2003-04-09 Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>
[binutils-gdb.git] / gdb / frame.h
1 /* Definitions for dealing with stack frames, for GDB, the GNU debugger.
2
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22
23 #if !defined (FRAME_H)
24 #define FRAME_H 1
25
26 struct symtab_and_line;
27 struct frame_unwind;
28 struct frame_base;
29 struct block;
30
31 /* A legacy unwinder to prop up architectures using the old style
32 saved regs array. */
33 extern const struct frame_unwind *legacy_saved_regs_unwind;
34
35 /* The frame object. */
36
37 struct frame_info;
38
39 /* The frame object's ID. This provides a per-frame unique identifier
40 that can be used to relocate a `struct frame_info' after a target
41 resume or a frame cache destruct. It of course assumes that the
42 inferior hasn't unwound the stack past that frame. */
43
44 struct frame_id
45 {
46 /* The frame's address. This should be constant through out the
47 lifetime of a frame. */
48 /* NOTE: cagney/2002-11-16: The ia64 has two stacks and hence two
49 frame bases. This will need to be expanded to accomodate that. */
50 CORE_ADDR base;
51 /* The frame's current PC. While the PC within the function may
52 change, the function that contains the PC does not. Should this
53 instead be the frame's function? */
54 CORE_ADDR pc;
55 };
56
57 /* Methods for constructing and comparing Frame IDs.
58
59 NOTE: Given frameless functions A and B, where A calls B (and hence
60 B is inner-to A). The relationships: !eq(A,B); !eq(B,A);
61 !inner(A,B); !inner(B,A); all hold. This is because, while B is
62 inner to A, B is not strictly inner to A (being frameless, they
63 have the same .base value). */
64
65 /* For convenience. All fields are zero. */
66 extern const struct frame_id null_frame_id;
67
68 /* Construct a frame ID. The second parameter isn't yet well defined.
69 It might be the containing function, or the resume PC (see comment
70 above in `struct frame_id')? A func/pc of zero indicates a
71 wildcard (i.e., do not use func in frame ID comparisons). */
72 extern struct frame_id frame_id_build (CORE_ADDR base,
73 CORE_ADDR func_or_pc);
74
75 /* Returns non-zero when L is a valid frame (a valid frame has a
76 non-zero .base). */
77 extern int frame_id_p (struct frame_id l);
78
79 /* Returns non-zero when L and R identify the same frame, or, if
80 either L or R have a zero .func, then the same frame base. */
81 extern int frame_id_eq (struct frame_id l, struct frame_id r);
82
83 /* Returns non-zero when L is strictly inner-than R (they have
84 different frame .bases). Neither L, nor R can be `null'. See note
85 above about frameless functions. */
86 extern int frame_id_inner (struct frame_id l, struct frame_id r);
87
88
89 /* For every stopped thread, GDB tracks two frames: current and
90 selected. Current frame is the inner most frame of the selected
91 thread. Selected frame is the one being examined by the the GDB
92 CLI (selected using `up', `down', ...). The frames are created
93 on-demand (via get_prev_frame()) and then held in a frame cache. */
94 /* FIXME: cagney/2002-11-28: Er, there is a lie here. If you do the
95 sequence: `thread 1; up; thread 2; thread 1' you loose thread 1's
96 selected frame. At present GDB only tracks the selected frame of
97 the current thread. But be warned, that might change. */
98 /* FIXME: cagney/2002-11-14: At any time, only one thread's selected
99 and current frame can be active. Switching threads causes gdb to
100 discard all that cached frame information. Ulgh! Instead, current
101 and selected frame should be bound to a thread. */
102
103 /* On demand, create the inner most frame using information found in
104 the inferior. If the inner most frame can't be created, throw an
105 error. */
106 extern struct frame_info *get_current_frame (void);
107
108 /* Invalidates the frame cache (this function should have been called
109 invalidate_cached_frames).
