py-symbol.c

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/* Python interface to symbols.

   Copyright (C) 2008-2018 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 3 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, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */

#include "defs.h"
#include "block.h"
#include "frame.h"
#include "symtab.h"
#include "python-internal.h"
#include "objfiles.h"
#include "py-ref.h"

typedef struct sympy_symbol_object {
  PyObject_HEAD
  /* The GDB symbol structure this object is wrapping.  */
  struct symbol *symbol;
  /* A symbol object is associated with an objfile, so keep track with
     doubly-linked list, rooted in the objfile.  This lets us
     invalidate the underlying struct symbol when the objfile is
     deleted.  */
  struct sympy_symbol_object *prev;
  struct sympy_symbol_object *next;
} symbol_object;

/* Require a valid symbol.  All access to symbol_object->symbol should be
   gated by this call.  */
#define SYMPY_REQUIRE_VALID(symbol_obj, symbol)     \
  do {                          \
    symbol = symbol_object_to_symbol (symbol_obj);  \
    if (symbol == NULL)                 \
      {                         \
    PyErr_SetString (PyExc_RuntimeError,        \
             _("Symbol is invalid."));  \
    return NULL;                    \
      }                         \
  } while (0)

static const struct objfile_data *sympy_objfile_data_key;

static PyObject *
sympy_str (PyObject *self)
{
  PyObject *result;
  struct symbol *symbol = NULL;

  SYMPY_REQUIRE_VALID (self, symbol);

  result = PyString_FromString (SYMBOL_PRINT_NAME (symbol));

  return result;
}

static PyObject *
sympy_get_type (PyObject *self, void *closure)
{
  struct symbol *symbol = NULL;

  SYMPY_REQUIRE_VALID (self, symbol);

  if (SYMBOL_TYPE (symbol) == NULL)
    {
      Py_INCREF (Py_None);
      return Py_None;
    }

  return type_to_type_object (SYMBOL_TYPE (symbol));
}

static PyObject *
sympy_get_symtab (PyObject *self, void *closure)
{
  struct symbol *symbol = NULL;

  SYMPY_REQUIRE_VALID (self, symbol);

  if (!SYMBOL_OBJFILE_OWNED (symbol))
    Py_RETURN_NONE;

  return symtab_to_symtab_object (symbol_symtab (symbol));
}

static PyObject *
sympy_get_name (PyObject *self, void *closure)
{
  struct symbol *symbol = NULL;

  SYMPY_REQUIRE_VALID (self, symbol);

  return PyString_FromString (SYMBOL_NATURAL_NAME (symbol));
}

static PyObject *
sympy_get_linkage_name (PyObject *self, void *closure)
{
  struct symbol *symbol = NULL;

  SYMPY_REQUIRE_VALID (self, symbol);

  return PyString_FromString (SYMBOL_LINKAGE_NAME (symbol));
}

static PyObject *
sympy_get_print_name (PyObject *self, void *closure)
{
  struct symbol *symbol = NULL;

  SYMPY_REQUIRE_VALID (self, symbol);

  return sympy_str (self);
}

static PyObject *
sympy_get_addr_class (PyObject *self, void *closure)
{
  struct symbol *symbol = NULL;

  SYMPY_REQUIRE_VALID (self, symbol);

  return PyInt_FromLong (SYMBOL_CLASS (symbol));
}

static PyObject *
sympy_is_argument (PyObject *self, void *closure)
{
  struct symbol *symbol = NULL;

  SYMPY_REQUIRE_VALID (self, symbol);

  return PyBool_FromLong (SYMBOL_IS_ARGUMENT (symbol));
}

static PyObject *
sympy_is_constant (PyObject *self, void *closure)
{
  struct symbol *symbol = NULL;
  enum address_class theclass;

  SYMPY_REQUIRE_VALID (self, symbol);

  theclass = SYMBOL_CLASS (symbol);

  return PyBool_FromLong (theclass == LOC_CONST || theclass == LOC_CONST_BYTES);
}

static PyObject *
sympy_is_function (PyObject *self, void *closure)
{
  struct symbol *symbol = NULL;
  enum address_class theclass;

