typeprint.c revision 1.2
1/* Language independent support for printing types for GDB, the GNU debugger.
2   Copyright 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3
4This file is part of GDB.
5
6This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
9(at your option) any later version.
10
11This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
14GNU General Public License for more details.
15
16You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
18Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
19
20#include "defs.h"
21#include "obstack.h"
22#include "bfd.h"		/* Binary File Description */
23#include "symtab.h"
24#include "gdbtypes.h"
25#include "expression.h"
26#include "value.h"
27#include "gdbcore.h"
28#include "command.h"
29#include "gdbcmd.h"
30#include "target.h"
31#include "language.h"
32#include "demangle.h"
33
34#include "gdb_string.h"
35#include <errno.h>
36
37static void
38ptype_command PARAMS ((char *, int));
39
40static struct type *
41ptype_eval PARAMS ((struct expression *));
42
43static void
44whatis_command PARAMS ((char *, int));
45
46static void
47whatis_exp PARAMS ((char *, int));
48
49/* Print a description of a type TYPE in the form of a declaration of a
50   variable named VARSTRING.  (VARSTRING is demangled if necessary.)
51   Output goes to STREAM (via stdio).
52   If SHOW is positive, we show the contents of the outermost level
53   of structure even if there is a type name that could be used instead.
54   If SHOW is negative, we never show the details of elements' types.  */
55
56void
57type_print (type, varstring, stream, show)
58     struct type *type;
59     char *varstring;
60     GDB_FILE *stream;
61     int show;
62{
63  LA_PRINT_TYPE (type, varstring, stream, show, 0);
64}
65
66/* Print type of EXP, or last thing in value history if EXP == NULL.
67   show is passed to type_print.  */
68
69static void
70whatis_exp (exp, show)
71     char *exp;
72     int show;
73{
74  struct expression *expr;
75  register value_ptr val;
76  register struct cleanup *old_chain = NULL;
77
78  if (exp)
79    {
80      expr = parse_expression (exp);
81      old_chain = make_cleanup (free_current_contents, &expr);
82      val = evaluate_type (expr);
83    }
84  else
85    val = access_value_history (0);
86
87  printf_filtered ("type = ");
88  type_print (VALUE_TYPE (val), "", gdb_stdout, show);
89  printf_filtered ("\n");
90
91  if (exp)
92    do_cleanups (old_chain);
93}
94
95/* ARGSUSED */
96static void
97whatis_command (exp, from_tty)
98     char *exp;
99     int from_tty;
100{
101  /* Most of the time users do not want to see all the fields
102     in a structure.  If they do they can use the "ptype" command.
103     Hence the "-1" below.  */
104  whatis_exp (exp, -1);
105}
106
107/* Simple subroutine for ptype_command.  */
108
109static struct type *
110ptype_eval (exp)
111     struct expression *exp;
112{
113  if (exp->elts[0].opcode == OP_TYPE)
114    {
115      return (exp->elts[1].type);
116    }
117  else
118    {
119      return (NULL);
120    }
121}
122
123/* TYPENAME is either the name of a type, or an expression.  */
124
125/* ARGSUSED */
126static void
127ptype_command (typename, from_tty)
128     char *typename;
129     int from_tty;
130{
131  register struct type *type;
132  struct expression *expr;
133  register struct cleanup *old_chain;
134
135  if (typename == NULL)
136    {
137      /* Print type of last thing in value history. */
138      whatis_exp (typename, 1);
139    }
140  else
141    {
142      expr = parse_expression (typename);
143      old_chain = make_cleanup (free_current_contents, &expr);
144      type = ptype_eval (expr);
145      if (type != NULL)
146	{
147	  /* User did "ptype <typename>" */
148	  printf_filtered ("type = ");
149	  type_print (type, "", gdb_stdout, 1);
150	  printf_filtered ("\n");
151	  do_cleanups (old_chain);
152	}
153      else
154	{
155	  /* User did "ptype <symbolname>" */
156	  do_cleanups (old_chain);
157	  whatis_exp (typename, 1);
158	}
159    }
160}
161
162/* Print integral scalar data VAL, of type TYPE, onto stdio stream STREAM.
163   Used to print data from type structures in a specified type.  For example,
164   array bounds may be characters or booleans in some languages, and this
165   allows the ranges to be printed in their "natural" form rather than as
166   decimal integer values.
