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+# Copyright (C) 2021-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# 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 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+"""Disassembler related module."""
+
+import gdb
+import _gdb.disassembler
+
+# Re-export everything from the _gdb.disassembler module, which is
+# defined within GDB's C++ code.
+from _gdb.disassembler import *
+
+# Module global dictionary of gdb.disassembler.Disassembler objects.
+# The keys of this dictionary are bfd architecture names, or the
+# special value None.
+#
+# When a request to disassemble comes in we first lookup the bfd
+# architecture name from the gdbarch, if that name exists in this
+# dictionary then we use that Disassembler object.
+#
+# If there's no architecture specific disassembler then we look for
+# the key None in this dictionary, and if that key exists, we use that
+# disassembler.
+#
+# If none of the above checks found a suitable disassembler, then no
+# disassembly is performed in Python.
+_disassemblers_dict = {}
+
+
+class Disassembler(object):
+ """A base class from which all user implemented disassemblers must
+ inherit."""
+
+ def __init__(self, name):
+ """Constructor. Takes a name, which should be a string, which can be
+ used to identify this disassembler in diagnostic messages."""
+ self.name = name
+
+ def __call__(self, info):
+ """A default implementation of __call__. All sub-classes must
+ override this method. Calling this default implementation will throw
+ a NotImplementedError exception."""
+ raise NotImplementedError("Disassembler.__call__")
+
+
+def register_disassembler(disassembler, architecture=None):
+ """Register a disassembler. DISASSEMBLER is a sub-class of
+ gdb.disassembler.Disassembler. ARCHITECTURE is either None or a
+ string, the name of an architecture known to GDB.
+
+ DISASSEMBLER is registered as a disassembler for ARCHITECTURE, or
+ all architectures when ARCHITECTURE is None.
+
+ Returns the previous disassembler registered with this
+ ARCHITECTURE value.
+ """
+
+ if not isinstance(disassembler, Disassembler) and disassembler is not None:
+ raise TypeError("disassembler should sub-class gdb.disassembler.Disassembler")
+
+ old = None
+ if architecture in _disassemblers_dict:
+ old = _disassemblers_dict[architecture]
+ del _disassemblers_dict[architecture]
+ if disassembler is not None:
+ _disassemblers_dict[architecture] = disassembler
+
+ # Call the private _set_enabled function within the
+ # _gdb.disassembler module. This function sets a global flag
+ # within GDB's C++ code that enables or dissables the Python
+ # disassembler functionality, this improves performance of the
+ # disassembler by avoiding unneeded calls into Python when we know
+ # that no disassemblers are registered.
+ _gdb.disassembler._set_enabled(len(_disassemblers_dict) > 0)
+ return old
+
+
+def _print_insn(info):
+ """This function is called by GDB when it wants to disassemble an
+ instruction. INFO describes the instruction to be
+ disassembled."""
+
+ def lookup_disassembler(arch):
+ try:
+ name = arch.name()
+ if name is None:
+ return None
+ if name in _disassemblers_dict:
+ return _disassemblers_dict[name]
+ if None in _disassemblers_dict:
+ return _disassemblers_dict[None]
+ return None
+ except:
+ # It's pretty unlikely this exception case will ever
+ # trigger, one situation would be if the user somehow
+ # corrupted the _disassemblers_dict variable such that it
+ # was no longer a dictionary.
+ return None
+
+ disassembler = lookup_disassembler(info.architecture)
+ if disassembler is None:
+ return None
+ return disassembler(info)
+
+
+class maint_info_py_disassemblers_cmd(gdb.Command):
+ """
+ List all registered Python disassemblers.
+
+ List the name of all registered Python disassemblers, next to the
+ name of the architecture for which the disassembler is registered.
+
+ The global Python disassembler is listed next to the string
+ 'GLOBAL'.
+
+ The disassembler that matches the architecture of the currently
+ selected inferior will be marked, this is an indication of which
+ disassembler will be invoked if any disassembly is performed in
+ the current inferior.
+ """
+
+ def __init__(self):
+ super().__init__("maintenance info python-disassemblers", gdb.COMMAND_USER)
+
+ def invoke(self, args, from_tty):
+ # If no disassemblers are registered, tell the user.
+ if len(_disassemblers_dict) == 0:
+ print("No Python disassemblers registered.")
+ return
+
+ # Figure out the longest architecture name, so we can
+ # correctly format the table of results.
+ longest_arch_name = 0
+ for architecture in _disassemblers_dict:
+ if architecture is not None:
+ name = _disassemblers_dict[architecture].name
+ if len(name) > longest_arch_name:
+ longest_arch_name = len(name)
+
+ # Figure out the name of the current architecture. There
+ # should always be a current inferior, but if, somehow, there
+ # isn't, then leave curr_arch as the empty string, which will
+ # not then match agaisnt any architecture in the dictionary.
+ curr_arch = ""
+ if gdb.selected_inferior() is not None:
+ curr_arch = gdb.selected_inferior().architecture().name()
+
+ # Now print the dictionary of registered disassemblers out to
+ # the user.
+ match_tag = "\t(Matches current architecture)"
+ fmt_len = max(longest_arch_name, len("Architecture"))
+ format_string = "{:" + str(fmt_len) + "s} {:s}"
+ print(format_string.format("Architecture", "Disassember Name"))
+ for architecture in _disassemblers_dict:
+ if architecture is not None:
+ name = _disassemblers_dict[architecture].name
+ if architecture == curr_arch:
+ name += match_tag
+ match_tag = ""
+ print(format_string.format(architecture, name))
+ if None in _disassemblers_dict:
+ name = _disassemblers_dict[None].name + match_tag
+ print(format_string.format("GLOBAL", name))
+
+
+maint_info_py_disassemblers_cmd()