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1 /* General utility routines for GDB/Python.
3 Copyright (C) 2008-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This file is part of GDB.
7 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
10 (at your option) any later version.
12 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15 GNU General Public License for more details.
17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
20 #include "defs.h"
21 #include "charset.h"
22 #include "value.h"
23 #include "python-internal.h"
25 /* Converts a Python 8-bit string to a unicode string object. Assumes the
26 8-bit string is in the host charset. If an error occurs during conversion,
27 returns NULL with a python exception set.
29 As an added bonus, the functions accepts a unicode string and returns it
30 right away, so callers don't need to check which kind of string they've
31 got. In Python 3, all strings are Unicode so this case is always the
32 one that applies.
34 If the given object is not one of the mentioned string types, NULL is
35 returned, with the TypeError python exception set. */
36 gdbpy_ref<>
37 python_string_to_unicode (PyObject *obj)
39 PyObject *unicode_str;
41 /* If obj is already a unicode string, just return it.
42 I wish life was always that simple... */
43 if (PyUnicode_Check (obj))
45 unicode_str = obj;
46 Py_INCREF (obj);
48 else
50 PyErr_SetString (PyExc_TypeError,
51 _("Expected a string object."));
52 unicode_str = NULL;
55 return gdbpy_ref<> (unicode_str);
58 /* Returns a newly allocated string with the contents of the given unicode
59 string object converted to CHARSET. If an error occurs during the
60 conversion, NULL will be returned and a python exception will be
61 set. */
62 static gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char>
63 unicode_to_encoded_string (PyObject *unicode_str, const char *charset)
65 /* Translate string to named charset. */
66 gdbpy_ref<> string (PyUnicode_AsEncodedString (unicode_str, charset, NULL));
67 if (string == NULL)
68 return NULL;
70 return gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char>
71 (xstrdup (PyBytes_AsString (string.get ())));
74 /* Returns a PyObject with the contents of the given unicode string
75 object converted to a named charset. If an error occurs during
76 the conversion, NULL will be returned and a python exception will
77 be set. */
78 static gdbpy_ref<>
79 unicode_to_encoded_python_string (PyObject *unicode_str, const char *charset)
81 /* Translate string to named charset. */
82 return gdbpy_ref<> (PyUnicode_AsEncodedString (unicode_str, charset, NULL));
85 /* Returns a newly allocated string with the contents of the given
86 unicode string object converted to the target's charset. If an
87 error occurs during the conversion, NULL will be returned and a
88 python exception will be set. */
89 gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char>
90 unicode_to_target_string (PyObject *unicode_str)
92 return (unicode_to_encoded_string
93 (unicode_str,
94 target_charset (gdbpy_enter::get_gdbarch ())));
97 /* Returns a PyObject with the contents of the given unicode string
98 object converted to the target's charset. If an error occurs
99 during the conversion, NULL will be returned and a python exception
100 will be set. */
101 static gdbpy_ref<>
102 unicode_to_target_python_string (PyObject *unicode_str)
104 return (unicode_to_encoded_python_string
105 (unicode_str,
106 target_charset (gdbpy_enter::get_gdbarch ())));
109 /* Converts a python string (8-bit or unicode) to a target string in
110 the target's charset. Returns NULL on error, with a python
111 exception set. */
112 gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char>
113 python_string_to_target_string (PyObject *obj)
115 gdbpy_ref<> str = python_string_to_unicode (obj);
116 if (str == NULL)
117 return NULL;
119 return unicode_to_target_string (str.get ());
122 /* Converts a python string (8-bit or unicode) to a target string in the
123 target's charset. Returns NULL on error, with a python exception
124 set.
126 In Python 3, the returned object is a "bytes" object (not a string). */
127 gdbpy_ref<>
128 python_string_to_target_python_string (PyObject *obj)
130 gdbpy_ref<> str = python_string_to_unicode (obj);
131 if (str == NULL)
132 return str;
134 return unicode_to_target_python_string (str.get ());
137 /* Converts a python string (8-bit or unicode) to a target string in
138 the host's charset. Returns NULL on error, with a python exception
139 set. */
140 gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char>
141 python_string_to_host_string (PyObject *obj)
143 gdbpy_ref<> str = python_string_to_unicode (obj);
144 if (str == NULL)
145 return NULL;
147 return unicode_to_encoded_string (str.get (), host_charset ());
150 /* Convert a host string to a python string. */
152 gdbpy_ref<>
153 host_string_to_python_string (const char *str)
155 return gdbpy_ref<> (PyUnicode_Decode (str, strlen (str), host_charset (),
156 NULL));
159 /* Return true if OBJ is a Python string or unicode object, false
160 otherwise. */
163 gdbpy_is_string (PyObject *obj)
165 return PyUnicode_Check (obj);
168 /* Return the string representation of OBJ, i.e., str (obj).
