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The CTF creation process looks roughly like (error handling elided): int err; ctf_file_t *foo = ctf_create (&err); ctf_id_t type = ctf_add_THING (foo, ...); ctf_update (foo); ctf_*write (...); Some ctf_add_THING functions accept other type IDs as arguments, depending on the type: cv-quals, pointers, and structure and union members all take other types as arguments. So do 'slices', which let you take an existing integral type and recast it as a type with a different bitness or offset within a byte, for bitfields. One class of THING is not a type: "variables", which are mappings of names (in the internal string table) to types. These are mostly useful when encoding variables that do not appear in a symbol table but which some external user has some other way to figure out the address of at runtime (dynamic symbol lookup or querying a VM interpreter or something). You can snapshot the creation process at any point: rolling back to a snapshot deletes all types and variables added since that point. You can make arbitrary type queries on the CTF container during the creation process, but you must call ctf_update() first, which translates the growing dynamic container into a static one (this uses the CTF opening machinery, added in a later commit), which is quite expensive. This function must also be called after adding types and before writing the container out. Because addition of types involves looking up existing types, we add a little of the type lookup machinery here, as well: only enough to look up types in dynamic containers under construction. libctf/ * ctf-create.c: New file. * ctf-lookup.c: New file. include/ * ctf-api.h (zlib.h): New include. (ctf_sect_t): New. (ctf_sect_names_t): Likewise. (ctf_encoding_t): Likewise. (ctf_membinfo_t): Likewise. (ctf_arinfo_t): Likewise. (ctf_funcinfo_t): Likewise. (ctf_lblinfo_t): Likewise. (ctf_snapshot_id_t): Likewise. (CTF_FUNC_VARARG): Likewise. (ctf_simple_open): Likewise. (ctf_bufopen): Likewise. (ctf_create): Likewise. (ctf_add_array): Likewise. (ctf_add_const): Likewise. (ctf_add_enum_encoded): Likewise. (ctf_add_enum): Likewise. (ctf_add_float): Likewise. (ctf_add_forward): Likewise. (ctf_add_function): Likewise. (ctf_add_integer): Likewise. (ctf_add_slice): Likewise. (ctf_add_pointer): Likewise. (ctf_add_type): Likewise. (ctf_add_typedef): Likewise. (ctf_add_restrict): Likewise. (ctf_add_struct): Likewise. (ctf_add_union): Likewise. (ctf_add_struct_sized): Likewise. (ctf_add_union_sized): Likewise. (ctf_add_volatile): Likewise. (ctf_add_enumerator): Likewise. (ctf_add_member): Likewise. (ctf_add_member_offset): Likewise. (ctf_add_member_encoded): Likewise. (ctf_add_variable): Likewise. (ctf_set_array): Likewise. (ctf_update): Likewise. (ctf_snapshot): Likewise. (ctf_rollback): Likewise. (ctf_discard): Likewise. (ctf_write): Likewise. (ctf_gzwrite): Likewise. (ctf_compress_write): Likewise.
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