb::optional ext_lang_colorize
(const std::string &filename, const std::string &contents);
#if GDB_SELF_TEST
namespace selftests {
extern void (*hook_set_active_ext_lang) ();
}
#endif
#endif /* EXTENSION_H */