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diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/dummy-frame.h b/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/dummy-frame.h new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..cde9eb7f12f --- /dev/null +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/dummy-frame.h @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +/* Code dealing with dummy stack frames, for GDB, the GNU debugger. + + Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + + This file is part of GDB. + + This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify + it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by + the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or + (at your option) any later version. + + This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, + but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of + MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the + GNU General Public License for more details. + + You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License + along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software + Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, + Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ + +#if !defined (DUMMY_FRAME_H) +#define DUMMY_FRAME_H 1 + +struct frame_info; +struct regcache; +struct frame_unwind; +struct frame_id; + +/* GENERIC DUMMY FRAMES + + The following code serves to maintain the dummy stack frames for + inferior function calls (ie. when gdb calls into the inferior via + call_function_by_hand). This code saves the machine state before + the call in host memory, so we must maintain an independent stack + and keep it consistant etc. I am attempting to make this code + generic enough to be used by many targets. + + The cheapest and most generic way to do CALL_DUMMY on a new target + is probably to define CALL_DUMMY to be empty, + DEPRECATED_CALL_DUMMY_LENGTH to zero, and CALL_DUMMY_LOCATION to + AT_ENTRY. Then you must remember to define PUSH_RETURN_ADDRESS, + because no call instruction will be being executed by the target. + Also DEPRECATED_FRAME_CHAIN_VALID as + generic_{file,func}_frame_chain_valid and do not set + DEPRECATED_FIX_CALL_DUMMY. */ + +/* If the PC falls in a dummy frame, return a dummy frame + unwinder. */ + +extern const struct frame_unwind *dummy_frame_sniffer (struct frame_info *next_frame); + +/* Does the PC fall in a dummy frame? + + This function is used by "frame.c" when creating a new `struct + frame_info'. + + Note that there is also very similar code in breakpoint.c (where + the bpstat stop reason is computed). It is looking for a PC + falling on a dummy_frame breakpoint. Perhaphs this, and that code + should be combined? + + Architecture dependant code, that has access to a frame, should not + use this function. Instead (get_frame_type() == DUMMY_FRAME) + should be used. + + Hmm, but what about threads? When the dummy-frame code tries to + relocate a dummy frame's saved registers it definitly needs to + differentiate between threads (otherwize it will do things like + clean-up the wrong threads frames). However, when just trying to + identify a dummy-frame that shouldn't matter. The wost that can + happen is that a thread is marked as sitting in a dummy frame when, + in reality, its corrupted its stack, to the point that a PC is + pointing into a dummy frame. */ + +extern int pc_in_dummy_frame (CORE_ADDR pc); + +/* Return the regcache that belongs to the dummy-frame identifed by PC + and FP, or NULL if no such frame exists. */ +/* FIXME: cagney/2002-11-08: The function only exists because of + deprecated_generic_get_saved_register. Eliminate that function and + this, to, can go. */ + +extern struct regcache *deprecated_find_dummy_frame_regcache (CORE_ADDR pc, + CORE_ADDR fp); +#endif /* !defined (DUMMY_FRAME_H) */ |