167
168   FIXME:  This is here simply because only the type printing routines
169   currently use it, and it wasn't clear if it really belonged somewhere
170   else (like printcmd.c).  There are a lot of other gdb routines that do
171   something similar, but they are generally concerned with printing values
172   that come from the inferior in target byte order and target size. */
173
174void
175print_type_scalar (type, val, stream)
176     struct type *type;
177     LONGEST val;
178     GDB_FILE *stream;
179{
180  unsigned int i;
181  unsigned len;
182
183  CHECK_TYPEDEF (type);
184
185  switch (TYPE_CODE (type))
186    {
187
188    case TYPE_CODE_ENUM:
189      len = TYPE_NFIELDS (type);
190      for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
191	{
192	  if (TYPE_FIELD_BITPOS (type, i) == val)
193	    {
194	      break;
195	    }
196	}
197      if (i < len)
198	{
199	  fputs_filtered (TYPE_FIELD_NAME (type, i), stream);
200	}
201      else
202	{
203	  print_longest (stream, 'd', 0, val);
204	}
205      break;
206
207    case TYPE_CODE_INT:
208      print_longest (stream, TYPE_UNSIGNED (type) ? 'u' : 'd', 0, val);
209      break;
210
211    case TYPE_CODE_CHAR:
212      LA_PRINT_CHAR ((unsigned char) val, stream);
213      break;
214
215    case TYPE_CODE_BOOL:
216      fprintf_filtered (stream, val ? "TRUE" : "FALSE");
217      break;
218
219    case TYPE_CODE_RANGE:
220      print_type_scalar (TYPE_TARGET_TYPE (type), val, stream);
221      return;
222
223    case TYPE_CODE_UNDEF:
224    case TYPE_CODE_PTR:
225    case TYPE_CODE_ARRAY:
226    case TYPE_CODE_STRUCT:
227    case TYPE_CODE_UNION:
228    case TYPE_CODE_FUNC:
229    case TYPE_CODE_FLT:
230    case TYPE_CODE_VOID:
231    case TYPE_CODE_SET:
232    case TYPE_CODE_STRING:
233    case TYPE_CODE_ERROR:
234    case TYPE_CODE_MEMBER:
235    case TYPE_CODE_METHOD:
236    case TYPE_CODE_REF:
237      error ("internal error: unhandled type in print_type_scalar");
238      break;
239
240    default:
241      error ("Invalid type code in symbol table.");
242    }
243  gdb_flush (stream);
244}
245
246#if MAINTENANCE_CMDS
247
248/* Dump details of a type specified either directly or indirectly.
249   Uses the same sort of type lookup mechanism as ptype_command()
250   and whatis_command(). */
251
252void
253maintenance_print_type (typename, from_tty)
254     char *typename;
255     int from_tty;
256{
257  register value_ptr val;
258  register struct type *type;
259  register struct cleanup *old_chain;
260  struct expression *expr;
261
262  if (typename != NULL)
263  {
264    expr = parse_expression (typename);
265    old_chain = make_cleanup (free_current_contents, &expr);
266    if (expr -> elts[0].opcode == OP_TYPE)
267      {
268	/* The user expression names a type directly, just use that type. */
269	type = expr -> elts[1].type;
270      }
271    else
272      {
273	/* The user expression may name a type indirectly by naming an
274	   object of that type.  Find that indirectly named type. */
275	val = evaluate_type (expr);
276	type = VALUE_TYPE (val);
277      }
278    if (type != NULL)
279      {
280	recursive_dump_type (type, 0);
281      }
282    do_cleanups (old_chain);
283  }
284}
285
286#endif	/* MAINTENANCE_CMDS */
287
288
289void
290_initialize_typeprint ()
291{
292
293  add_com ("ptype", class_vars, ptype_command,
294	   "Print definition of type TYPE.\n\
295Argument may be a type name defined by typedef, or \"struct STRUCT-TAG\"\n\
296or \"class CLASS-NAME\" or \"union UNION-TAG\" or \"enum ENUM-TAG\".\n\
297The selected stack frame's lexical context is used to look up the name.");
298
299  add_com ("whatis", class_vars, whatis_command,
300	   "Print data type of expression EXP.");
301
302}
303