1 /* Reading symbol files from memory.
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22 /* This file defines functions (and commands to exercise those
23 functions) for reading debugging information from object files
24 whose images are mapped directly into the inferior's memory. For
25 example, the Linux kernel maps a "syscall DSO" into each process's
26 address space; this DSO provides kernel-specific code for some
29 At the moment, BFD only has functions for parsing object files from
30 memory for the ELF format, even though the general idea isn't
31 ELF-specific. This means that BFD only provides the functions GDB
32 needs when configured for ELF-based targets. So these functions
33 may only be compiled on ELF-based targets.
35 GDB has no idea whether it has been configured for an ELF-based
36 target or not: it just tries to handle whatever files it is given.
37 But this means there are no preprocessor symbols on which we could
38 make these functions' compilation conditional.
40 So, for the time being, we put these functions alone in this file,
41 and have .mt files reference them as appropriate. In the future, I
42 hope BFD will provide a format-independent bfd_from_remote_memory
50 #include "exceptions.h"
57 #include "elf/common.h"
60 /* Read inferior memory at ADDR to find the header of a loaded object file
61 and read its in-core symbols out of inferior memory. TEMPL is a bfd
62 representing the target's format. NAME is the name to use for this
63 symbol file in messages; it can be NULL or a malloc-allocated string
64 which will be attached to the BFD. */
65 static struct objfile *
66 symbol_file_add_from_memory (struct bfd *templ, CORE_ADDR addr, char *name,
71 struct bfd_section *sec;
73 struct section_addr_info *sai;
75 struct cleanup *cleanup;
77 if (bfd_get_flavour (templ) != bfd_target_elf_flavour)
78 error (_("add-symbol-file-from-memory not supported for this target"));
80 nbfd = bfd_elf_bfd_from_remote_memory (templ, addr, &loadbase,
83 error (_("Failed to read a valid object file image from memory."));
86 nbfd->filename = xstrdup ("shared object read from target memory");
88 nbfd->filename = name;
90 if (!bfd_check_format (nbfd, bfd_object))
92 /* FIXME: should be checking for errors from bfd_close (for one thing,
93 on error it does not free all the storage associated with the
96 error (_("Got object file from memory but can't read symbols: %s."),
97 bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
100 sai = alloc_section_addr_info (bfd_count_sections (nbfd));
101 cleanup = make_cleanup (xfree, sai);
103 for (sec = nbfd->sections; sec != NULL; sec = sec->next)
104 if ((bfd_get_section_flags (nbfd, sec) & (SEC_ALLOC|SEC_LOAD)) != 0)
106 sai->other[i].addr = bfd_get_section_vma (nbfd, sec) + loadbase;
107 sai->other[i].name = (char *) bfd_get_section_name (nbfd, sec);
108 sai->other[i].sectindex = sec->index;
112 objf = symbol_file_add_from_bfd (nbfd, from_tty ? SYMFILE_VERBOSE : 0,
113 sai, OBJF_SHARED, NULL);
115 /* This might change our ideas about frames already looked at. */
116 reinit_frame_cache ();
118 do_cleanups (cleanup);
124 add_symbol_file_from_memory_command (char *args, int from_tty)
130 error (_("add-symbol-file-from-memory requires an expression argument"));
132 addr = parse_and_eval_address (args);
134 /* We need some representative bfd to know the target we are looking at. */
135 if (symfile_objfile != NULL)
136 templ = symfile_objfile->obfd;
140 error (_("Must use symbol-file or exec-file "
141 "before add-symbol-file-from-memory."));
143 symbol_file_add_from_memory (templ, addr, NULL, from_tty);
146 /* Arguments for symbol_file_add_from_memory_wrapper. */
148 struct symbol_file_add_from_memory_args
151 CORE_ADDR sysinfo_ehdr;
156 /* Wrapper function for symbol_file_add_from_memory, for
160 symbol_file_add_from_memory_wrapper (struct ui_out *uiout, void *data)
162 struct symbol_file_add_from_memory_args *args = data;
164 symbol_file_add_from_memory (args->bfd, args->sysinfo_ehdr, args->name,
169 /* Try to add the symbols for the vsyscall page, if there is one.
170 This function is called via the inferior_created observer. */
173 add_vsyscall_page (struct target_ops *target, int from_tty)
175 CORE_ADDR sysinfo_ehdr;
177 if (target_auxv_search (target, AT_SYSINFO_EHDR, &sysinfo_ehdr) > 0
178 && sysinfo_ehdr != (CORE_ADDR) 0)
181 struct symbol_file_add_from_memory_args args;
183 if (core_bfd != NULL)
185 else if (exec_bfd != NULL)
188 /* FIXME: cagney/2004-05-06: Should not require an existing
189 BFD when trying to create a run-time BFD of the VSYSCALL
190 page in the inferior. Unfortunately that's the current
191 interface so for the moment bail. Introducing a
192 ``bfd_runtime'' (a BFD created using the loaded image) file
193 format should fix this. */
195 warning (_("Could not load vsyscall page "
196 "because no executable was specified\n"
197 "try using the \"file\" command first."));
201 args.sysinfo_ehdr = sysinfo_ehdr;
202 args.name = xstrprintf ("system-supplied DSO at %s",
203 paddress (target_gdbarch, sysinfo_ehdr));
204 /* Pass zero for FROM_TTY, because the action of loading the
205 vsyscall DSO was not triggered by the user, even if the user
206 typed "run" at the TTY. */
208 catch_exceptions (current_uiout, symbol_file_add_from_memory_wrapper,
209 &args, RETURN_MASK_ALL);
215 /* Provide a prototype to silence -Wmissing-prototypes. */
216 extern initialize_file_ftype _initialize_symfile_mem;
219 _initialize_symfile_mem (void)
221 add_cmd ("add-symbol-file-from-memory", class_files,
222 add_symbol_file_from_memory_command,
223 _("Load the symbols out of memory from a "
224 "dynamically loaded object file.\n"
225 "Give an expression for the address "
226 "of the file's shared object file header."),
229 /* Want to know of each new inferior so that its vsyscall info can
231 observer_attach_inferior_created (add_vsyscall_page);