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1 /* GDB-specific functions for operating on agent expressions
2 Copyright (C) 1998-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This file is part of GDB.
6 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
9 (at your option) any later version.
11 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
14 GNU General Public License for more details.
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
19 #ifndef AX_GDB_H
20 #define AX_GDB_H
22 struct expression;
23 union exp_element;
25 /* Types and enums */
27 /* GDB stores expressions in the form of a flattened tree (struct
28 expression), so we just walk that tree and generate agent bytecodes
29 as we go along.
31 GDB's normal evaluation uses struct value, which contains the
32 expression's value as well as its address or the register it came
33 from. The `+' operator uses the value, whereas the unary `&'
34 operator will use the address portion. The `=' operator will use
35 the address or register number of its left hand side.
37 The issues are different when generating agent bytecode. Given a
38 variable reference expression, we should not necessarily generate
39 code to fetch its value, because the next operator may be `=' or
40 unary `&'. Instead, when we recurse on a subexpression, we
41 indicate whether we want that expression to produce an lvalue or an
42 rvalue. If we requested an lvalue, then the recursive call tells
43 us whether it generated code to compute an address on the stack, or
44 whether the lvalue lives in a register.
46 The `axs' prefix here means `agent expression, static', because
47 this is all static analysis of the expression, i.e. analysis which
48 doesn't depend on the contents of memory and registers. */
51 /* Different kinds of agent expression static values. */
52 enum axs_lvalue_kind
54 /* We generated code to compute the subexpression's value.
55 Constants and arithmetic operators yield this. */
56 axs_rvalue,
58 /* We generated code to yield the subexpression's value's address on
59 the top of the stack. If the caller needs an rvalue, it should
60 call require_rvalue to produce the rvalue from this address. */
61 axs_lvalue_memory,
63 /* We didn't generate any code, and the stack is undisturbed,
64 because the subexpression's value lives in a register; u.reg is
65 the register number. If the caller needs an rvalue, it should
66 call require_rvalue to produce the rvalue from this register
67 number. */
68 axs_lvalue_register
71 /* Structure describing what we got from a subexpression. Think of
72 this as parallel to value.h's enum lval_type, except that we're
73 describing a value which will exist when the expression is
74 evaluated in the future, not a value we have in our hand. */
75 struct axs_value
77 enum axs_lvalue_kind kind; /* see above */
79 /* The type of the subexpression. Even if lvalue == axs_lvalue_memory,
80 this is the type of the value itself; the value on the stack is a
81 "pointer to" an object of this type. */
82 struct type *type;
84 /* If nonzero, this is a variable which does not actually exist in
85 the program. */
86 char optimized_out;
88 union
90 /* if kind == axs_lvalue_register, this is the register number */
91 int reg;
97 /* Translating GDB expressions into agent expressions. */
99 /* Given a GDB expression EXPR, return bytecode to trace its value.
100 The result will use the `trace' and `trace_quick' bytecodes to
101 record the value of all memory touched by the expression, and leave
102 no values on the stack. The caller can then use the ax_reqs
103 function to discover which registers the expression uses. */
104 extern struct agent_expr *gen_trace_for_expr (CORE_ADDR, struct expression *,
105 int);
107 extern struct agent_expr *gen_trace_for_var (CORE_ADDR, struct gdbarch *,
108 struct symbol *, int);
110 extern struct agent_expr *gen_trace_for_return_address (CORE_ADDR,
111 struct gdbarch *,
112 int);
114 extern struct agent_expr *gen_eval_for_expr (CORE_ADDR, struct expression *);
116 extern void gen_expr (struct expression *exp, union exp_element **pc,
117 struct agent_expr *ax, struct axs_value *value);
119 extern void require_rvalue (struct agent_expr *ax, struct axs_value *value);
121 struct format_piece;
122 extern struct agent_expr *gen_printf (CORE_ADDR, struct gdbarch *,
123 CORE_ADDR, LONGEST, const char *, int,
124 struct format_piece *,
125 int, struct expression **);
127 #endif /* AX_GDB_H */