  SYMPY_REQUIRE_VALID (self, symbol);

  theclass = SYMBOL_CLASS (symbol);

  return PyBool_FromLong (theclass == LOC_BLOCK);
}

static PyObject *
sympy_is_variable (PyObject *self, void *closure)
{
  struct symbol *symbol = NULL;
  enum address_class theclass;

  SYMPY_REQUIRE_VALID (self, symbol);

  theclass = SYMBOL_CLASS (symbol);

  return PyBool_FromLong (!SYMBOL_IS_ARGUMENT (symbol)
              && (theclass == LOC_LOCAL || theclass == LOC_REGISTER
                  || theclass == LOC_STATIC || theclass == LOC_COMPUTED
                  || theclass == LOC_OPTIMIZED_OUT));
}

/* Implementation of gdb.Symbol.needs_frame -> Boolean.
   Returns true iff the symbol needs a frame for evaluation.  */

static PyObject *
sympy_needs_frame (PyObject *self, void *closure)
{
  struct symbol *symbol = NULL;
  int result = 0;

  SYMPY_REQUIRE_VALID (self, symbol);

  TRY
    {
      result = symbol_read_needs_frame (symbol);
    }
  CATCH (except, RETURN_MASK_ALL)
    {
      GDB_PY_HANDLE_EXCEPTION (except);
    }
  END_CATCH

  if (result)
    Py_RETURN_TRUE;
  Py_RETURN_FALSE;
}

/* Implementation of gdb.Symbol.line -> int.
   Returns the line number at which the symbol was defined.  */

static PyObject *
sympy_line (PyObject *self, void *closure)
{
  struct symbol *symbol = NULL;

  SYMPY_REQUIRE_VALID (self, symbol);

  return PyInt_FromLong (SYMBOL_LINE (symbol));
}

/* Implementation of gdb.Symbol.is_valid (self) -> Boolean.
   Returns True if this Symbol still exists in GDB.  */

static PyObject *
sympy_is_valid (PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
{
  struct symbol *symbol = NULL;

  symbol = symbol_object_to_symbol (self);
  if (symbol == NULL)
    Py_RETURN_FALSE;

  Py_RETURN_TRUE;
}

/* Implementation of gdb.Symbol.value (self[, frame]) -> gdb.Value.  Returns
   the value of the symbol, or an error in various circumstances.  */

static PyObject *
sympy_value (PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
{
  struct symbol *symbol = NULL;
  struct frame_info *frame_info = NULL;
  PyObject *frame_obj = NULL;
  struct value *value = NULL;

  if (!PyArg_ParseTuple (args, "|O", &frame_obj))
    return NULL;

  if (frame_obj != NULL && !PyObject_TypeCheck (frame_obj, &frame_object_type))
    {
      PyErr_SetString (PyExc_TypeError, "argument is not a frame");
      return NULL;
    }

  SYMPY_REQUIRE_VALID (self, symbol);
  if (SYMBOL_CLASS (symbol) == LOC_TYPEDEF)
    {
      PyErr_SetString (PyExc_TypeError, "cannot get the value of a typedef");
      return NULL;
    }

  TRY
    {
      if (frame_obj != NULL)
    {
      frame_info = frame_object_to_frame_info (frame_obj);
      if (frame_info == NULL)
        error (_("invalid frame"));
    }

      if (symbol_read_needs_frame (symbol) && frame_info == NULL)
    error (_("symbol requires a frame to compute its value"));