169 If the result is NULL a python error occurred, the caller must clear it. */
171 gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char>
172 gdbpy_obj_to_string (PyObject *obj)
174 gdbpy_ref<> str_obj (PyObject_Str (obj));
176 if (str_obj != NULL)
177 return python_string_to_host_string (str_obj.get ());
179 return NULL;
182 /* See python-internal.h. */
184 gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char>
185 gdbpy_err_fetch::to_string () const
187 /* There are a few cases to consider.
188 For example:
189 value is a string when PyErr_SetString is used.
190 value is not a string when raise "foo" is used, instead it is None
191 and type is "foo".
192 So the algorithm we use is to print `str (value)' if it's not
193 None, otherwise we print `str (type)'.
194 Using str (aka PyObject_Str) will fetch the error message from
195 gdb.GdbError ("message"). */
197 if (m_error_value.get () != nullptr && m_error_value.get () != Py_None)
198 return gdbpy_obj_to_string (m_error_value.get ());
199 else
200 return gdbpy_obj_to_string (m_error_type.get ());
203 /* See python-internal.h. */
205 gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char>
206 gdbpy_err_fetch::type_to_string () const
208 return gdbpy_obj_to_string (m_error_type.get ());
211 /* Convert a GDB exception to the appropriate Python exception.
213 This sets the Python error indicator. */
215 void
216 gdbpy_convert_exception (const struct gdb_exception &exception)
218 PyObject *exc_class;
220 if (exception.reason == RETURN_QUIT)
221 exc_class = PyExc_KeyboardInterrupt;
222 else if (exception.error == MEMORY_ERROR)
223 exc_class = gdbpy_gdb_memory_error;
224 else
225 exc_class = gdbpy_gdb_error;
227 PyErr_Format (exc_class, "%s", exception.what ());
230 /* Converts OBJ to a CORE_ADDR value.
232 Returns 0 on success or -1 on failure, with a Python exception set.
236 get_addr_from_python (PyObject *obj, CORE_ADDR *addr)
238 if (gdbpy_is_value_object (obj))
243 *addr = value_as_address (value_object_to_value (obj));
245 catch (const gdb_exception &except)
247 GDB_PY_SET_HANDLE_EXCEPTION (except);
250 else
252 gdbpy_ref<> num (PyNumber_Long (obj));
253 gdb_py_ulongest val;
255 if (num == NULL)
256 return -1;
258 val = gdb_py_long_as_ulongest (num.get ());
259 if (PyErr_Occurred ())
260 return -1;
262 if (sizeof (val) > sizeof (CORE_ADDR) && ((CORE_ADDR) val) != val)
264 PyErr_SetString (PyExc_ValueError,
265 _("Overflow converting to address."));
266 return -1;
269 *addr = val;
272 return 0;
275 /* Convert a LONGEST to the appropriate Python object -- either an
276 integer object or a long object, depending on its value. */
278 gdbpy_ref<>
279 gdb_py_object_from_longest (LONGEST l)
281 if (sizeof (l) > sizeof (long))
282 return gdbpy_ref<> (PyLong_FromLongLong (l));
283 return gdbpy_ref<> (PyLong_FromLong (l));
286 /* Convert a ULONGEST to the appropriate Python object -- either an
287 integer object or a long object, depending on its value. */
289 gdbpy_ref<>
290 gdb_py_object_from_ulongest (ULONGEST l)
292 if (sizeof (l) > sizeof (unsigned long))
293 return gdbpy_ref<> (PyLong_FromUnsignedLongLong (l));
294 return gdbpy_ref<> (PyLong_FromUnsignedLong (l));
297 /* Like PyLong_AsLong, but returns 0 on failure, 1 on success, and puts
298 the value into an out parameter. */
301 gdb_py_int_as_long (PyObject *obj, long *result)
303 *result = PyLong_AsLong (obj);
304 return ! (*result == -1 && PyErr_Occurred ());
309 /* Generic implementation of the __dict__ attribute for objects that
310 have a dictionary. The CLOSURE argument should be the type object.
