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author | Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com> | 2022-02-14 14:40:52 +0000 |
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committer | Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com> | 2022-07-11 12:02:54 +0100 |
commit | 4cbe4ca5da5cd7e1e6331ce11f024bf3c07b9744 (patch) | |
tree | 8c0bf2715ee9bc1c477005ba81c50cc22c59990e /gdb/cli/cli-style.h | |
parent | 81384924cdcc9eb2676dd9084b76845d7d0e0759 (diff) | |
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gdb: add support for disassembler styling using libopcodes
This commit extends GDB to make use of libopcodes styling support
where available, currently this is just i386 based architectures, and
RISC-V.
For architectures that don't support styling using libopcodes GDB will
fall back to using the Python Pygments package, when the package is
available.
The new libopcodes based styling has the disassembler identify parts
of the disassembled instruction, e.g. registers, immediates,
mnemonics, etc, and can style these components differently.
Additionally, as the styling is now done in GDB we can add settings to
allow the user to configure which colours are used right from the GDB
CLI.
There's some new maintenance commands:
maintenance set libopcodes-styling enabled on|off
maintenance show libopcodes-styling
These can be used to manually disable use of libopcodes styling. This
is a maintenance command as it's not anticipated that a user should
need to do this. But, this could be useful for testing, or, in some
rare cases, a user might want to override the Python hook used for
disassembler styling, and then disable libopcode styling so that GDB
falls back to using Python. Right now I would consider this second
use case a rare situation, which is why I think a maintenance command
is appropriate.
When libopcodes is being used for styling then the user can make use
of the following new styles:
set/show style disassembler comment
set/show style disassembler immediate
set/show style disassembler mnemonic
set/show style disassembler register
The disassembler also makes use of the 'address' and 'function'
styles to style some parts of the disassembler output. I have also
added the following aliases though:
set/show style disassembler address
set/show style disassembler symbol
these are aliases for:
set/show style address
set/show style function
respectively, and exist to make it easier for users to discover
disassembler related style settings. The 'address' style is used to
style numeric addresses in the disassembler output, while the 'symbol'
or 'function' style is used to style the names of symbols in
disassembler output.
As not every architecture supports libopcodes styling, the maintenance
setting 'libopcodes-styling enabled' has an "auto-off" type behaviour.
Consider this GDB session:
(gdb) show architecture
The target architecture is set to "auto" (currently "i386:x86-64").
(gdb) maintenance show libopcodes-styling enabled
Use of libopcodes styling support is "on".
the setting defaults to "on" for architectures that support libopcodes
based styling.
(gdb) set architecture sparc
The target architecture is set to "sparc".
(gdb) maintenance show libopcodes-styling enabled
Use of libopcodes styling support is "off" (not supported on architecture "sparc")
the setting will show as "off" if the user switches to an architecture
that doesn't support libopcodes styling. The underlying setting is
still "on" at this point though, if the user switches back to
i386:x86-64 then the setting would go back to being "on".
(gdb) maintenance set libopcodes-styling enabled off
(gdb) maintenance show libopcodes-styling enabled
Use of libopcodes styling support is "off".
now the setting is "off" for everyone, even if the user switches back
to i386:x86-64 the setting will still show as "off".
(gdb) maintenance set libopcodes-styling enabled on
Use of libopcodes styling not supported on architecture "sparc".
(gdb) maintenance show libopcodes-styling enabled
Use of libopcodes styling support is "off".
attempting to switch the setting "on" for an unsupported architecture
will give an error, and the setting will remain "off".
(gdb) set architecture auto
The target architecture is set to "auto" (currently "i386:x86-64").
(gdb) maintenance show libopcodes-styling enabled
Use of libopcodes styling support is "off".
(gdb) maintenance set libopcodes-styling enabled on
(gdb) maintenance show libopcodes-styling enabled
Use of libopcodes styling support is "on".
the user will need to switch back to a supported architecture before
they can one again turn this setting "on".
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/cli/cli-style.h')
-rw-r--r-- | gdb/cli/cli-style.h | 28 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/cli/cli-style.h b/gdb/cli/cli-style.h index f69df47..4090cf0 100644 --- a/gdb/cli/cli-style.h +++ b/gdb/cli/cli-style.h @@ -43,12 +43,13 @@ public: /* Return the style name. */ const char *name () { return m_name; }; - /* Call once to register this CLI style with the CLI engine. */ - void add_setshow_commands (enum command_class theclass, - const char *prefix_doc, - struct cmd_list_element **set_list, - struct cmd_list_element **show_list, - bool skip_intensity); + /* Call once to register this CLI style with the CLI engine. Returns + the set/show prefix commands for the style. */ + set_show_commands add_setshow_commands (enum command_class theclass, + const char *prefix_doc, + struct cmd_list_element **set_list, + struct cmd_list_element **show_list, + bool skip_intensity); /* Return the 'set style NAME' command list, that can be used to build a lambda DO_SET to call add_setshow_commands. */ @@ -116,6 +117,21 @@ extern cli_style_option title_style; /* The metadata style. */ extern cli_style_option metadata_style; +/* The disassembler style for mnemonics or assembler directives + (e.g. '.byte', etc). */ +extern cli_style_option disasm_mnemonic_style; + +/* The disassembler style for register names. */ +extern cli_style_option disasm_register_style; + +/* The disassembler style for numerical values that are not addresses, this + includes immediate operands (e.g. in, an add instruction), but also + address offsets (e.g. in a load instruction). */ +extern cli_style_option disasm_immediate_style; + +/* The disassembler style for comments. */ +extern cli_style_option disasm_comment_style; + /* The border style of a TUI window that does not have the focus. */ extern cli_style_option tui_border_style; |