      /* TODO: currently, we have no way to recover the block in which SYMBOL
     was found, so we have no block to pass to read_var_value.  This will
     yield an incorrect value when symbol is not local to FRAME_INFO (this
     can happen with nested functions).  */
      value = read_var_value (symbol, NULL, frame_info);
    }
  CATCH (except, RETURN_MASK_ALL)
    {
      GDB_PY_HANDLE_EXCEPTION (except);
    }
  END_CATCH

  return value_to_value_object (value);
}

/* Given a symbol, and a symbol_object that has previously been
   allocated and initialized, populate the symbol_object with the
   struct symbol data.  Also, register the symbol_object life-cycle
   with the life-cycle of the object file associated with this
   symbol, if needed.  */
static void
set_symbol (symbol_object *obj, struct symbol *symbol)
{
  obj->symbol = symbol;
  obj->prev = NULL;
  if (SYMBOL_OBJFILE_OWNED (symbol)
      && symbol_symtab (symbol) != NULL)
    {
      struct objfile *objfile = symbol_objfile (symbol);

      obj->next = ((struct sympy_symbol_object *)
           objfile_data (objfile, sympy_objfile_data_key));
      if (obj->next)
    obj->next->prev = obj;
      set_objfile_data (objfile, sympy_objfile_data_key, obj);
    }
  else
    obj->next = NULL;
}

/* Create a new symbol object (gdb.Symbol) that encapsulates the struct
   symbol object from GDB.  */
PyObject *
symbol_to_symbol_object (struct symbol *sym)
{
  symbol_object *sym_obj;

  sym_obj = PyObject_New (symbol_object, &symbol_object_type);
  if (sym_obj)
    set_symbol (sym_obj, sym);

  return (PyObject *) sym_obj;
}

/* Return the symbol that is wrapped by this symbol object.  */
struct symbol *
symbol_object_to_symbol (PyObject *obj)
{
  if (! PyObject_TypeCheck (obj, &symbol_object_type))
    return NULL;
  return ((symbol_object *) obj)->symbol;
}

static void
sympy_dealloc (PyObject *obj)
{
  symbol_object *sym_obj = (symbol_object *) obj;

  if (sym_obj->prev)
    sym_obj->prev->next = sym_obj->next;
  else if (sym_obj->symbol != NULL
       && SYMBOL_OBJFILE_OWNED (sym_obj->symbol)
       && symbol_symtab (sym_obj->symbol) != NULL)
    {
      set_objfile_data (symbol_objfile (sym_obj->symbol),
            sympy_objfile_data_key, sym_obj->next);
    }
  if (sym_obj->next)
    sym_obj->next->prev = sym_obj->prev;
  sym_obj->symbol = NULL;
}

/* Implementation of
   gdb.lookup_symbol (name [, block] [, domain]) -> (symbol, is_field_of_this)
   A tuple with 2 elements is always returned.  The first is the symbol
   object or None, the second is a boolean with the value of
   is_a_field_of_this (see comment in lookup_symbol_in_language).  */

PyObject *
gdbpy_lookup_symbol (PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kw)
{
  int domain = VAR_DOMAIN;
  struct field_of_this_result is_a_field_of_this;
  const char *name;
  static const char *keywords[] = { "name", "block", "domain", NULL };
  struct symbol *symbol = NULL;
  PyObject *block_obj = NULL, *sym_obj, *bool_obj;
  const struct block *block = NULL;

  if (!gdb_PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords (args, kw, "s|O!i", keywords, &name,
                    &block_object_type, &block_obj,
                    &domain))
    return NULL;

  if (block_obj)
    block = block_object_to_block (block_obj);
  else
    {
      struct frame_info *selected_frame;

      TRY
    {
      selected_frame = get_selected_frame (_("No frame selected."));
      block = get_frame_block (selected_frame, NULL);
    }
      CATCH (except, RETURN_MASK_ALL)
    {
      GDB_PY_HANDLE_EXCEPTION (except);
    }
      END_CATCH
    }

