1 /* Character set conversion support for GDB.
2 Copyright (C) 2001-2021 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/>. */
22 #include "gdbsupport/def-vector.h"
24 /* If the target program uses a different character set than the host,
25 GDB has some support for translating between the two; GDB converts
26 characters and strings to the host character set before displaying
27 them, and converts characters and strings appearing in expressions
28 entered by the user to the target character set.
30 GDB's code pretty much assumes that the host character set is some
31 superset of ASCII; there are plenty if ('0' + n) expressions and
34 /* Return the name of the current host/target character set. The
35 result is owned by the charset module; the caller should not free
37 const char *host_charset (void);
38 const char *target_charset (struct gdbarch
*gdbarch
);
39 const char *target_wide_charset (struct gdbarch
*gdbarch
);
41 /* These values are used to specify the type of transliteration done
42 by convert_between_encodings. */
45 /* Error on failure to convert. */
47 /* Transliterate to host char. */
51 /* Convert between two encodings.
53 FROM is the name of the source encoding.
54 TO is the name of the target encoding.
55 BYTES holds the bytes to convert; this is assumed to be characters
56 in the target encoding.
57 NUM_BYTES is the number of bytes.
58 WIDTH is the width of a character from the FROM charset, in bytes.
59 For a variable width encoding, WIDTH should be the size of a "base
61 OUTPUT is an obstack where the converted data is written. The
62 caller is responsible for initializing the obstack, and for
63 destroying the obstack should an error occur.
64 TRANSLIT specifies how invalid conversions should be handled. */
66 void convert_between_encodings (const char *from
, const char *to
,
67 const gdb_byte
*bytes
,
68 unsigned int num_bytes
,
69 int width
, struct obstack
*output
,
70 enum transliterations translit
);
73 /* These values are used by wchar_iterate to report errors. */
74 enum wchar_iterate_result
76 /* Ordinary return. */
78 /* Invalid input sequence. */
79 wchar_iterate_invalid
,
80 /* Incomplete input sequence at the end of the input. */
81 wchar_iterate_incomplete
,
86 /* An iterator that returns host wchar_t's from a target string. */
91 /* Create a new character iterator which returns wchar_t's. INPUT is
92 the input buffer. BYTES is the number of bytes in the input
93 buffer. CHARSET is the name of the character set in which INPUT is
94 encoded. WIDTH is the number of bytes in a base character of
97 This constructor can throw on error. */
98 wchar_iterator (const gdb_byte
*input
, size_t bytes
, const char *charset
,
103 /* Perform a single iteration of a wchar_t iterator.
105 Returns the number of characters converted. A negative result
106 means that EOF has been reached. A positive result indicates the
107 number of valid wchar_ts in the result; *OUT_CHARS is updated to
108 point to the first valid character.
110 In all cases aside from EOF, *PTR is set to point to the first
111 converted target byte. *LEN is set to the number of bytes
114 A zero result means one of several unusual results. *OUT_RESULT is
115 set to indicate the type of un-ordinary return.
117 wchar_iterate_invalid means that an invalid input character was
118 seen. The iterator is advanced by WIDTH (the argument to
119 the wchar_iterator constructor) bytes.
121 wchar_iterate_incomplete means that an incomplete character was
122 seen at the end of the input sequence.
124 wchar_iterate_eof means that all bytes were successfully
125 converted. The other output arguments are not set. */
126 int iterate (enum wchar_iterate_result
*out_result
, gdb_wchar_t
**out_chars
,
127 const gdb_byte
**ptr
, size_t *len
);
131 /* The underlying iconv descriptor. */
138 /* The input string. This is updated as we convert characters. */
139 const gdb_byte
*m_input
;
140 /* The number of bytes remaining in the input. */
143 /* The width of an input character. */
146 /* The output buffer. */
147 gdb::def_vector
<gdb_wchar_t
> m_out
;
152 /* GDB needs to know a few details of its execution character set.
153 This knowledge is isolated here and in charset.c. */
155 /* The escape character. */
156 #define HOST_ESCAPE_CHAR 27
158 /* Convert a letter, like 'c', to its corresponding control
160 char host_letter_to_control_character (char c
);
162 /* Convert a hex digit character to its numeric value. E.g., 'f' is
163 converted to 15. This function assumes that C is a valid hex
164 digit. Both upper- and lower-case letters are recognized. */
165 int host_hex_value (char c
);
167 #endif /* CHARSET_H */