include, libctf: add a bunch of documentation to ctf-api.h

Hopefully this library is no longer quite so much a "you have to look
in the source to understand anything" library.

No semantic changes, though some functions have been moved around for
clarity.

include/
	ctf-api.h: Add comments.
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Nick Alcock
2024-05-07 16:23:33 +01:00
parent 37ed36fc8b
commit 9ea82bfdd6

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@@ -312,9 +312,7 @@ extern ctf_next_t *ctf_next_copy (ctf_next_t *);
/* Opening. These mostly return an abstraction over both CTF files and CTF
archives: so they can be used to open both. CTF files will appear to be an
archive with one member named '.ctf'. The low-level functions
ctf_simple_open and ctf_bufopen return ctf_dict_t's directly, and cannot
be used on CTF archives.
archive with one member named '.ctf'.
Some of these functions take raw symtab and strtab section content in the
form of ctf_sect_t structures. For CTF in ELF files, these should be
@@ -330,18 +328,65 @@ extern ctf_archive_t *ctf_fdopen (int fd, const char *filename,
extern ctf_archive_t *ctf_open (const char *filename,
const char *target, int *errp);
extern void ctf_close (ctf_archive_t *);
/* Return the data, symbol, or string sections used by a given CTF dict. */
extern ctf_sect_t ctf_getdatasect (const ctf_dict_t *);
extern ctf_sect_t ctf_getsymsect (const ctf_dict_t *);
extern ctf_sect_t ctf_getstrsect (const ctf_dict_t *);
/* Symbol sections have an endianness which may be different from the
endianness of the CTF dict. Called for you by ctf_open and ctf_fdopen,
but direct calls to ctf_bufopen etc with symbol sections provided must
do so explicitly. */
extern void ctf_symsect_endianness (ctf_dict_t *, int little_endian);
extern ctf_archive_t *ctf_get_arc (const ctf_dict_t *);
extern void ctf_arc_symsect_endianness (ctf_archive_t *, int little_endian);
/* Open CTF archives from files or raw section data, and close them again.
Closing may munmap() the data making up the archive, so should not be
done until all dicts are finished with and closed themselves.
Almost all functions that open archives will also open raw CTF dicts, which
are treated as if they were archives with only one member. */
extern ctf_archive_t *ctf_arc_open (const char *, int *);
extern ctf_archive_t *ctf_arc_bufopen (const ctf_sect_t *,
const ctf_sect_t *,
const ctf_sect_t *,
int *);
extern void ctf_arc_symsect_endianness (ctf_archive_t *, int little_endian);
extern void ctf_arc_close (ctf_archive_t *);
/* Get the archive a given dictionary came from (if any). */
extern ctf_archive_t *ctf_get_arc (const ctf_dict_t *);
/* Return the number of members in an archive. */
extern size_t ctf_archive_count (const ctf_archive_t *);
/* Open a dictionary with a given name, given a CTF archive and
optionally symbol and string table sections to accompany it (if the
archive was oriiginally opened from an ELF file via ctf_open*, or
if string or symbol tables were explicitly passed when the archive
was opened, this can be used to override that choice). The dict
should be closed with ctf_dict_close() when done.
