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/* Cache and manage the values of registers for GDB, the GNU debugger.

   Copyright (C) 1986-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   This file is part of GDB.

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */

#ifndef REGCACHE_H
#define REGCACHE_H

struct regcache;
struct gdbarch;
struct address_space;

extern struct regcache *get_current_regcache (void);
extern struct regcache *get_thread_regcache (ptid_t ptid);
extern struct regcache *get_thread_arch_regcache (ptid_t, struct gdbarch *);
extern struct regcache *get_thread_arch_aspace_regcache (ptid_t,
                                                         struct gdbarch *,
                                                         struct address_space *);

void regcache_xfree (struct regcache *regcache);
struct cleanup *make_cleanup_regcache_xfree (struct regcache *regcache);
struct regcache *regcache_xmalloc (struct gdbarch *gdbarch,
                                   struct address_space *aspace);

/* Return REGCACHE's architecture.  */

extern struct gdbarch *get_regcache_arch (const struct regcache *regcache);

/* Return REGCACHE's address space.  */

extern struct address_space *get_regcache_aspace (const struct regcache *);

enum register_status
  {
    /* The register value is not in the cache, and we don't know yet
       whether it's available in the target (or traceframe).  */
    REG_UNKNOWN = 0,

    /* The register value is valid and cached.  */
    REG_VALID = 1,

    /* The register value is unavailable.  E.g., we're inspecting a
       traceframe, and this register wasn't collected.  Note that this
       is different a different "unavailable" from saying the register
       does not exist in the target's architecture --- in that case,
       the target should have given us a target description that does
       not include the register in the first place.  */
    REG_UNAVAILABLE = -1
  };

enum register_status regcache_register_status (const struct regcache *regcache,
                                               int regnum);

/* Transfer a raw register [0..NUM_REGS) between core-gdb and the
   regcache.  The read variants return the status of the register.  */

enum register_status regcache_raw_read (struct regcache *regcache,
                                        int rawnum, gdb_byte *buf);
void regcache_raw_write (struct regcache *regcache, int rawnum,
                         const gdb_byte *buf);
extern enum register_status
  regcache_raw_read_signed (struct regcache *regcache,
                            int regnum, LONGEST *val);
extern enum register_status
  regcache_raw_read_unsigned (struct regcache *regcache,
                              int regnum, ULONGEST *val);
extern void regcache_raw_write_signed (struct regcache *regcache,
                                       int regnum, LONGEST val);
extern void regcache_raw_write_unsigned (struct regcache *regcache,
                                         int regnum, ULONGEST val);

/* Partial transfer of raw registers.  These perform read, modify,
   write style operations.  The read variant returns the status of the
   register.  */

extern enum register_status
  regcache_raw_read_part (struct regcache *regcache, int regnum,
                          int offset, int len, gdb_byte *buf);
void regcache_raw_write_part (struct regcache *regcache, int regnum,
                              int offset, int len, const gdb_byte *buf);

void regcache_invalidate (struct regcache *regcache, int regnum);

/* Transfer of pseudo-registers.  The read variants return a register
   status, as an indication of when a ``cooked'' register was
   constructed from valid, invalid or unavailable ``raw''
   registers.  */

/* Transfer a cooked register [0..NUM_REGS+NUM_PSEUDO_REGS).  */
enum register_status regcache_cooked_read (struct regcache *regcache,
                                           int rawnum, gdb_byte *buf);
void regcache_cooked_write (struct regcache *regcache, int rawnum,
                            const gdb_byte *buf);

/* Read register REGNUM from REGCACHE and return a new value.  This
   will call mark_value_bytes_unavailable as appropriate.  */

struct value *regcache_cooked_read_value (struct regcache *regcache,
                                          int regnum);

/* Read a register as a signed/unsigned quantity.  */
extern enum register_status
  regcache_cooked_read_signed (struct regcache *regcache,
                               int regnum, LONGEST *val);
extern enum register_status
  regcache_cooked_read_unsigned (struct regcache *regcache,
                                 int regnum, ULONGEST *val);
extern void regcache_cooked_write_signed (struct regcache *regcache,
                                          int regnum, LONGEST val);
extern void regcache_cooked_write_unsigned (struct regcache *regcache,
                                            int regnum, ULONGEST val);

/* Partial transfer of a cooked register.  These perform read, modify,
   write style operations.  */

enum register_status regcache_cooked_read_part (struct regcache *regcache,
                                                int regnum, int offset,
                                                int len, gdb_byte *buf);
void regcache_cooked_write_part (struct regcache *regcache, int regnum,
                                 int offset, int len, const gdb_byte *buf);

/* Special routines to read/write the PC.  */

extern CORE_ADDR regcache_read_pc (struct regcache *regcache);
extern void regcache_write_pc (struct regcache *regcache, CORE_ADDR pc);

/* Transfer a raw register [0..NUM_REGS) between the regcache and the
   target.  These functions are called by the target in response to a
   target_fetch_registers() or target_store_registers().  */

extern void regcache_raw_supply (struct regcache *regcache,
                                 int regnum, const void *buf);
extern void regcache_raw_collect (const struct regcache *regcache,
                                  int regnum, void *buf);


/* The type of a register.  This function is slightly more efficient
   then its gdbarch vector counterpart since it returns a precomputed
   value stored in a table.  */

extern struct type *register_type (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, int regnum);


/* Return the size of register REGNUM.  All registers should have only
   one size.  */
   
extern int register_size (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, int regnum);


/* Save/restore a register cache.  The set of registers saved /
   restored into the DST regcache determined by the save_reggroup /
   restore_reggroup respectively.  COOKED_READ returns zero iff the
   register's value can't be returned.  */

typedef enum register_status (regcache_cooked_read_ftype) (void *src,
                                                           int regnum,
                                                           gdb_byte *buf);

extern void regcache_save (struct regcache *dst,
                           regcache_cooked_read_ftype *cooked_read,
                           void *cooked_read_context);

/* Copy/duplicate the contents of a register cache.  By default, the
   operation is pass-through.  Writes to DST and reads from SRC will
   go through to the target.

   The ``cpy'' functions can not have overlapping SRC and DST buffers.

   ``no passthrough'' versions do not go through to the target.  They
   only transfer values already in the cache.  */

extern struct regcache *regcache_dup (struct regcache *regcache);
extern void regcache_cpy (struct regcache *dest, struct regcache *src);
extern void regcache_cpy_no_passthrough (struct regcache *dest,
                                         struct regcache *src);

extern void registers_changed (void);
extern void registers_changed_ptid (ptid_t);

#endif /* REGCACHE_H */