It will be used when one wants to convert between the internal GDB signal
representation (enum gdb_signal) and the target's representation.
The idea of this patch came from a chat between Pedro and I on IRC, plus
the discussion of my patches to add the new $_exitsignal convenience
variable:
<http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-06/msg00452.html>
<http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-06/msg00352.html>
What I did was to investigate, on the Linux kernel, which targets shared
the signal numbers definition with the generic definition, present at
<include/uapi/asm-generic/signal.h>. For the record, I used linux-3.10-rc7
as the main source of information, always looking at
<arch/<ARCH_NAME>/include/uapi/asm/signal.h>. For SIGRTMAX (which defaults
to _NSIG in most cases), I had to look at different signal-related
files, but most of them (except MIPS) were defined to 64 anyway.
Then, with all the differences in hand, I implemented the bits on each
target.
2013-08-09 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* linux-tdep.c: Define enum with generic signal numbers.
(linux_gdb_signal_from_target): New function.
(linux_gdb_signal_to_target): Likewise.
(linux_init_abi): Set gdbarch_gdb_signal_{to,from}_target
methods to the functions above.
* linux-tdep.h (linux_gdb_signal_from_target): New prototype.
(linux_gdb_signal_to_target): Likewise.
* alpha-linux-tdep.c: Define new enum with signals different
from generic Linux kernel.
(alpha_linux_gdb_signal_from_target): New function.
(alpha_linux_gdb_signal_to_target): Likewise.
(alpha_linux_init_abi): Set gdbarch_gdb_signal_{to,from}_target
with the functions mentioned above.
* avr-tdep.c: Define enum with differences between Linux kernel
and AVR signals.
(avr_linux_gdb_signal_from_target): New function.
(avr_linux_gdb_signal_to_target): Likewise.
(avr_gdbarch_init): Set gdbarch_gdb_signal_{to,from}_target to
the functions mentioned above.
* sparc-linux-tdep.c: Define enum with differences between SPARC
and generic Linux kernel signal numbers.
(sparc32_linux_gdb_signal_from_target): New function.
(sparc32_linux_gdb_signal_to_target): Likewise.
(sparc32_linux_init_abi): Set gdbarch_gdb_signal_{to,from}_target
to the functions defined above.
* xtensa-linux-tdep.c: Define enum with differences between
Xtensa and Linux kernel generic signals.
(xtensa_linux_gdb_signal_from_target): New function.
(xtensa_linux_gdb_signal_to_target): Likewise.
(xtensa_linux_init_abi): Set gdbarch_gdb_signal_to_target
to the functions defined above.
* mips-linux-tdep.c: Define enum with differences between
signals in MIPS and Linux kernel generic ones.
(mips_gdb_signal_to_target): New function.
(mips_gdb_signal_from_target): Redefine to use new enum, handle
only different signals from the Linux kernel generic.
(mips_linux_init_abi): Set gdbarch_gdb_signal_{to,from}_target
the functions defined above.
* mips-linux-tdep.h (enum mips_signals): Remove.
Two modifications:
1. The addition of 2013 to the copyright year range for every file;
2. The use of a single year range, instead of potentially multiple
year ranges, as approved by the FSF.
Joel Brobecker