(The low-level functions ctf_simple_open and ctf_bufopen return
ctf_dict_t's directly, and cannot be used on CTF archives: use these
functions instead.) */
extern ctf_dict_t *ctf_dict_open (const ctf_archive_t *,
const char *, int *);
extern ctf_dict_t *ctf_dict_open_sections (const ctf_archive_t *,
const ctf_sect_t *,
const ctf_sect_t *,
const char *, int *);
/* Look up symbols' types in archives by index or name, returning the dict
and optionally type ID in which the type is found. Lookup results are
cached so future lookups are faster. Needs symbol tables and (for name
lookups) string tables to be known for this CTF archive. */
extern ctf_dict_t *ctf_arc_lookup_symbol (ctf_archive_t *,
unsigned long symidx,
ctf_id_t *, int *errp);
@@ -349,16 +394,11 @@ extern ctf_dict_t *ctf_arc_lookup_symbol_name (ctf_archive_t *,
const char *name,
ctf_id_t *, int *errp);
extern void ctf_arc_flush_caches (ctf_archive_t *);
extern ctf_dict_t *ctf_dict_open (const ctf_archive_t *,
const char *, int *);
extern ctf_dict_t *ctf_dict_open_sections (const ctf_archive_t *,
const ctf_sect_t *,
const ctf_sect_t *,
const char *, int *);
extern size_t ctf_archive_count (const ctf_archive_t *);
/* The next functions return or close real CTF files, or write out CTF archives,
not opaque containers around either. */
/* The next functions return or close real CTF files, or write out CTF
archives, not archives or ELF files containing CTF content. As with
ctf_dict_open_sections, they can be passed symbol and string table
sections. */
extern ctf_dict_t *ctf_simple_open (const char *, size_t, const char *, size_t,
size_t, const char *, size_t, int *);
@@ -367,73 +407,226 @@ extern ctf_dict_t *ctf_bufopen (const ctf_sect_t *, const ctf_sect_t *,
extern void ctf_ref (ctf_dict_t *);
extern void ctf_dict_close (ctf_dict_t *);
extern int ctf_arc_write (const char *, ctf_dict_t **, size_t,
const char **, size_t);
extern int ctf_arc_write_fd (int, ctf_dict_t **, size_t, const char **,
size_t);
/* CTF dicts may be in a parent/child relationship, where the child dicts
contain the name of their originating compilation unit and the name of
their parent. Dicts opened from CTF archives have this relationship set
up already, but if opening via raw low-level calls, you need to figure
out which dict is the parent and set it on the child via ctf_import(). */
extern const char *ctf_cuname (ctf_dict_t *);
extern int ctf_cuname_set (ctf_dict_t *, const char *);
extern ctf_dict_t *ctf_parent_dict (ctf_dict_t *);
extern const char *ctf_parent_name (ctf_dict_t *);
extern int ctf_parent_name_set (ctf_dict_t *, const char *);
extern int ctf_type_isparent (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t);
extern int ctf_type_ischild (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t);
extern int ctf_import (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_dict_t *);
/* Set these names (used when creating dicts). */
extern int ctf_cuname_set (ctf_dict_t *, const char *);
extern int ctf_parent_name_set (ctf_dict_t *, const char *);
/* Set and get the CTF data model (see above). */
extern int ctf_setmodel (ctf_dict_t *, int);
extern int ctf_getmodel (ctf_dict_t *);
/* CTF dicts can carry a single (in-memory-only) non-persistent pointer to
arbitrary data. No meaning is attached to this data and the dict does
not own it: nothing is done to it when the dict is closed. */
extern void ctf_setspecific (ctf_dict_t *, void *);
extern void *ctf_getspecific (ctf_dict_t *);
/* Error handling. ctf dicts carry a system errno value or one of the
CTF_ERRORS above, which are returned via ctf_errno. The return value of
ctf_errno is only meaningful when the immediately preceding CTF function
call returns an error code.
There are four possible sorts of error return:
- From opening functions, a return value of NULL and the error returned
via an errp instead of via ctf_errno; all other functions return return
errors via ctf_errno.
- Functions returning a ctf_id_t are in error if the return value == CTF_ERR
- Functions returning an int are in error if their return value < 0
- Functions returning a pointer are in error if their return value ==
NULL. */
extern int ctf_errno (ctf_dict_t *);
extern const char *ctf_errmsg (int);
/* Return the version of CTF dicts written by writeout functions. The
argument must currently be zero. All dicts with versions below the value
returned by this function can be read by the library. CTF dicts written
by other non-GNU CTF libraries (e.g. that in FreeBSD) are not compatible
and cannot be read by this library. */
extern int ctf_version (int);
/* Given a symbol table index corresponding to a function symbol, return info on
the type of a given function's arguments or return value. Vararg functions
have a final arg with CTF_FUNC_VARARG on in ctc_flags. */
extern int ctf_func_info (ctf_dict_t *, unsigned long, ctf_funcinfo_t *);
extern int ctf_func_args (ctf_dict_t *, unsigned long, uint32_t, ctf_id_t *);
/* As above, but for CTF_K_FUNCTION types in CTF dicts. */
extern int ctf_func_type_info (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, ctf_funcinfo_t *);
extern int ctf_func_type_args (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, uint32_t, ctf_id_t *);
extern ctf_id_t ctf_lookup_by_name (ctf_dict_t *, const char *);
/* Look up function or data symbols by name and return their CTF type ID,
if any. (For both function symbols and data symbols that are function
pointers, the types are of kind CTF_K_FUNCTION.) */
extern ctf_id_t ctf_lookup_by_symbol (ctf_dict_t *, unsigned long);
extern ctf_id_t ctf_lookup_by_symbol_name (ctf_dict_t *, const char *);
/* Traverse all (function or data) symbols in a dict, one by one, and return the
type of each and (if NAME is non-NULL) optionally its name.