110
111 FIXME: cagney/2002-11-28: The only difference between
112 flush_cached_frames() and reinit_frame_cache() is that the latter
113 explicitly sets the selected frame back to the current frame there
114 isn't any real difference (except that one delays the selection of
115 a new frame). Code can instead simply rely on get_selected_frame()
116 to reinit's the selected frame as needed. As for invalidating the
117 cache, there should be two methods one that reverts the thread's
118 selected frame back to current frame (for when the inferior
119 resumes) and one that does not (for when the user modifies the
120 target invalidating the frame cache). */
121 extern void flush_cached_frames (void);
122 extern void reinit_frame_cache (void);
123
124 /* On demand, create the selected frame and then return it. If the
125 selected frame can not be created, this function throws an error. */
126 /* FIXME: cagney/2002-11-28: At present, when there is no selected
127 frame, this function always returns the current (inner most) frame.
128 It should instead, when a thread has previously had its frame
129 selected (but not resumed) and the frame cache invalidated, find
130 and then return that thread's previously selected frame. */
131 extern struct frame_info *get_selected_frame (void);
132
133 /* Select a specific frame. NULL, apparently implies re-select the
134 inner most frame. */
135 extern void select_frame (struct frame_info *);
136
137 /* Given a FRAME, return the next (more inner, younger) or previous
138 (more outer, older) frame. */
139 extern struct frame_info *get_prev_frame (struct frame_info *);
140 extern struct frame_info *get_next_frame (struct frame_info *);
141
142 /* Given a frame's ID, relocate the frame. Returns NULL if the frame
143 is not found. */
144 extern struct frame_info *frame_find_by_id (struct frame_id id);
145
146 /* Base attributes of a frame: */
147
148 /* The frame's `resume' address. Where the program will resume in
149 this frame. */
150 extern CORE_ADDR get_frame_pc (struct frame_info *);
151
152 /* Following on from the `resume' address. Return the entry point
153 address of the function containing that resume address, or zero if
154 that function isn't known. */
155 extern CORE_ADDR frame_func_unwind (struct frame_info *fi);
156 extern CORE_ADDR get_frame_func (struct frame_info *fi);
157
158 /* Closely related to the resume address, various symbol table
159 attributes that are determined by the PC. Note that for a normal
160 frame, the PC refers to the resume address after the return, and
161 not the call instruction. In such a case, the address is adjusted
162 so that it (approximatly) identifies the call site (and not return
163 site).
164
165 NOTE: cagney/2002-11-28: The frame cache could be used to cache the
166 computed value. Working on the assumption that the bottle-neck is
167 in the single step code, and that code causes the frame cache to be
168 constantly flushed, caching things in a frame is probably of little
169 benefit. As they say `show us the numbers'.
170
171 NOTE: cagney/2002-11-28: Plenty more where this one came from:
172 find_frame_block(), find_frame_partial_function(),
173 find_frame_symtab(), find_frame_function(). Each will need to be
174 carefully considered to determine if the real intent was for it to
175 apply to the PC or the adjusted PC. */
176 extern void find_frame_sal (struct frame_info *frame,
177 struct symtab_and_line *sal);
178
179 /* Return the frame base (what ever that is) (DEPRECATED).
180
181 Old code was trying to use this single method for two conflicting
182 purposes. Such code needs to be updated to use either of:
183
184 get_frame_id: A low level frame unique identifier, that consists of
185 both a stack and a function address, that can be used to uniquely
186 identify a frame. This value is determined by the frame's
187 low-level unwinder, the stack part [typically] being the
188 top-of-stack of the previous frame, and the function part being the
189 function's start address. Since the correct identification of a
190 frameless function requires both the a stack and function address,
191 the old get_frame_base method was not sufficient.