311 This only handles positive values for tp_dictoffset. */
313 PyObject *
314 gdb_py_generic_dict (PyObject *self, void *closure)
316 PyObject *result;
317 PyTypeObject *type_obj = (PyTypeObject *) closure;
318 char *raw_ptr;
320 raw_ptr = (char *) self + type_obj->tp_dictoffset;
321 result = * (PyObject **) raw_ptr;
323 Py_INCREF (result);
324 return result;
327 /* Like PyModule_AddObject, but does not steal a reference to
328 OBJECT. */
331 gdb_pymodule_addobject (PyObject *module, const char *name, PyObject *object)
333 int result;
335 Py_INCREF (object);
336 result = PyModule_AddObject (module, name, object);
337 if (result < 0)
338 Py_DECREF (object);
339 return result;
342 /* See python-internal.h. */
344 void
345 gdbpy_error (const char *fmt, ...)
347 va_list ap;
348 va_start (ap, fmt);
349 std::string str = string_vprintf (fmt, ap);
350 va_end (ap);
352 const char *msg = str.c_str ();
353 if (msg != nullptr && *msg != '\0')
354 error (_("Error occurred in Python: %s"), msg);
355 else
356 error (_("Error occurred in Python."));
359 /* Handle a Python exception when the special gdb.GdbError treatment
360 is desired. This should only be called when an exception is set.
361 If the exception is a gdb.GdbError, throw a gdb exception with the
362 exception text. For other exceptions, print the Python stack and
363 then throw a gdb exception. */
365 void
366 gdbpy_handle_exception ()
368 gdbpy_err_fetch fetched_error;
369 gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> msg = fetched_error.to_string ();
371 if (msg == NULL)
373 /* An error occurred computing the string representation of the
374 error message. This is rare, but we should inform the user. */
375 gdb_printf (_("An error occurred in Python "
376 "and then another occurred computing the "
377 "error message.\n"));
378 gdbpy_print_stack ();
381 /* Don't print the stack for gdb.GdbError exceptions.
382 It is generally used to flag user errors.
384 We also don't want to print "Error occurred in Python command"
385 for user errors. However, a missing message for gdb.GdbError
386 exceptions is arguably a bug, so we flag it as such. */
388 if (fetched_error.type_matches (PyExc_KeyboardInterrupt))
389 throw_quit ("Quit");
390 else if (! fetched_error.type_matches (gdbpy_gdberror_exc)
391 || msg == NULL || *msg == '\0')
393 fetched_error.restore ();
394 gdbpy_print_stack ();
395 if (msg != NULL && *msg != '\0')
396 error (_("Error occurred in Python: %s"), msg.get ());
397 else
398 error (_("Error occurred in Python."));
400 else
401 error ("%s", msg.get ());
404 /* See python-internal.h. */
406 gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char>
407 gdbpy_fix_doc_string_indentation (gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> doc)
409 /* A structure used to track the white-space information on each line of
410 DOC. */
411 struct line_whitespace
413 /* Constructor. OFFSET is the offset from the start of DOC, WS_COUNT
414 is the number of whitespace characters starting at OFFSET. */
415 line_whitespace (size_t offset, int ws_count)
416 : m_offset (offset),
417 m_ws_count (ws_count)
418 { /* Nothing. */ }
420 /* The offset from the start of DOC. */
421 size_t offset () const
422 { return m_offset; }
424 /* The number of white-space characters at the start of this line. */
425 int ws () const
426 { return m_ws_count; }
428 private:
429 /* The offset from the start of DOC to the first character of this
430 line. */
431 size_t m_offset;
433 /* White space count on this line, the first character of this
434 whitespace is at OFFSET. */
435 int m_ws_count;
438 /* Count the number of white-space character starting at TXT. We
439 currently only count true single space characters, things like tabs,
440 newlines, etc are not counted. */
441 auto count_whitespace = [] (const char *txt) -> int
443 int count = 0;
445 while (*txt == ' ')
447 ++txt;
448 ++count;
451 return count;
454 /* In MIN_WHITESPACE we track the smallest number of whitespace
455 characters seen at the start of a line (that has actual content), this
456 is the number of characters that we can delete off all lines without
457 altering the relative indentation of all lines in DOC.