This is the first of a family of _next iterators that all work in similar
ways: the ctf_next_t iterator arg must be the address of a variable whose
value is NULL on first call, and will be set to NULL again once iteration has
completed (which also returns CTF_ERR as the type and sets the error
ECTF_NEXT_END on the dict). If you want to exit earlier, call
ctf_next_destroy on the iterator. */
extern ctf_id_t ctf_symbol_next (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_next_t **,
const char **name, int functions);
/* Look up a type by name: some simple C type parsing is done, but this is by no
means comprehensive. Structures, unions and enums need "struct ", "union "
or "enum " on the front, as usual in C. */
extern ctf_id_t ctf_lookup_by_name (ctf_dict_t *, const char *);
/* Look up a variable, which is a name -> type mapping with no specific
relationship to a symbol table. Before linking, everything with types in the
symbol table will be in the variable table as well; after linking, only those
typed functions and data objects that are not asssigned to symbols by the
linker are left in the variable table here. */
extern ctf_id_t ctf_lookup_variable (ctf_dict_t *, const char *);
/* Type lookup functions. */
/* Strip qualifiers and typedefs off a type, returning the base type.
Stripping also stops when we hit slices (see ctf_add_slice below), so it is
possible (given a chain looking like const -> slice -> typedef -> int) to
still have a typedef after you're done with this, but in that case it is a
typedef of a type with a *different width* (because this slice has not been
applied to it).
Most of the time you don't need to call this: the type-querying functions
will do it for you (as noted below). */
extern ctf_id_t ctf_type_resolve (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t);
/* Get the name of a type, including any cvr-quals, and return it as a new
dynamically-allocated string. */
extern char *ctf_type_aname (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t);
/* As above, but with no cvr-quals. */
extern char *ctf_type_aname_raw (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t);
extern ssize_t ctf_type_lname (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, char *, size_t);
extern char *ctf_type_name (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, char *, size_t);
extern const char *ctf_type_name_raw (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t);
/* Like ctf_type_aname, but print the string into the passed buffer, truncating
if necessary and setting ECTF_NAMELEN on the errno: return the actual number
of bytes needed (not including the trailing \0). Consider using
ctf_type_aname instead. */
extern ssize_t ctf_type_lname (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, char *, size_t);
/* Like ctf_type_lname, but return the string, or NULL if truncated.
Consider using ctf_type_aname instead. */
extern char *ctf_type_name (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, char *, size_t);
/* Return the size or alignment of a type. Types with no meaningful size, like
function types, return 0 as their size; incomplete types set ECTF_INCOMPLETE.