192
193 get_frame_base_address: get_frame_locals_address:
194 get_frame_args_address: A set of high-level debug-info dependant
195 addresses that fall within the frame. These addresses almost
196 certainly will not match the stack address part of a frame ID (as
197 returned by get_frame_base). */
198
199 extern CORE_ADDR get_frame_base (struct frame_info *);
200
201 /* Return the per-frame unique identifer. Can be used to relocate a
202 frame after a frame cache flush (and other similar operations). If
203 FI is NULL, return the null_frame_id. */
204 extern struct frame_id get_frame_id (struct frame_info *fi);
205
206 /* Assuming that a frame is `normal', return its base-address, or 0 if
207 the information isn't available. NOTE: This address is really only
208 meaningful to the frame's high-level debug info. */
209 extern CORE_ADDR get_frame_base_address (struct frame_info *);
210
211 /* Assuming that a frame is `normal', return the base-address of the
212 local variables, or 0 if the information isn't available. NOTE:
213 This address is really only meaningful to the frame's high-level
214 debug info. Typically, the argument and locals share a single
215 base-address. */
216 extern CORE_ADDR get_frame_locals_address (struct frame_info *);
217
218 /* Assuming that a frame is `normal', return the base-address of the
219 parameter list, or 0 if that information isn't available. NOTE:
220 This address is really only meaningful to the frame's high-level
221 debug info. Typically, the argument and locals share a single
222 base-address. */
223 extern CORE_ADDR get_frame_args_address (struct frame_info *);
224
225 /* The frame's level: 0 for innermost, 1 for its caller, ...; or -1
226 for an invalid frame). */
227 extern int frame_relative_level (struct frame_info *fi);
228
229 /* Return the frame's type. Some are real, some are signal
230 trampolines, and some are completly artificial (dummy). */
231
232 enum frame_type
233 {
234 /* The frame's type hasn't yet been defined. This is a catch-all
235 for legacy code that uses really strange technicques, such as
236 deprecated_set_frame_type, to set the frame's type. New code
237 should not use this value. */
238 UNKNOWN_FRAME,
239 /* A true stack frame, created by the target program during normal
240 execution. */
241 NORMAL_FRAME,
242 /* A fake frame, created by GDB when performing an inferior function
243 call. */
244 DUMMY_FRAME,
245 /* In a signal handler, various OSs handle this in various ways.
246 The main thing is that the frame may be far from normal. */
247 SIGTRAMP_FRAME
248 };
249 extern enum frame_type get_frame_type (struct frame_info *);
250
251 /* FIXME: cagney/2002-11-10: Some targets want to directly mark a
252 frame as being of a specific type. This shouldn't be necessary.
253 PC_IN_SIGTRAMP() indicates a SIGTRAMP_FRAME and
254 DEPRECATED_PC_IN_CALL_DUMMY() indicates a DUMMY_FRAME. I suspect
255 the real problem here is that get_prev_frame() only sets
256 initialized after DEPRECATED_INIT_EXTRA_FRAME_INFO as been called.
257 Consequently, some targets found that the frame's type was wrong
258 and tried to fix it. The correct fix is to modify get_prev_frame()
259 so that it initializes the frame's type before calling any other
260 functions. */
261 extern void deprecated_set_frame_type (struct frame_info *,
262 enum frame_type type);
263
264 /* Unwind the stack frame so that the value of REGNUM, in the previous
265 (up, older) frame is returned. If VALUEP is NULL, don't
266 fetch/compute the value. Instead just return the location of the
267 value. */
268 extern void frame_register_unwind (struct frame_info *frame, int regnum,
269 int *optimizedp, enum lval_type *lvalp,
270 CORE_ADDR *addrp, int *realnump,
271 void *valuep);
272
273 /* More convenient interface to frame_register_unwind(). */
274 /* NOTE: cagney/2002-09-13: Return void as one day these functions may
275 be changed to return an indication that the read succeeded. */
276
277 extern void frame_unwind_register (struct frame_info *frame,
278 int regnum, void *buf);
279
280 extern void frame_unwind_signed_register (struct frame_info *frame,
281 int regnum, LONGEST *val);
282
283 extern void frame_unwind_unsigned_register (struct frame_info *frame,
284 int regnum, ULONGEST *val);
285
286 /* Get the value of the register that belongs to this FRAME. This
287 function is a wrapper to the call sequence ``frame_unwind_register
288 (get_next_frame (FRAME))''. As per frame_register_unwind(), if
289 VALUEP is NULL, the registers value is not fetched/computed. */
290
291 extern void frame_register (struct frame_info *frame, int regnum,
292 int *optimizedp, enum lval_type *lvalp,
