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authorPer Bothner <per@bothner.com>1991-12-23 23:16:58 +0000
committerPer Bothner <per@bothner.com>1991-12-23 23:16:58 +0000
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Oodles of changes. The most important is adding support for stabs
encapsulated in mips ecoff. See ChangeLog for the gory details.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/symfile.h')
-rw-r--r--gdb/symfile.h76
1 files changed, 68 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/symfile.h b/gdb/symfile.h
index 5d1c1c6..67226b9 100644
--- a/gdb/symfile.h
+++ b/gdb/symfile.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/* Definitions for reading symbol files into GDB.
- Copyright (C) 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 1990, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GDB.
@@ -19,8 +19,36 @@ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
/* This file requires that you first include "bfd.h". */
-/* Data structures and function definitions for dealing with
- symbol table reading from files. */
+
+/* Structure for keeping track of object files.
+
+ One of these is allocated for each object file we access, e.g. the
+ exec_file, symbol_file, and any shared library object files. */
+
+struct objfile {
+ /* All struct objfile's are chained together by their next pointers. */
+ struct objfile *next;
+
+ /* Each objfile points to a chain of struct symtabs derived from this
+ object file. They are chained by their objfile_chain pointers, and
+ each one points back to this struct objfile. */
+ struct symtab *symtabs;
+
+ /* Ditto for psymtabs. */
+ struct partial_symtab *psymtabs;
+
+ /* The object file's name. Malloc'd; free it if you free this struct. */
+ char *name;
+
+ /* The object file's BFD. Can be null, in which case bfd_open (name) and
+ put the result here. */
+ bfd *obfd;
+
+ /* The modification timestamp of the object file, as of the last time
+ we read its symbols. */
+ long mtime;
+};
+
/* Structure to keep track of symbol reading functions for various
object file types. */
@@ -83,14 +111,41 @@ struct sym_fns {
in whatever module implements the functions pointed to; an
initializer calls add_symtab_fns to add them to the global chain. */
struct sym_fns *next;
+
+ /* objfile
+ is the "struct objfile" for the object file being read. */
+ struct objfile *objfile;
};
+extern void extend_psymbol_list();
+
+/* Add any kind of symbol to a psymbol_allocation_list. */
+
+#define ADD_PSYMBOL_VT_TO_LIST(NAME, NAMELENGTH, NAMESPACE, CLASS, LIST, VALUE, VT)\
+ do { \
+ register struct partial_symbol *psym; \
+ if ((LIST).next >= (LIST).list + (LIST).size) \
+ extend_psymbol_list(&(LIST)); \
+ psym = (LIST).next++; \
+ \
+ SYMBOL_NAME (psym) = (char *) obstack_alloc (psymbol_obstack, \
+ (NAMELENGTH) + 1); \
+ strncpy (SYMBOL_NAME (psym), (NAME), (NAMELENGTH)); \
+ SYMBOL_NAME (psym)[(NAMELENGTH)] = '\0'; \
+ SYMBOL_NAMESPACE (psym) = (NAMESPACE); \
+ SYMBOL_CLASS (psym) = (CLASS); \
+ VT (psym) = (VALUE); \
+ } while (0);
+
/* Functions */
extern struct symtab *allocate_symtab ();
+extern struct objfile *allocate_objfile ();
+extern void free_objfile ();
extern int free_named_symtabs ();
extern void fill_in_vptr_fieldno ();
extern void add_symtab_fns ();
+extern void syms_from_objfile ();
/* Functions for dealing with the misc "function" vector, really a misc
address<->symbol mapping vector for things we don't have debug symbols
@@ -121,13 +176,18 @@ extern char *obconcat ();
/* Variables */
-/* File name symbols were loaded from. */
+/* 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;
+
+/* Where execution starts in symfile */
-extern char *symfile;
+CORE_ADDR entry_point;
-/* The modification date of the file when they were loaded. */
+/* Root of object file struct chain. */
-extern long /* really time_t */ symfile_mtime;
+struct objfile *object_files;
/* Vectors of all partial symbols read in from file. */
@@ -156,5 +216,5 @@ extern struct complaint complaint_root[1];
/* Functions that handle complaints. (in symfile.c) */
-int complain();
+void complain();
void clear_complaints();