The type is resolved for you, so cvr-quals and typedefs can be passsed in. */
extern ssize_t ctf_type_size (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t);
extern ssize_t ctf_type_align (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t);
/* Return the kind of a type (CTF_K_* constant). Slices are considered to be
the kind they are a slice of. Forwards to incomplete structs, etc, return
CTF_K_FORWARD (but deduplication resolves most forwards to their concrete
types). */
extern int ctf_type_kind (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t);
/* Return the kind of a type (CTF_K_* constant). Slices are considered to be
the kind they are a slice of; forwards are considered to be the kind they are
a forward of. */
extern int ctf_type_kind_forwarded (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t);
/* Return the type a pointer, typedef, cvr-qual, or slice refers to, or return
an ECTF_NOTREF error otherwise. ctf_type_kind pretends that slices are
actually the type they are a slice of: this is usually want you want, but if
you want to find out if a type was actually a slice of some (usually-wider)
base type, you can call ctf_type_reference on it: a non-error return means
it was a slice. */
extern ctf_id_t ctf_type_reference (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t);
extern ctf_id_t ctf_type_pointer (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t);
/* Return the encoding of a given type. No attempt is made to resolve the
type first, so passing in typedefs etc will yield an error. */
extern int ctf_type_encoding (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, ctf_encoding_t *);
extern int ctf_type_visit (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, ctf_visit_f *, void *);
extern int ctf_type_cmp (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t);
/* Given a type, return some other type that is a pointer to this type (if any
exists), or return ECTF_NOTYPE otherwise. If non exists, try resolving away
typedefs and cvr-quals and check again (so if you call this on foo_t, you
might get back foo *). No attempt is made to hunt for pointers to qualified
versions of the type passed in. */
extern ctf_id_t ctf_type_pointer (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t);
/* Return 1 if two types are assignment-compatible. */
extern int ctf_type_compat (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t);
extern int ctf_member_info (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, const char *,
ctf_membinfo_t *);
extern int ctf_array_info (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, ctf_arinfo_t *);
/* Recursively visit the members of any type, calling the ctf_visit_f for each. */
extern int ctf_type_visit (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, ctf_visit_f *, void *);
/* Comparison function that defines an ordering over types. If the types are in
different dicts, the ordering may vary between different openings of the same
dicts. */
extern int ctf_type_cmp (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t);
/* Get the name of an enumerator given its value, or vice versa. If many
enumerators have the same value, the first with that value is returned. */
extern const char *ctf_enum_name (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, int);
extern int ctf_enum_value (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, const char *, int *);
extern void ctf_label_set (ctf_dict_t *, const char *);
extern const char *ctf_label_get (ctf_dict_t *);
/* Get the size and member type of an array. */
extern const char *ctf_label_topmost (ctf_dict_t *);
extern int ctf_label_info (ctf_dict_t *, const char *, ctf_lblinfo_t *);
extern int ctf_array_info (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, ctf_arinfo_t *);
/* Get info on specific named members of structs or unions, and count the number
of members in a struct, union, or enum. */
extern int ctf_member_info (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, const char *,
ctf_membinfo_t *);
extern int ctf_member_count (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t);
/* Iterators. */
/* ctf_member_next is a _next-style iterator that can additionally traverse into
the members of unnamed structs nested within this struct as if they were
direct members, if CTF_MN_RECURSE is passed in the flags. */
extern int ctf_member_iter (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, ctf_member_f *, void *);
extern ssize_t ctf_member_next (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, ctf_next_t **,
const char **name, ctf_id_t *membtype,
@@ -441,26 +634,58 @@ extern ssize_t ctf_member_next (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, ctf_next_t **,
extern int ctf_enum_iter (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, ctf_enum_f *, void *);
extern const char *ctf_enum_next (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, ctf_next_t **,
int *);
/* Iterate over all types in a dict. ctf_type_iter_all recurses over all types:
ctf_type_iter recurses only over types with user-visible names (for which
CTF_ADD_ROOT was passed). All such types are returned, even if they are
things like pointers that intrinsically have no name: this is the only effect
of CTF_ADD_ROOT for such types. ctf_type_next allows you to choose whether
to see hidden types or not with the want_hidden arg: if set, the flag (if
passed) returns the hidden state of each type in turn. */
extern int ctf_type_iter (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_type_f *, void *);
extern int ctf_type_iter_all (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_type_all_f *, void *);
extern ctf_id_t ctf_type_next (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_next_t **,
int *flag, int want_hidden);
extern int ctf_label_iter (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_label_f *, void *);
extern int ctf_label_next (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_next_t **, const char **); /* TBD */
extern int ctf_variable_iter (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_variable_f *, void *);
extern ctf_id_t ctf_variable_next (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_next_t **,
const char **);
/* ctf_archive_iter and ctf_archive_next open each member dict for you,
automatically importing any parent dict as usual: ctf_archive_iter closes the
dict on return from ctf_archive_member_f, but for ctf_archive_next the caller
must close each dict returned. If skip_parent is set, the parent dict is
skipped on the basis that it's already been seen in every child dict (but if
no child dicts exist, this will lead to nothing being returned).
