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diff --git a/gdb/ax-gdb.h b/gdb/ax-gdb.h new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bca70d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/gdb/ax-gdb.h @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +/* GDB-specific functions for operating on agent expressions + Copyright 1998 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 2 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, write to the Free Software +Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ + +/* $Id$ */ + +#ifndef AX_GDB_H +#define AX_GDB_H + + +/* Types and enums */ + +/* GDB stores expressions in the form of a flattened tree (struct + expression), so we just walk that tree and generate agent bytecodes + as we go along. + + GDB's normal evaluation uses struct value, which contains the + expression's value as well as its address or the register it came + from. The `+' operator uses the value, whereas the unary `&' + operator will use the address portion. The `=' operator will use + the address or register number of its left hand side. + + The issues are different when generating agent bytecode. Given a + variable reference expression, we should not necessarily generate + code to fetch its value, because the next operator may be `=' or + unary `&'. Instead, when we recurse on a subexpression, we + indicate whether we want that expression to produce an lvalue or an + rvalue. If we requested an lvalue, then the recursive call tells + us whether it generated code to compute an address on the stack, or + whether the lvalue lives in a register. + + The `axs' prefix here means `agent expression, static', because + this is all static analysis of the expression, i.e. analysis which + doesn't depend on the contents of memory and registers. */ + + +/* Different kinds of agent expression static values. */ +enum axs_lvalue_kind { + /* We generated code to compute the subexpression's value. + Constants and arithmetic operators yield this. */ + axs_rvalue, + + /* We generated code to yield the subexpression's value's address on + the top of the stack. If the caller needs an rvalue, it should + call require_rvalue to produce the rvalue from this address. */ + axs_lvalue_memory, + + /* We didn't generate any code, and the stack is undisturbed, + because the subexpression's value lives in a register; u.reg is + the register number. If the caller needs an rvalue, it should + call require_rvalue to produce the rvalue from this register + number. */ + axs_lvalue_register +}; + +/* Structure describing what we got from a subexpression. Think of + this as parallel to value.h's enum lval_type, except that we're + describing a value which will exist when the expression is + evaluated in the future, not a value we have in our hand. */ +struct axs_value { + enum axs_lvalue_kind kind; /* see above */ + + /* The type of the subexpression. Even if lvalue == axs_lvalue_memory, + this is the type of the value itself; the value on the stack is a + "pointer to" an object of this type. */ + struct type *type; + + union { + /* if kind == axs_lvalue_register, this is the register number */ + int reg; + } u; +}; + + +/* Translating GDB expressions into agent expressions. */ + +/* Given a GDB expression EXPR, translate it into the agent bytecode, + and return it. FLAGS are from enum expr_to_agent_flags. */ +extern struct agent_expr *expr_to_agent PARAMS ((struct expression *EXPR, + struct axs_value *VALUE)); + +/* Given a GDB expression EXPR denoting an lvalue in memory, produce a + string of agent bytecode which will leave its address and size on + the top of stack. Return the agent expression. */ +extern struct agent_expr *expr_to_address_and_size + PARAMS ((struct expression *EXPR)); + +/* Given a GDB expression EXPR, return bytecode to trace its value. + The result will use the `trace' and `trace_quick' bytecodes to + record the value of all memory touched by the expression, and leave + no values on the stack. The caller can then use the ax_reqs + function to discover which registers the expression uses. */ +extern struct agent_expr *gen_trace_for_expr PARAMS ((CORE_ADDR, + struct expression *)); + +#endif /* AX_GDB_H */ |