1 /* GDB Notifications to Observers.
3 Copyright (C) 2003-2004, 2007-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This file is part of GDB.
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8 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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18 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
20 /* An observer is an entity who is interested in being notified when GDB
21 reaches certain states, or certain events occur in GDB. The entity being
22 observed is called the Subject. To receive notifications, the observer
23 attaches a callback to the subject. One subject can have several
26 This file implements an internal generic low-level event notification
27 mechanism based on the Observer paradigm described in the book "Design
28 Patterns". This generic event notification mechansim is then re-used
29 to implement the exported high-level notification management routines
30 for all possible notifications.
32 The current implementation of the generic observer provides support
33 for contextual data. This contextual data is given to the subject
34 when attaching the callback. In return, the subject will provide
35 this contextual data back to the observer as a parameter of the
38 FIXME: The current support for the contextual data is only partial,
39 as it lacks a mechanism that would deallocate this data when the
40 callback is detached. This is not a problem so far, as this contextual
41 data is only used internally to hold a function pointer. Later on,
42 if a certain observer needs to provide support for user-level
43 contextual data, then the generic notification mechanism will need
44 need to be enhanced to allow the observer to provide a routine to
45 deallocate the data when attaching the callback.
47 This file is currently maintained by hand, but the long term plan
48 if the number of different notifications starts growing is to create
49 a new script (observer.sh) that would generate this file, and the
50 associated documentation. */
57 static int observer_debug;
59 show_observer_debug (struct ui_file *file, int from_tty,
60 struct cmd_list_element *c, const char *value)
62 fprintf_filtered (file, _("Observer debugging is %s.\n"), value);
65 /* The internal generic observer. */
67 typedef void (generic_observer_notification_ftype) (const void *data,
72 generic_observer_notification_ftype *notify;
73 /* No memory management needed for the following field for now. */
77 /* A list of observers, maintained by the subject. A subject is
78 actually represented by its list of observers. */
82 struct observer_list *next;
83 struct observer *observer;
86 /* Allocate a struct observer_list, intended to be used as a node
87 in the list of observers maintained by a subject. */
89 static struct observer_list *
90 xalloc_observer_list_node (void)
92 struct observer_list *node = XMALLOC (struct observer_list);
94 node->observer = XMALLOC (struct observer);
98 /* The opposite of xalloc_observer_list_node, frees the memory for
102 xfree_observer_list_node (struct observer_list *node)
104 xfree (node->observer);
108 /* Attach the callback NOTIFY to a SUBJECT. The DATA is also stored,
109 in order for the subject to provide it back to the observer during
112 static struct observer *
113 generic_observer_attach (struct observer_list **subject,
114 generic_observer_notification_ftype * notify,
117 struct observer_list *observer_list = xalloc_observer_list_node ();
119 observer_list->next = *subject;
120 observer_list->observer->notify = notify;
121 observer_list->observer->data = data;
122 *subject = observer_list;
124 return observer_list->observer;
127 /* Remove the given OBSERVER from the SUBJECT. Once detached, OBSERVER
128 should no longer be used, as it is no longer valid. */
131 generic_observer_detach (struct observer_list **subject,
132 const struct observer *observer)
134 struct observer_list *previous_node = NULL;
135 struct observer_list *current_node = *subject;
137 while (current_node != NULL)
139 if (current_node->observer == observer)
141 if (previous_node != NULL)
142 previous_node->next = current_node->next;
144 *subject = current_node->next;
145 xfree_observer_list_node (current_node);
148 previous_node = current_node;
149 current_node = current_node->next;
152 /* We should never reach this point. However, this should not be
153 a very serious error, so simply report a warning to the user. */
154 warning (_("Failed to detach observer"));
157 /* Send a notification to all the observers of SUBJECT. ARGS is passed to
158 all observers as an argument to the notification callback. */
161 generic_observer_notify (struct observer_list *subject, const void *args)
163 struct observer_list *current_node = subject;
165 while (current_node != NULL)
167 (*current_node->observer->notify) (current_node->observer->data, args);
168 current_node = current_node->next;
173 /* The following code is only used to unit-test the observers from our
174 testsuite. DO NOT USE IT within observer.c (or anywhere else for
177 /* If we define these variables and functions as `static', the
178 compiler will optimize them out. */
180 int observer_test_first_observer = 0;
181 int observer_test_second_observer = 0;
182 int observer_test_third_observer = 0;
184 /* Provide prototypes to silence -Wmissing-prototypes. */
185 extern void observer_test_first_notification_function (int arg);
186 extern void observer_test_second_notification_function (int arg);
187 extern void observer_test_third_notification_function (int arg);
190 observer_test_first_notification_function (int arg)
192 observer_test_first_observer++;
196 observer_test_second_notification_function (int arg)
198 observer_test_second_observer++;
202 observer_test_third_notification_function (int arg)
204 observer_test_third_observer++;
207 extern initialize_file_ftype _initialize_observer; /* -Wmissing-prototypes */
210 _initialize_observer (void)
212 add_setshow_zinteger_cmd ("observer", class_maintenance,
213 &observer_debug, _("\
214 Set observer debugging."), _("\
215 Show observer debugging."), _("\
216 When non-zero, observer debugging is enabled."),
219 &setdebuglist, &showdebuglist);
222 #include "observer.inc"