If an open fails, ctf_archive_iter returns -1 early (losing the error), but
ctf_archive_next both passes back the error in the passed errp and allows you
to iterate past errors (until the usual ECTF_NEXT_END is returned). */
extern int ctf_archive_iter (const ctf_archive_t *, ctf_archive_member_f *,
void *);
extern ctf_dict_t *ctf_archive_next (const ctf_archive_t *, ctf_next_t **,
const char **, int skip_parent, int *errp);
/* This function alone does not currently operate on CTF files masquerading
as archives, and returns -EINVAL: the raw data is no longer available. It is
/* Pass the raw content of each archive member in turn to
ctf_archive_raw_member_f.
This function alone does not currently operate on CTF files masquerading as
archives, and returns -EINVAL: the raw data is no longer available. It is
expected to be used only by archiving tools, in any case, which have no need
to deal with non-archives at all. */
to deal with non-archives at all. (There is currently no _next analogue of
this function.) */
extern int ctf_archive_raw_iter (const ctf_archive_t *,
ctf_archive_raw_member_f *, void *);
/* Dump the contents of a section in a CTF dict. STATE is an
iterator which should be a pointer to a variable set to NULL. The decorator
is called with each line in turn and can modify it or allocate and return a
new one. ctf_dump accumulates all the results and returns a single giant
multiline string. */
extern char *ctf_dump (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_dump_state_t **state,
ctf_sect_names_t sect, ctf_dump_decorate_f *,
void *arg);
@@ -471,6 +696,19 @@ extern char *ctf_dump (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_dump_state_t **state,
extern char *ctf_errwarning_next (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_next_t **,
int *is_warning, int *errp);
/* Creation. */
/* Create a new, empty dict. If creation fails, return NULL and put a CTF error
code in the passed-in int (if set). */
extern ctf_dict_t *ctf_create (int *);
/* Add specific types to a dict. You can add new types to any dict, but you can
only add members to types that have been added since this dict was read in
(you cannot read in a dict, look up a type in it, then add members to
it). All adding functions take a uint32_t CTF_ADD_ROOT / CTF_ADD_NONROOT
flag to indicate whether this type should be visible to name lookups via
ctf_lookup_by_name et al. */
extern ctf_id_t ctf_add_array (ctf_dict_t *, uint32_t,
const ctf_arinfo_t *);
extern ctf_id_t ctf_add_const (ctf_dict_t *, uint32_t, ctf_id_t);
@@ -485,22 +723,49 @@ extern ctf_id_t ctf_add_function (ctf_dict_t *, uint32_t,
const ctf_funcinfo_t *, const ctf_id_t *);
extern ctf_id_t ctf_add_integer (ctf_dict_t *, uint32_t, const char *,
const ctf_encoding_t *);
/* Add a "slice", which wraps some integral type and changes its encoding
(useful for bitfields, etc). In most respects slices are treated the same
kind as the type they wrap: only ctf_type_reference can see the difference,
returning the wrapped type. */
extern ctf_id_t ctf_add_slice (ctf_dict_t *, uint32_t, ctf_id_t, const ctf_encoding_t *);
extern ctf_id_t ctf_add_pointer (ctf_dict_t *, uint32_t, ctf_id_t);
extern ctf_id_t ctf_add_type (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t);
extern ctf_id_t ctf_add_typedef (ctf_dict_t *, uint32_t, const char *,
ctf_id_t);
extern ctf_id_t ctf_add_restrict (ctf_dict_t *, uint32_t, ctf_id_t);
/* Struct and union addition. Straight addition uses possibly-confusing rules
to guess the final size of the struct/union given its members: to explicitly
state the size of the struct or union (to report compiler-generated padding,
etc) use the _sized variants. */
extern ctf_id_t ctf_add_struct (ctf_dict_t *, uint32_t, const char *);
extern ctf_id_t ctf_add_union (ctf_dict_t *, uint32_t, const char *);
extern ctf_id_t ctf_add_struct_sized (ctf_dict_t *, uint32_t, const char *,
size_t);
extern ctf_id_t ctf_add_union_sized (ctf_dict_t *, uint32_t, const char *,
size_t);
/* Note that CTF cannot encode a given type. This usually returns an
ECTF_NONREPRESENTABLE error when queried. Mostly useful for struct members,
variables, etc, to point to. */
extern ctf_id_t ctf_add_unknown (ctf_dict_t *, uint32_t, const char *);