293 CORE_ADDR *addrp, int *realnump,
294 void *valuep);
295
296 /* More convenient interface to frame_register(). */
297 /* NOTE: cagney/2002-09-13: Return void as one day these functions may
298 be changed to return an indication that the read succeeded. */
299
300 extern void frame_read_register (struct frame_info *frame, int regnum,
301 void *buf);
302
303 extern void frame_read_signed_register (struct frame_info *frame,
304 int regnum, LONGEST *val);
305
306 extern void frame_read_unsigned_register (struct frame_info *frame,
307 int regnum, ULONGEST *val);
308
309 /* Map between a frame register number and its name. A frame register
310 space is a superset of the cooked register space --- it also
311 includes builtin registers. If NAMELEN is negative, use the NAME's
312 length when doing the comparison. */
313
314 extern int frame_map_name_to_regnum (const char *name, int namelen);
315 extern const char *frame_map_regnum_to_name (int regnum);
316
317 /* Unwind the PC. Strictly speaking return the resume address of the
318 calling frame. For GDB, `pc' is the resume address and not a
319 specific register. */
320
321 extern CORE_ADDR frame_pc_unwind (struct frame_info *frame);
322
323 /* Discard the specified frame. Restoring the registers to the state
324 of the caller. */
325 extern void frame_pop (struct frame_info *frame);
326
327 /* We keep a cache of stack frames, each of which is a "struct
328 frame_info". The innermost one gets allocated (in
329 wait_for_inferior) each time the inferior stops; current_frame
330 points to it. Additional frames get allocated (in
331 get_prev_frame) as needed, and are chained through the next
332 and prev fields. Any time that the frame cache becomes invalid
333 (most notably when we execute something, but also if we change how
334 we interpret the frames (e.g. "set heuristic-fence-post" in
335 mips-tdep.c, or anything which reads new symbols)), we should call
336 reinit_frame_cache. */
337
338 struct frame_info
339 {
340 /* Level of this frame. The inner-most (youngest) frame is at
341 level 0. As you move towards the outer-most (oldest) frame,
342 the level increases. This is a cached value. It could just as
343 easily be computed by counting back from the selected frame to
344 the inner most frame. */
345 /* NOTE: cagney/2002-04-05: Perhaphs a level of ``-1'' should be
346 reserved to indicate a bogus frame - one that has been created
347 just to keep GDB happy (GDB always needs a frame). For the
348 moment leave this as speculation. */
349 int level;
350
351 /* The frame's type. */
352 /* FIXME: cagney/2003-04-02: Should instead be returning
353 ->unwind->type. Unfortunatly, legacy code is still explicitly
354 setting the type using the method deprecated_set_frame_type.
355 Eliminate that method and this field can be eliminated. */
356 enum frame_type type;
357
358 /* For each register, address of where it was saved on entry to
359 the frame, or zero if it was not saved on entry to this frame.
360 This includes special registers such as pc and fp saved in
361 special ways in the stack frame. The SP_REGNUM is even more
362 special, the address here is the sp for the previous frame, not
363 the address where the sp was saved. */
364 /* Allocated by frame_saved_regs_zalloc () which is called /
365 initialized by DEPRECATED_FRAME_INIT_SAVED_REGS(). */
366 CORE_ADDR *saved_regs; /*NUM_REGS + NUM_PSEUDO_REGS*/
367
368 /* Anything extra for this structure that may have been defined
369 in the machine dependent files. */
370 /* Allocated by frame_extra_info_zalloc () which is called /
371 initialized by DEPRECATED_INIT_EXTRA_FRAME_INFO */
372 struct frame_extra_info *extra_info;
373
374 /* If dwarf2 unwind frame informations is used, this structure holds all
375 related unwind data. */
376 struct context *context;
377
378 /* The frame's low-level unwinder and corresponding cache. The
379 low-level unwinder is responsible for unwinding register values
380 for the previous frame. The low-level unwind methods are
381 selected based on the presence, or otherwize, of register
382 unwind information such as CFI. */
383 void *prologue_cache;
384 const struct frame_unwind *unwind;
385
386 /* Cached copy of the previous frame's resume address. */
387 struct {
388 int p;
389 CORE_ADDR value;
390 } prev_pc;
391
392 /* Cached copy of the previous frame's function address. */
393 struct
394 {
395 CORE_ADDR addr;
396 int p;
397 } prev_func;
398
399 /* This frame's ID. Note that the frame's ID, base and PC contain
400 redundant information. */
401 int id_p;
402 struct frame_id id;
403
404 /* The frame's high-level base methods, and corresponding cache.
