1 /* Reading symbol files from memory.
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21 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
23 /* This file defines functions (and commands to exercise those
24 functions) for reading debugging information from object files
25 whose images are mapped directly into the inferior's memory. For
26 example, the Linux kernel maps a "syscall DSO" into each process's
27 address space; this DSO provides kernel-specific code for some
30 At the moment, BFD only has functions for parsing object files from
31 memory for the ELF format, even though the general idea isn't
32 ELF-specific. This means that BFD only provides the functions GDB
33 needs when configured for ELF-based targets. So these functions
34 may only be compiled on ELF-based targets.
36 GDB has no idea whether it has been configured for an ELF-based
37 target or not: it just tries to handle whatever files it is given.
38 But this means there are no preprocessor symbols on which we could
39 make these functions' compilation conditional.
41 So, for the time being, we put these functions alone in this file,
42 and have .mt files reference them as appropriate. In the future, I
43 hope BFD will provide a format-independent bfd_from_remote_memory
55 #include "symfile-mem.h"
58 /* Read inferior memory at ADDR to find the header of a loaded object file
59 and read its in-core symbols out of inferior memory. TEMPL is a bfd
60 representing the target's format. */
62 symbol_file_add_from_memory (bfd *templ, CORE_ADDR addr, int from_tty)
68 struct section_addr_info *sai;
71 if (bfd_get_flavour (templ) != bfd_target_elf_flavour)
72 error ("add-symbol-file-from-memory not supported for this target");
74 nbfd = bfd_elf_bfd_from_remote_memory (templ, addr, &loadbase,
78 error ("Failed to read a valid object file image from memory.");
82 nbfd->filename = xstrdup ("shared object read from target memory");
84 if (!bfd_check_format (nbfd, bfd_object))
86 /* FIXME: should be checking for errors from bfd_close (for one thing,
87 on error it does not free all the storage associated with the
90 error ("Got object file from memory but can't read symbols: %s.",
91 bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
95 sai = alloc_section_addr_info (bfd_count_sections (nbfd));
96 make_cleanup (xfree, sai);
98 for (sec = nbfd->sections; sec != NULL; sec = sec->next)
99 if ((bfd_get_section_flags (nbfd, sec) & (SEC_ALLOC|SEC_LOAD)) != 0)
101 sai->other[i].addr = bfd_get_section_vma (nbfd, sec) + loadbase;
102 sai->other[i].name = (char *) bfd_get_section_name (nbfd, sec);
103 sai->other[i].sectindex = sec->index;
107 objf = symbol_file_add_from_bfd (nbfd, from_tty,
108 sai, 0, OBJF_SHARED);
110 /* This might change our ideas about frames already looked at. */
111 reinit_frame_cache ();
118 add_symbol_file_from_memory_command (char *args, int from_tty)
124 error ("add-symbol-file-from-memory requires an expression argument");
126 addr = parse_and_eval_address (args);
128 /* We need some representative bfd to know the target we are looking at. */
129 if (symfile_objfile != NULL)
130 templ = symfile_objfile->obfd;
135 Must use symbol-file or exec-file before add-symbol-file-from-memory.");
137 symbol_file_add_from_memory (templ, addr, from_tty);
142 _initialize_symfile_mem ()
144 add_cmd ("add-symbol-file-from-memory", class_files,
145 add_symbol_file_from_memory_command,
147 Load the symbols out of memory from a dynamically loaded object file.\n\
148 Give an expression for the address of the file's shared object file header.",