extern ctf_id_t ctf_add_volatile (ctf_dict_t *, uint32_t, ctf_id_t);
/* Add an enumerator to an enum (the name is a misnomer). We do not currently
validate that enumerators have unique names, even though C requires it: in
future this may change. */
extern int ctf_add_enumerator (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, const char *, int);
/* Add a member to a struct or union, either at the next available offset (with
suitable padding for the alignment) or at a specific offset, and possibly
with a specific encoding (creating a slice for you). Offsets need not be
unique, and need not be added in ascending order. */
extern int ctf_add_member (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, const char *, ctf_id_t);
extern int ctf_add_member_offset (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, const char *,
ctf_id_t, unsigned long);
@@ -510,47 +775,135 @@ extern int ctf_add_member_encoded (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, const char *,
extern int ctf_add_variable (ctf_dict_t *, const char *, ctf_id_t);
extern int ctf_add_objt_sym (ctf_dict_t *, const char *, ctf_id_t);
extern int ctf_add_func_sym (ctf_dict_t *, const char *, ctf_id_t);
/* Set the size and member and index types of an array. */
extern int ctf_set_array (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_id_t, const ctf_arinfo_t *);
extern ctf_dict_t *ctf_create (int *);
/* Add a function oor object symbol type with a particular name, without saying
anything about the actual symbol index. (The linker will then associate them
with actual symbol indexes using the ctf_link functions below.) */
extern int ctf_add_objt_sym (ctf_dict_t *, const char *, ctf_id_t);
extern int ctf_add_func_sym (ctf_dict_t *, const char *, ctf_id_t);
/* Snapshot/rollback. Call ctf_update to snapshot the state of a dict:
a later call to ctf_discard then deletes all types added since (but not new
members, enumerands etc). Call ctf_snapshot to return a snapshot ID: pass
one of these IDs to ctf_rollback to discard all types added since the
corresponding call to ctf_snapshot. */
extern int ctf_update (ctf_dict_t *);
extern ctf_snapshot_id_t ctf_snapshot (ctf_dict_t *);
extern int ctf_rollback (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_snapshot_id_t);
extern int ctf_discard (ctf_dict_t *);
/* Dict writeout.
ctf_write: write out an uncompressed dict to an fd.
ctf_compress_write: write out a compressed dict to an fd (currently always
gzip, but this may change in future).
ctf_write_mem: write out a dict to a buffer and return it and its size,
compressing it if its uncompressed size is over THRESHOLD. */
extern int ctf_write (ctf_dict_t *, int);
extern int ctf_gzwrite (ctf_dict_t *fp, gzFile fd);
extern int ctf_compress_write (ctf_dict_t * fp, int fd);
extern unsigned char *ctf_write_mem (ctf_dict_t *, size_t *, size_t threshold);
extern int ctf_link_add_ctf (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_archive_t *, const char *);
/* The variable filter should return nonzero if a variable should not
appear in the output. */
typedef int ctf_link_variable_filter_f (ctf_dict_t *, const char *, ctf_id_t,
void *);
extern int ctf_link_set_variable_filter (ctf_dict_t *,
ctf_link_variable_filter_f *, void *);
/* Create a CTF archive named FILE from CTF_DICTS inputs with NAMES (or write it
to the passed-in fd). */
extern int ctf_arc_write (const char *file, ctf_dict_t **ctf_dicts, size_t,
const char **names, size_t);
extern int ctf_arc_write_fd (int, ctf_dict_t **, size_t, const char **,
size_t);
/* Linking. These functions are used by ld to link .ctf sections in input
object files into a single .ctf section which is an archive possibly
containing members containing types whose names collide across multiple
compilation units, but they are usable by other programs as well and are not
private to the linker. */
/* Add a CTF archive to the link with a given NAME (usually the name of the
containing object file). The dict added to is usually a new dict created
with ctf_create which will be filled with types corresponding to the shared
dict in the output (conflicting types in child dicts in the output archive
are stored in internal space inside this dict, but are not easily visible
until after ctf_link_write below).
