1 /* Generic BFD support for file formats.
2 Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
3 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 Written by Cygnus Support.
6 This file is part of BFD, the Binary File Descriptor library.
8 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
9 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
10 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
11 (at your option) any later version.
13 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
14 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
15 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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18 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
19 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
20 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
26 A format is a BFD concept of high level file contents type. The
27 formats supported by BFD are:
31 The BFD may contain data, symbols, relocations and debug info.
35 The BFD contains other BFDs and an optional index.
39 The BFD contains the result of an executable core dump.
47 /* IMPORT from targets.c. */
48 extern const size_t _bfd_target_vector_entries
;
55 bfd_boolean bfd_check_format(bfd *abfd, bfd_format format);
58 Verify if the file attached to the BFD @var{abfd} is compatible
59 with the format @var{format} (i.e., one of <<bfd_object>>,
60 <<bfd_archive>> or <<bfd_core>>).
62 If the BFD has been set to a specific target before the
63 call, only the named target and format combination is
64 checked. If the target has not been set, or has been set to
65 <<default>>, then all the known target backends is
66 interrogated to determine a match. If the default target
67 matches, it is used. If not, exactly one target must recognize
68 the file, or an error results.
70 The function returns <<TRUE>> on success, otherwise <<FALSE>>
71 with one of the following error codes:
73 o <<bfd_error_invalid_operation>> -
74 if <<format>> is not one of <<bfd_object>>, <<bfd_archive>> or
77 o <<bfd_error_system_call>> -
78 if an error occured during a read - even some file mismatches
79 can cause bfd_error_system_calls.
81 o <<file_not_recognised>> -
82 none of the backends recognised the file format.
84 o <<bfd_error_file_ambiguously_recognized>> -
85 more than one backend recognised the file format.
89 bfd_check_format (abfd
, format
)
93 return bfd_check_format_matches (abfd
, format
, NULL
);
98 bfd_check_format_matches
101 bfd_boolean bfd_check_format_matches(bfd *abfd, bfd_format format, char ***matching);
104 Like <<bfd_check_format>>, except when it returns FALSE with
105 <<bfd_errno>> set to <<bfd_error_file_ambiguously_recognized>>. In that
106 case, if @var{matching} is not NULL, it will be filled in with
107 a NULL-terminated list of the names of the formats that matched,
108 allocated with <<malloc>>.
109 Then the user may choose a format and try again.
111 When done with the list that @var{matching} points to, the caller
116 bfd_check_format_matches (abfd
, format
, matching
)
121 extern const bfd_target binary_vec
;
122 const bfd_target
* const *target
;
123 const bfd_target
**matching_vector
= NULL
;
124 const bfd_target
*save_targ
, *right_targ
, *ar_right_targ
;
128 if (!bfd_read_p (abfd
)
129 || (unsigned int) abfd
->format
>= (unsigned int) bfd_type_end
)
131 bfd_set_error (bfd_error_invalid_operation
);
135 if (abfd
->format
!= bfd_unknown
)
136 return abfd
->format
== format
;
138 /* Since the target type was defaulted, check them
139 all in the hope that one will be uniquely recognized. */
140 save_targ
= abfd
->xvec
;
142 ar_match_index
= _bfd_target_vector_entries
;
149 amt
= sizeof (*matching_vector
) * 2 * _bfd_target_vector_entries
;
150 matching_vector
= (const bfd_target
**) bfd_malloc (amt
);
151 if (!matching_vector
)
158 /* Presume the answer is yes. */
159 abfd
->format
= format
;
161 /* If the target type was explicitly specified, just check that target. */
162 if (!abfd
->target_defaulted
)
164 if (bfd_seek (abfd
, (file_ptr
) 0, SEEK_SET
) != 0) /* rewind! */
167 right_targ
= BFD_SEND_FMT (abfd
, _bfd_check_format
, (abfd
));
171 abfd
->xvec
= right_targ
; /* Set the target as returned. */
174 free ((PTR
) matching_vector
);
176 return TRUE
; /* File position has moved, BTW. */
179 /* For a long time the code has dropped through to check all
180 targets if the specified target was wrong. I don't know why,
181 and I'm reluctant to change it. However, in the case of an
182 archive, it can cause problems. If the specified target does
183 not permit archives (e.g., the binary target), then we should
184 not allow some other target to recognize it as an archive, but
185 should instead allow the specified target to recognize it as an
186 object. When I first made this change, it broke the PE target,
