1 /* Shared general utility routines for GDB, the GNU debugger.
3 Copyright (C) 1986-2024 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 #ifndef COMMON_COMMON_UTILS_H
21 #define COMMON_COMMON_UTILS_H
25 #include "gdbsupport/byte-vector.h"
26 #include "gdbsupport/gdb_unique_ptr.h"
27 #include "gdbsupport/array-view.h"
29 #include <string_view>
31 #if defined HAVE_LIBXXHASH
37 /* xmalloc(), xrealloc() and xcalloc() have already been declared in
40 /* Like xmalloc, but zero the memory. */
41 void *xzalloc (size_t);
43 /* Like asprintf and vasprintf, but return the string, throw an error
45 gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr
<char> xstrprintf (const char *format
, ...)
46 ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF (1, 2);
47 gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr
<char> xstrvprintf (const char *format
, va_list ap
)
48 ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF (1, 0);
50 /* Like snprintf, but throw an error if the output buffer is too small. */
51 int xsnprintf (char *str
, size_t size
, const char *format
, ...)
52 ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF (3, 4);
54 /* Returns a std::string built from a printf-style format string. */
55 std::string
string_printf (const char* fmt
, ...)
56 ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF (1, 2);
58 /* Like string_printf, but takes a va_list. */
59 std::string
string_vprintf (const char* fmt
, va_list args
)
60 ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF (1, 0);
62 /* Like string_printf, but appends to DEST instead of returning a new
64 std::string
&string_appendf (std::string
&dest
, const char* fmt
, ...)
65 ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF (2, 3);
67 /* Like string_appendf, but takes a va_list. */
68 std::string
&string_vappendf (std::string
&dest
, const char* fmt
, va_list args
)
69 ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF (2, 0);
71 /* Make a copy of the string at PTR with LEN characters
72 (and add a null character at the end in the copy).
73 Uses malloc to get the space. Returns the address of the copy. */
75 char *savestring (const char *ptr
, size_t len
);
77 /* Extract the next word from ARG. The next word is defined as either,
78 everything up to the next space, or, if the next word starts with either
79 a single or double quote, then everything up to the closing quote. The
80 enclosing quotes are not returned in the result string. The pointer in
81 ARG is updated to point to the first character after the end of the
82 word, or, for quoted words, the first character after the closing
85 std::string
extract_string_maybe_quoted (const char **arg
);
87 /* The strerror() function can return NULL for errno values that are
88 out of range. Provide a "safe" version that always returns a
89 printable string. This version is also thread-safe. */
91 extern const char *safe_strerror (int);
93 /* Version of startswith that takes string_view arguments. Return
94 true if the start of STRING matches PATTERN, false otherwise. */
97 startswith (std::string_view string
, std::string_view pattern
)
99 return (string
.length () >= pattern
.length ()
100 && strncmp (string
.data (), pattern
.data (), pattern
.length ()) == 0);
103 /* Version of startswith that takes a string_view for only one of its
104 arguments. Return true if STR starts with PREFIX, otherwise return
108 startswith (const char *str
, const std::string_view
&prefix
)
110 return strncmp (str
, prefix
.data (), prefix
.length ()) == 0;
113 /* Return true if the strings are equal. */
116 streq (const char *lhs
, const char *rhs
)
118 return strcmp (lhs
, rhs
) == 0;
121 /* Compare C strings for std::sort. */
124 compare_cstrings (const char *str1
, const char *str2
)
126 return strcmp (str1
, str2
) < 0;
129 ULONGEST
strtoulst (const char *num
, const char **trailer
, int base
);
131 /* Skip leading whitespace characters in INP, returning an updated
132 pointer. If INP is NULL, return NULL. */
134 extern char *skip_spaces (char *inp
);
136 /* A const-correct version of the above. */
138 extern const char *skip_spaces (const char *inp
);
140 /* Skip leading non-whitespace characters in INP, returning an updated
141 pointer. If INP is NULL, return NULL. */
143 extern char *skip_to_space (char *inp
);
145 /* A const-correct version of the above. */
147 extern const char *skip_to_space (const char *inp
);
149 /* Assumes that V is an argv for a program, and iterates through
150 freeing all the elements. */
151 extern void free_vector_argv (std::vector
<char *> &v
);
153 /* Return true if VALUE is in [LOW, HIGH]. */
155 template <typename T
>
157 in_inclusive_range (T value
, T low
, T high
)
159 return value
>= low
&& value
<= high
;
162 /* Ensure that V is aligned to an N byte boundary (N's assumed to be a
163 power of 2). Round up/down when necessary. Examples of correct
166 addr = align_up (addr, 8); -- VALUE needs 8 byte alignment
167 write_memory (addr, value, len);
172 sp = align_down (sp - len, 16); -- Keep SP 16 byte aligned
173 write_memory (sp, value, len);
175 Note that uses such as:
177 write_memory (addr, value, len);
178 addr += align_up (len, 8);
182 sp -= align_up (len, 8);
183 write_memory (sp, value, len);
185 are typically not correct as they don't ensure that the address (SP
186 or ADDR) is correctly aligned (relying on previous alignment to
187 keep things right). This is also why the methods are called
188 "align_..." instead of "round_..." as the latter reads better with
189 this incorrect coding style. */
191 extern ULONGEST
align_up (ULONGEST v
, int n
);
192 extern ULONGEST
align_down (ULONGEST v
, int n
);
194 /* Convert hex digit A to a number, or throw an exception. */
195 extern int fromhex (int a
);
197 /* HEX is a string of characters representing hexadecimal digits.
198 Convert pairs of hex digits to bytes and store sequentially into
199 BIN. COUNT is the maximum number of characters to convert. This
200 will convert fewer characters if the number of hex characters
201 actually seen is odd, or if HEX terminates before COUNT characters.
202 Returns the number of characters actually converted. */
203 extern int hex2bin (const char *hex
, gdb_byte
*bin
, int count
);
205 /* Like the above, but return a gdb::byte_vector. */
206 gdb::byte_vector
hex2bin (const char *hex
);
208 /* Build a string containing the contents of BYTES. Each byte is
209 represented as a 2 character hex string, with spaces separating each
212 extern std::string
bytes_to_string (gdb::array_view
<const gdb_byte
> bytes
);
214 /* See bytes_to_string above. This takes a BUFFER pointer and LENGTH
215 rather than an array view. */
217 static inline std::string
bytes_to_string (const gdb_byte
*buffer
,
220 return bytes_to_string ({buffer
, length
});
223 /* A fast hashing function. This can be used to hash data in a fast way
224 when the length is known. If no fast hashing library is available, falls
225 back to iterative_hash from libiberty. START_VALUE can be set to
226 continue hashing from a previous value. */
228 static inline unsigned int
229 fast_hash (const void *ptr
, size_t len
, unsigned int start_value
= 0)
231 #if defined HAVE_LIBXXHASH
232 return XXH64 (ptr
, len
, start_value
);
234 return iterative_hash (ptr
, len
, start_value
);
241 /* Hash type for std::string_view.
243 Even after we switch to C++17 and dump our string_view implementation, we
244 might want to keep this hash implementation if it's faster than std::hash
245 for std::string_view. */
247 struct string_view_hash
249 std::size_t operator() (std::string_view view
) const
250 { return fast_hash (view
.data (), view
.length ()); }
253 } /* namespace gdb */
255 #endif /* COMMON_COMMON_UTILS_H */