  TRY
    {
      symbol = lookup_symbol (name, block, (domain_enum) domain,
                  &is_a_field_of_this).symbol;
    }
  CATCH (except, RETURN_MASK_ALL)
    {
      GDB_PY_HANDLE_EXCEPTION (except);
    }
  END_CATCH

  gdbpy_ref<> ret_tuple (PyTuple_New (2));
  if (ret_tuple == NULL)
    return NULL;

  if (symbol)
    {
      sym_obj = symbol_to_symbol_object (symbol);
      if (!sym_obj)
    return NULL;
    }
  else
    {
      sym_obj = Py_None;
      Py_INCREF (Py_None);
    }
  PyTuple_SET_ITEM (ret_tuple.get (), 0, sym_obj);

  bool_obj = (is_a_field_of_this.type != NULL) ? Py_True : Py_False;
  Py_INCREF (bool_obj);
  PyTuple_SET_ITEM (ret_tuple.get (), 1, bool_obj);

  return ret_tuple.release ();
}

/* Implementation of
   gdb.lookup_global_symbol (name [, domain]) -> symbol or None.  */

PyObject *
gdbpy_lookup_global_symbol (PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kw)
{
  int domain = VAR_DOMAIN;
  const char *name;
  static const char *keywords[] = { "name", "domain", NULL };
  struct symbol *symbol = NULL;
  PyObject *sym_obj;

  if (!gdb_PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords (args, kw, "s|i", keywords, &name,
                    &domain))
    return NULL;

  TRY
    {
      symbol = lookup_global_symbol (name, NULL, (domain_enum) domain).symbol;
    }
  CATCH (except, RETURN_MASK_ALL)
    {
      GDB_PY_HANDLE_EXCEPTION (except);
    }
  END_CATCH

  if (symbol)
    {
      sym_obj = symbol_to_symbol_object (symbol);
      if (!sym_obj)
    return NULL;
    }
  else
    {
      sym_obj = Py_None;
      Py_INCREF (Py_None);
    }

  return sym_obj;
}

/* This function is called when an objfile is about to be freed.
   Invalidate the symbol as further actions on the symbol would result
   in bad data.  All access to obj->symbol should be gated by
   SYMPY_REQUIRE_VALID which will raise an exception on invalid
   symbols.  */
static void
del_objfile_symbols (struct objfile *objfile, void *datum)
{
  symbol_object *obj = (symbol_object *) datum;
  while (obj)
    {
      symbol_object *next = obj->next;

      obj->symbol = NULL;
      obj->next = NULL;
      obj->prev = NULL;

      obj = next;
    }
}

int
gdbpy_initialize_symbols (void)
{
  if (PyType_Ready (&symbol_object_type) < 0)
    return -1;

  /* Register an objfile "free" callback so we can properly
     invalidate symbol when an object file that is about to be
     deleted.  */
  sympy_objfile_data_key
    = register_objfile_data_with_cleanup (NULL, del_objfile_symbols);

  if (PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_LOC_UNDEF", LOC_UNDEF) < 0
      || PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_LOC_CONST",
                  LOC_CONST) < 0
      || PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_LOC_STATIC",
                  LOC_STATIC) < 0
      || PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_LOC_REGISTER",
                  LOC_REGISTER) < 0
      || PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_LOC_ARG",
                  LOC_ARG) < 0
      || PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_LOC_REF_ARG",
                  LOC_REF_ARG) < 0
      || PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_LOC_LOCAL",
                  LOC_LOCAL) < 0
      || PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_LOC_TYPEDEF",
                  LOC_TYPEDEF) < 0
      || PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_LOC_LABEL",
                  LOC_LABEL) < 0
      || PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_LOC_BLOCK",
                  LOC_BLOCK) < 0
      || PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_LOC_CONST_BYTES",
                  LOC_CONST_BYTES) < 0
      || PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_LOC_UNRESOLVED",
                  LOC_UNRESOLVED) < 0
      || PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_LOC_OPTIMIZED_OUT",
                  LOC_OPTIMIZED_OUT) < 0
      || PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_LOC_COMPUTED",
                  LOC_COMPUTED) < 0
      || PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_LOC_REGPARM_ADDR",
                  LOC_REGPARM_ADDR) < 0
      || PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_UNDEF_DOMAIN",
                  UNDEF_DOMAIN) < 0
      || PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_VAR_DOMAIN",
                  VAR_DOMAIN) < 0
      || PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_STRUCT_DOMAIN",
                  STRUCT_DOMAIN) < 0
      || PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_LABEL_DOMAIN",
                  LABEL_DOMAIN) < 0
      || PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_VARIABLES_DOMAIN",
                  VARIABLES_DOMAIN) < 0
      || PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_FUNCTIONS_DOMAIN",
                  FUNCTIONS_DOMAIN) < 0
      || PyModule_AddIntConstant (gdb_module, "SYMBOL_TYPES_DOMAIN",
                  TYPES_DOMAIN) < 0)
    return -1;

