1 /* Shared general utility routines for GDB, the GNU debugger.
3 Copyright (C) 1986-2022 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"
28 #include "gdb_string_view.h"
30 /* xmalloc(), xrealloc() and xcalloc() have already been declared in
33 /* Like xmalloc, but zero the memory. */
34 void *xzalloc (size_t);
36 /* Like asprintf and vasprintf, but return the string, throw an error
38 gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr
<char> xstrprintf (const char *format
, ...)
39 ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF (1, 2);
40 gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr
<char> xstrvprintf (const char *format
, va_list ap
)
41 ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF (1, 0);
43 /* Like snprintf, but throw an error if the output buffer is too small. */
44 int xsnprintf (char *str
, size_t size
, const char *format
, ...)
45 ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF (3, 4);
47 /* Returns a std::string built from a printf-style format string. */
48 std::string
string_printf (const char* fmt
, ...)
49 ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF (1, 2);
51 /* Like string_printf, but takes a va_list. */
52 std::string
string_vprintf (const char* fmt
, va_list args
)
53 ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF (1, 0);
55 /* Like string_printf, but appends to DEST instead of returning a new
57 std::string
&string_appendf (std::string
&dest
, const char* fmt
, ...)
58 ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF (2, 3);
60 /* Like string_appendf, but takes a va_list. */
61 std::string
&string_vappendf (std::string
&dest
, const char* fmt
, va_list args
)
62 ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF (2, 0);
64 /* Make a copy of the string at PTR with LEN characters
65 (and add a null character at the end in the copy).
66 Uses malloc to get the space. Returns the address of the copy. */
68 char *savestring (const char *ptr
, size_t len
);
70 /* Extract the next word from ARG. The next word is defined as either,
71 everything up to the next space, or, if the next word starts with either
72 a single or double quote, then everything up to the closing quote. The
73 enclosing quotes are not returned in the result string. The pointer in
74 ARG is updated to point to the first character after the end of the
75 word, or, for quoted words, the first character after the closing
78 std::string
extract_string_maybe_quoted (const char **arg
);
80 /* The strerror() function can return NULL for errno values that are
81 out of range. Provide a "safe" version that always returns a
82 printable string. This version is also thread-safe. */
84 extern const char *safe_strerror (int);
86 /* Version of startswith that takes string_view arguments. Return
87 true if the start of STRING matches PATTERN, false otherwise. */
90 startswith (gdb::string_view string
, gdb::string_view pattern
)
92 return (string
.length () >= pattern
.length ()
93 && strncmp (string
.data (), pattern
.data (), pattern
.length ()) == 0);
96 ULONGEST
strtoulst (const char *num
, const char **trailer
, int base
);
98 /* Skip leading whitespace characters in INP, returning an updated
99 pointer. If INP is NULL, return NULL. */
101 extern char *skip_spaces (char *inp
);
103 /* A const-correct version of the above. */
105 extern const char *skip_spaces (const char *inp
);
107 /* Skip leading non-whitespace characters in INP, returning an updated
108 pointer. If INP is NULL, return NULL. */
110 extern char *skip_to_space (char *inp
);
112 /* A const-correct version of the above. */
114 extern const char *skip_to_space (const char *inp
);
116 /* Assumes that V is an argv for a program, and iterates through
117 freeing all the elements. */
118 extern void free_vector_argv (std::vector
<char *> &v
);
120 /* Return true if VALUE is in [LOW, HIGH]. */
122 template <typename T
>
124 in_inclusive_range (T value
, T low
, T high
)
126 return value
>= low
&& value
<= high
;
129 /* Ensure that V is aligned to an N byte boundary (N's assumed to be a
130 power of 2). Round up/down when necessary. Examples of correct
133 addr = align_up (addr, 8); -- VALUE needs 8 byte alignment
134 write_memory (addr, value, len);
139 sp = align_down (sp - len, 16); -- Keep SP 16 byte aligned
140 write_memory (sp, value, len);
142 Note that uses such as:
144 write_memory (addr, value, len);
145 addr += align_up (len, 8);
149 sp -= align_up (len, 8);
150 write_memory (sp, value, len);
152 are typically not correct as they don't ensure that the address (SP
153 or ADDR) is correctly aligned (relying on previous alignment to
154 keep things right). This is also why the methods are called
155 "align_..." instead of "round_..." as the latter reads better with
156 this incorrect coding style. */
158 extern ULONGEST
align_up (ULONGEST v
, int n
);
159 extern ULONGEST
align_down (ULONGEST v
, int n
);
161 /* Convert hex digit A to a number, or throw an exception. */
162 extern int fromhex (int a
);
164 /* HEX is a string of characters representing hexadecimal digits.
165 Convert pairs of hex digits to bytes and store sequentially into
166 BIN. COUNT is the maximum number of characters to convert. This
167 will convert fewer characters if the number of hex characters
168 actually seen is odd, or if HEX terminates before COUNT characters.
169 Returns the number of characters actually converted. */
170 extern int hex2bin (const char *hex
, gdb_byte
*bin
, int count
);
172 /* Like the above, but return a gdb::byte_vector. */
173 gdb::byte_vector
hex2bin (const char *hex
);
175 #endif /* COMMON_COMMON_UTILS_H */