405 The high level base methods are selected based on the frame's
406 debug info. */
407 const struct frame_base *base;
408 void *base_cache;
409
410 /* Pointers to the next (down, inner, younger) and previous (up,
411 outer, older) frame_info's in the frame cache. */
412 struct frame_info *next; /* down, inner, younger */
413 int prev_p;
414 struct frame_info *prev; /* up, outer, older */
415 };
416
417 /* Values for the source flag to be used in print_frame_info_base(). */
418 enum print_what
419 {
420 /* Print only the source line, like in stepi. */
421 SRC_LINE = -1,
422 /* Print only the location, i.e. level, address (sometimes)
423 function, args, file, line, line num. */
424 LOCATION,
425 /* Print both of the above. */
426 SRC_AND_LOC,
427 /* Print location only, but always include the address. */
428 LOC_AND_ADDRESS
429 };
430
431 /* Allocate additional space for appendices to a struct frame_info.
432 NOTE: Much of GDB's code works on the assumption that the allocated
433 saved_regs[] array is the size specified below. If you try to make
434 that array smaller, GDB will happily walk off its end. */
435
436 #ifdef SIZEOF_FRAME_SAVED_REGS
437 #error "SIZEOF_FRAME_SAVED_REGS can not be re-defined"
438 #endif
439 #define SIZEOF_FRAME_SAVED_REGS \
440 (sizeof (CORE_ADDR) * (NUM_REGS+NUM_PSEUDO_REGS))
441
442 /* Allocate zero initialized memory from the frame cache obstack.
443 Appendices to the frame info (such as the unwind cache) should
444 allocate memory using this method. */
445
446 extern void *frame_obstack_zalloc (unsigned long size);
447 #define FRAME_OBSTACK_ZALLOC(TYPE) ((TYPE *) frame_obstack_zalloc (sizeof (TYPE)))
448
449 /* If legacy_frame_chain_valid() returns zero it means that the given
450 frame is the outermost one and has no caller.
451
452 This method has been superseeded by the per-architecture
453 frame_unwind_pc() (returns 0 to indicate an invalid return address)
454 and per-frame this_id() (returns a NULL frame ID to indicate an
455 invalid frame). */
456 extern int legacy_frame_chain_valid (CORE_ADDR, struct frame_info *);
457
458 extern void generic_save_dummy_frame_tos (CORE_ADDR sp);
459
460 extern struct block *get_frame_block (struct frame_info *,
461 CORE_ADDR *addr_in_block);
462
463 /* Return the `struct block' that belongs to the selected thread's
464 selected frame. If the inferior has no state, return NULL.
465
466 NOTE: cagney/2002-11-29:
467
468 No state? Does the inferior have any execution state (a core file
469 does, an executable does not). At present the code tests
470 `target_has_stack' but I'm left wondering if it should test
471 `target_has_registers' or, even, a merged target_has_state.
472
473 Should it look at the most recently specified SAL? If the target
474 has no state, should this function try to extract a block from the
475 most recently selected SAL? That way `list foo' would give it some
476 sort of reference point. Then again, perhaphs that would confuse
477 things.
478
479 Calls to this function can be broken down into two categories: Code
480 that uses the selected block as an additional, but optional, data
481 point; Code that uses the selected block as a prop, when it should
482 have the relevant frame/block/pc explicitly passed in.
483
484 The latter can be eliminated by correctly parameterizing the code,
485 the former though is more interesting. Per the "address" command,
486 it occures in the CLI code and makes it possible for commands to
487 work, even when the inferior has no state. */
488
489 extern struct block *get_selected_block (CORE_ADDR *addr_in_block);
490
491 extern struct symbol *get_frame_function (struct frame_info *);
492
493 extern CORE_ADDR frame_address_in_block (struct frame_info *);
494
495 extern CORE_ADDR get_pc_function_start (CORE_ADDR);
496
497 extern int frameless_look_for_prologue (struct frame_info *);
498
499 extern void print_frame_args (struct symbol *, struct frame_info *,
500 int, struct ui_file *);
501
502 extern struct frame_info *find_relative_frame (struct frame_info *, int *);
503
504 extern void show_and_print_stack_frame (struct frame_info *fi, int level,
505 int source);
506
507 extern void print_stack_frame (struct frame_info *, int, int);
508
509 extern void show_stack_frame (struct frame_info *);
510
511 extern void print_frame_info (struct frame_info *, int, int, int);
512
513 extern void show_frame_info (struct frame_info *, int, int, int);
514
515 extern struct frame_info *block_innermost_frame (struct block *);
516
517 /* NOTE: cagney/2002-09-13: There is no need for this function.