  return gdb_pymodule_addobject (gdb_module, "Symbol",
                 (PyObject *) &symbol_object_type);
}



static gdb_PyGetSetDef symbol_object_getset[] = {
  { "type", sympy_get_type, NULL,
    "Type of the symbol.", NULL },
  { "symtab", sympy_get_symtab, NULL,
    "Symbol table in which the symbol appears.", NULL },
  { "name", sympy_get_name, NULL,
    "Name of the symbol, as it appears in the source code.", NULL },
  { "linkage_name", sympy_get_linkage_name, NULL,
    "Name of the symbol, as used by the linker (i.e., may be mangled).",
    NULL },
  { "print_name", sympy_get_print_name, NULL,
    "Name of the symbol in a form suitable for output.\n\
This is either name or linkage_name, depending on whether the user asked GDB\n\
to display demangled or mangled names.", NULL },
  { "addr_class", sympy_get_addr_class, NULL, "Address class of the symbol." },
  { "is_argument", sympy_is_argument, NULL,
    "True if the symbol is an argument of a function." },
  { "is_constant", sympy_is_constant, NULL,
    "True if the symbol is a constant." },
  { "is_function", sympy_is_function, NULL,
    "True if the symbol is a function or method." },
  { "is_variable", sympy_is_variable, NULL,
    "True if the symbol is a variable." },
  { "needs_frame", sympy_needs_frame, NULL,
    "True if the symbol requires a frame for evaluation." },
  { "line", sympy_line, NULL,
    "The source line number at which the symbol was defined." },
  { NULL }  /* Sentinel */
};

static PyMethodDef symbol_object_methods[] = {
  { "is_valid", sympy_is_valid, METH_NOARGS,
    "is_valid () -> Boolean.\n\
Return true if this symbol is valid, false if not." },
  { "value", sympy_value, METH_VARARGS,
    "value ([frame]) -> gdb.Value\n\
Return the value of the symbol." },
  {NULL}  /* Sentinel */
};

PyTypeObject symbol_object_type = {
  PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT (NULL, 0)
  "gdb.Symbol",           /*tp_name*/
  sizeof (symbol_object),     /*tp_basicsize*/
  0,                  /*tp_itemsize*/
  sympy_dealloc,          /*tp_dealloc*/
  0,                  /*tp_print*/
  0,                  /*tp_getattr*/
  0,                  /*tp_setattr*/
  0,                  /*tp_compare*/
  0,                  /*tp_repr*/
  0,                  /*tp_as_number*/
  0,                  /*tp_as_sequence*/
  0,                  /*tp_as_mapping*/
  0,                  /*tp_hash */
  0,                  /*tp_call*/
  sympy_str,              /*tp_str*/
  0,                  /*tp_getattro*/
  0,                  /*tp_setattro*/
  0,                  /*tp_as_buffer*/
  Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT,         /*tp_flags*/
  "GDB symbol object",        /*tp_doc */
  0,                  /*tp_traverse */
  0,                  /*tp_clear */
  0,                  /*tp_richcompare */
  0,                  /*tp_weaklistoffset */
  0,                  /*tp_iter */
  0,                  /*tp_iternext */
  symbol_object_methods,      /*tp_methods */
  0,                  /*tp_members */
  symbol_object_getset        /*tp_getset */
};