459 The first line often has no indentation, but instead starts immediates
460 after the 3-quotes marker within the Python doc string, so, if the
461 first line has zero white-space then we just ignore it, and don't set
462 MIN_WHITESPACE to zero.
464 Lines without any content should (ideally) have no white-space at
465 all, but if they do then they might have an artificially low number
466 (user left a single stray space at the start of an otherwise blank
467 line), we don't consider lines without content when updating the
468 MIN_WHITESPACE value. */
469 gdb::optional<int> min_whitespace;
471 /* The index into WS_INFO at which the processing of DOC can be
472 considered "all done", that is, after this point there are no further
473 lines with useful content and we should just stop. */
474 gdb::optional<size_t> all_done_idx;
476 /* White-space information for each line in DOC. */
477 std::vector<line_whitespace> ws_info;
479 /* Now look through DOC and collect the required information. */
480 const char *tmp = doc.get ();
481 while (*tmp != '\0')
483 /* Add an entry for the offset to the start of this line, and how
484 much white-space there is at the start of this line. */
485 size_t offset = tmp - doc.get ();
486 int ws_count = count_whitespace (tmp);
487 ws_info.emplace_back (offset, ws_count);
489 /* Skip over the white-space. */
490 tmp += ws_count;
492 /* Remember where the content of this line starts, and skip forward
493 to either the end of this line (newline) or the end of the DOC
494 string (null character), whichever comes first. */
495 const char *content_start = tmp;
496 while (*tmp != '\0' && *tmp != '\n')
497 ++tmp;
499 /* If this is not the first line, and if this line has some content,
500 then update MIN_WHITESPACE, this reflects the smallest number of
501 whitespace characters we can delete from all lines without
502 impacting the relative indentation of all the lines of DOC. */
503 if (offset > 0 && tmp > content_start)
505 if (!min_whitespace.has_value ())
506 min_whitespace = ws_count;
507 else
508 min_whitespace = std::min (*min_whitespace, ws_count);
511 /* Each time we encounter a line that has some content we update
512 ALL_DONE_IDX to be the index of the next line. If the last lines
513 of DOC don't contain any content then ALL_DONE_IDX will be left
514 pointing at an earlier line. When we rewrite DOC, when we reach
515 ALL_DONE_IDX then we can stop, the allows us to trim any blank
516 lines from the end of DOC. */
517 if (tmp > content_start)
518 all_done_idx = ws_info.size ();
520 /* If we reached a newline then skip forward to the start of the next
521 line. The other possibility at this point is that we're at the
522 very end of the DOC string (null terminator). */
523 if (*tmp == '\n')
524 ++tmp;
527 /* We found no lines with content, fail safe by just returning the
528 original documentation string. */
529 if (!all_done_idx.has_value () || !min_whitespace.has_value ())
530 return doc;
532 /* Setup DST and SRC, both pointing into the DOC string. We're going to
533 rewrite DOC in-place, as we only ever make DOC shorter (by removing
534 white-space), thus we know this will not overflow. */
535 char *dst = doc.get ();
536 char *src = doc.get ();
538 /* Array indices used with DST, SRC, and WS_INFO respectively. */
539 size_t dst_offset = 0;
540 size_t src_offset = 0;
541 size_t ws_info_offset = 0;
543 /* Now, walk over the source string, this is the original DOC. */
544 while (src[src_offset] != '\0')
546 /* If we are at the start of the next line (in WS_INFO), then we may
547 need to skip some white-space characters. */
548 if (src_offset == ws_info[ws_info_offset].offset ())
550 /* If a line has leading white-space then we need to skip over
551 some number of characters now. */
552 if (ws_info[ws_info_offset].ws () > 0)
554 /* If the line is entirely white-space then we skip all of
555 the white-space, the next character to copy will be the
556 newline or null character. Otherwise, we skip the just
557 some portion of the leading white-space. */
558 if (src[src_offset + ws_info[ws_info_offset].ws ()] == '\n'
559 || src[src_offset + ws_info[ws_info_offset].ws ()] == '\0')
560 src_offset += ws_info[ws_info_offset].ws ();
561 else
562 src_offset += std::min (*min_whitespace,
563 ws_info[ws_info_offset].ws ());
565 /* If we skipped white-space, and are now at the end of the
566 input, then we're done. */
567 if (src[src_offset] == '\0')
568 break;
570 if (ws_info_offset < (ws_info.size () - 1))
571 ++ws_info_offset;
572 if (ws_info_offset > *all_done_idx)
573 break;
576 /* Don't copy a newline to the start of the DST string, this would
577 result in a leading blank line. But in all other cases, copy the
578 next character into the destination string. */
579 if ((dst_offset > 0 || src[src_offset] != '\n'))
581 dst[dst_offset] = src[src_offset];
582 ++dst_offset;
585 /* Move to the next source character. */
586 ++src_offset;
589 /* Remove the trailing newline character(s), and ensure we have a null
590 terminator in place. */
591 while (dst_offset > 1 && dst[dst_offset - 1] == '\n')
592 --dst_offset;
593 dst[dst_offset] = '\0';
595 return doc;