The NAME need not be unique (but usually is). */
extern int ctf_link_add_ctf (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_archive_t *, const char *name);
/* Do the deduplicating link, filling the dict with types. The FLAGS are the
CTF_LINK_* flags above. */
extern int ctf_link (ctf_dict_t *, int flags);
/* Symtab linker handling, called after ctf_link to set up the symbol type
information used by ctf_*_lookup_symbol. */
/* Add strings to the link from the ELF string table, repeatedly calling
ADD_STRING to add each string and its corresponding offset in turn. */
typedef const char *ctf_link_strtab_string_f (uint32_t *offset, void *arg);
extern int ctf_link_add_strtab (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_link_strtab_string_f *,
void *);
extern int ctf_link_add_strtab (ctf_dict_t *,
ctf_link_strtab_string_f *add_string, void *);
/* Note that a given symbol will be public with a given set of properties.
If the symbol has been added with that name via ctf_add_{func,objt}_sym,
this symbol type will end up in the symtypetabs and can be looked up via
ctf_*_lookup_symbol after the dict is read back in. */
extern int ctf_link_add_linker_symbol (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_link_sym_t *);
/* Impose an ordering on symbols, as defined by the strtab and symbol
added by earlier calls to the above two functions. */
extern int ctf_link_shuffle_syms (ctf_dict_t *);
/* Return the serialized form of this ctf_linked dict as a new
dynamically-allocated string, compressed if size over THRESHOLD.
May be a CTF dict or a CTF archive (this library mostly papers over the
differences so you can open both the same way, treat both as ctf_archive_t
and so on). */
extern unsigned char *ctf_link_write (ctf_dict_t *, size_t *size,
size_t threshold);
/* Specialist linker functions. These functions are not used by ld, but can be
used by other programs making use of the linker machinery for other purposes
to customize its output. */
to customize its output. Must be called befoore ctf_link. */
/* Add an entry to rename a given compilation unit to some other name. This
is only used if conflicting types are found in that compilation unit: they
will instead be placed in the child dict named TO. Many FROMs can map to one
TO: all the types are placed together in that dict, with any whose names
collide as a result being marked as non-root types. */
extern int ctf_link_add_cu_mapping (ctf_dict_t *, const char *from,
const char *to);
/* Allow CTF archive names to be tweaked at the last minute before writeout.
Unlike cu-mappings, this cannot transform names so that they collide: it's
meant for unusual use cases that use names for archive members that are not
exactly the same as CU names but are modified in some systematic way. */
typedef char *ctf_link_memb_name_changer_f (ctf_dict_t *,
const char *, void *);
extern void ctf_link_set_memb_name_changer
(ctf_dict_t *, ctf_link_memb_name_changer_f *, void *);
/* Filter out unwanted variables, which can be very voluminous, and (unlike
symbols) cause the CTF string table to grow to hold their names. The
variable filter should return nonzero if a variable should not appear in the
output. */
typedef int ctf_link_variable_filter_f (ctf_dict_t *, const char *, ctf_id_t,
void *);
extern int ctf_link_set_variable_filter (ctf_dict_t *,
ctf_link_variable_filter_f *, void *);
/* Turn debugging off and on, and get its value. This is the same as setting
LIBCTF_DEBUG in the environment. */
extern void ctf_setdebug (int debug);
extern int ctf_getdebug (void);
@@ -567,6 +920,21 @@ extern ctf_dict_t *ctf_arc_open_by_name_sections (const ctf_archive_t *,
const ctf_sect_t *,
const char *, int *);
/* Deprecated witeout function to write out a gzip-compressed dict. Unlike all
the other writeout functions, this even compresses the header (it has to,
since it's passed a gzFile), so the caller must also decompress it, since
ctf_open() etc cannot tell it is a CTF dict or how large it is before
decompression. */
extern int ctf_gzwrite (ctf_dict_t *fp, gzFile fd);
/* Deprecated functions with no current use. */
extern const char *ctf_label_topmost (ctf_dict_t *);
extern int ctf_label_info (ctf_dict_t *, const char *, ctf_lblinfo_t *);
extern int ctf_label_iter (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_label_f *, void *);
extern int ctf_label_next (ctf_dict_t *, ctf_next_t **, const char **); /* TBD */
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif