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/* Perform an inferior function call, for GDB, the GNU debugger.

   Copyright (C) 2003-2018 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/>.  */

#ifndef INFCALL_H
#define INFCALL_H

#include "dummy-frame.h"

struct value;
struct type;

extern CORE_ADDR find_function_addr (struct value *function, 
                     struct type **retval_type);

/* Perform a function call in the inferior.

   ARGS is a vector of values of arguments (NARGS of them).  FUNCTION
   is a value, the function to be called.  Returns a value
   representing what the function returned.  May fail to return, if a
   breakpoint or signal is hit during the execution of the function.

   DFEAULT_RETURN_TYPE is used as function return type if the return
   type is unknown.  This is used when calling functions with no debug
   info.

   ARGS is modified to contain coerced values.  */

extern struct value *call_function_by_hand (struct value *function,
                        type *default_return_type,
                        int nargs,
                        struct value **args);

/* Similar to call_function_by_hand and additional call
   register_dummy_frame_dtor with DUMMY_DTOR and DUMMY_DTOR_DATA for the
   created inferior call dummy frame.  */

extern struct value *
  call_function_by_hand_dummy (struct value *function,
                   type *default_return_type,
                   int nargs,
                   struct value **args,
                   dummy_frame_dtor_ftype *dummy_dtor,
                   void *dummy_dtor_data);

/* Throw an error indicating that the user tried to call a function
   that has unknown return type.  FUNC_NAME is the name of the
   function to be included in the error message; may be NULL, in which
   case the error message doesn't include a function name.  */

extern void error_call_unknown_return_type (const char *func_name);

#endif