518 Instead either of frame_unwind_signed_register() or
519 frame_unwind_unsigned_register() can be used. */
520 extern CORE_ADDR deprecated_read_register_dummy (CORE_ADDR pc,
521 CORE_ADDR fp, int);
522 extern void generic_push_dummy_frame (void);
523 extern void generic_pop_current_frame (void (*)(struct frame_info *));
524 extern void generic_pop_dummy_frame (void);
525
526 extern int generic_pc_in_call_dummy (CORE_ADDR pc,
527 CORE_ADDR sp, CORE_ADDR fp);
528
529 /* NOTE: cagney/2002-06-26: Targets should no longer use this
530 function. Instead, the contents of a dummy frames registers can be
531 obtained by applying: frame_register_unwind to the dummy frame; or
532 frame_register_unwind() to the next outer frame. */
533
534 extern char *deprecated_generic_find_dummy_frame (CORE_ADDR pc, CORE_ADDR fp);
535
536 void generic_unwind_get_saved_register (char *raw_buffer,
537 int *optimizedp,
538 CORE_ADDR *addrp,
539 struct frame_info *frame,
540 int regnum,
541 enum lval_type *lvalp);
542
543 /* The function generic_get_saved_register() has been made obsolete.
544 DEPRECATED_GET_SAVED_REGISTER now defaults to the recursive
545 equivalent - generic_unwind_get_saved_register() - so there is no
546 need to even set DEPRECATED_GET_SAVED_REGISTER. Architectures that
547 need to override the register unwind mechanism should modify
548 frame->unwind(). */
549 extern void deprecated_generic_get_saved_register (char *, int *, CORE_ADDR *,
550 struct frame_info *, int,
551 enum lval_type *);
552
553 extern void generic_save_call_dummy_addr (CORE_ADDR lo, CORE_ADDR hi);
554
555 /* FIXME: cagney/2003-02-02: Should be deprecated or replaced with a
556 function called frame_read_register_p(). This slightly weird (and
557 older) variant of frame_read_register() returns zero (indicating
558 the register is unavailable) if either: the register isn't cached;
559 or the register has been optimized out. Problem is, neither check
560 is exactly correct. A register can't be optimized out (it may not
561 have been saved as part of a function call); The fact that a
562 register isn't in the register cache doesn't mean that the register
563 isn't available (it could have been fetched from memory). */
564
565 extern int frame_register_read (struct frame_info *frame, int regnum,
566 void *buf);
567
568 /* From stack.c. */
569 extern void args_info (char *, int);
570
571 extern void locals_info (char *, int);
572
573 extern void (*selected_frame_level_changed_hook) (int);
574
575 extern void return_command (char *, int);
576
577
578 /* NOTE: cagney/2002-11-27:
579
580 You might think that the below global can simply be replaced by a
581 call to either get_selected_frame() or select_frame().
582
583 Unfortunatly, it isn't that easy.
584
585 The relevant code needs to be audited to determine if it is
586 possible (or pratical) to instead pass the applicable frame in as a
587 parameter. For instance, DEPRECATED_DO_REGISTERS_INFO() relied on
588 the deprecated_selected_frame global, while its replacement,
589 PRINT_REGISTERS_INFO(), is parameterized with the selected frame.
590 The only real exceptions occure at the edge (in the CLI code) where
591 user commands need to pick up the selected frame before proceeding.
