So that one can get an skeleton from where a function can be
reimplemented, or a probe can be written to attach to a tracepoint.
Right now it will only expand the types for
struct/union/typedef/enumeration types, but it is a good start.
[acme@doppio pahole]$ pfunct --expand_types --function inet6_ioctl ipv6.ko > a.c
[acme@doppio pahole]$ echo "int main(void) { return 0; }" >> a.c
[acme@doppio pahole]$ gcc -Wall -g a.c -o a
[acme@doppio pahole]$ grep ^#include a.c
[acme@doppio pahole]$
No errors, no includes.
This is present in ctracer, where we don't want to _require_ any header
files, just the object file with the function we want to probe. From
there we get the function signature, and reconstruct the types needed to
access members of structs passed as parameters.
We still need to add padding to reconstruct __attribute__ alignment
effects.
Also, if we can detect what are the exact members accessed in the probe,
we can reconstruct just what is needed to access those members,
hopefully reducing the time needed for gcc to digest the resulting
source code. And also reducing the size of the output, which can
hopefully be interesting to help focus on what the probe is doing.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
For correctly created and completely parsed debugging information the type will
always be found, but as we still need to parse more tags and expecting
debugging information to be always correctly built is not sane... sprinkle some
asserts.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
At that point we are emitting the definitions for the member types,
so we have to print a newline after each.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To indicate wheter the semicolon should be supressed. Useful for
prototype/function emission, etc.
Also move the struct stats to be inside its body, to simplify tag__fprintf,
that now looks at conf.no_semicolon after calling the tag type specific
__fprintf method.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
C++ uses this, and to cache the result of the lookup at type__name time we need
to pass the cu to class__name and type__name. Big fallout because of that :-\
But now the output is mucho embelished by the humongous strings representing
C++ templates.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
For now its just the direct ancestor of struct type. But it will exists by
itself, to represent the DW_TAG_namespace DWARF tag, that is how the C++
'namespace' (and other languages too, heck, I'd love to get my hands on a
binary with DWARF info built from, say, ADA source code, objectiveC... COBOL!
:-P).
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
This is in preparation for the introduction of struct namespace, that will be
struct type ancestor.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Will be useful to show that the intent is to traverse just the DW_TAG_member
entries in the type list. Right now there are both DW_TAG_inheritance and
DW_TAG_member entries in the ->members type list. But there will be many more
tags, like enumerations, classes, etc, that are defined inside classes, a C++
feature. This will also help with DW_TAG_namespace support.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
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