187 because the specified pei-i386 target did not recognize the
188 actual pe-i386 archive. Since there may be other problems of
189 this sort, I changed this test to check only for the binary
191 if (format
== bfd_archive
&& save_targ
== &binary_vec
)
193 abfd
->xvec
= save_targ
;
194 abfd
->format
= bfd_unknown
;
197 free ((PTR
) matching_vector
);
199 bfd_set_error (bfd_error_file_not_recognized
);
205 for (target
= bfd_target_vector
; *target
!= NULL
; target
++)
207 const bfd_target
*temp
;
210 if (*target
== &binary_vec
)
213 abfd
->xvec
= *target
; /* Change BFD's target temporarily */
215 if (bfd_seek (abfd
, (file_ptr
) 0, SEEK_SET
) != 0)
218 /* If _bfd_check_format neglects to set bfd_error, assume
219 bfd_error_wrong_format. We didn't used to even pay any
220 attention to bfd_error, so I suspect that some
221 _bfd_check_format might have this problem. */
222 bfd_set_error (bfd_error_wrong_format
);
224 temp
= BFD_SEND_FMT (abfd
, _bfd_check_format
, (abfd
));
227 { /* This format checks out as ok! */
230 /* If this is the default target, accept it, even if other
231 targets might match. People who want those other targets
232 have to set the GNUTARGET variable. */
233 if (temp
== bfd_default_vector
[0])
240 matching_vector
[match_count
] = temp
;
245 /* Big- and little-endian b.out archives look the same, but it
246 doesn't matter: there is no difference in their headers, and
247 member file byte orders will (I hope) be handled appropriately
248 by bfd. Ditto for big and little coff archives. And the 4
249 coff/b.out object formats are unambiguous. So accept the
250 first match we find. */
254 else if ((err
= bfd_get_error ()) == bfd_error_wrong_object_format
255 || err
== bfd_error_file_ambiguously_recognized
)
257 /* An archive with objects of the wrong type, or an
258 ambiguous match. We want this target to match if we get
259 no better matches. */
260 if (ar_right_targ
!= bfd_default_vector
[0])
261 ar_right_targ
= *target
;
263 matching_vector
[ar_match_index
] = *target
;
266 else if (err
!= bfd_error_wrong_format
)
268 abfd
->xvec
= save_targ
;
269 abfd
->format
= bfd_unknown
;
272 free ((PTR
) matching_vector
);
278 if (match_count
== 0)
280 /* Try partial matches. */
281 right_targ
= ar_right_targ
;
282 if (right_targ
== bfd_default_vector
[0])
288 match_count
= ar_match_index
- _bfd_target_vector_entries
;
289 if (matching
&& match_count
> 1)
291 memcpy (matching_vector
,
292 matching_vector
+ _bfd_target_vector_entries
,
293 sizeof (*matching_vector
) * match_count
);
298 if (match_count
> 1 && bfd_associated_vector
!= NULL
)
300 const bfd_target
* const *assoc
= bfd_associated_vector
;
302 while ((right_targ
= *assoc
++) != NULL
)
307 if (matching_vector
[i
] == right_targ
)
318 if (match_count
== 1)
320 abfd
->xvec
= right_targ
; /* Change BFD's target permanently. */
323 free ((PTR
) matching_vector
);
325 return TRUE
; /* File position has moved, BTW. */
328 abfd
->xvec
= save_targ
; /* Restore original target type. */
329 abfd
->format
= bfd_unknown
; /* Restore original format. */
331 if (match_count
== 0)
333 bfd_set_error (bfd_error_file_not_recognized
);
336 free ((PTR
) matching_vector
);
340 bfd_set_error (bfd_error_file_ambiguously_recognized
);
344 *matching
= (char **) matching_vector
;
345 matching_vector
[match_count
] = NULL
;
346 /* Return target names. This is a little nasty. Maybe we
347 should do another bfd_malloc? */
348 while (--match_count
>= 0)
350 const char *name
= matching_vector
[match_count
]->name
;
351 *(const char **) &matching_vector
[match_count
] = name
;
364 bfd_boolean bfd_set_format(bfd *abfd, bfd_format format);
367 This function sets the file format of the BFD @var{abfd} to the
368 format @var{format}. If the target set in the BFD does not
369 support the format requested, the format is invalid, or the BFD
370 is not open for writing, then an error occurs.
374 bfd_set_format (abfd
, format
)
378 if (bfd_read_p (abfd
)
379 || (unsigned int) abfd
->format
>= (unsigned int) bfd_type_end
)
381 bfd_set_error (bfd_error_invalid_operation
);
385 if (abfd
->format
!= bfd_unknown
)
386 return abfd
->format
== format
;
388 /* Presume the answer is yes. */
389 abfd
->format
= format
;
391 if (!BFD_SEND_FMT (abfd
, _bfd_set_format
, (abfd
)))
393 abfd
->format
= bfd_unknown
;
405 const char *bfd_format_string(bfd_format format);
408 Return a pointer to a const string
409 <<invalid>>, <<object>>, <<archive>>, <<core>>, or <<unknown>>,
410 depending upon the value of @var{format}.
414 bfd_format_string (format
)
417 if (((int)format
<(int) bfd_unknown
)
418 || ((int)format
>=(int) bfd_type_end
))
424 return "object"; /* Linker/assember/compiler output. */
426 return "archive"; /* Object archive file. */
428 return "core"; /* Core dump. */