# Type utilities. # Copyright (C) 2010-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # 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 . """Utilities for working with gdb.Types.""" import gdb def get_basic_type(type_): """Return the "basic" type of a type. Arguments: type_: The type to reduce to its basic type. Returns: type_ with const/volatile is stripped away, and typedefs/references converted to the underlying type. """ while (type_.code == gdb.TYPE_CODE_REF or type_.code == gdb.TYPE_CODE_TYPEDEF): if type_.code == gdb.TYPE_CODE_REF: type_ = type_.target() else: type_ = type_.strip_typedefs() return type_.unqualified() def has_field(type_, field): """Return True if a type has the specified field. Arguments: type_: The type to examine. It must be one of gdb.TYPE_CODE_STRUCT, gdb.TYPE_CODE_UNION. field: The name of the field to look up. Returns: True if the field is present either in type_ or any baseclass. Raises: TypeError: The type is not a struct or union. """ type_ = get_basic_type(type_) if (type_.code != gdb.TYPE_CODE_STRUCT and type_.code != gdb.TYPE_CODE_UNION): raise TypeError("not a struct or union") for f in type_.fields(): if f.is_base_class: if has_field(f.type, field): return True else: # NOTE: f.name could be None if f.name == field: return True return False def make_enum_dict(enum_type): """Return a dictionary from a program's enum type. Arguments: enum_type: The enum to compute the dictionary for. Returns: The dictionary of the enum. Raises: TypeError: The type is not an enum. """ if enum_type.code != gdb.TYPE_CODE_ENUM: raise TypeError("not an enum type") enum_dict = {} for field in enum_type.fields(): # The enum's value is stored in "enumval". enum_dict[field.name] = field.enumval return enum_dict def deep_items (type_): """Return an iterator that recursively traverses anonymous fields. Arguments: type_: The type to traverse. It should be one of gdb.TYPE_CODE_STRUCT or gdb.TYPE_CODE_UNION. Returns: an iterator similar to gdb.Type.iteritems(), i.e., it returns pairs of key, value, but for any anonymous struct or union field that field is traversed recursively, depth-first. """ for k, v in type_.iteritems (): if k: yield k, v else: for i in deep_items (v.type): yield i class TypePrinter(object): """The base class for type printers. Instances of this type can be used to substitute type names during 'ptype'. A type printer must have at least 'name' and 'enabled' attributes, and supply an 'instantiate' method. The 'instantiate' method must either return None, or return an object which has a 'recognize' method. This method must accept a gdb.Type argument and either return None, meaning that the type was not recognized, or a string naming the type. """ def __init__(self, name): self.name = name self.enabled = True def instantiate(self): return None # Helper function for computing the list of type recognizers. def _get_some_type_recognizers(result, plist): for printer in plist: if printer.enabled: inst = printer.instantiate() if inst is not None: result.append(inst) return None def get_type_recognizers(): "Return a list of the enabled type recognizers for the current context." result = [] # First try the objfiles. for objfile in gdb.objfiles(): _get_some_type_recognizers(result, objfile.type_printers) # Now try the program space. _get_some_type_recognizers(result, gdb.current_progspace().type_printers) # Finally, globals. _get_some_type_recognizers(result, gdb.type_printers) return result def apply_type_recognizers(recognizers, type_obj): """Apply the given list of type recognizers to the type TYPE_OBJ. If any recognizer in the list recognizes TYPE_OBJ, returns the name given by the recognizer. Otherwise, this returns None.""" for r in recognizers: result = r.recognize(type_obj) if result is not None: return result return None def register_type_printer(locus, printer): """Register a type printer. PRINTER is the type printer instance. LOCUS is either an objfile, a program space, or None, indicating global registration.""" if locus is None: locus = gdb locus.type_printers.insert(0, printer)