592
593 This is important. GDB is trying to stamp out the hack:
594
595 saved_frame = deprecated_selected_frame;
596 deprecated_selected_frame = ...;
597 hack_using_global_selected_frame ();
598 deprecated_selected_frame = saved_frame;
599
600 Take care! */
601
602 extern struct frame_info *deprecated_selected_frame;
603
604
605 /* Create a frame using the specified BASE and PC. */
606
607 extern struct frame_info *create_new_frame (CORE_ADDR base, CORE_ADDR pc);
608
609
610 /* Create/access the frame's `extra info'. The extra info is used by
611 older code to store information such as the analyzed prologue. The
612 zalloc() should only be called by the INIT_EXTRA_INFO method. */
613
614 extern struct frame_extra_info *frame_extra_info_zalloc (struct frame_info *fi,
615 long size);
616 extern struct frame_extra_info *get_frame_extra_info (struct frame_info *fi);
617
618 /* Create/access the frame's `saved_regs'. The saved regs are used by
619 older code to store the address of each register (except for
620 SP_REGNUM where the value of the register in the previous frame is
621 stored). */
622 extern CORE_ADDR *frame_saved_regs_zalloc (struct frame_info *);
623 extern CORE_ADDR *get_frame_saved_regs (struct frame_info *);
624
625 /* FIXME: cagney/2002-12-06: Has the PC in the current frame changed?
626 "infrun.c", Thanks to DECR_PC_AFTER_BREAK, can change the PC after
627 the initial frame create. This puts things back in sync. */
628 extern void deprecated_update_frame_pc_hack (struct frame_info *frame,
629 CORE_ADDR pc);
630
631 /* FIXME: cagney/2002-12-18: Has the frame's base changed? Or to be
632 more exact, whas that initial guess at the frame's base as returned
633 by read_fp() wrong. If it was, fix it. This shouldn't be
634 necessary since the code should be getting the frame's base correct
635 from the outset. */
636 extern void deprecated_update_frame_base_hack (struct frame_info *frame,
637 CORE_ADDR base);
638
639 /* FIXME: cagney/2003-01-04: Explicitly set the frame's saved_regs
640 and/or extra_info. Target code is allocating a fake frame and than
641 initializing that to get around the problem of, when creating the
642 inner most frame, there is no where to cache information such as
643 the prologue analysis. This is fixed by the new unwind mechanism -
644 even the inner most frame has somewhere to store things like the
645 prolog analysis (or at least will once the frame overhaul is
646 finished). */
647 extern void deprecated_set_frame_saved_regs_hack (struct frame_info *frame,
648 CORE_ADDR *saved_regs);
649 extern void deprecated_set_frame_extra_info_hack (struct frame_info *frame,
650 struct frame_extra_info *extra_info);
651
652 /* FIXME: cagney/2003-01-04: Allocate a frame from the heap (rather
653 than the frame obstack). Targets do this as a way of saving the
654 prologue analysis from the inner most frame before that frame has
655 been created. By always creating a frame, this problem goes away. */
656 extern struct frame_info *deprecated_frame_xmalloc (void);
657
658 /* FIXME: cagney/2003-01-05: Allocate a frame, along with the
659 saved_regs and extra_info. Set up cleanups for all three. Same as
660 for deprecated_frame_xmalloc, targets are calling this when
661 creating a scratch `struct frame_info'. The frame overhaul makes
662 this unnecessary since all frame queries are parameterized with a
663 common cache parameter and a frame. */
664 extern struct frame_info *deprecated_frame_xmalloc_with_cleanup (long sizeof_saved_regs,
665 long sizeof_extra_info);
666
667 /* FIXME: cagney/2003-01-07: These are just nasty. Code shouldn't be
668 doing this. I suspect it dates back to the days when every field
669 of an allocated structure was explicitly initialized. */
670 extern void deprecated_set_frame_next_hack (struct frame_info *fi,
671 struct frame_info *next);
672 extern void deprecated_set_frame_prev_hack (struct frame_info *fi,
673 struct frame_info *prev);
674
675 /* FIXME: cagney/2003-01-07: Instead of the dwarf2cfi having its own
676 dedicated `struct frame_info . context' field, the code should use
677 the per frame `unwind_cache' that is passed to the
678 frame_pc_unwind(), frame_register_unwind() and frame_id_unwind()
679 methods.
680
681 See "dummy-frame.c" for an example of how a cfi-frame object can be
682 implemented using this. */
683 extern struct context *deprecated_get_frame_context (struct frame_info *fi);
684 extern void deprecated_set_frame_context (struct frame_info *fi,
685 struct context *context);
686
687 /* Return non-zero if the architecture is relying on legacy frame
688 code. */
689 extern int legacy_frame_p (struct gdbarch *gdbarch);
690
691 #endif /* !defined (FRAME_H) */